1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,400 Hello, welcome to the careers4kids podcast where kids learn careers. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,800 This is Maxwell Valencia. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,600 And this is Henry Morrison. 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,600 And today we have Darryl Linux, a digital operations manager. 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,600 Hello, Mr. E. 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,200 Hey, how are you guys doing? 7 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:21,200 Doing good. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,000 Thank you for spending your time with me on careers for kids. 9 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,000 We are weeping. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,200 But we hope you have a great day. 11 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,400 Let's get started. 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,400 Tell us what you currently do. 13 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:40,400 So I manage all the digital touch points in the town of Westport that you job see. 14 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:41,400 This is in Westport. 15 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:46,400 So things like the website, our social media strategy and tactics. 16 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:56,400 And right now I'm working on rolling out a platform for people to create permits to work in town. 17 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:10,400 It's a lot of working with people and business processes and working with technology to help them. 18 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:17,400 And working to understand what it is that we want to do for the people who live in town. 19 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:23,400 And a way that makes it easier for them and for the staff of the town. 20 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,400 And essentially using technology where it makes sense. 21 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,400 Sometimes technology is cool and it's interesting. 22 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:42,400 But it doesn't necessarily always do the right thing for what people want the end goal to be. 23 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:48,400 So it's really important to think about what it is that you want the technology to do. 24 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:54,400 So that you know that you achieve the goal in the end when you build whatever it is. 25 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,400 And you roll it out and people use it. 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:06,400 And it actually does something in a way that is either more efficient or better or more costly. 27 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,400 Or a great combination. 28 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:10,400 Wow. 29 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,400 So tell us more about your career and how you got into this position. 30 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:22,400 So I started in television. I started as a producer on a show called America's Most Wanted back in the day. 31 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:31,400 When I was on that show as a producer, the show was responsible for the capture of 11 of the FBI's 10 most wanted. 32 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:39,400 So we were capturing people who were wanted around the world sometimes. 33 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,400 And it was a really great environment. 34 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,400 It was my first job out of college. I went to school at the University of Florida. 35 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:57,400 And I learned everything from writing to editing to shooting. 36 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,400 And then post production. 37 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:06,400 And in post production, which is editing and sound effects and graphics and all that sort of stuff, 38 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:14,400 I learned a lot about how computers were going to start to become more the way that we did things. 39 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:20,400 When I started, there weren't computer editing systems. 40 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,400 And so, believe it or not, we would edit on tape. 41 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,400 And there were computers controlling tape machines. 42 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:36,400 You didn't tape the tape and then adjust it and then digitize it and edit. It was very much tape to tape. 43 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,400 And digital editing came in. 44 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:49,400 And I sort of found that there was going to be something coming, this internet thing that was sort of cocculating but not really real yet. 45 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:56,400 And I thought, this is all going to be coming to your desktop, to your laptop. 46 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,400 And 20, 30 years later, that was true. 47 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,400 So it wasn't like I knew that the internet was coming or anything like that. 48 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,400 I just thought, there is something. I just had to stay looking toward it. 49 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:17,400 And so, my next job after Mixer responded, I was working as a producer for a PR company. 50 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,400 And that's when the internet really started. 51 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,400 And I started to put video online. 52 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,400 And at the time, it was really not a great experience. 53 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:37,400 But if you were learning about how to optimize video for streaming and how to optimize it for different screen sizes and things like that. 54 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,400 So that was a really big part of the learning curve. 55 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:48,400 And after that, I went and started working for television brands but in the digital side. 56 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:58,400 So not so much working on programs or television shows but on the stuff that was secondary to it. 57 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:09,400 So I worked at J&E and the History Channel on building apps for, at first it was, building them for cable boxes. 58 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:16,400 And that, again, was sort of like an experiment because cable boxes didn't really have a lot of memory. 59 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,400 So you couldn't really do a lot of them. 60 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,400 And the internet was really fast becoming the way it was going. 61 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:35,400 And so we realized that we had to kind of pivot over to this new technology and to really start building apps for digital and then the iPhone. 62 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,400 And so we realized, well, now we have the build apps for the iPhone. 63 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,400 So I started building them for the iPhone. 64 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:47,400 And then my next job was at WWB, Arnold Schwarzenegger Entertainment. 65 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:55,400 And I built an app for them that was for their shows during the week. 66 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:03,400 And it was like if you were to watch the show on your phone, you would see stuff in between during the commercial break. 67 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:09,400 So like if someone was, you know, jumped out of the ring and then on TV it went to a commercial, 68 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,400 then on your phone see them, like what happened. 69 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:21,400 Go in and follow the guy to the dressing room, throw a chair, that sort of stuff. 70 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:30,400 So it's a way to kind of think about and test and it was sort of a laboratory of sorts to figure out, you know, 71 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,400 were people interested in the devices on their phone? 72 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,400 Were they watching from their 10 foot experience couch? 73 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:41,400 Or were they watching both? 74 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,400 We didn't really know at the time. 75 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,400 You know, people were trying to, not that people were trying to figure it out. 76 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,400 People were just doing stuff. 77 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,400 We were trying to figure out what people were doing. 78 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,400 And so that was a great learning experience for me there. 79 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:59,400 I also built a game for John Cena called John Cena Raceway. 80 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,400 That was a racing game on mobile. 81 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:08,400 It was really fun and I also built the main WWE app for Xbox. 82 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:14,400 So working on different platforms, again going back to that topic though, 83 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,400 begin with the end in mind. 84 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,400 What is it that people want when they're on their mobile device? 85 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,400 What is it that they want when they're on their gaming device? 86 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,400 What is it that they want when they're on their 10 foot device? 87 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,400 Their television. 88 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,400 And how are they going to use it? 89 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,400 And what's the length of time they're going to be using it? 90 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:37,400 And are they going to want to interact with it or just be passive and let it pour over them? 91 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:42,400 So those were all things we were learning as the technology started becoming more and more powerful 92 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,400 and more and more capable of delivering video and interactive content. 93 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:56,400 And then from there I went to Disney and started doing Disney comic books. 94 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:04,400 And we developed the capability of being able to read a comic book on a small screen 95 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:14,400 which is by using flash technology, a layer of technology on internet material. 96 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:20,400 And it's kind of not really a thing anymore. 97 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:31,400 Back in the day it was a way to manipulate content and so it would auto play and take you from area to area. 98 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,400 You guys know comic books aren't like reading a book. 99 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:43,400 The bubbles are all over the place and the action takes place in different and your eyes scan the page in different ways. 100 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:54,400 So we were able to create this kind of camera movement on top of the comics that you would essentially play comic books for. 101 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,400 And then that technology got brought by Comicology. 102 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:09,400 And then I moved on to here at the town of Westport. 103 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:15,400 And that brings you to where we are today which is website, social media and harmony. 104 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,400 Yeah, back to where you felt something was coming. 105 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:30,400 That was definitely a good choice to keep on that part because now everybody has a laptop or a phone or some sort of thing. 106 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:35,400 Even I'm right here working on some thin laptop. It's crazy. 107 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:43,400 Yeah, exactly. You guys are exactly who you were thinking was going to be doing the stuff that we thought would happen. 108 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:48,400 We just didn't know your name. 109 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:53,400 What part of your job do you enjoy the most and what do you like the most? 110 00:09:53,400 --> 00:10:03,400 I like solving problems. I like it and I can use chat GBT for a lot of things. 111 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:07,400 I'm using it a lot, a lot, a lot for myself. 112 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:16,400 For sort of mundane things, I find it fantastic to be able to say like, I've got the string in this column. 113 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:22,400 Can you take it apart and put it in two columns? And it gives me a formula. 114 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:30,400 And it's crazy how you can do things so quickly and intelligently just by really brief prompts. 115 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,400 I have been experimenting with it in other areas, with other prompts. 116 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:45,400 And prompt building is very fascinating to me because it's very interesting to see the different responses you get by building your prompts differently. 117 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:58,400 And maybe for your audience, those that don't understand what I'm talking about, prompts are what you ask or say to chat GBT or any AI large language model to elicit a response. 118 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:05,400 And the way you input the information or the kind of questions you ask will change the feedback. 119 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:12,400 And it's just fascinating to tell it things like a persona. 120 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:19,400 Chat GBT, you are a Fortune 100 marketing manager. 121 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:30,400 You need to think of a way to make this newsletter title sound official, but interesting and fun. 122 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,400 So, you know, things like that. That's a small example. 123 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:47,400 But I have contacts in the industry that are doing some incredible things with visual images and video, audio that is just mind blowing. 124 00:11:47,400 --> 00:12:01,400 And by giving it information like lens sizing and the amount of light, the aperture of the camera and all those things that you can imagine it would know, but it does. 125 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,400 And then it's out something that is just like crazy. 126 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:15,400 It's like having an entire picture film on your laptop. 127 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:21,400 I didn't even realize I could edit videos. I'm thinking of like what I use for photos and videos. 128 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,400 I mean, I just mess around with it. I'm serious. 129 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:28,400 But it's like, have you heard of Open Pilot on Microsoft? 130 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,400 No. Oh, pilot. Yeah, yeah. 131 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:37,400 So I was just I met someone who did a little bit of a seminar about it's a co-pilot. 132 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:45,400 So she said there's 20 different co-pilot products. 133 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:56,400 But they're built into all the various different Microsoft products. 134 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:03,400 And there's the one that's a version for when you are on the browser on Edge. 135 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:15,400 And then within that, there's a professional product which will allow you to ingest information from your business and then interact with it through AI. 136 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,400 So it's an interesting thing that they're doing. 137 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:25,400 They've got a real leg up with the fact that they have this relationship with chat. 138 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:34,400 Because they're really kind of meeting right now. That's not to say that they're the one and only. There's so many different editors right now. 139 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,400 So it's a very interesting space. 140 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:44,400 And if I had any unsolicited advice to any of your listeners, learn all you can about AI. 141 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Learn all you can about prompt engineering because AI is going to be it's not going to take your job. 142 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:57,400 It might take some jobs, but it's not going to take your job. It's going to be your co-worker. 143 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,400 It's going to be you're going to be here with AI. 144 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:17,400 You're going to be to be like the RGPG essentially to work with on a daily basis and to utilize in a way that's going to be able to think of ways to do things differently. 145 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:23,400 Think of ways to be more efficient, think of ways to be more creative that we haven't really considered yet. 146 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,400 So I'm very excited by it. 147 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:32,400 I know there's a lot of pluses and minuses about the technology. 148 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:40,400 You know, there's banks and there's people doing things that they shouldn't be doing with it. 149 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,400 And that's going to happen. 150 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:50,400 But there's also good stuff that's going to happen too. That's really, you know, putting some parameters on it. 151 00:14:50,400 --> 00:15:01,400 I don't think it's for everybody. I don't think, you know, necessarily, you know, people who are not knowledge workers are going to get a lot of benefit for. 152 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,400 But I think even they can too. 153 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:15,400 I think, you know, just being able to ask it about your car, how do I, you know, fix this thing in my suspension? 154 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:20,400 It's a 2022 Honda. 155 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,400 And it'll like tell you exactly what to do. 156 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:29,400 And you do have to be careful with it because I don't know if you guys have experienced this, but it can hallucinate. 157 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:38,400 Have you ever had a JET GPT spit out something that's totally wrong and you know, hey, JET GPT, that's wrong. 158 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Well, yeah, Maxwell. We're a pretty small company and we haven't been around for that long. 159 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:39,400 Yeah. 160 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:40,400 I'm sorry. 161 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,400 And all these information up to a certain date. 162 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,400 Yeah, that's true. 163 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,400 It's getting closer to real time. 164 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:06,400 I think it's up to last year. 165 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,400 I think it's 2021, September. 166 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,400 You know, I think it's, I think it's, JET GPT 4. 167 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,400 I think the, if you have a 168 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,400 Yeah, 3.5 is what I said today. 169 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,400 Yeah. 170 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,400 I'm not paying. 171 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,400 Yeah, I'm paying just because I want to know, I want to keep experimenting. 172 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:40,400 I think that's part of my, when I look back and just talking with you guys about my experience, you know, I feel like I, there's two ways to look at it. 173 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,400 One is, a friend of mine used to call this the bright and shiny adapter. 174 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,400 And it's like, oh, look, there's something bright and shiny. 175 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,400 Let's go towards it. 176 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:53,400 And that's one way of looking at it. And that can be a deficit. 177 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:58,400 That can be, you take your eye off something and you're looking for the new fun, cool thing. 178 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:07,400 And you're not really, you know, I don't know, digging in to the thing that you maybe could or should be doing. 179 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,400 And I've experienced that. 180 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,400 I think we all do some degrees of that. 181 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:30,400 But I also feel like I like being in a position where I can give the best of my skill set to the people around me and also keep learning, keep growing, keep thinking about new things. 182 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,400 And that's just kind of who I am and what I like. 183 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:43,400 I like when I can figure out something that's fun for me. 184 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:49,400 So what's the dream job you had yourself doing in your career? 185 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,400 I really enjoyed my time at Disney. 186 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:59,400 When I was there, they moved from White Plains, New York to California. 187 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,400 This was Disney publishing. 188 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:10,400 And I really was thinking about moving, but I had two new kids and I didn't really think that I should move to California. 189 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,400 This didn't seem like the right move at the time. 190 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,400 And would love to continue to work with them. 191 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:22,400 And if I were to ever do, I would love to work in their Imagineering group. 192 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:28,400 To me, that would be my dream job. 193 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:39,400 You know the Imagineers, right? The guys and women that build the rides and the animatronics and all the other cool new stuff that they're doing. 194 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:44,400 I saw this really interesting product that they just developed there. 195 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:55,400 It's a floor that is made of little hexagons that are about the size of a golf ball. 196 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,400 They are underneath your feet and you can move. 197 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:06,400 So if you're in a VR meet, you can walk. 198 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,400 So you know how right now you're walking, like walking through a wall. 199 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:16,400 This allows you to actually literally walk in a run. 200 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:23,400 It takes you at the speed that you're running through the virtual reality environment. 201 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,400 That is cool. 202 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,400 It's in prototype now, so it's not a commercially available product. 203 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:47,400 It seems really cool. It seems like an answer to something that's been sort of a roadblock in the expansion of virtual reality is that rotation. 204 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:53,400 Say it again. Sorry. 205 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,400 Sorry, Maxwell. You're really low and I can't hear you. 206 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,400 I got you turned up all the way. 207 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,400 Oh, who were your main idols when you were young? Sorry about that. 208 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,400 No problem. My main idols were musicians. 209 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,400 I love music since I was a little kid. 210 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:24,400 I heard the Beatles Abbey Road album from my sister and I listened to it until there was no music left on it. 211 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,400 I just love what they were doing. 212 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:42,400 And it was an interesting thing because now I know after watching the documentary on Apple Plus that that album was really stuff that was left half done. 213 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:56,400 And so there's one side of the album that is a medley of a bunch of different songs that seems very carefully constructed and very interestingly interwoven as being so different. 214 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:03,400 Each of these songs are different. They have a little sense together and they're talking about different things and there's no continuity. 215 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,400 And I just thought it was like just artistic creativity. 216 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:17,400 But it really was that plus the fact that they were disintegrating and they were just tying up with another album. 217 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:29,400 But I think if there's any positive spin to put on that is that sometimes when you're faced with creative challenges, you make your best stuff. 218 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:41,400 And so sometimes you may think to yourself, well, if I had more time to do thus and such, I could do it or be better. 219 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:47,400 Or if I had more money or if I had more resources or if I had more computing power, I have more whatever. 220 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:53,400 But sometimes giving yourself limitations is actually a catalyst for creativity. 221 00:21:53,400 --> 00:22:00,400 It's a way to challenge yourself to do something in a way that hadn't been done before. 222 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:10,400 So, yeah, I think not that my young years at five years old knew about music, but in fact I really liked it. 223 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:16,400 And I certainly didn't know how it was created. I was drawn to it and a lot of people were too. 224 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:28,400 And I think there's something about that. I think there's something about that creativity on the run that is sort of interesting. 225 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,400 It can create interesting stuff. It can create a lot of bad stuff too. 226 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:43,400 But yeah, it's an interesting thing. So my heroes were musicians. I liked all music. 227 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:58,400 I remember like 80s and New Wave music, David Bowie, Elton John. Yeah, people like that were really the people I looked up to when I was growing up. 228 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:12,400 And I think now, you know, it's more people who are doing things to help save the planet because I feel, you know, you're going to inherit all that has come before. 229 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:20,400 And it's things that we adults are not looking at in the way that we should be looking at. 230 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:38,400 It's that we need to do things in a way that is sustainable. So people who are building green homes and people who are not using things that are not renewable. 231 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:56,400 And here in Westport, we're championing an effort to have people when they go and get takeout food to leave behind and not get utensils and all the extra stuff. 232 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:14,400 Because while it seems like a little bit of stuff, it adds up to mountains of things that get thrown into our waste stream. And if you, you know, put three of us on this call, you know, every other time say no to the extra stuff. 233 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:33,400 And times of bazillion, right, that could really slow the amount of trash that goes into the planet. And so I find, you know, those are little things that is when you look at it, well, what's that going to do to the planet? 234 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:47,400 But multiply it times a billion becomes something. And so that's those are my my heroes now are people who are working on those types of goals. 235 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:54,400 What are the biggest challenges that can be solved by our generation? 236 00:24:54,400 --> 00:25:08,400 Well, I think, you know, one of the things that is first of all, once in my mind is we need to start realizing that we're all human, that while we all may have different points of view, upbringings, 237 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:29,400 places we're from, religions, things that we value, that we're all human and we're all in this together, and that you give respect to one another. I'm hoping that your generation is able to take that in and reflect it back out to the planet. 238 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,400 Because we're all on this one spaceship. 239 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:42,400 At this point, there's not another spaceship. So if there were, I'm sure a lot of people would want to get on it. 240 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:48,400 But right now there's not. And so we need to all be pulling in the same direction. 241 00:25:48,400 --> 00:26:07,400 That's the main thing I'm hoping for your generation to do, are part of the wave of people who look beyond, you know, skin color and wealth and privilege and, you know, just difference. 242 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:13,400 Are you able to say, yeah, yeah, yeah. 243 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:20,400 And if someone wants to follow in your footsteps in your careers, what would you tell him or? 244 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:31,400 I would say, learn to code at least something like Python. 245 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:47,400 And then learn database, some database, like a SQL database, and then learn about engineering and statistical analysis. 246 00:26:47,400 --> 00:27:08,400 I think if you compile those four things into a high school curriculum and or college major, you would be set for being able to essentially design your own company. 247 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:26,400 You want to create your own company or work anywhere, any large corporation or any. 248 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,400 Sorry, I lost the thread. 249 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:38,400 You're trying to get us to stop because you're flashing the. 250 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,400 Oh, OK. 251 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,400 But where was I said? 252 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,400 A large corporation. 253 00:27:51,400 --> 00:28:06,400 Large corporation or your own company or in a research facility or research institution where you develop a new technology. 254 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:23,400 So I think that is what I would say for someone who is looking to do something like what I'm doing to learn those things, to have them be a part of your basis of understanding. 255 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,400 You don't have to be an expert in any one of them. 256 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:36,400 You don't have to drill down into a four year program. 257 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:51,400 At least get some fluency, some baseline ability. 258 00:28:51,400 --> 00:29:00,400 Yeah, that's awesome. 259 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:09,400 Yeah, it's all good because when you learn one, you'll realize that a lot of a lot of things you learn are the basis for other languages. 260 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,400 And then once you know one, the other one's coming. 261 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,400 And that's true with foreign languages as well. 262 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:22,400 Oh, that's the other thing. Yeah, foreign language. 263 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:23,400 Thank you so much. 264 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,400 There's so many things, though, you know, you guys. 265 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,400 Well, I know you got to wrap up. 266 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,400 Yeah. So thank you so much, Mr. Dimex for allowing us to interview you. 267 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:37,400 I'm sure more kids will be inspired by this interview. 268 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:42,400 And whoever's listening, thanks for listening to the Creators for Kids podcast. 269 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,400 I hope you enjoyed the episode and we'll see you in the next episode. 270 00:29:47,400 --> 00:30:16,400 Bye.