Tech industry leaders often start with positive public perceptions but eventually transform into self-interested figures who exert outsized and often negative influence.

“There's sort of this march of the tech leader where they start off, everyone hopes they're they're different and people have big hopes for them. They manage their press really well. A lot of earnest statements about the danger of the technology and you know, uh, well, I don't I don't have any owners”

Tech industry leaders often focus on optimizing their bodies due to a fear of mortality, which distracts them from the importance of social connections.

“But I think they're very I don't know, cognizant of mortality in a way that's graspy um as opposed to someone like Steve Jobs who actually gave that famous speech about mortality being important, you know, and it was such a shift and I could see like you get, you know, rich or or master of the unive”