Do you think that wearables are ever going to know your capacity better than you do? And how do we know that? Do I trust what it says or do I trust how I feel?

Yeah, that's a great question.

It's actually an area I've worked extensively over the last probably 20 years.

In fact, most of my dissertation research has really fed into the wearable industry and even much of the work I've done over the last 20 years.

So I'm a big fan of wearables.

I have my aura ring on.

My Garmin watch is charging.

How much do you think a human being can sustainably hold? So after everything that we've discussed today, what would you say a human being can sustainably hold?

So when you think about conflict and healthy work environments, the young you, how did you, the younger you, how did you deal with conflict at work? And how has that changed over time?

Yes, that's a great question.

And again, early in my career as a young military officer, especially working in research and development, I was often put in charge almost immediately of a blended team that included military contractors and civilians to actually work through research problems, generally a research team.

And as you can imagine, having a bunch of PhD engineers and sciences with all good ideas, there's an inherent, inherent to that environment is discussion and conflict because you're working through what is the best experiment? What is the hypothesis that we're really chasing? And, but at the same time, you have to manage it because it can lead to discourse.

It can definitely lead to conflict.

But when you have a small team that's designed differently, to work together, everyone having a role, you have to figure it out of keeping a team where you have good discussion that leads to better discovery, but not so much that it actually takes you off track and leads to individuals not wanting to be participating members of the team.

So I wanted to kind of create that environment.

So tell us about your book, how it came about, and then a little bit how you see this related to helping us deal with workplace conflict.

What's your backstory? What's your origin story? How do you get interested in this kind of thing?

Yes, it's very similar situation.

I served in the military and I was stationed and I deployed to Afghanistan.

And then I relocated to Stuttgart, Germany.

And during my time there, In Afghanistan, I was taking a generalized antibiotic really as a prophylactics against basically anything maybe you could pick up from like fully uncooked food to possibly to be a prophylactics for malaria.

So bottom line.

I was on a generalized antibiotic.

How do you do that from a practical point of view?