#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet
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The following is a conversation with Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet. And now a quick few second mention of your sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lexfriedman.com slash sponsors. It's the best way to support this podcast. We got Tax Network USA for taxes, BetterHelp for mental health, Element for electrolytes, Shopify for selling stuff online, and AG1 for your daily multivitamin drink. Choose wisely, my friends. And now onto the philaderies. You can skip them if you like, but if you do, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. If you want to get in touch with me for whatever reason, go to lexrema.com slash contact. All right, let's go.
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These are the three personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. A little bit for a brief moment, it made me wish I took that path of studying the human mind. And perhaps that is the indirect way. Through all the AI, through all the programming, through all the building of systems, and now with the podcast, Maybe I somehow sneaked up to that dream in the end. Anyway, I say all that because these topics are studying the extremes of the human mind. But of course, the extremes are just the edges of an incredibly complicated system that's just so fascinating to study. to reflect on, to put a mirror to, all those processes that you do through talk therapy are just fascinating. Anyway, you can check them out at betterhelp.com slash lex and save on your first month.
That's betterhelp.com slash lex. This episode is also brought to you by Element, my daily zero sugar and delicious electrolyte mix. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole, but there's a lot of interesting studies that measure the decreased performance of the human brain. So cognitive processing speed, for example. By what amount does it decrease? Reaction time. By what amount does it decrease when you decrease the brain's sodium levels, for example? Sodium and potassium really are important on a chemical level for the functioning of the human brain. Now, obviously, all throughout human history, people understood the value of water, but as a medical concept, the concept of dehydration only came about in the 19th century.
If we just look at the history of medicine, it's kind of hilarious how little we knew before. And it makes me think we know very little now relative to what we will know in a hundred and a thousand years. The human body, the biological system of the human body is incredibly complicated.
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