Dotty Scott and Heshy discuss how online tools like Zoom let you build a global network of friends. They describe asking Shua in St. Lucia about gas prices via WhatsApp instead of searching the web, and how a diverse network becomes better than Google.
Well, I love the fact that you can now meet people all over the world. Mm-hmm. And I, you know, before Zoom, before COVID for that matter, I of course know people live everywhere and people are people and they're pretty much all the same as everywhere, but I've never really had the opportunity until now to really get to know people. That are completely different from myself in the sense that they, they live in other countries, they follow other rules, they have different languages, just a different way of approaching things. And it has helped me expand the way I think and grow. What do you think about that, Heshy?
Oh, I, I think it's like doing your research online. It, it just is amazing. I've, I've said to people on numerous occasions that one of the reasons I love having a diverse network is if I didn't want to Google something, I could just call someone. Um, I remember talking with my friend Shua, who I, I think is there now, and Uh, we were talking about the price of gas, and so I just picked up, you know, I just went on to WhatsApp and I, and I reached out to him and I said, so how much does a liter of gas cost in St. Lucia? I mean, I met him through a Zoom meeting and we became friends, and I just think that he's fabulous and he can tell me things for sure, for real, that I don't have to look up because he lives in a place where I have not been to yet, although I'm threatening to come visit him. Um, so, you know, there's so much we can learn if we reach out and build. It's like having tentacles everywhere, and it works.
