Zerky

I have a rule, and sometimes I use it, sometimes I don't, where I try to talk to my Uber drivers.

I don't know if they like it or not.

They probably don't.

But man, it's led to some very incredible conversations.

Whenever I'm in Austin, I learn so much through the people that drive because some of them are not from the United States.

Um, but the other, you know, other time I was, I was getting a ride back home.

It was a guy who grew up in Austin and he told me about how much the world has changed and how much he witnessed basically like these, you know, old ranches turn into high rise apartments and how complete, you know, his neighborhood got completely gentrified into something completely different and he can't even recognize it, but it is what it is.

He still works and he still finds a way.

Those are the conversations that will genuinely fill your soul with so much joy and so much pride to be human.

Because the ones that I think a lot of us get stuck are just monologues about nonsense.

About, oh yeah, I went to this boba shop that was like really popular.

I saw it and it was just like, I just can't believe like boba is like not that good.

It's just, it's junk.

It's slop.

It's slop in conversation form.

And...

You don't deserve to have slop all the time.

It's good to have slop sometimes and hear somebody complain and just be like, okay.

But, like, I think you deserve to have good conversations with people and ask good questions.

And I think that overhearing this conversation at the Indian restaurant in Toronto, Canada, was just a reminder to myself that I never want to have a conversation where I am just, like...