Lex Fridman

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Like I said, I was hanging out with family, and my parents swear by AGZ, which I still haven't tried, but they recommend it very highly, so I'm an AG1 guy.

I guess AGZ is nightly sleep support.

That helps with restful, restorative sleep.

Anyway, my parents really do swear by it, so if that's the thing you're interested in, please try it out.

It is melatonin-free and doesn't just help you fall asleep.

It helps with the quality of the sleep.

But yeah, AG1 is in the stack of things I consume when I'm traveling to help me feel like I'm at home and I've been traveling quite a lot recently.

And I will be traveling a lot in the new year.

And the feeling of home, the feeling of being grounded in a place that feels like home, is really important.

So it's the little traditions, the little habits I build for myself to remind me that even when I'm far away, I can carry a little bit of the comforts of home with me.

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And now, dear friends, here's Irving Finkel.

Where and when did writing originate in human civilization?

Let's go back a few thousand years.

We should say that the name of that system that lasted for 3,000 years is cuneiform.

You said that the development of cuneiform of these tablets of written language is one of the greatest, probably the greatest invention in human history.

How hard do you think it was to come up with this?