Dating

“My favorite first date question that I recommend everybody ask is, ask the person you're on a date with what did you learn from your last relationship? And the red flag is if the person starts going off about how horrible their ex was, and how shitty they were…”

“It fits with the lack of dating and the lack of having sex and the lack of socializing. It, that was the, that was a prime social lubricant for decades.”

“Dating is a skill, so we're born knowing how to love, we have these natural instincts, but nobody teaches you how to date, and dating is actually pretty new in the span of human history”

“I think that maximizers do really well in a lot of areas of life, but when it comes to dating, they can actually get left behind in their search for perfection.”

“So there's this concept called the power of weak ties, which is the idea that you're much more likely to get a job from an acquaintance than from one of your close friends, because your close friends have such overlapping lives with you that they know the same…”

“The best thing about being a man when it comes to attracting a woman is if you're passionate about anything, it doesn't matter how lame it is, that's kind of attractive.”

“And a lot of dating that people miss is that it's about matching somebody's momentum, And matching somebody's speed. So it's a dance where I take a step forward, and then you need to take a step forward. If I take 10 steps forward, you might feel overwhelmed a…”

“Start prioritizing dating when you're younger. You have a more flexible lifestyle. You have a bigger population of single people to choose from”

“There's something uniquely painful about rejection in dating because it's like, I've met you, and I don't want you.”

“Dating is not entertainment. Dating is auditioning. You're auditioning for the role of husband. And that means not very many second dates. Not very many second dates, because you know. Second dates are mostly entertainment.”

“And I think someone, my prediction is someone's going to bring back the HQ Trivia format and apply it to a new niche, Maybe it's dating, and it's gonna work in 20, 24, 25, 25, 26.”

“The bar for pursuing has actually never been lower. Because you used to have to do wild things to get a woman to pay attention to you, right? You know, you'd have to ask her father if you could even take her out. You would have to get through a slew of brother…”

“And I think one thing we're seeing now is young men and young women are having trouble dating because young men are considerably to the right of young women.”

“If you want to build a Riz like GPT wrapper. What I would do is I'd go to non-obvious use cases. Like dating is very obvious. Therapy is very obvious. So the only way right now, like forget, like the, everyone's going after the obvious ones. So like make a lis…”

“One of the reasons a college campus is a hothouse for dating is just, it's a lot of young people who are together physically. But another reason is because they, they're all, they all have a shared sense of identity right? They all have a shared credential, wh…”

“I think the biggest mistakes that people make is they treat Dating like it's a sales problem rather than a matching problem.”

“If you have a user base and a supply of people feeling better about themselves with higher levels of self-esteem, what do you get less of? Abuse, harassment, toxicity, ghosting, all the icky stuff that comes with dating will subsequently decline.”