Lex Fridman: belief

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…So, keyboard, you’re using my favorite keyboard right there, the Kinesis Advantage. Saved my career. Beautiful keyboard. Concavity and thumb clusters are just so important because if you really think about it, especially if you’re using qwerty, when you’re pressing the symbols on a standard keyboard, you’re just doing this the whole time: backspace, enter, symbols. You’re just doing this, and it just screws up your wrist constantly doing this. And this when you’re constantly doing like ctrl and shift. And it just is like messing you up, so it’s just like right here. That’s so much nicer in life. So, keyboard most important, I’d say. Get that one done. For people who don’t know, Kinesis keyboard, I think the thing that you experience the most is exactly the thing you just said now, which is the backspace is really easy to press versus what it is on normal keyboards. So, backspace in general symbolizes you’re deleting a thing, it symbolizes a mistake. Not symbolizes, it usually means a mistake. And so not only did you just make a mistake in what you were typing, you also have to take a physically painful action, annoying action to fix that mistake. And for most of us, we make a lot of mistakes, so Kinesis just makes it pleasant and fast and easy physically to correct the mistake. That’s probably for me the number one reason of Kinesis. Everything else, yeah, super plus with the macros and the positioning, the concavity like you mentioned, but their mistakes are pleasant. Yeah. I am on that team, so that’s why I love that. I would say that’s one of the most important things. The next thing that I find to be very, very important is that one monitor. I’m a one monitor kind of guy.…

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