Alexis Ohanian
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292 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Jun
Alexis Ohanian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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if I had gone to bed at midnight because I knew like my, I was the diminishing marginal returns of my productivity were falling off a cliff and just gone to bed, slept for seven hours, eight hours, and then woken up and done the thing, I would have done it in 20 minutes instead of staying awake for another two and a half hours. Like, no, that's not actually the best use of your time.
And, and discipline is freedom. And I never would have believed that in my twenties or even in my early 30s, but becoming a parent, that's the only way I'm able to do these things. And that's not to say I'm perfect, but if you can incorporate ritual routine, even before you have kids, you're going to be even better at what you're building.
And then once you have kids, it's kind of the only way to do it, frankly.
My current purpose is... enabling a whole nother generation of entrepreneurs to do even bigger and better things than I did.
And I mean, look, it's also, you sleep a lot better at night because it's not your ass on the line for every one of those companies too. So it's a blessed position to be in.
Okay, this one, I cheated and I wanted to have one prepared. That would have been a good idea, yeah. But I think the best thing I came back with was a joke. which was everyone should be able to experience the joy of making someone they truly love happy. You talked about this earlier. Again, it's not really a practical law. No, I like that.
But I have never felt more satisfied or happy or richer or taller. I've never felt more any positive feeling you could feel than when I get the unsolicited love i love you papa hug from my daughter and and again it doesn't have to be your daughter could be anyone but like those moments for me are like black tar heroin i am addicted to it and and so when i think back
Hopefully, as an old man one day, and I think about what are the things that really, really made me so incredibly happy, it's going to come back to those moments. And so I wish that for everyone as often as humanly possible. And the irony is it usually doesn't cost any money. It means time. It means intentionality. It means other humans.
And we're going to keep getting really good at making artificial intelligence. And I don't want that to scare folks. Because I hope, I really, really hope and want to believe it gives us more time for the human communing that far few of us or not enough of us have a chance to do often enough.
So I don't know, if you're breaking bread with people you love, like I said, these are all the things, going to a sporting event, going to an Angel City match. You're enjoying these moments of humanity with people you care about and make an effort to tell those people, especially men out there, dudes.
normalize telling the men in your life that you love them, whether that's your father, your brother, your best friend, you don't have to go buy a billboard. You can, if you want up to you, but like normalize having that conversation. You will not regret it.
Thank you, Jay. This was awesome, man. Thank you, man. Thank you, brother.
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