Astro Teller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And this is another one of these intellectual tricks is finding a way to really viscerally connect people to the important habits.
We're trying to be like the card counters of innovation.
And so helping people like learn the little tricks and not just learn them intellectually, but really get them into their hearts and their guts as well so that they can internalize it till it becomes like muscle memory.
Culture isn't what you put on the poster.
Culture is what people actually do, right?
And so that's like why most of the work that we do here is trying to connect people to these ideas in sort of visceral ways that last and that tend to get reinforced by our environment.
I think one of my questions... Sorry, can I tell you one of your inside jokes that's recently?
This is very X-like.
A number of years ago, people decided that they thought our swag wasn't fun enough.
So some group of Xers, I still don't really know who they are, started an Etsy store, which I think is now on bonfire, called Swaggy McSwaggerton, where you could get this like swag that's made by Xers, but not like approved by X. And at some point there was a joke here that the really hard thing
I think you will particularly appreciate this.
The monkey, the hardest part of the problem is actually us.
It's an inside game.
It's working on managing our own psychology.
And so to reference like the monkey is us, the monkey is inside us.
There's now one of these things where like this monkey kind of clawing its way out of the T-shirt that people wear around the office to remind us not only should we be working on the monkey, but the biggest monkey of all is managing our own psychology.
I mean, I'll give you an example or two, but no one thing will do it.
You cannot just tell people this is the right answer.
Go be like that.
You have to constantly in all of these little ways reinforce it.
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