We're getting more and more live animal shipments. We've done charters with live pigs, cattle, sheep, rare tigers, and a giraffe. It's a significant piece of business for our company.

We did not target this business up front and built a special infrastructure for it. It was more a result of us growing our business.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

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