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Lex Fridman: commitment

11 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming

“I will try my hardest to give you slack or something to read while you should be working.”

— Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman
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commitment
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11 Mar 2026
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Now- … it’s gonna be, like, one of the greatest games of all time played by millions of human beings, just where those millions of human beings are playing for hundreds of hours, thousands of hours. It’s crazy. It’s funny that this… one of us is writing at the dawn of a new age. The final paragraph is, “So with all that is going on with me, you’ll have to excuse any lapse in updates to the site here. I will try my hardest to give you slack or something to read while you should be working. But in the meantime, there’s a whole world of NPCs. They need to learn the words kaksagur and mo’fucker, and the like. Although something tells me I’m already in trouble with the boss.” “One of us,” Jeff, “one of us.” That was a beautiful, beautiful post. Did you in fact get in trouble with the boss? No. No. My boss was Allen. And Allen was very understanding and he… they kind of knew what they were getting into- … when they hired me. And that post actually embarrasses me when I hear it now. There’s so much ego in it- … and I think that’s… it’s got that 20 year old- … you know, “I don’t know what I don’t know.”…

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