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Pieter Levels: belief

20 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

“I think I put it on Hacker News and people would check, “Oh, did you actually …” I felt accountability because I put it public, that I actually had to do it.”

— Pieter Levels

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Speaker
Pieter Levels
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Aug 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah, it was a dark place. It’s still a dark place, but there’s beauty in the darkness. Anyway, so you did some basic HTML … Yeah. But I had to learn the actual coding, so this was good. It was a good idea to … every month launch a startup, so I could learn to code, learn basic stuff. But it was still very scrappy, which is on purpose, because I didn’t have time to spend a lot of … I had a month to do something, so I couldn’t spend more than a month and I was pretty strict about that. And I published it as a blog post. I think I put it on Hacker News and people would check, “Oh, did you actually …” I felt accountability because I put it public, that I actually had to do it. Do you remember the first one you did?…

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