Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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45 published records
01 / recommendation
“I launched Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, and we just caught lightning in a bottle. It was really quickly after that I met my partner who had founded Nine West Shoes, really capable partner, and we launched a shoe collection which took off and did enormously well and then a clothing collection and handbags and sunglasses and fragrance.”
02 / recommendation
“I love people like Pedro because he’s finding books that are in Japanese and translating them to try to figure out the details of a particular history.”
03 / belief
“I think how she dressed and how she presented, I think her entrepreneurial spirit and love of capitalism and all things American was another manifestation of it and one that I grew up with.”
04 / observation
“At the end of the day, what matters is just the other humans in your life, the people you love.”
05 / belief
“I think in the toxic swirl of social media it’s more amplified, and there’s more democratization around participating in it perhaps, and it seems like the voices are louder, but it feels like it’s always been that.”
06 / belief
“I think part of that darkness is just watching all the legal turmoil that’s going on.”
07 / belief
“I’m living in Miami currently, so I see a lot of super uninspired glass boxes on the waterfront, but I think exceptional things shouldn’t be the norm.”
08 / belief
“I think some of the greatest builders I’ve ever met, kind of always have that little flame of everything is possible, still burning.”
09 / belief
“I think I feel a lot of hope when I’m in nature. I feel a lot of hope when I am experiencing people who are good and honest and pure and true and passionate, and that’s not an uncommon experience.”
10 / belief
“There’s the details matter, but oftentimes, the justice system does not do right in the way we think right is, and it’s nice to be able to step in and help people indirectly.”
11 / observation
“We all went together with some mutual friends. And that was a very profound… It was amazing to see Adele, but it was a very profound experience for me to have with my kids because she rode with us in the car on the way to the show, and she talked to my kids about her experience and her story and how her case found its way to me.”
12 / belief
“Obviously, we talked about the enormity, the scale of what can be accomplished in government service, but I think there’s something equally valuable about helping within your own community.”
13 / uncertainty
“I don’t want to judge, but they do sound very loud and very obnoxious. But amidst all of that it’s just, I don’t know.”
14 / belief
“I knew what I liked and didn’t like, and I think that’s really important and that became honed for me over time.”
15 / belief
“I think that’s also where age and experience comes into play, because I think you always have sort of a gut instinct, but I think well-honed intuition comes from a place of accumulated knowledge.”
16 / belief
“I learned tax cuts was really interesting for me because I met with so many people across the political spectrum on advancing that policy.”
17 / belief
“I think Joseph has not wanted to do a DNA test because he really wanted a German Shepherd.”
18 / belief
“I think my mom loved music as well, but my father always used to say that in another life he would’ve been a Broadway musical producer, which is hilarious to think about.”
19 / belief
“I think there’s so many detailed elements that I think artists know well, but one basic one is something that people know and you now know because you have a dog is the excitement that a dog has when you first show up.”
20 / belief
“An art and a practice of using volcanic ash and lime that’s now being rediscovered and is more critical than ever as we think about how much of our infrastructure relies on concrete and how much of that is failing on the most basic level.”
21 / belief
“I think in America for a really long period of time, we’ve really believed that education stops when you leave high school or college.”
22 / belief
“I think for parents, what tends to happen too is we see our kids fighting with each other in a way that all kids do and we start to project into the future and catastrophize.”
23 / belief
“There is. But I actually think in this case, as you get older, you may act less impulsively, but I think you’re more like attuned with… You have more experience, so your gut is more well honed.”
24 / belief
“I think live music is one of those kind of rare moments where you can really be present, where something about the anticipation of choosing what show you’re going to go to and then waiting for the date to come.”
25 / belief
“Kids these days are soft kind of energy, which I’m deeply, deeply grateful for on all fronts, including just having hardship and including just physical hardship flung at me. I think that’s really important.”
26 / belief
“I hope that it has that effect because I think there’s a big component to interplanetary travel that kind of taps into this kind of manifest destiny inclination, like the human desire to conquer territory and expand the footprint of civilization.”
27 / belief
“I think there’s a minority of people that are doing most of the yelling and screaming, and the majority of Americans just want to send their kid to a great school, and want their communities to thrive, and want to be able to realize their dreams and aspirations.”
28 / belief
“I feel like when we get busy and when we’re running around, it’s easy to feel we’re so in our head and we feel sort of so consequential in the context of even our own lives. And then you find yourself in a situation like that, and I think you feel so much more connected knowing how minuscule you are in the broader sense.”
29 / belief
“I think who you saw is who you get, and I think that made him so effective in that medium because he was just himself and he was totally unselfconscious.”
30 / belief
“I’m not sure I ever fully acclimated, but it definitely was a super unusual experience. But I think then the process that unfolded over the next couple of years was also the most extraordinary growth experience of my life.”
31 / belief
“Just be with them, observe them, and then show them that you are genuinely curious about the things that they are genuinely curious about. I think there’s a lot of love when you do that.”
32 / belief
“I think as you start to get this training, you become much more aware of the broader context of what’s happening around you, which is really healthy and good as well.”
33 / belief
“I think certain people are just born to be entertainers. Like Elvis on stage, they come to life.”
34 / belief
“I think a lot about the fact that for a lot of young people, they really know what they want to do, but they don’t actually know who they are. And then I think as you get older, hopefully you know who you are and you’re much more comfortable with ambiguity around what you want to do and accomplish.”
35 / belief
“I think surfing probably because I can imagine just face planting, not being able to stay on the board.”
36 / disagreement
“Everything was all so uncomfortable, these fabrics and materials, and I would go back and forth between being super girly and a total tomboy. But she’d dress me up in these things and I’d be complaining about it and she’d say, “Ivanka, pain for beauty,” which I happen to totally disagree with because I think there’s nothing worse than being uncomfortable.”
37 / preference
“Because for the most part, you can probably get 90, maybe even 95% of the end result, unless something has terribly gone awry, by not caring with that level of almost like maniacal precision.”
38 / preference
“I love saltwater. I love the way it makes me feel, and I think I got that from her.”
39 / evaluation
“In the past, people have attacked her, in my view, to get indirectly at her dad, Donald Trump, as part of a dirty game of politics and clickbait journalism.”
40 / evaluation
“See, it’s interesting that they call it Devil’s Bridge because to me, this is very ethereal.”
41 / evaluation
“The Woolworth Tower was actually referred to as the Cathedral of Commerce, because it also was in that Gothic style.”
42 / evaluation
“You study how good it is by finding its breaking point. And that was a deep appreciation for me, on a miniature scale of on a large scale, what people are able to do with civil engineering because gravity is a tricky one to fight against.”
43 / evaluation
“I think in this case, the glass on Trump Chicago is very beautiful. It was designed by Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a major architecture firm who actually did the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is, I think, an awe-inspiring example of modern architecture.”
44 / evaluation
“There’s nothing uglier than a space that is ill-conceived, that otherwise, it’s decoration. And I think that after that initial reaction to seeing something that’s aesthetically really pleasing to me, when I look at a building or a project, I love thinking about how it’s being used.”
45 / evaluation
“It just as a human being psychologically. And in the place that it puts them because they they start thinking negatively in general and then maybe they respond and there’s this vicious downward spiral that happens, that almost like we don’t intend to, but it destroys everybody in the process.”