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Published · transcript-backedPavel Durov: preference
1 Oct 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #482 – Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
“Yes, because this way I can contribute to the progress of society. Or at least I like to think this way and this makes me happier.”
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- Speaker
- Pavel Durov
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 1 Oct 2025
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…It provides distractions, it guides what you should be looking at, what you will be looking at. So you don’t want that. You want to quiet the mind. You want to choose what kind of stuff you let inside your mind. Yes, because this way I can contribute to the progress of society. Or at least I like to think this way and this makes me happier. How often do you find quiet time to just think and focus deeply on work without any distractions? You mentioned to me that you value quiet mornings.…
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