courage
Acting despite fear: whether it waits for the fear to go, how it is built, and why so few people show it.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsEurope should put more tariffs on Chinese products, in order to push Chinese companies to make their products overseas -- which will give industrialization a boost in poor countries all over the world.
- 8 days earlier
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Brandon Taylor quoted
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life
Their wordsIt is not really a test of courage, or if it is, maybe all tests of courage are really tests of imagination, a test that asks, Can you imagine a world beyond this?
↗labyrinthmaxxing and minotaur hoursblgtylr.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Armin Ronacher quoted
Creator of Flask and Jinja
Our readingChoosing Pulley to encourage competition with Carta still results in ending up with Carta.
Their wordsPick Pulley to encourage competition to Carta. End up with Carta anyways.
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Tim Harford quoted
Economist and journalist
Their wordsAll too often, politicians are turning their back on the most beneficial policies because they lack the political courage or the political skill to introduce them.
↗Nudge or tax? At last, some datatimharford.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsWe are done with cynicism, irony, and cowardice. The next turning is here.
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Roman Ugarte quoted
Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI
Their wordsAnd so I would really encourage many founders or people starting out today to be more grounded in that perspective of how can I make something that is not possible now possible.
↗How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)youtube.com 18th of 18 in this recording
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Anne Applebaum quoted
American-Polish journalist and historian
Their wordsWorse, U.S. officials now openly support and encourage politicians from far-right anti-European political parties, partly because they are ideologically aligned, but partly because Americans now want to weaken the European Union so that U.S. tech companies can evade any regulation, or even taxation.
↗The Myth of the “Censorship Industrial Complex”anneapplebaum.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Their wordsStartup founders have a reputation for overconfidence, but this is just sample bias; the arrogant ones are also the loudest. Even now most good startups underrate themselves, so it really helps to encourage them.
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Ian Silber quoted
Designer who led product design at OpenAI
Our readingWith products moving fast, designers should do less: not design something if they do not have to.
Their wordslike my encouragement has been do less there like don't design it if you don't have to.
↗Chatbots are not the final interface: OpenAI’s Head of Design on what’s next | Ian Silberyoutube.com 15th of 22 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA since 1993
Their wordswe want we want to encourage everybody and every company to build their own AIs. And and and who knows what innovation will come from the fact that it's open source.
↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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Elizabeth Stone quoted
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix
Their wordsSo, the most useful thing is not to make it level specific or role specific, but to encourage everyone towards the expectation on AI fluency, which doesn't mean use it as a tech for the sake of tech. It's tech where it's useful, to have good judgment about that, and to have the mindset to be open-minded to explore and try new things.
↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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swyx quoted
Writer and developer
Their wordsincreasingly I see America as the place that rewards first principles thinkers and builders; that asks "why not?" instead of telling you why you cannot; that imperfectly supports optimism, reinvention and perseverance in spite of cynicism.
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Jason Liu quoted
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG…
Their wordsTaste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.
↗If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Noam Brown quoted
Research scientist at OpenAI
Their wordswe are trying to encourage people to not spend all their time just like going through all the mathematical open problems physics problems and um just seeing pushing the models to their limits to see what they can prove or disprove.
↗Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brownyoutube.com 11th of 18 in this recording
- 2 weeks earlier
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Adam Grant quoted
Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School
Their wordsHave the courage to share important ideas and rigorous evidence even when people find them upsetting, and do the right thing especially when no one is watching.
↗Silence Is Not Necessarily Violenceadamgrant.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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David Reich quoted
Geneticist at Harvard Medical School
Their wordsFirst of all, I think we are speaking from the point of view of a society which intensely values this particular trait, you know, ability to score well on IQ tests or things like them or to go to school for a long time or whatever it is. And I think this is unprecedented in human history that we live in a time like this.
↗David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farmingyoutube.com 11th of 26 in this recording
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Ben Kuhn quoted
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave
Our readingMost forms of dance require weeks of lessons before newcomers are welcomed to dance socially.
Their wordsMany other forms of dance require weeks of lessons before you're even encouraged to do it socially at all.
↗You should try contra dancingbenkuhn.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Seth Godin quoted
Marketing author and daily blogger
Their wordsCourage, on the other hand, is the commitment to take risks and work hard to make something better than most people think it needs to be.
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Nikita Prokopov quoted
Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me
Their wordsNative APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform.
↗Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost nativetonsky.me 1st of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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James Clear quoted
Writer on habits and decision-making
Their wordsbehavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time you show up and do it in some small way, you prove to yourself a little bit, hey, maybe I am that kind of person. And so, my encouragement, my suggestion is to let the behavior lead the way.
↗The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clearyoutube.com 2nd of 16 in this recording
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Jason Zweig quoted
Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor…
Their wordsWith so many professional money managers afraid to act, with most of the public in the grip of fear and anger, you should put your cash and your courage to work.
↗Summon Your Courage and Buy Stocksjasonzweig.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Eleanor Janega quoted
Medieval historian and author
Their wordsBecause of how source survival works, or indeed, how architectural survival works, we are often encouraged to think of the past as a place populated entirely by the wealthy elite.
↗On contrarian historygoing-medieval.com 1st of 4 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Albert Cheng quoted
Head of growth at Chess.com
Their wordsWhen you lose a game now as opposed to surfacing your blunders and your like horrible stuff that you did, we flip it on its head. And so we show you your brilliant moves, your best moves. And we have coach say something encouraging. You know, losing just part of learning like keep it up, that type of thing. That change alone was pretty dramatic for us. It grew game reviews by 25%, subscriptions by 20%
↗Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)youtube.com 2nd of 26 in this recording
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsYou don't even need to predict the future that well. If you just live in everyone else's relative future, which really is just a couple of um high conviction high courage uh update to beta clicks. It's not that hard to live in the future.
↗ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke)youtube.com 1st of 21 in this recording
- 7 weeks earlier
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Jack Weatherford quoted
Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Their wordsAnd when he conquered a city, he always made sure there are plenty of refugees to go to the next city because it's going to weaken them. It's going to weaken their food supply, and they're going to terrorize the people with tales of the millions of people that the Mongols killed with their steel chisel teeth and eating children and all kinds of horrible tales. Genghis Khan encouraged it.
↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 7th of 22 in this recording
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James Holland quoted
British historian and writer specialising in the Second World War
Their wordsBut ultimately, there’s a certain point in the Second World War where the outcome is absolutely inevitable because the guys that lose can’t compete with the numbers that the guys are going to win.
↗James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470youtube.com 21st of 27 in this recording
- 9 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsFew people have the courage to admit their life and work isn't that complicated.
↗Merchants of complexityworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Sean Carroll quoted
Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University
Their wordsAnd if you just wanted to be methodologically conservative and say, “That’s a step too far; I don’t want to buy it,” I’m sympathetic to that. I think that you’re just wimping out, I think that you should have more courage, but I get the impulse.
↗Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428youtube.com 8th of 20 in this recording
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Sam Altman quoted
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Their wordsI would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding a for-profit arm later. I’d heavily discourage them from doing that. I don’t think we’ll set a precedent here.
↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 4th of 20 in this recording
- 3 months earlier
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Jeff Bezos quoted
Founder of Amazon in 1994 and of the space company Blue Origin in 2000
Their wordsAnd I would encourage anybody, if anybody listening to this is an entrepreneur, has a small business, whatever, think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years. And those are probably the big things.
↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 16th of 20 in this recording
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