Anish Acharya
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8,262 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Sep
Anish Acharya’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It kind of unbundles skill from desire.
For example, if you want to make music, you can make music now.
You don't have to know how to play the piano.
If you want to be a programmer and make software, you can make software now.
So it really amplifies our individuality.
It allows us to explore aspects of our lives that we were never able to explore before.
And just in terms of the nuts and bolts, we have been in this sort of morass of 2% GDP growth.
Who said that we have to be there?
Why can't we be 10% or 15% or 20%?
And this is a technology with which not only can we dramatically drive productivity, we can dramatically drive ambition.
Like think of the, maybe this is a caricature, but the 1950s and 1960s, we believed that we could do anything, right?
We were coming out of World War II where the entire economy, the entire world mobilized in a way that we didn't think was possible.
And one of my theories, Lenny, is that like when the stakes are high, we are awesome.
When the stakes are low, we are at our absolute worst.
And in a lot of ways, I think the world we lived in five years ago felt like a low stakes world, which is why we kind of collectively had a lot of these like side projects as a society, which weren't necessarily productive or making any of us happier.
And now you've got, you know, it's not just Elon doing everything he's doing, but I think everybody feels like they're climbing the ambition ladder.
You ship your bad ideas so you can discover your good ideas.
And if you want to, you know, build software, great.
If you want to build a bridge...
Like you don't have to be a civil architect to know how to do that anymore.
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