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But it's it's sort of an open secret about this and the Wall Street Journal obviously has layered up to be able to say this in a minute we're going to bring on my brother Jeff swisher to help us talk through this one.

Hi, Cara and Scott. This is Fei-Fei Li. I'm a Sequoia professor of computer science at Stanford, then co-director of Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the author of the book, The World's I See.

My prediction for AI in 2024 is that the technology will continue to deepen and widen with a very impressive speed. We're going to see more multimodal large models beyond language into the domain of perception and world modeling. We will also see AI continue to create a lot of discussion among the public and policymakers as we experience the messy impact of AI in our society, in our industry.

And I think she's slowly building what Walter Isaacson would have described as a reality distortion field when in the book jobs.

This is one of those sensational and inaccurate tabloid books written to sell books to people who like gossip.

This is a book that has made a lot of headlines over the last few weeks and gotten some big pushback from Ray, who's a very pugnacious person.

It's full of pretty buzzy anecdotes, whether it's Dalio trying to set up a meeting with Putin, James Comey serving as a sort of in-house inquisitor and a thorough investigation of an incident and a urinal. It's really fun. It's a fun read.

I remember Ken Dykewalt's book back in the 90s and it was called Age Wave

If you've read my book, No Red Lights, I can't, forgive me for just mentioning the day, but it's, I say I'm gonna live to 114.

I saw the work of people like Dr. Safiya Noble, who wrote Algorithms of Oppression, Virginia Eubanks with Automating Inequality.

Malcolm Gladwell did an interesting book on on genius and I think also a key component of genius is being literally Unafraid like you just never look in the mirror and worry about what you Look like

But getting to your specific question, I mean, obviously, the point that I was making in the memoir and I continue to make is that we were dealing, and in some respects we still are, dealing with a moving target.

It's a 43-year part of my career, as opposed to a three-year part of my career, which was COVID.

When I said it was the dark years of my medical career, it was because I was personally, on a daily basis, taking care of desperately ill, young, mostly men who have sex with men, who had a terrible disease that inevitably was killing almost all of them, with few exceptions.

The point you make about interacting with the activists, people like Larry Kramer and Peter Staley and Mark Harrington and people like that, that was one of the most positive experiences I had.

It's almost as if they don't have a day job, you know, and the people who are who are no better and are trying to spread correct evidence based information have a lot of other things to do with themselves.

This book could not be better timed.

It's a really...I'm sure you timed it that way.

Of course I did.

It's sold more than your uncles, which is my favorite part.

She's a psychologist and author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Too Much and Never Enough how my family created the world's most dangerous man.

It's called Thank You for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission.

This is a really funny, funny book.

I love that you focused on the enablers because they're really almost worse in some weird way.

Kevin McCarthy, hands down.

McCarthy is I think first among equals because he just works at it so hard. He is constantly on the phone. He was the first to really do a very public ring kissing down at Mar-a-Lago after January 6th.

Iliad see Odyssey. Yeah, like I read that. Jesus Christ. That's an important story about the journey home.

it's about a woman, let me read the description, whose dream of being a- this is from Harper's Bar story- whose dream of being a scientist is obstructed by the patriarchal society in which she lives.

It's shockingly fantastic, I just think. Brie Larson is just so terrific. I was so happy after watching it. I just don't know what else to say. I was just totally happy after watching it.

my book, Scaling People, is really more about intentional investment in company operating structures and how you hire and how you invest in teams and people.

So the system in which you operate and the people, which is how you get outsized results, as opposed to that being an afterthought.

It's sort of like how do you do the thing? Templates, outlines of conversations, guides.

I think that when I say management, I think it's a very knowable skill. It's very trainable. It's like, look, I've got an assignment. This is my scope of responsibilities. I've got to get from A to B. So I've got to collect the right portfolio of people, get the best out of them, track progress, set metrics and goals and execute, right? And by the way, coach and understand.

Michael Pollan's series on his book, Changing Your Mind, on all kinds of psychedelics. I thought it was beautifully done.

It's on Netflix. No kidding. It's really good.

They managed to show a trip in a way that was interesting. I don't know how they did it.

I thought the book was great.

He had other books, The Omnivores.

one of my favorite books The Little Prince has the essentialism visible to the eye the curiosity the empathy falling in love for the first time getting your heart broken having your heart grow back stronger realizing you'll you'll be okay with the resilience testing your limits you know all of these things what is essential as invisible to the eye there's a an impossible to measure joyous exploration in a safe place at his college