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Ed Zetron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
350 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

You change something materially with your publicly traded company worth $300 billion because it might happen while we're getting ahead of it.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And you talk to members of the media about this and they just go, yeah, you know, it'll happen.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's obviously going to happen.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

They wouldn't put this much money behind it if it wasn't going to.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

It's like...

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I don't know, especially with Salesforce.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

And I'm like, you don't think Salesforce would spend a bunch of money for no reason?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Well, buddy, you've not been following Salesforce at all then.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Yeah, go on.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Over $70 billion.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Where did that money go?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Where did it go?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Where did it go?

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Not building legs.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

But let's change.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Another $100 billion will have toes.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

So, changing subject a little, Mythos has been one of my favorite media hysterias recently.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I genuinely wonder, like, if they ran War of the Worlds again today, I think Axios would have a headline two minutes in and be like, there are aliens, they're attacking.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I heard it on a podcast.

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

I've looked through the system card.