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Published podcast speaker
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service / uses
“They used to have this Malibu chicken dish was like magic. And then it was probably, I don't know if people know this, and I know this is rapid fire, but I used to stutter when I started working at Sizzler and Sizzler is what allowed me to break out of my shell and not stutter.”
book / recommends
“The Bible and Tech in My Mind, there's Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution from Clayton Christensen. I think you have to read that book and I'd say I'd recommend to people that read it every few years. And the other one that I love is Ben Horowitz's book. Hard Thing about Hard Things really talks about how you manage your psychology when things get hard. I think those are the ones, I am not a big believer that you keep reading thousands of books all the time because I think to me, retention really matters. And my brain's just not that big that I can retain that much. So, I tend to distill the essence of a few things quite a bit more, and at least as the older I've gotten, I've actually used that pattern more.”
book / recommends
“The Bible and Tech in My Mind, there's Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution from Clayton Christensen. I think you have to read that book and I'd say I'd recommend to people that read it every few years. And the other one that I love is Ben Horowitz's book. Hard Thing about Hard Things really talks about how you manage your psychology when things get hard. I think those are the ones, I am not a big believer that you keep reading thousands of books all the time because I think to me, retention really matters. And my brain's just not that big that I can retain that much. So, I tend to distill the essence of a few things quite a bit more, and at least as the older I've gotten, I've actually used that pattern more.”
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20 transcript-backed records
01 / recommendation
“The Bible and Tech in My Mind, there's Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution from Clayton Christensen. I think you have to read that book and I'd say I'd recommend to people that read it every few years. And the other one that I love is Ben Horowitz's book. Hard Thing about Hard Things really talks about how you manage your psychology when things get hard. I think those are the ones, I am not a big believer that you keep reading thousands of books all the time because I think to me, retention really matters. And my brain's just not that big that I can retain that much. So, I tend to distill the essence of a few things quite a bit more, and at least as the older I've gotten, I've actually used that pattern more.”
02 / belief
“What I try not to do is I try to minimize my time no matter how successful they are with people whose energy I don't vibe with, because I think life's too short.”
03 / belief
“I would take zero credit for it. I think she deserves a lot of credit for growing up to be who she's become.”
04 / uncertainty
“By the way, it's not surprising given that he spent, I don't know, 26, 28 years over here, you know why that he's conditioned with the fact that he's focused on other people succeeding from it.”
05 / belief
“Infrastructure is a different game. And the thing that I learned about infrastructure is, you don't always get the glory, but you always get the blame.”
06 / belief
“You can't be stingy with words over there. And don't be stingy with critique in public, because I think people need to make sure that, "We are solving problems together.”
07 / belief
“I agree with you in the sense that if generating code is something that becomes abundant, that doesn't mean you're going to have better technology just because you can generate a lot of code.”
08 / belief
“I feel like it's very important to have smart people, but you can become smart if you have curiosity and hunger and staying power and persistence. And so I think that trait of learning to learn and constantly being hungry and having the stamina and persistence is far more important than the absolute measure of intellect that you might have, because that is very, very trainable and learnable over time and improvable over time.”
09 / belief
“Now I think about it, do a podcast for my daughter that's only for her when she gets older.”
10 / belief
“The older I get, the more I believe that we are actually in a simulation. The first time I heard that concept, I thought it was such an absurd concept.”
11 / evaluation
“Because if you have 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 layers between you and the person who's actually doing the job in the front line, what you don't want to do is play the telephone game and assume that people will just cascade it when you go to your team and then say, 'Okay, that team will cascade to the next team, cascade to the next team, cascade to the next team.”
12 / prediction
“Because at some point if you have 60% of your population that's in a demographic where you don't have enough people who take care of them, that could cause a lot of human suffering.”
13 / recommendation
“What that meant was we had to get people to understand that their personal success and the success of the company are very aligned in us getting dexterous with the use of AI. That means that if they feel like for some reason AI is going to take their job or AI is going to be negative for them, we had to reassure them that that was not the case.”
14 / commitment
“We can partner, because if a customer has made a choice of going with company A and company B and we happen to be one of those two companies, we owe it to the customer to invest in their success in that other company because if the customer succeeds, that success has a flow through rate to you that's going to be pretty high.”
15 / evaluation
“It was an amazing thing to pull off, because we never thought we'd be able to do it, and we were really worried going into it, thinking, "Well, we're trying to do fireside chats for 12 hours, and there's a capacity of human absorption that we're trying to challenge.”
16 / evaluation
“" We didn't do that. And frankly, I didn't know how it was going to work out, because there are things about the way that the generation is, and by the way, all of us, not just new generation, but this kind of constantly being glued to your phone all the time and not being able to actually put that down and have a conversation.”
17 / commitment
“They used to have this Malibu chicken dish was like magic. And then it was probably, I don't know if people know this, and I know this is rapid fire, but I used to stutter when I started working at Sizzler and Sizzler is what allowed me to break out of my shell and not stutter.”
18 / prediction
“When we say we are going to network the GPUs and make sure that we actually have a trusted system in AI, that is not far-fetched for someone to go out and think about, because it's a very natural thing for us to do, because for the past 40 years we've been doing it for the rest of the infrastructure that was not AI.”
19 / preference
“Jeremy is someone that's a very dear friend of mine, and we're neighbors and be moved and bought a place next to his just so that we could be close to him. And these are special people in your life that have enriched your life in very different ways that I think you just have to make sure that you treasure.”
20 / commitment
“I have data all over and I'm going to be able to make sure that language can be used to compose the data in a way that I can give you, Lenny, the answer to the question that you're looking for that I think is the 0.”