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#048 Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more)

Smart Friends

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What I Take Away From the Feynman Lectures

Feynman was assertive and intellectual, not a shrinking violent. That's an inversion that doesn't fit the TV diet of the kind of person who's supposed to exist,. And Feynman showed, you know, that you could break out of that. So I can see that trajectory of returns on disobedience, okay, or returns on intellectual assertiveness right, or whatever you want to call it. To be clear, by one thing I would not call myself like, disobedient or non-conformist for the sake of being so; but if I disagree with something then I will push back against it. But I'm happy to work with people who are better than me

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