How's the internship? Still optimizing ad relevance for billionaires?
Let me know when you have a minute. Need to talk through some things.
Alex
He hits send before he can second-guess it. Jian is at Google now, making more money in three months than Alex makes in a year, working on problems that matter to exactly no one. But Jian is still Jian. Still his partner in this thing they're building, even if they're building it from different cities now, even if Inferthermic is still just a GitHub repo and a shared dream.
Alex walks toward the BART station, his phone heavy in his pocket, waiting for Jian to respond.