Vlad Barbalat
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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A couple of things I try to remind myself of.
Whatever it is that you are living through, we are living through, it feels particularly acute to us.
It always feels like the sharpest moment
probably isn't.
If you go back and take people in our parts of life, they experienced things then and they thought it was the most acute thing.
I also think about the fact that in my career, I've now been through what I would say is more than enough of various crises.
Some of them feeling like, could this really be that I'm alive during this period?
I distinctly remember walking after a long day on Zoom in March or maybe April of 2020.
It was a rainy day, 10, 11 hour marathon on Zoom.
needed to walk outside.
And I'm walking around and thinking, is it really possible that my life happened to coincide with this moment in humanity where a pandemic was going to completely upend society and human life as I know it?
I told myself, odds are very small.
It's very unlikely that that's gonna be the case.
And then I remind myself there were many pandemics before that would wipe out large parts of humanity, yet humanity goes on.
It is true that if you're living in that period of time, your experience is actually quite different than the lens of history many years later.
But I also find myself
having those thoughts over and over again.
I have those thoughts when it comes to the unbelievable moment in tech progress that we're living through.
And that feels really real and very, very different in a way that you can imagine society 10, 15 years from now
that will look nothing like what it looks like today.
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