Fei Fei Li

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Fei Fei Li (on a human-centered approach to AI) · 11 Dec 2024 podcast
But this is one thing I was not able to fit into the book is that for years, he would keep a diary. And his diary talks about just his teaching life. And I know in this diary, there are so many stories about different students he helped with, not in the sense of bragging. It's just he's a writer, right? Yeah. So years later, before he passed away, we didn't know he was going to pass away.
I told Bob, I said, Bob, you've got to turn this into a book. Of course, we could anonymize, but this is an American teacher's story of suicide. So many students, many of them are immigrant students because they lack the support. They lack the family. Some of them are in high school by themselves. Family is overseas. Many of them are like me.
Parents are so busy that the students don't have that emotional support. And he supported so many students. I can sit here and tell you endless story. And then he wanted to translate that into a book, but somehow he just couldn't bring himself to do it. Maybe he's too shy. Maybe he's too humble.
Right. I feel so strongly he needed to write this book. I almost felt like one day I would write it for him. But of course... He passed away so suddenly because of the brain tumor. So when I was writing my book, I realized, let me tell the Bob Sabella story. Let me tell the story on behalf of so many American public school teachers. They don't have much of a voice.
Nobody knows their name, but they work above and beyond every day for the students in their community. They don't care which part of the world they come from, which kind of family background they come from. But they invested so much in these students and they changed lives.
They're totally unsung heroes.
He was instrumental more than Princeton because he was instrumental as the second dad. He helped me to be grounded. When you're an immigrant kid, an ESL kid, you land in the country without speaking the language and going through so many things. It feels so unstable.
So the first time I saw the statue of Albert Einstein, before I was applying for college, it was probably early junior year. My dad continued to find things for us to do that's free. It's very important. It's free. Princeton's Natural History Museum was free.
Museums, free. Yes. Seeing Einstein's statue was kind of symbolic for me that I'm getting back to where really my soul wanted to be at. Because as a teenager, landed in a new country, trying to learn language, deal with all the messiness, you know, Chinese restaurant, walking dogs.
Yeah, exactly. I didn't forget about physics. I was taking physics class in school, but I forget about the sense of love.
Yes, it really is that first love. And it kind of got me back to that, rekindled something.
Yes. Suddenly I feel so much closer to that person. And that person symbolizes the entire world of physics. I feel so much closer. I was literally in Princeton. Yeah, yeah. That felt very different.
Yeah.
I'm sure you watched the movie Oppenheimer.
Do you remember the opening scene was Einstein in front of that little pond?
Right. He was first there by himself. Yeah. I call that my pond. That pond literally exists. It was very close to my dorm by the time I got to Princeton. And I would go there a lot because I know that was close to the Advanced Institute where Einstein worked. Yeah. So like when the scene came out, Sylvia was sitting next to it. I'm like, Sylvia, this is my pond.
I'm reading a different bio of him, but not The Maniac.
Oh, it's in my phone. Yeah, same. Don't worry about it.
Another Princeton guy.
Yeah. Physics is absolutely the discipline that pushes you to think so audaciously that you have to transcend the immediate reality.
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