Nicholas Thompson

I never set that goal because I just wanted to be who I was when I was 30.

And so I broke through that.

And so then what that made me realize is, okay, wait, the things that make you go fast, the things that make you go slow, they're buried deep inside, right?

And they're buried deep in your psychology.

And so that's what led me to start writing the book.

And so then I started writing about other people and their journeys and running.

I started writing about my father, my relationship to my father.

But the opening point or the thing that inspired the book was this realization that

Because running is such a simple personal sport, right?

It's just you.

You're just out there.

It's intimately tied up in human decline.

It is so personal and so intense that there's a lot there if you investigate.

So that's what triggered the book.

So it's called The Running Round, and we'll see if it's any good.

I'll be at all kinds of conferences.

I'll definitely see you at Web Summit.

Who knows?

I'll see you all kinds of places.

Thank you so much.