Vlad Barbalat
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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of grayness, of just a society that has no spirit, a society that has no real art.
And that's not a statement on the people.
That's a statement on the way society is constructed and suppresses those otherwise natural human, I think, traits.
When you come to the US, you experience literally the inverse of that, this notion of individualism.
It's the opposite of what you would experience in a place like the Soviet Union, but I would argue in many other societies as well.
Like everything else taken to its excessive corner, you would probably find all sorts of issues with
individualism as the way to construct a society and we wrestle with those in the US.
But what it does do is it frees a person to pursue their talents, pursue their interests, pursue a network of friends they want to be associated with in a way that's just impossible elsewhere.
First, I would relate it to this notion of risk-taking, not assuming and not taking anything for granted, not being entitled to anything.
This is a fundamental trait that immigrants share.
When you come with nothing,
just looking for a life you don't think of yourself as entitled to anything and i think that carries no matter how your life in the united states ultimately evolves you know you're not entitled to anything no one owes you anything and that permeates the spirit of the way i go through my life now we talked about
entrepreneurship, a culture of why do this at all?
Well, why not?
Why wouldn't you want to make something better?
And I think we've tried to have that culture at LMI where we don't say this is good enough.
That's not a good way to live.
If you're passionate about your work,
and you're really interested in what you do, and you care about your craft, you're going to continue to iterate because it's what you do.
And that leads to better results.
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