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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It Easier to Be Negative Than to Be Positive?

When you don't have perfect information about the situation, you tend to fill the gaps with the worst possible or at least a bad story that fills those gaps. I've noticed this too, that there's a tendency in social media makes this worse. It's just easier to be to be negative. And then for some reason, something in our mind really enjoys sharing that and getting get all excited about the negativity. We do. But some protective mechanism, perhaps that we're we're going to eat if we don't. Exactly. For us to be effective as a group of people in the software engineering project, you have to project positive intent,. Totally agree.

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