Lex Fridman

You left Rockstar in 2020 and eventually launched Absurd Ventures, as we've been talking about.

What do you miss about your time at Rockstar?

Is there specific moments that bring you joy when you think about them?

The lows and the highs?

Just even looking back at that time to today, how did you evolve as a creative mind across those 20 years?

But as a writer, as a...

scholar of human nature.

First of all, were you surprised that you were actually able, like you had it in you, through humor and tragedy, to create these incredibly compelling characters?

Because I think I remember reading somewhere that James Joyce, when he was 20, said that he's going to be the greatest writer ever.

And I feel like every 20-year-old says this.

It's just James Joyce pulls it off.

So were you surprised that you were actually able to do it?

And how did that person get better and better and better at writing as you evolved?

Laszlo mentioned that it was another legend who you're still working with.

He mentioned that you would lock yourself in a... Writing dialogue for a radio, I think...

You lock yourself in a room and get anchovies and onion pizza and crushed Diet Cokes.

Is this accurate information?

For which periods of your life was this a fuel for your creative process?

Is it anchovies and onion pizza?

Just to give a little bit more of a shout out to Laszlo.