Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press

By this point, there’s no doubt about it: artificial intelligence is taking over the mainstream, and people who know how to leverage this technology are getting insanely rich. Applications like Lensa AI and Don AI are literally flipping mobile apps like I…

T minus 20 seconds. Stage two tanks pressing for flight. Flight computer has control of the vehicle. Do we see anything on the sensors that’s a problem? Anything right now? Nothing. Well, I’ll say go for launch. T minus 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1…

[Music] So how long before all this becomes reality? How long before interplanetary travel is an everyday affair? Well, as you can imagine, that’s a complicated question. It is rocket science, after all. On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX launched its first crewe…

Olympic diving and Olympic diving. You know they have a degree of difficulty factor, and if you can do some very difficult dive, the payoff is greater if you do it well than if you do some very simple dive. That’s not true in investments. You get paid jus…

[music playing] NARRATOR: There are far deadlier creatures lurking in the undergrowth, as I discovered when I was out looking for firewood. This tree right here is a perfect one. See this bark? It’s like paper, and it just peels off just like that. The b…

Did you ever play a video game that sucked you in and took over your life? I mean, if you have, you can relate, but if you haven’t, it’s similar to that feeling of reading an amazing book and staying up late to read just one more chapter. And then before …