EP 70: Tim Urban (Author, "Wait But Why") on Wokeness, AI Girlfriends and Humans Living to 150 Years Old
The Logan Bartlett Show
The Importance of Inequality
"It's such a shit-and-a-quality change. And it's true of success," he said. "You just recalibrate to some level that like, you never could have imagined."
Tim Urban is the Author of the blog "Wait But Why" and has one of the most listened-to Ted talks of all time. His work covers a broad range of topics from why we procrastinate, to how much time we have left with our parents, to breaking down the US involvement in the Iraq war. In this episode, Logan and Tim dive into some of the ideas that Tim has written about, as well as newer topics like the role AI will play in social relationships and how genetic engineering could impact the human lifespan.
(0:00) Intro
(1:23) Welcome Tim Urban
(5:11) Thousand-page book
(18:40) Living to 150 Years Old
(24:04) Looking back on eating meat
(29:39) Changing expectations of success
(36:01) Shortform vs longform writing
(42:11) TikTok and different internets for different audiences
(49:10) College is an eternity
(55:39) North star for writing
(1:03:03) Tim's favorite part besides publishing
(1:17:55) Tribalism, wokeness, and politics
(1:43:25) Awareness and Courage
(1:52:01) Keeping identity small
(1:57:16) Feeling different about old blog posts
(2:03:55) AI Girlfriends
(2:08:19) Talking Elon
(2:15:54) Advice on picking a career
(2:21:43) AI and will it kill humanity?
(2:30:51) Signing up for Cryonics
(2:34:25) Twitter Talk
(2:38:15) Disagreeing with conventional wisdom
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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