Public evidence record
Published podcast speaker
Books, apps, and tools
tool / uses
“I use a tool called Beeminder, which charges me if I don't do certain things. This sounds kind of military, but it's certainly more authoritarian than this kind of freewheeling butterflies kind of gesture I was making a moment ago. And I use it to make sure that I do my memory practice.”
other / built
“Michael Nielsen and I made Quantum Country and when I was trying to think about what to do next, the most obvious or natural idea was “What if we just tried that with lots of other things?”
Claim ledger
13 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“Maybe I happen to know that the magnitude and energy of an electron volt, that's something I can draw on because of the memory system stuff, but I also don't want that to be front and center in my mind all the time.”
02 / belief
“I mean, I learned some things. It was fine. It taught me a lot about where that particular format succeeds and fails in other venues.”
03 / belief
“You're asking about a world in which these great tools exist and someone's using one of these tools to try to do something they really care about. So another reason why it could be miserable that I think is pretty common is that you have some idea about, you're not going fast enough, or you're failing, or you're struggling, and the misery comes from resisting that.”
04 / belief
“I spent a lot of time thinking about it, managing the energy levels and structuring my day around it. So I think there is something where one often feels maybe lower stamina than one actually is because one misapprehends other's stamina.”
05 / belief
“I think the stat is that in 1900, 6% of teenagers graduated high school in the US.”
06 / belief
“In fact, von Neumann's productions seem to have probably very little to do with any kind of mass schooling that we would recognize. As far as the very top, I think that's difficult.”
07 / belief
“Not only to be honest, with what I think is interesting and important, but even to be honest about the results.”
08 / belief
“You're going to need some out of band mechanism. And unfortunately, I think for many kinds of creative leaps and creative insights, that may be closer to the regime that we’re in.”
09 / belief
“I think some kind of mass medium that is like that is waiting to be created, but that can be applied in many, many circumstances.”
10 / belief
“One of the things that I think is really interesting is that we have some disciplines like programming where there are a million books on courses about how to learn to program.”
11 / belief
“The process of building a subscriber base and crowdfunding a project takes a couple of years, at least in my experience.”
12 / belief
“I put it on Twitter and it was on the front page of Hacker News. I think you're right.”
13 / belief
“The pool being bigger doesn't mean that the top 1% are getting more though. So I think that's undecided.”