Astro Teller
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540 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Astro Teller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We both want to be intellectually honest.
The trick is the way the world actually functions, even though you want to be intellectually honest,
that you would step away, even with some sadness from something you had worked hard on, if that was no longer a really promising thing.
The world has taught you not to do that.
That is a career limiting move everywhere else.
So the real question you're asking me is not whether I'm serious about that.
It's what are you doing at X?
What are the hundreds of things you're doing at X?
So that it's not a career limiting move to say, hey,
The teleporter I've been working on really hard for two years, it's not working great.
I'm not sure we're going to get there.
I can't prove it won't work, but I think we should stop this.
So there's all these questions like, if I do that, can I still get promoted if I'm like a really great Xer?
Can I get a bonus at the end of the year?
How will I be treated by my coworkers at our all hands if I stand up and I say, I've killed my project?
If everybody boos, not only will I never do that again, but nobody's going to do it again.
If you get a standing ovation for killing your own project and for demonstrating your intellectual honesty, then you'll say, oh, maybe it's okay to do that here.
And then other people who are sitting in the stands will think, oh, maybe I can be intellectually honest.
which is why we work so hard to make sure that when people kill their project, we give them a standing ovation.
And it's like no one of those things can undo it.
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