Re: TheTropolis "Get It Done By Tuesday"

Well, hi, hi, hi, Perry. Of course, you won't see this for a week since you're climbing fish ladders or some such Scottish nonsense while the rest of us are here banging our heads against the wall in San Francisco trying to figure out how to do something really complicated with a bunch of really strong-willed people who live thousands of miles apart and decide that I'm supposed to be in charge. Oh, that was great. That was terrific. Let me tell you something, being in charge of this group is like being, you know, the head cat trying to get the rest of them to, you know, go in a straight line. Uh, boy, it was good to see that video. That was— that, that just made me smile because, uh, you know, I don't know what the most complicated thing is that, that you folks have ever done, uh, and that's always a good question to ask somebody You know, in an interview, when you're interviewing somebody for a job, one of the things that you always ask them to do is to tell you stories about things that they've done that demonstrate the level of sophistication of whatever skills it is that you want people to have in order to do the job well that you're interviewing for. Did that make any sense, by the way? That may have been one one of the more complicated sentences I've ever uttered on YouTube, which is saying something because you know I go on. But this is a complicated process and it's complicating, if you know what I mean. It's a complicated process to create something collaboratively, especially when you're doing that creation with people who are used to creating things, um, based on their own lights, you know. And all of us who are involved in this project are used to creating things by our own lights. And so, you know, if we want something to go this way we usually pretty well do it. And if we wanted to go that way, we usually pretty well do it. And, you know, there's nobody, nobody there to say, well, you know, I think it shouldn't go that way, I think it should go this way. And, and so when that's not the case, when you're in a situation like the one that we're in, especially given the, you know, thousands of miles that separate us and the language barriers. I mean, Perry speaks that Scottish thing. I got the Bronx thing going on. Who the hell knows what Ken Argy speaks? Renetto speaks, you know, language from another planet. He doesn't talk about here. Charlie, you know, he wears masks half the time. No, not anymore, Charlie. I'm kidding. No more masks, man. I know you're right there out there just like the rest of us now. Sticking your mug in the camera. But it's hard. It's hard to do. And it comes down to whether or not you think what you're trying to accomplish is worth the effort and whether you think that doing it collectively makes more sense than not? And believe me, those are not easy questions to answer, especially as Perry says, when you get down to that part where you focus your mind on the money. And you know, now suddenly you're not just thinking, well, this is a good idea, or that's a good idea. You're thinking, well, how good of an idea is it? And how much am I willing I willing to bet on it being a good idea? And how much am I willing to go out there and ask other people to bet on being a good idea? So it's hard. It's hard. And irony, irony, isn't irony great? You ever, you ever, ooh, irony. My daughter Heidi and I always go, Ooh, irony. Isn't it ironic that, you know, here at a pretty crucial time when, you know, we've got some real serious decisions to make, here's Perry camping off on some coast in Scotland. Here's Renato driving up to the redwood forest somewhere. Uh, getting ready to fight some cataclysmic DMCA fight. Here I am in San Francisco getting ready to have the, uh, wrap-up meeting for the YouTube Community Council. Yes, that's right, that's why I'm here, uh, to do that. Uh, Charlie's traveling. Uh, Ken is in jeopardy of being burned out of his house down in the Santa Cruz Mountains down there. Ken get ready, man. Put the stuff in a bag, be sure you got the single malt, and get out of town, right? Uh, you know, irony, irony, irony, irony. So, but maybe it's a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing that we've got, you know, a little time here to let things sort of filter through and think through some of the things that are still not quite clear and that we're not 100% totally in agreement. But I think maybe we've got an experimental model that we might be willing to use as a starting point to see, check out, see what happens. We'll see. We'll see. But it doesn't matter, because Perry's not going to see this for a week. And, you know, like I said, everybody else is preoccupied with everything else. And, you know, I'm here looking at the San Francisco Bay. And it's a beautiful day, at least in this part of San Francisco. Up at the Golden Gate Park, it's freezing and foggy. But here downtown San Francisco, it's beautiful. So Perry, you and your family have a wonderful trip. Enjoy the camping. Stay out of the internet cafes. If you can stay off those naughty sites for a week, you know, that would be good. This being the naughtiest site. And we'll catch up with you soon. And it was great to see that video. It really did make me chuckle. So see you guys. Take it easy. Bye-bye.