Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
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21 published records
01 / commitment
“Maybe there’s something there, but I need to run this by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, because they think of things that I will not think of, and they may tell me why my idea is terrible.”
02 / uncertainty
“I don’t know because to have a gut feeling of them, I’d have to use them. Let’s say that they hit their stride after I had gotten involved with the future Mrs.”
03 / commitment
“Whenever I buy technology, knowing that I will replace it eventually, I try to get something that, even used, will be a good acquisition, typically by one of my nephews or nieces.”
04 / belief
“What I learned about people doing customer service at Craigslist was that people everywhere are the same.”
05 / belief
“I think of it differently, mostly because, as I age, and have grown a decrepit, I’ve realized my limitations and that I’m not good at things.”
06 / recommendation
“What are your favorite movies and why? I love Bergman films, Smiles of a Summer Night.”
07 / recommendation
“I like Silent All These Years by Tori Amos, especially the live version.”
08 / recommendation
“Let’s say that there are some luxuries I enjoy, all the books I want, all the streaming TV I want.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. I just felt that those characters were, in some respects, versions of me despite their exaggerated bad tendencies.”
10 / belief
“I think he’s a good straight man in the old Abbott and Costello sense, but I don’t find him funny, in fact.”
11 / belief
“You worked, I think, 17 years at IBM, which we all think of as the establishment in some way.”
12 / preference
“I like restaurants where there are non-US citizens screaming at each other, and none of them look happy.”
13 / preference
“The only basis for this thought is, about 25 years ago, before Craigslist had dating sections, I met several women who told me they used the roommate ads for dating because, in a roommate ad, a guy would be relatively honest.”
14 / prediction
“I learned the hard way that if you’re basically honest, if you believe in the ninth commandment, you will never be able to confront successfully someone who lies for a living.”
15 / evaluation
“I started realizing, for example, that a lot of my behavior, particularly in the IBM field, frequently I was a jerk, by which I mean asshole, and that I needed to listen to people more and to be somewhat empathetic.”
16 / preference
“Sometimes I like seeing fancy design, but as a general rule, I just want to get the thing done.”
17 / evaluation
“That’s the phrase I use. At least on my part, what looks like social skills is just fakery.”
18 / prediction
“I think much of Craigslist is saying you can trust other people if the incentives and institutions are correct.”
19 / evaluation
“To charge them $10 or $20 for them is nothing, but it would be a rate limiter, and we settled on $10 because I realized that a new apartment broker would be making maybe $20,000 a year in New York, and if you’re doing that, you have to have one or two other jobs to get through the day.”
20 / preference
“If they say they’re pointing you to, let’s say, Amazon for something, I would say type in Amazon directly because a common technique of scammers or phishers is to get a domain name that might look like Amazon but isn’t.”
21 / recommendation
“More importantly, I’m telling people they need to do some planning for good communications because their work is much less valuable if they can’t talk about it effectively.”