How I hacked online dating | Amy Webb

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So my name is Amy Webb,
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and a few years ago I found myself at the end
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of yet another fantastic relationship
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that came burning down in a spectacular fashion.
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And I thought, what's wrong with me?
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I don't understand why this keeps happening.
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So I asked everybody in my life what they thought.
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I turned to my grandmother, who always had plenty of advice,
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and she said, "Stop being so picky.
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You've got to date around.
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And most importantly,
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true love will find you when you least expect it."
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Now as it turns out,
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I'm somebody who thinks a lot about data,
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as you'll soon find.
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I am constantly swimming in numbers, formulas and charts.
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I also have a very tight-knit family,
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and I'm very, very close with my sister,
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and as a result, I wanted to have the same type of family when I grew up.
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So I'm at the end of this bad breakup,
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I'm 30 years old,
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I figure I'm probably going to have to date somebody for about six months
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before I'm ready to get monogamous
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and before we can sort of cohabitate,
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and we have to do that for a while before we can get engaged.
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And if I want to start having children by the time I'm 35,
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that meant that I would have had to have been on my way to marriage
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five years ago.
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So that wasn't going to work.
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If my strategy was to least-expect my way into true love,
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then the variable that I had to deal with was serendipity.
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In short, I was trying to figure out
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what's the probability of my finding Mr. Right?
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Well, at the time I was living in the city of Philadelphia,
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and it's a big city, and I figured,
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in this entire place, there are lots of possibilities.
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So again, I started doing some math.
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Population of Philadelphia: it has 1.5 million people.
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I figure about half of that are men,
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so that takes the number down to 750,000.
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I'm looking for a guy between the ages of 30 and 36,
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which was only four percent of the population,
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so now I'm dealing with the possibility of 30,000 men.
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I was looking for somebody who was Jewish,
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because I am and that was important to me.
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That's only 2.3 percent of the population.
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I figure I'm attracted to maybe one out of 10 of those men,
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and there was no way I was going to deal with somebody who was an avid golfer.
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So that basically meant there were 35 men for me
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that I could possibly date
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in the entire city of Philadelphia.
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In the meantime, my very large Jewish family
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was already all married and well on their way
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to having lots and lots of children,
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and I felt like I was under tremendous peer pressure
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to get my life going already.
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So I have two possible strategies at this point
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I'm sort of figuring out.
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One, I can take my grandmother's advice
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and sort of least-expect my way
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into maybe bumping into the one out of 35 possible men
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in the entire 1.5-million-person city of Philadelphia,
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or I could try online dating.
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Now, I like the idea of online dating,
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because it's predicated on an algorithm,
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and that's really just a simple way of saying
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I've got a problem, I'm going to use some data,
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run it through a system and get to a solution.
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So online dating is the second most popular way
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that people now meet each other,
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but as it turns out, algorithms have been around
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for thousands of years in almost every culture.
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In fact, in Judaism, there were matchmakers a long time ago,
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and though they didn't have an explicit algorithm per se,
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they definitely were running through formulas in their heads,
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like, is the girl going to like the boy?
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Are the families going to get along?
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What's the rabbi going to say?
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Are they going to start having children right away?
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The matchmaker would sort of think through all of this,
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put two people together, and that would be the end of it.
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So in my case, I thought,
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well, will data and an algorithm lead me to my Prince Charming?
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So I decided to sign on.
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Now, there was one small catch.
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As I'm signing on to the various dating websites,
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as it happens, I was really, really busy.
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But that actually wasn't the biggest problem.
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The biggest problem is that I hate filling out questionnaires of any kind,
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and I certainly don't like questionnaires that are like Cosmo quizzes.
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So I just copied and pasted from my résumé.
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(Laughter)
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So in the descriptive part up top,
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I said that I was an award-winning journalist
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and a future thinker.
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When I was asked about fun activities and my ideal date,
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I said monetization and fluency in Japanese.
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I talked a lot about JavaScript.
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(Laughter)
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So obviously this was not the best way to put my most sexy foot forward.
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But the real failure was that there were plenty of men for me to date.
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These algorithms had a sea full of men
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that wanted to take me out on lots of dates --
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what turned out to be truly awful dates.
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There was this guy Steve, the I.T. guy.
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The algorithm matched us up because we share a love of gadgets,
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we share a love of math and data and '80s music,
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and so I agreed to go out with him.
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So Steve the I.T. guy invited me out
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to one of Philadelphia's white-table-cloth,
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extremely expensive restaurants.
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And we went in, and right off the bat,
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our conversation really wasn't taking flight,
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but he was ordering a lot of food.
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In fact, he didn't even bother looking at the menu.
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He was ordering multiple appetizers, multiple entrées, for me as well,
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and suddenly there are piles and piles of food on our table,
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also lots and lots of bottles of wine.
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So we're nearing the end of our conversation
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and the end of dinner, and I've decided
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Steve the I.T. guy and I are really just not meant for each other,
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but we'll part ways as friends,
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when he gets up to go to the bathroom,
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and in the meantime, the bill comes to our table.
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And listen, I'm a modern woman.
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I am totally down with splitting the bill.
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But then Steve the I.T. guy didn't come back.
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(Gasping)
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And that was my entire month's rent.
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(Audience gasps)
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So needless to say, I was not having a good night.
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So I run home, I call my mother, I call my sister,
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and as I do, at the end of each one of these terrible, terrible dates,
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I regale them with the details.
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And they say to me,
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"Stop complaining."
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(Laughter)
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"You're just being too picky."
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So I said, fine, from here on out I'm only going on dates
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where I know there's Wi-Fi, and I'm bringing my laptop.
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I'm going to shove it into my bag,
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I'm going to have this email template,
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and I'm going to fill it out and collect information
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on all these different data points during the date
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to prove to everybody that empirically,
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these dates really are terrible.
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(Laughter)
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So I started tracking things like really stupid, awkward, sexual remarks;
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bad vocabulary;
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the number of times a man forced me to high-five him.
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(Laughter)
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So I started to crunch some numbers,
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and that allowed me to make some correlations.
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So as it turns out,
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for some reason, men who drink Scotch reference kinky sex immediately.
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(Laughter)
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Well, it turns out that these probably weren't bad guys.
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There were just bad for me.
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And as it happens, the algorithms that were setting us up,
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they weren't bad either.
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These algorithms were doing exactly what they were designed to do,
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which was to take our user-generated information,
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in my case, my résumé,
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and match it up with other people's information.
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See, the real problem here is that,
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while the algorithms work just fine,
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you and I don't,
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when confronted with blank windows
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where we're supposed to input our information online.
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Very few of us have the ability
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to be totally and brutally honest with ourselves.
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The other problem is that these websites are asking us
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questions like, are you a dog person or a cat person?
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Do you like horror films or romance films?
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I'm not looking for a pen pal.
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I'm looking for a husband. Right?
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So there's a certain amount of superficiality in that data.
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So I said fine, I've got a new plan.
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I'm going to keep using these online dating sites,
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but I'm going to treat them as databases,
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and rather than waiting for an algorithm to set me up,
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I think I'm going to try reverse-engineering this entire system.
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So knowing that there was superficial data
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that was being used to match me up with other people,
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I decided instead to ask my own questions.
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What was every single possible thing
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that I could think of that I was looking for in a mate?
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So I started writing
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and writing and writing,
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and at the end, I had amassed 72 different data points.
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I wanted somebody was Jew-ish,
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so I was looking for somebody
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who had the same background and thoughts on our culture,
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but wasn't going to force me to go to shul every Friday and Saturday.
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I wanted somebody who worked hard,
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because work for me is extremely important,
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but not too hard.
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For me, the hobbies that I have
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are really just new work projects that I've launched.
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I also wanted somebody who not only wanted two children,
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but was going to have the same attitude toward parenting that I do,
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so somebody who was going to be totally okay
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with forcing our child to start taking piano lessons at age three,
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and also maybe computer science classes if we could wrangle it.
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So things like that, but I also wanted somebody
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who would go to far-flung, exotic places, like Petra, Jordan.
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I also wanted somebody who would weigh 20 pounds more than me at all times,
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regardless of what I weighed.
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(Laughter)
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So I now have these 72 different data points,
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which, to be fair, is a lot.
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So what I did was, I went through and I prioritized that list.
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I broke it into a top tier and a second tier of points,
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and I ranked everything starting at 100
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and going all the way down to 91,
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and listing things like I was looking for somebody who was really smart,
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who would challenge and stimulate me,
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and balancing that with a second tier and a second set of points.
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These things were also important to me but not necessarily deal-breakers.
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(Laughter)
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So once I had all this done, I then built a scoring system,
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because what I wanted to do was to sort of mathematically calculate
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whether or not I thought the guy that I found online
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would be a match with me.
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I figured there would be a minimum of 700 points
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before I would agree to email somebody or respond to an email message.
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For 900 points, I'd agree to go out on a date,
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and I wouldn't even consider any kind of relationship
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before somebody had crossed the 1,500 point threshold.
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Well, as it turns out, this worked pretty well.
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So I go back online now.
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I found Jewishdoc57
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who's incredibly good-looking, incredibly well-spoken,
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he had hiked Mt. Fuji,
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he had walked along the Great Wall.
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He likes to travel
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as long as it doesn't involve a cruise ship.
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And I thought,
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I've done it!
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I've cracked the code.
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I have just found the Jewish Prince Charming
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of my family's dreams.
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There was only one problem:
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He didn't like me back.
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And I guess the one variable that I haven't considered
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is the competition.
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Who are all of the other women on these dating sites?
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I found SmileyGirl1978.
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She said she was a "Fun girl who is Happy and Outgoing."
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She listed her job as "teacher."
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She said she is "silly, nice and friendly."
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She likes to make people laugh "alot."
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At this moment I knew,
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clicking profile after profile that looked like this,
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that I needed to do some market research.
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So I created 10 fake male profiles.
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Now, before I lose all of you --
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(Laughter) --
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understand that I did this strictly to gather data
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about everybody else in the system.
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I didn't carry on crazy Catfish-style relationships with anybody.
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I really was just scraping their data.
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But I didn't want everybody's data.
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I only wanted data on the women who were going to be attracted
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to the type of man that I really, really wanted to marry.
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When I released these men into the wild,
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I did follow some rules.
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So I didn't reach out to any woman first.
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I just waited to see who these profiles were going to attract,
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and mainly what I was looking at was two different data sets.
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So I was looking at qualitative data,
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so what was the humor, the tone,
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the voice, the communication style
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that these women shared in common?
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And also quantitative data,
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so what was the average length of their profile,
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how much time was spent between messages?
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What I was trying to get at here was that I figured, in person,
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I would be just as competitive as a SmileyGirl1978.
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I wanted to figure out how to maximize my own profile online.
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Well, one month later,
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I had a lot of data, and I was able to do another analysis.
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And as it turns out, content matters a lot.
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So smart people tend to write a lot --
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3,000, 4,000, 5,000 words about themselves,
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which may all be very, very interesting.
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The challenge here, though, is that the popular men and women
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are sticking to 97 words on average
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that are written very, very well,
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even though it may not seem like it all the time.
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The other hallmark of the people who do this well
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is that they're using non-specific language.
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So in my case,
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"The English Patient" is my most favorite movie ever,
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but it doesn't work to use that in a profile,
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because that's a superficial data point,
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and somebody may disagree
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and decide they don't want to go out
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because they didn't like sitting through the three-hour movie.
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Also, optimistic language matters a lot.
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So this is a word cloud
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highlighting the most popular words that were used
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by the most popular women,
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words like "fun" and "girl" and "love."
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And what I realized was not that I had to dumb down my own profile.
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Remember, I'm somebody who said
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that I speak fluent Japanese and I know JavaScript
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and I was okay with that.
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The difference is that it's about being more approachable
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and helping people understand the best way to reach out to you.
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And as it turns out, timing is also really, really important.
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Just because you have access to somebody's mobile phone number
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or their instant message account
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and it's 2 o'clock in the morning and you happen to be awake,
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doesn't mean that that's a good time to communicate with those people.
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The popular women on these online sites
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spend an average of 23 hours in between each communication.
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And that's what we would normally do in the usual process of courtship.
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And finally --
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there were the photos.
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All of the women who were popular showed some skin.
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They all looked really great,
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which turned out to be in sharp contrast
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to what I had uploaded.
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(Laughter)
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Once I had all of this information,
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I was able to create a super profile,
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so it was still me,
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but it was me optimized now for this ecosystem.
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And as it turns out, I did a really good job.
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I was the most popular person online.
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(Laughter)
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(Applause)
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And as it turns out, lots and lots of men wanted to date me.
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So I call my mom, I call my sister, I call my grandmother.
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I'm telling them about this fabulous news,
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and they say, "This is wonderful! How soon are you going out?"
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I said, "Actually, I'm not going to go out with anybody."
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Because remember, in my scoring system,
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they have to reach a minimum threshold of 700 points,
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and none of them have done that.
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They said, "What? You're still being too damn picky."
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Well, not too long after that, I found this guy, Thevenin,
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and he said that he was culturally Jewish,
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he said that his job was an arctic baby seal hunter,
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which I thought was very clever.
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He talked in detail about travel.
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He made a lot of really interesting cultural references.
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He looked and talked exactly like what I wanted,
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and immediately, he scored 850 points.
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It was enough for a date.
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Three weeks later, we met up in person
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for what turned out to be a 14-hour-long conversation
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that went from coffee shop to restaurant
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to another coffee shop to another restaurant,
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and when he dropped me back off at my house that night
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I re-scored him --
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[1,050 points!]
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Thought, you know what,
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this entire time, I haven't been picky enough.
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Well, a year and a half after that,
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we were non-cruise ship traveling
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through Petra, Jordan,
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when he got down on his knee and proposed.
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A year after that, we were married,
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and about a year and a half after that,
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our daughter, Petra, was born.
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Audience: Oh!
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(Applause)
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[What it means...]
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Obviously, I'm having a fabulous life, so --
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(Laughter)
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The question is, what does all of this mean for you?
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Well, as it turns out, there is an algorithm for love.
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It's just not the ones that we're being presented with online.
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In fact, it's something that you write yourself.
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So whether you're looking for a husband or a wife
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or you're trying to find your passion
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or you're trying to start a business,
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all you have to really do is figure out your own framework
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and play by your own rules,
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and feel free to be as picky as you want.
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Well, on my wedding day,
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I had a conversation again with my grandmother,
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and she said, "All right, maybe I was wrong.
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It looks like you did come up with a really, really great system.
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Now, your matzah balls ...
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They should be fluffy, not hard."
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(Laughter)
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And I'll take her advice on that.
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(Applause)
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