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…Oh, what was that like sort of taking the leap from the philosophy of everything into the technical? I think that sometimes people do this thing that I’m not that keen on where they’ll be like, “Is this person technical or not?” You’re either a person who can code and isn’t scared of math or you’re not. And I think I’m maybe just more like I think a lot of people are actually very capable of work in these kinds of areas if they just try it. And so I didn’t actually find it that bad. In retrospect, I’m sort of glad I wasn’t speaking to people who treated it. I’ve definitely met people who are like, “Whoa, you learned how to code?” And I’m like, “Well, I’m not an amazing engineer.” I’m surrounded by amazing engineers. My code’s not pretty, but I enjoyed it a lot and I think that in many ways, at least in the end, I think I flourished more in the technical areas than I would have in the policy areas. Politics is messy and it’s harder to find solutions to problems in the space of politics, like definitive, clear, provable, beautiful solutions as you can with technical problems.…

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