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Patrick Smith

Jun 22, 2026

45:48
over time and how that's shifted and it goes in you know like like many of us this is not unique to you there are times when you are more active and sometimes you are less active could you sort of give us your perspective on that and share because a lot of us uh go through the same sort of uh dynamic
46:06
yeah yeah so It is a silly thing that some of us humans do where we shift our focus and our primary goal from our job, our career, our family and children over to I'm going to change the world.
46:31
The amount of, I mean, you don't really think about it this way at the time, but it requires quite a bit of ego to even think that you can move the needle of the world.
46:41
And so one of the first things you slam into when you decide to become an activist, and I...
46:48
I literally decided to try this is what I'm trying to say.
46:51
At a certain point in my journey, I realized how screwed up the world was and how the superstition of just authority in the state is a fundamental core problem to To that, I said, okay, well, I'm going to approach this like all the other engineering problems that I tackle, and I'm going to examine the options.
47:11
I'm going to find which method of activism works best, and that's the one I'll focus on.

18 MINS LATER

65:27
I think that's probably what I would do.

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