Andrej Karpathy

things are predictable and then you can sort of just like your body just sort of like sticks to that and if you try to stress that a little too much it will create uh you know when you're traveling and you're dealing with jet lag you're not able to really ascend to you know where you need to go yeah yeah that's weird too about humans with the habits and stuff uh what are your thoughts on work-life balance throughout a human lifetime

Yeah.

I mean, I will say Tesla gets a little too much bad rep for this, because what's happening is Tesla is a bursty environment.

So I would say the baseline, my only point of reference is Google, where I've interned three times and I saw what it's like inside Google and DeepMind.

I would say the baseline is higher than that.

But then there's a punctuated equilibrium where once in a while there's a fire and people work really hard.

And so it's spiky and bursty.

And then all the stories get collected.

And then it gives the appearance of total insanity, but actually it's just a bit more intense environment.

And there are fires and sprints.

And so I think, you know, definitely, though, I would say it's a more intense environment than something you would get.

Yeah, I think balance is good.

But I also love to have sprints that are out of distribution.

And that's when I think I've been pretty creative as well.

I have balance most of the time.

I like being obsessed with something once in a while.

Yeah, probably like say once a month or something, yeah.

Yeah, that's when you like really care about a problem.

It must exist.

This will be awesome.