Daniel Gross
13 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 16, 2019 by Daniel Gross · across every show →
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Apr 16, 2019 neutral
Gross: Humans are terrible at reverse-engineering their own mental wiring
“I think we as humans are quite terrible at reverse engineering the neural net in our head. Much like it's actually quite hard within modern machine learning techniques for you to figure out that that individual thing you fed the neural net led to that specific…”
Apr 16, 2019
Gross: Understanding hyper-success requires finding the catalyzing feedback loop
“The most interesting thing to me is when kind of looking at people that are hyper successful is not trying to kind of reverse engineer, you know, their current daily patterns or what they currently do day to day. And it's not even to reverse engineer how they …”
Apr 16, 2019 positive
Gross: Increasing problem-solvers 10x offers more leverage than direct solutions
“I think it's much more leverage to work on creating a planet that has 10 X the amount of people working on, you know flying cars or global warming or curfew. On the meta layer of the problem. And due to the amount of luck involved, I actually believe the world…”
Apr 16, 2019
Gross: Major life decisions stem from distinct seed and catalyst moments
“It would not surprise me if the outcome of this research was, there was kind of the seed moment and then the catalyst moment, and those are actually distinct. There could be many months, weeks, or days, or, Would surprise me if there were hours in between.”
Apr 16, 2019 positive
Gross: Apple chose privacy over beating Google to market in ML
“While I was at Apple, this was before the whole Cambridge Analytica Facebook debacle I noticed this very strong organizational tilt towards privacy, towards customer and user privacy. And I gotta tell you, I was in the room, I was a little bit of the devil her…”
Apr 16, 2019
Gross: Tech success is driven by inordinate luck rather than intellect
“What led to my success wasn't really my intellect, ambition, or talent. It was really luck. I just happened to bump into someone who knew someone who, you know, knew our first engineer. I, you know, one of our Major investors literally overheard me pitching at…”
Apr 16, 2019 neutral
Gross: SpaceX was originally a stunt to land a plant on Mars
“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”
Apr 16, 2019
Gross: Humans ultimately seek flow rather than meaning or fulfillment
“Happiness to me is flow. I actually think the thing all humans are seeking in life, and this is kind of a weird way to say it, because we usually use different words. You know, we usually use words like meaning, fulfillment, but I think it's flow.”
Apr 16, 2019 positive
Gross: The most important leadership skill is third-person emotional detachment
“Probably the most important thing is the ability to distance your thought patterns and your emotions from your actions... But it's the idea that you can kind of play the game of life in kind of third person as opposed to first. That is incredibly important.”
Apr 16, 2019
Gross: Increasing luck requires actively seeking opportunities and acting on them
“The trick to basically becoming more lucky, and there was a cool study about this a while ago, is you can actually increase your odds of luck in the world. You know, you don't even really need pioneer. You just have to do this interesting, hard, psychologicall…”
Apr 16, 2019 positive
Gross: Outsized success is catalyzed by scarce feedback from micro-influencers
“The thing that's scarce today are people who are kind of micro influencers to others Giving them positive feedback and catalyzing this loop that ends up creating everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Elon Musk to, you know, Ramanujan or Albert Einstein.”
Apr 16, 2019 negative
Apr 16, 2019 positive
Gross: Managers must act as game designers aligning company and employee desires
“Ultimately, you're kind of a game designer as a manager and as a leader, and you want to design the best game that both aligns company incentives and employees desires. And the real way to understand people is kind of through this deeper substrate level where …”