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Xyla Foxlin

Xyla Foxlin

American engineer and entrepreneur

Oct 8, 2026

5:20
You remember doing that?
5:22
Um, I would never, I would never.
5:24
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
5:28
I, um, but I, I remember like taking my dad to the library at some point and checking out like all the books I could on birds and like physics.
5:39
I don't, I don't know how much I could even read those books at that point.
5:42
But, um, and then I went through the, the very classic Astronaut.
5:48
childhood fixation where I like I got oh my god I got in so much trouble once because I my my parents worked a lot um so I had a lot of free reign in my life and I when they weren't there I printed out tons and tons of pictures of space on our family's like inkjet printer which is just black it's I just printed out sheets and sheets of black um And my parents came home, and there was no printer ink left, and printer ink was still really expensive at that time.

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16:38
But now she wanted to know, was the IUD giving her an entirely different side effect?
3:54
But when you were, it made me think of it when you were talking about the audience right it's like there's one thing to be curious but then you also have to be like is the audience also going to be as curious as I am and I'm having to assume and this is where the question comes in I'm having to assume that over time you have the muscle memory of like not having to always ask yourself that and go yeah generally I think if I'm curious about it they'll be
4:16
yeah I think that um The things that get me really excited are things that I can't figure out if it's possible or I can't figure out if someone's done it before.
4:27
And I really like falling down.
4:29
Or if it's really technically exciting or challenging to me, then for the most part, my audience will find the same thing.
4:40
And I think creators talk about there's community videos and pillar videos.
4:43
I don't know if you've sort of like...
4:45
But you have your pillar videos, which are your standout, exceptional, you've poured a huge amount of time and resources into them and you're expecting them to go viral or you're building them to go viral.
9:54
We'll figure out next week when we figure out next week.

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