Chris Best

It does exist.

People are a certain way, and you shouldn't really try, is maybe what I think.

But even so, you can take the exact same set of people with the same strengths, the same flaws, the same beliefs, and depending on how you set up the rules of the game, depending on how you set up the space they inhabit, how it gets communicated, how it all works, you can kind of create a heaven or a hell with the exact same people.

And so the act of sort of creating these online worlds, I think is kind of tremendously powerful.

And if you do it sort of with the conscious aim of making one that's good for the people that live in it, you can make something really great.

And that was probably, that was sloshing around in my head.

As I say, it wasn't after I left, I was taking some time off.

I was just doing all the things that you don't

normally do when you're running a high growth company, like see friends and family and read books and learn to fly airplanes and indulge hobbies.

And I've always been an avid reader.

My, you know, dad's an English teacher, grew up in a house full of books, and I've always believed that what you read matters and the media that you consume in general matters.

It's not just, you know, people watching this podcast.

It's not just how they spend a good fraction of their life.

And even if that's all it was, that would be good enough.

But the, you know, the stories and ideas you put into your head change you, right?

They shape how you see the world.

They change your experience of your own life.

You know, what you read and what you watch changes who you become.

And so great...

writing and great culture is this deeply valuable thing.