Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yes. Yeah. And I also, it comes up and I bring it, I send it back, you know, like send it back to the kitchen.
I need to boil more.
And it's like a soup of ideas that's cooking. It's 100%, this is how my brain works. And I think most people.
Yeah, so many times, like, startup founders are too early with their idea. Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, like Boston Dynamics. I still don't know what they're doing, but they always upload YouTube videos and it's amazing. But I feel like a lot of these companies don't have, it's like a solution looking for a problem for now, you know? Military obviously uses, but like, do I need like a robotic dog now for my house? I don't know, like it's fun, but it doesn't really solve anything yet.
I feel the same kind of with VR. It's really cool. Apple Vision Pro is very cool. It doesn't really solve something for me yet. And that's kind of the tech looking for a solution, right? But one day it will.
But they became apparent like immediately. Back then they also had like this thing where like, we don't need these computers, they're like a hype. And it also went like in kind of like, you know, waves.
Yeah, or dishwasher. I mean, it's essentially a robot.
I think you're meant to build robots.
Really?
Yeah, but that's also kind of life. Like life brings you to, it's very hard to super intently kind of choose what you're going to do with your life. It's more like surfing. You're surfing the waves, you go in the ocean, you see where you end up, you know?
Yeah.
Exactly, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, all the time. Like, yeah, that's like, I think that's the best way to live your life.
Possibly. I think relationships, like you want to hold a relationship, right? You want to hold your girlfriend, you want to become wife and all this stuff. But, uh, I think you should stay open to where, like, for example, where you want to live. Like, I don't know. We don't know where we want to live, for example. That's something that will figure itself out.
It will crystallize where, you know, you will get sent by the waves to somewhere where you want to live, for example. What are you going to do? I think that's a really good way to live your life. I think most stress comes from trying to control, like, hold things, like... It's kind of Buddhist, you know? You need to like lose control, let it loose, and then things will happen.
Like when you do mushrooms, when you do drugs, like psychedelic drugs, the people that start, that are like control freaks get bad trips, right? Because you need to let go. Like I'm pretty control freak actually. And when I did mushrooms when I was 17, I... It was very good. And then at the end, it wasn't so good because I tried to control it. I was like, ah, now it's going too much.
Now I need to, let's stop. Bro, you can't stop it. You need to go through with it. And so I think it's a good metaphor for life. I think that's a very tranquil way to lead your life.
For sure. I think most stress in life comes from trying to control.
I think you should build with the technology that you know. So for example, Nomad List, which is like this website I made to figure out the best cities to live and work as digital nomads. It wasn't a website, it launched as a Google spreadsheet. So it was a public Google spreadsheet anybody could edit.
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