Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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21 published records
01 / belief
“I think there’s some chance of that, and I think there’s room for a hybrid theory where, actually, they trained him.”
02 / belief
“I’m not an expert on this, but if you’re not irritated or pissed off by that event, I think there’s something wrong with you.”
03 / belief
“I think there’s a humbling lesson there that you could learn in the opposite direction about the JFK assassination.”
04 / belief
“The approach I think you don’t like — and I agree with you on this — is when you read a book and it says, “To be charismatic, smile.”
05 / belief
“We’ve written this book, worked together on this problem for years. We agree on a lot of things.”
06 / belief
“I think just learning to channel your own enjoyment and be willing to let it show.”
07 / belief
“I would probably say that I agree with that, but I think, ultimately, the mitochondrial efficiency that that person has is a by-product of the nutrition they got early on in life.”
08 / belief
“I think for the very highest level of top creative achievers, you want to look for some neuroticism.”
09 / belief
“I would say, I look for signs that the person, at an early age, tried to get nature and nurture working together in some multiplicative fashion.”
10 / belief
“I really think, and this theory is definitely not mine — there are all sorts of researchers on Twitter that are expert at this — but I think a lot of what is driving American mood today or conversation today is a byproduct of lithium we put in the water or plastics we consumed from when we were children.”
11 / belief
“My suspicion is there’s something deeper there, but it may not be a full-blown conspiracy of the sort that would satisfy actual conspiracy theories. The ability of chaos to resemble conspiracy cannot be underrated, I would say.”
12 / evaluation
“I think he was the 10th or 11th engineer Google hired, and he’s basically responsible for the fact that Google Search works.”
13 / preference
“We have our ideas on how to do it better, but if we can simply convince people of that, I will be relatively happy.”
14 / evaluation
“Like this very conversation we’re having — you can tell if people are having fun with each other’s questions and whatnot, or whether it’s monotonous. And someone who locks up and freezes when you ask them if maybe Diet Coke is correlated to productivity — which is a bit of a silly question at the end of the day — just the fact that they’re not having fun with it, I think, is something to look for.”
15 / evaluation
“I think a lot about this whole idea of gamification. It sounds childish and silly, but if we take that as a given, that there are these pieces of software that people really yearn to use .”
16 / evaluation
“I think that works because you can learn a lot from what someone says — they’re not likely to make up a story — but it’s also fun, and it is a common thing many people share, even in this era of HBO and Netflix.”
17 / recommendation
“Another idea, I think, that we discuss in the book that works pretty well is repeating questions, which is a bit uncomfortable to do, but can work, especially if you’re asking something that the person may not have an answer for, because they’re thinking about it for the first time.”
18 / evaluation
“You also learn just how much some people — and a lot of them are truly talented — but they rely so much on the physical presence of their body to generate charisma. That is itself a valuable skill, but I’ve learned how much I used to confuse that skill with skill in general, and it’s quite different.”
19 / preference
“Someone comes in who’s always effervescent and bubbling and happy and laughing, and you really feel the mood change. It’s important to try and be that type of person because, I think, all humans really pick up on that extremely quickly.”
20 / evaluation
“I definitely think for the role of founder — the one I specialize in — looking for someone to start a business that has a chance of becoming the next Thermo Fisher or the next Facebook or the next Apple, yes, I think intellect is very much overpriced or overvalued.”
21 / evaluation
“If they say no because they think you mean something bland and a little mainstream — they say, “No, I’m not ambitious, but I want to do this.”