David Fajgenbaum
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Right.
Of course.
But opening my imagination to a world where no one ever knows if I did something good is shockingly absent of the normal reward I'm
used to giving or just the operation yeah um i don't know it's really tripping me out yeah that's a great goal yeah and it's harder than i want it to be yeah this kind of circles back to something we talked about a few weeks ago the give for fun and for free like that's what it is about i know i know i guess like i don't feel very judgmental of myself because like
Look, again, we're like this super social animal and our reputation is everything in a group.
Yeah.
Are you benevolent?
Are you selfish?
Like these are key things we need to know about each other if we're going to trust each other.
So naturally, we want people to see when we're benevolent.
I know.
And we pray they don't see when we're selfish and shitty.
Because we have to keep our standing in our group.
I think peopleβ Well, there's some artistry to it.
There is a way for peopleβfor you to let people find out stuff you've done that's good that isn't overtly braggy.
Like, if someone's overtly braggy, yeah, it's immediately distasteful.
But if you find out that Eric put a kid through collegeβ Yeah.
You're, like, super proud, Eric.
That's amazing, yeah.
Yeah, and you would want to say to him, like, that was rad, dude.