Lex Fridman

And that's really hard to pull off, technically.

A difficult topic.

Uh, you dedicated the book to your mom and dad.

And in particular, you wrote to my father who died while I was finishing the book.

What have you learned about life from your dad?

Was he proud of you?

So you have a bit of that in you.

I think I speak for most of human civilization that fortunately you have that as part of who you are because it comes through your stories.

How often do you think about mortality?

Are you personally, yourself, afraid of death?

What do you think about the nothingness?

I mean, that in itself is terrifying.

Also, there's a component to your brain.

When talking about Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, you said that you have been, by fortune, struck with a bit of a capacity for the grandiosity of feeling.

So you feel the world deeply, sometimes romantic, sometimes overly romantic.

You've said, I like this line, feelings may destroy you, but they're the best thing we have.

So that ability to feel the world

Is that a gift or a curse for you?

What do you think?

Do you think it's possible to have one without the other?