Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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27 published records
01 / preference
“I have a Kindle, and that’s mostly what I use for books when I’m traveling. Before that time, I usually had a paperback.”
02 / belief
“I think I advised someone when I was at Wired to accept to do some things that they were not inclined to do.”
03 / belief
“I think maybe the idea of a future that was worn and used and not just streamlined — I think that that did shift my idea of reality.”
04 / belief
“I think the hardest place to photograph people certainly were in some of the Islamic countries, where women were off-limits, basically, for most of photography, and even where men were shy.”
05 / belief
“There was this sense of the parochial, little, circular, isolated sense of a suburb that is most strong in my mind right now.”
06 / commitment
“Oh, sure. In more ordinary life — say, I won’t use a microwave. I feel it makes people lazy in their cooking.”
07 / belief
“Institutions — like an educational institution, I think, it would help them — in terms of education — to work on life skills and learning how to cultivate good habits versus bad habits, trying to guide people with heuristics.”
08 / belief
“I think a good way to pay attention to advice is to encapsulate it in some way that you can remember and to remind yourself.”
09 / belief
“I think travel has helped me to see just how much virtually all squabbles are petty squabbles.”
10 / belief
“I think minimizing your regrets is a good thing, and most regrets that people have are from things that they — not from things that they did, but from things that they didn’t do.”
11 / belief
“The last thing, and I have to say this very cautiously — but I have been deciding that I think the Civil War was a mistake. That we should have — we, the Union, should have left the South to secede, if the majority of people who were voting had voted for it, and that the right of the Union to enforce that Union, I think, was a mistake.”
12 / belief
“I would say that’s one place you might be looking for things that could happen kind of suddenly, even though the research has been going on for decades.”
13 / belief
“In my own observation, I think he’s working very hard to deal with the responsibility that great power comes from.”
14 / belief
“A piece of advice that I would be hesitant to talk about is — here’s one: I think you should have as many kids as you possibly can.”
15 / belief
“Had there been at that time a gap year or internships, I would have done that, and that’s what I needed, and I would have gone back, I suspect.”
16 / evaluation
“” I found a photo editor in the phone book. And he graciously said, “You know, it doesn’t work that way, but when you come back, show me your photographs and we’ll take it from there.”
17 / belief
“I think there’s a commonality that we all share fundamentally, more than ever, at the base level of our genetic bodies and basic human needs.”
18 / recommendation
“Most recently, Kevin has a new book out, which I recommend: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.”
19 / recommendation
“Then, thirdly, I think thinking in terms of generations rather than just the immediate next quarter or next year — I think that also would enable us to manage the planet in a better way, because lots of the planetary things that we’re interested in and paying attention to have a longer-range dynamic than just the immediate year or two: the “short now,” we call it.”
20 / evaluation
“I think that is a mistake, maybe, that I make, is believing things were more difficult than they actually are if you actually get there.”
21 / preference
“I’ve since learned to take a different mode. But I am very, very happy, because I like the kind of travel that’s not for relaxation and not so much for rejuvenation but for learning.”
22 / prediction
“Because that’s the first to go — adopting machine-made Western dress, which is the cheapest clothing you can buy, is the first traditional indigenous culture to disappear.”
23 / recommendation
“I can give them a platitude (like my book is filled with), saying, “Here’s my piece of advice for a young person who is setting out — ” And I would say my piece of advice to them, somebody I don’t know, is, “Try to work on an area where there’s no words for what it is that you do.”
24 / evaluation
“There’s lots of things that we can’t get to with language. That’s one way in which this human-computer interface could make a new frontier, is enabling us to do things where we can bypass language and work with maybe emotions or other intuitions or things that we don’t even have language for because we’re actually tapping into the brain directly.”
25 / prediction
“I think that would be true, but I think most people wind up not doing very much not because they had good reasons to but because it was easier or that it was inconvenient at the time.”
26 / recommendation
“” The idea is, “Well, I might study accounting, but I intend not to dwell there for very long, because I want to head out into the frontier where there’s something.”
27 / prediction
“I think that will impact our ideas of God and our understandings, because we are going to be gods ourselves.”