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I pay myself as little as I possibly can to be able to pay back student loans and have, you know, a non-lavish, okay, life.
Uh, somewhere between those two.
On the upper range of that.
But, uh, it's, uh, you know, obviously moving from San Francisco to Austin helps now too.
Uh, and, uh, but yeah, I mean, it's, it's always been about how little can we pay ourselves, uh, while, uh, not going into deep depression and so we can have as many employees and as many people being effective for the business as possible.
Awesome.
Do you know what it's called?
Go ahead.
Uh, it's not necessarily a business book, but it's called the art of learning by Josh Waitzkin.
Uh, Josh Waitzkin said the kid, I don't know if you ever saw the movie, uh, searching for Bobby Fisher.
Uh, and he's a child chess prodigy.
And he then also went on to become a world champion in, uh, in push hands Tai Chi.
And then he became a Brazilian jujitsu black belt.
And he talks about essentially what it's like to learn and how to become a good student, which I found is pretty much the only skill that matters.
Yeah.
Um, I mean, I think Richard Branson is really admirable and part of what he does really well is he, um, he's, he's definitely somebody who makes his life in, in living and having a full life and a part of running his business successfully.
So, uh, he's probably, you know, less, uh,
Number three, what's your favorite online tool like FreshBooks?
Yeah, this is kind of a lame answer, but like what I use the most, I use every day is LinkedIn.
I just use it a lot to generate different opportunities to cross-reference people, to hire people, to find opportunities.