Generation X

In the smaller company where you can have the distribution of problems.

It's become a problem if-- It doesn't become a problem if you have X and Ys who work together and one of them is distributed, because they see the other perform.

Yeah.

Once you move

So executing fast requires taking smaller bites and having a place to say, "I'm not doing that now.

I'm gonna put that in the future." Okay? These are just some of the things, and we're gonna learn some more from the teams when we come up.

What are you doing to embrace flexibility in your organization so that you can do Lombard Street? Melissa says, "Make every hire count in the beginning and feel pain before adding." So another important point here too is by outsourcing, sometimes you might realize, "I don't really wanna do that." And if you have the employee on board and, and you said, "Your job is to go do X," and you realize that job doesn't need to be done anymore, well, that's painful.

Versus, "Let's go experiment.

And I was doing that all while having very, very young kids.

I think, I think I wanna go back to the wom- Gen X. I wanna specifically speak to-

Yeah

...

I talk to Gen X and the older millennials that are listening because I, I mean, I, I see a lot of influencer stuff on TikTok and Reels and stuff, and Shorts, where there's a lot of women that are kinda raging, even just this Brandi Carl- Carlisle, Carlisle, you know, Alanis Morissette Primal Scream at Red Rocks a few weeks ago.

I felt that.

I heard that.

No, how can you be Z?

Um, what are we talking about next?

Generation X 23.

Generation X 23.

Um, or as I will call it, uh, 'cause now I've read, um, Uncanny...

We're not talking about Uncanny X-Men till the, till the third, um, section.

Would you give the credits for this?

Yes.

Generation X 23 is, um, written by Jody Houser, with art by Emilio Lascio, uh, color art by Eric Arciniega, letters by VC's Ariana Maher, with cover art by Partha Pratim Sarkar and Ram Moolo for Hart of Joker.

I'm an ex.

X is cool, babe.

X is cool.

Look, a comedian recently said the problem with the modern workforce is that there's far too many generations in it and that ain't changing anytime soon.

So there's this incredible shift.

I'm going to change it.

I hear people talk about the Gen X and Gen Ys and Gen Zs.

And I'm saying this very quietly because I don't know what they're talking about.

Or X or N.

Yeah, I'm an X.

Am I? What am I? I was born

in 1973.

You must be.

It's like, ooh.

But that meme, is it like a Gen Z expression? Like, who hurt you? Or, you know? Yeah.

That's a real one.

That's like, you know, that's trauma informed.