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This episode is brought to you by LMNT, my daily zero sugar and delicious electrolyte mix. Watermelon salt brings joy to my heart. I am traveling the world, and I am rapidly realizing that there's certain parts of the world where getting element delivered and purchased is more challenging than other parts in the world. So you have to pack a bunch if it brings joy to your heart like it does to mine. Lessons learned, but I still have elements so we're good. When I'm fasting, when I'm not eating much, when I'm doing crazy stuff, traveling all over, electrolytes and water is the foundation of happiness. And, water, you know, how to get. Not always easy to get, by the way, but let's set that aside. The electrolytes part, that's taken care of by LMNT. They got your sodium, your potassium, your magnesium. Get a free eight count sample pack with any purchase. Try it at drinkelement.com/lex.

This episode is also brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store. I have not been using social media much, so I have not seen what, Toby and DHH have been writing much. I haven't been watching anything. I've been reading books. I have been thinking, and I've been using, agents a lot. But I need to tune in because Toby, the CEO of Shopify, in case you don't know, always give him praise. DHH, I think, is on the board. I don't know. But, he's the man behind Ruby on Rails, which is the engine behind a lot of of the Shopify engineering. You can go check out some of the incredible stuff they blog about on the engineering front. If you like, that's not what this ad rate is supposed to be about. I'm supposed to tell you to open a store, and it's supposed to be easy, and they make it easy. I set up a a store to sell shirts, but the engineering behind it back to the real stuff. The engineering behind it is the incredible stuff. From the very top in Toby to every single engineer, and I've, met a bunch of them in Europe. Just a great team building great infrastructure that at scale has to deliver with low latency and, make it fun to program. And now I'll make it fun to program for agents. You can, sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/lux. That's all lowercase. Go to shopify.com/lux to take your business to the next level today.

This episode is also brought to you by Fin, the number one AI agent for customer service used by many incredible companies, including AI companies. That's when you know you're legit. If an AI company is using you for an AI service, that's what Fin does. It takes a niche, specializes it, and becomes the best in the world at doing that thing. And very few things are as important as communicating with customers. From the business side, managing that communication requires handling complex things like returns, exchanges, and disputes. Through all of it, you have to deliver high quality personalized answers, and integrate AI in a way that maximizes the average resolution rate. Fin does just that. Check it out at fin.ai/lex to get $500 per month in Fin credits for your first three months.

This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp. They figure out what you need to match you with a licensed professional therapist in under forty-eight hours. Some people will say that I'm traveling around this beautiful world of ours because I'm running from something. Maybe there's demons somewhere deep inside that I'm trying to reverse engineer, deconstruct. I just am so happy to be alive. There's nothing like travel that makes you open your eyes to the beauty even in the mundane. When you show up to a new place, that newness forces you to really look around with open eyes. You see every single thing — other people's faces, smiles, the street signs, the cars, the smells, the flowers, the food. All the things you take for granted in the incredible city or town you call home. Sometimes you need to take a leap into the unknown in order to see the very thing that makes life worth living back at home too. I do believe that talk therapy is a really powerful mechanism for doing that. BetterHelp is super accessible. It's easy, discreet, affordable, and available worldwide. Check them out at betterhelp.com/lex and save in your first month.

This episode is brought to you by LMNT, my daily zero sugar and delicious electrolyte mix. Watermelon salt brings joy to my heart. I am traveling the world, and I'm rapidly realizing that there are certain parts of the world where getting LMNT delivered and purchased is more challenging than other parts. So you have to pack a bunch if it brings joy to your heart like it does to mine. When I'm fasting, when I'm not eating much, when I'm doing crazy stuff, traveling all over, electrolytes and water is the foundation of happiness. The electrolytes part is taken care of by LMNT. They have your sodium, your potassium, your magnesium. Get a free eight-count sample pack with any purchase. Try it at drinkelement.com/lex.

And now a quick mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description at lexfridman.com/sponsors. It's the best way to support this podcast. Upwork for hiring quality freelancers, Fin for customer service AI agents, BetterHelp for mental health, Element for Electrolyze, Shopify for selling stuff online, and Perplexity for curiosity-driven knowledge exploration. Choose wisely, my friends.

This episode is also brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store. I have not been using social media much, so I have not seen what Toby and DHH have been writing much. I haven't been watching anything. I've been reading books. I have been thinking, and I've been using agents a lot. But I need to tune in because Toby, the CEO of Shopify, always give him praise. DHH, I think, is on the board. I don't know. But he's the man behind Ruby on Rails, which is the engine behind a lot of the Shopify engineering. You can go check out some of the incredible stuff they blog about on the engineering front. That's not what this ad read is supposed to be about. I'm supposed to tell you to open a store, and it's supposed to be easy, and they make it easy. I set up a store to sell shirts, but the engineering behind it – back to the real stuff – that's the incredible stuff. From the very top in Toby to every single engineer – I've met a bunch of them in Europe. Just a great team building great infrastructure that at scale has to deliver with low latency and make it fun to program. And now I'll make it fun to program for agents. You can sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/lux.

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This episode, I'm not sure why I'm so hyped, but I am, is brought to you by Finn, the number one AI agent for customer service. Very few things are as important for business as taking care of the customer. This is the thing. When I had that conversation with Jeff Bezos, wonderful conversation on many levels, especially on the human level, Really, really, really a conversation I enjoyed very much. We'll probably do another one. Maybe we'll do one with Jeff and Elon together. Me as a person who loves space, who loves the ambitious, literal moonshot of humanity reaching out toward the stars that makes me dream, that gives me hope about the future. So the two of them that are leading the way on those efforts being together at the table, I think would inspire a lot of people. Anyway, I say all that because Jeff has talked a lot about the value of the customer, about putting customer first. So getting the customer service piece right is incredibly difficult, but it's incredibly important. And what Finn provides is tooling around that. It's trusted by over 6,000 customer service leaders, top companies, including AI companies. You know when AI companies trust your AI agent that is focused on customer service, you know then it's legit. And Fin is indeed legit. Go to fin.ai.lex to learn more about transforming your customer service and scaling your support team. That's fin.ai.lex.

This episode is brought to you by Element, my daily zero sugar and delicious electrolyte mix, a packet of which I just consumed. I'm heading to bed soon. It was a very tough day. Lots of moving around. putting, I don't even know what this is, but it's hotel water, dumping a packet of element into it and sipping on it even though it's warm, it still makes me feel like home. It makes me feel like I have my life together to get a little sodium, a little potassium, a little magnesium, and all together, a little bit of love into my life. Watermelon salt flavor makes me feel like I'm in Austin, Texas in that summer heat, just happy to be alive. get a free eight count sample pack with any purchase. Try it to drink element.com slash Lex.

This episode is also brought to you by Shopify, the very mention of which makes me happy because I know how much they value engineering and the whole endeavor of engineering just makes me happy. Anyway, Shopify is a platform designed for anyone to sell, anywhere with a great looking online store. Whenever I do and not read about Shopify, I keep talking about engineering. I never talk about what Shopify actually does. I use it to sell shirts. There's businesses that do much more sophisticated stuff, but I will keep talking about the engineering because bringing the infrastructure to life that makes it all happen, Toby's a magician. but also is a legit nerd, a legit engineer. His tweets are some of my favorite. I love it when great CEOs and great leaders are also engineers at heart and never stop tinkering, never stop building, never stop being at the low level of figuring out how systems work, how to innovate how systems work, and how to do difficult things in ways that's never been done before. That is the beauty of the tinkerer mindset that Toby embodies. And their whole team, I met them at NeurIbs, the Shopify engineering team. Great human beings. Love what they do. But also, of course, Shopify itself, the platform. Love what they do. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com slash lex. That's all lowercase. Go to shopify.com slash lex to take your business to the next level today.