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#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Work Hard or Work Smart?

I think hard work in a company should be admired. I often ask this kind of silly question just to get a sense of people when I'm hiring and so on. A lot of people, a surprising number will say work smart. And there are usually people who don't know how to work smart. There's two effects behind that. One is laziness and the other is ego. If you have humility, that means you're going to actually eventually figure out what it means to worksmart. To actually be successful, you should do both. It's not about the major, but every choice you make,. Whether it's to have kids, like, I love my children. So everything

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