Ed Calderon

Or is trust a thing that's never really guaranteed?

And on top of that, it's not just the psychology.

There's also a neurobiology to it.

I've been very fortunate and deliberate to surround myself with good people throughout my life.

But I've recently gotten to sort of observe, not close to me, but nearby, somebody that could be classified as a sociopath.

Yeah.

And a narcissist.

Yeah.

Like, I don't want to use those psychological terms, but just...

It's like, oh, people come with different biology, too.

So it's not just like the trauma you might experience in your early life and all the deep complexity that leads to the psychology that you have as an adult, but it's also the biology you come with, the nature, that you might not just have the...

the machine that can empathize deeply with the experience of others or maybe a machine that gets off gets a dopamine rush from the manipulation of other humans yeah or the control of other humans yeah i mean put an example of my my own background uh

The trajectories that you can take in life are...

are defined in a way that aren't available elsewhere in the world.

And so you develop, I mean, part of that is psychological, part of that is cultural and so on.

Part of that is the cultural trauma.

But then also the ethical lines based on the corruption.

Because I grew up in the Soviet Union, there's the same kind of understanding that there's some gray area of corruption.

Yeah, I mean, same thing was in the Soviet Union.

It's funny.