Balaji Srinivasan

And I didn't actually understand that until actually like, you know, a few hours ago or whatever.

He has like something where he's like, oh, Idi Amin did nothing wrong, basically.

Yeah, that one was crazy.

It's just, you know, the problem is like, you know, and a lot of people said, why are you being so nice, blah, blah.

And the way I approach things is, you know, tit for tat in game theory?

Yep.

Like, basically, there's a version of tit-for-tat where, like, you start out nice, right?

I will basically cooperate with someone who will cooperate with me.

I always start out nice.

Steve, I mean, whatever.

You've seen me in business over the years.

I always, always start—

I'm not.

And I try, like basically I'm always looking for the win-win.

That is to say, how can that person win, you know, like empathy.

It's funny.

The problem is, you know, wokes weaponize the word empathy and they use it to mean give me all your money and die or whatever, right?

And you're evil, whatever.

But the thing is empathy in the sense of understanding the other person's incentive structure and how they get a win.

is important even if you're just a completely cold-blooded business person right right in fact the first thing i do when in any slide deck any conversation before you go and do a presentation is how does that person win right how did they get a promotion how do you know how did they how does their business make money how do they advance in life they have like three sometimes they even haven't even thought through their kpis or whatever right