Lex Fridman: belief

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…Exactly. I mean, some people, I’ve talked to Karpathy about this. He uses our product. He hits the sidekick, the side panel. He just wants it to be auto hidden all the time. And I think that’s good feedback too, because the mind hates clutter. When you go into someone’s house, you want it to be, you always love it when it’s well maintained and clean and minimal. There’s this whole photo of Steve Jobs in this house where it’s just a lamp and him sitting on the floor. I always have that vision when designing Perplexity to be as minimal as possible. Google was also, the original Google was designed like that. There’s just literally the logo and the search bar and nothing else. I mean, there’s pros and cons to that. I would say in the early days of using a product, there’s a anxiety when it’s too simple because you feel like you don’t know the full set of features, you don’t know what to do. Right.…

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