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#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Charisma Is Blinding

Geoffrey Epstein, the head of MIT's computer science department, has a reputation for being charismatic. He can use charisma to convince brilliant outsiders to collaborate with him and take his funding. "Charismatic is blinding," he says; people want to hear how great they are. It creates those blind spots.

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