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#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 1:08:43 Shane Parrish A lot of companies today seem like they have a bit of innovation and be like, they want to be the one to create the iPhone or go zero to one and just create new markets like Facebook or Google.
- ▶ 1:13:25 Shane Parrish And they're given a problem that you can't Google, that there's no procedure for, that hasn't existed in the world before, and you're told to solve it.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 38:59 Chamath Palihapitiya And then I was using Dropbox for a while and then Google Drive showed up and said even more for even less.
- ▶ 44:38 Chamath Palihapitiya Yeah, that's, that's kind of like what I'm working through right now is trying to really refine an approach that I think can work for the next decade, uh, you know, 1520 years and then share it with Google.
- ▶ 1:08:57 Chamath Palihapitiya Now, that process doesn't work if you want to be intellectually lazy, or if you find yourself being intellectually lazy, and you stop when you get, you know, confirmatory, that first confirmatory meeting, or that first confirmatory…
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 34:01 Matthew Holland Go Google this.
- ▶ 37:42 Matthew Holland So, you know, Chrome is, every browser has a sandbox now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:40 Matthew Holland The reality of it is not so great, because what we have today is there is the main Android branch that, you know, evolves, that Google releases. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:13 Matthew Holland I mean, Google's Project Zero is largely built from people who have exited the, um, intelligence industry with a chip on their shoulder.
#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 1:08:07 Maria Konnikova Didn't remember much about it, but I just Googled it to try to figure it out.
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 1:17:31 Derek Sivers Uh, here, let me Google that for you.
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 17:00 Hannah Fry So I'm thinking in terms of Google Maps and Waze, um, certainly, and perhaps others, is that you type in the address and then up pops a map, which gives you three options, right?
#86 BJ Fogg: The Science of Lasting Change
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 38:21 Bethany McLean I'm not sure anybody has, has figured that out, and I think it's, it's such a weird irony in a way because the problem is Google and Facebook, right? 4 times in the scene
#84 Jennifer Garvey Berger: Creating Routine in Chaos
- ▶ 1:02:59 Shane Parrish A zoom play date or a Google hangout is just not the same.
- ▶ 1:20:12 Jennifer Garvey Berger I think you're on a lot of Zoom calls, a lot of hangouts, right?
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 42:41 Bill Ackman And what's fascinating to me, actually, if you were to Google now, uh, we have not been short Herbalife for, you know, a very long time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:58 Bill Ackman You know, the Google, Apple, uh, sort of app that you have on your phone, you know, that combined with testing, you know, hopefully we can start going back to a more normal life.
- ▶ 1:29:13 Bill Ackman In the last six months, and you can Google it, Herbalife paid, settled with the SEC for twenty million dollars for misleadingly describing their China business and their public finance, because it actually, the compensation scheme is…
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 13:07 Jason Calacanis I told everybody this was going to change the world, and I was going to, you know, build the next Google or Facebook, and I, basically, I'm a fraud.
- ▶ 32:31 Jason Calacanis At MIT or Harvard or Stanford, you can go on MIT's website right now and take all of their courses and then do all the project work and go to Google or any job and say, here's my coursework that I did on my own, on my own time, and I took…
- ▶ 46:12 Jason Calacanis I look at and go, like, if you see what Amazon has done, you see what Google and Facebook have done, 2 times in the scene
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 12:38 Esther Wojcicki You know, when you do a Google search, how do you evaluate the results of that search?
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 51:20 Mike Maples Jr. So like, here's a great example, Google, you know, when Google comes into business, everybody's saying it's over. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:45 Mike Maples Jr. Because like, if somebody is making a ton of money at Google or Facebook,
#74 Jeff Hunter: Embracing Confusion
- ▶ 1:25:33 Shane Parrish So you're saying we can't just click on the top Google ad and, uh, it's going to work out. 2 times in the scene
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 45:31 Neil Pasricha There's even a Google Chrome plugin that's called the Death Clock, and I did download it, but I deleted it eventually because it was all black with, like, red skulls and stuff, and I was like, that's a little bit too dark.
- ▶ 1:12:47 Neil Pasricha But you are with a thousand other people outside that beach, and when they open the beach, all thousand of you are gonna run in to try to get that Google job, or that amazing hedge fund opportunity, or whatever it is.
- ▶ 1:37:42 Neil Pasricha The word I had to Google to discover, to rhyme, is effectuate.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 29:29 Shane Parrish Like, and they contribute them to this common fleet, or do you think it's like Google owns a fleet of cars? 2 times in the scene
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 19:58 Jonathan Haidt You know, I think there, I think that people were thinking that five or 10 years ago, back when we all thought tech was wonderful, and Google and Facebook were magical companies, and you know, the, the bloom is off the rose.
- ▶ 1:12:26 Jonathan Haidt If you Google, um, Mainers United from the state of Maine, they put on these
#60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line
- ▶ 22:53 Jim Dethmer So I say to leaders all the time, when you can, when work can start to feel like play, and you know, this was misunderstood because there was a period, you know, when people would look at some of the classic startups of old, like Google,…
#59 Following Intellectual Curiosity with Thomas Tull
- ▶ 27:14 Thomas Tull I'm friendly with, uh, with Eric Schmidt, who, who's a chairman of Google and is a, uh, was a shareholder at Legendary.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 5:58 Gabriel Weinberg Um, so it's an alternative to Google, and then in the last couple years we've expanded, and now we offer, um, a suite of privacy tools. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:35 Gabriel Weinberg Some of them are for advertising, um, like they run Google Ads on their page. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:59 Shane Parrish So something as simple as Google Analytics can then be used to affect your search engine ranking, because Google would know that the page on the site is popular, and therefore it could bump it up. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Shane Parrish Do you think that the data collected by these companies, and maybe I'll add some context to this, is like, the way that I'm thinking about this problem is, if you're a company like Google or Facebook or Amazon, you get a lot of data that… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Gabriel Weinberg Google runs Google Analytics.
- ▶ 21:51 Gabriel Weinberg In search, you're already paying for it in Google already, because you're paying with your data. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Gabriel Weinberg And if you think about it, that's really still what Google does most of the time on Google search because all the search ads are still bid on keywords, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Gabriel Weinberg And if you think about it, that's really still what Google does most of the time on Google search because all the search ads are still bid on keywords, right?
- ▶ 26:27 Shane Parrish Um, I know, like, we get less money on Farnham Street because, I mean, we charge a sponsorship, which isn't based on page views, and there's no tracking code, there's nothing embedded in there, uh, where companies get information on you,…
- ▶ 29:45 Gabriel Weinberg Additionally, someone did another, uh, same time analysis and found that health-related terms also went down on Google.
- ▶ 38:46 Gabriel Weinberg There were a bunch of companies who raised a bunch of money all trying to do that, basically compete with Google at their core game, and realize it's somewhat, it was somewhat unnecessary because there were a few different index, web… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:21 Shane Parrish One of which is like an argument that Google would probably make is like, if you're standing in New York and you search for pizza, like you probably want local contextualized results without your permission. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:51 Shane Parrish So no matter what browser you're using, Chrome, Internet Explorer...
- ▶ 54:43 Gabriel Weinberg And so on iOS, Android, Chrome, and Firefox, you can download either the browser, browser extension or our browser, and it has all the kind of essentials for search and browse.
- ▶ 55:35 Gabriel Weinberg Sometimes really private, but also just getting off of Google and Facebook. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:10 Shane Parrish Like if I Google climate change, like why couldn't you take the
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 9:54 Daniel Gross and you can look at the landing pages of, say, you know, early Google, Facebook, um, Dropbox, Stripe, whatever company you want.
- ▶ 22:30 Daniel Gross And there's this funny meme or story of, you know, Google got to the point where it was A-B testing shades of blue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Shane Parrish As you were saying that the comparison between Google and Apple were used to work and how they go about solving business problems, what happens when those people compete? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Daniel Gross Um, and so Apple Maps, uh, will always be, I think, second to Google Maps in its agility, and then the Pixel will always be in second place to whatever beauty they come up with for the next iPhone.
- ▶ 26:47 Daniel Gross Um, and so Apple Maps, uh, will always be, I think, second to Google Maps in its agility, and then the Pixel will always be in second place to whatever beauty they come up with for the next iPhone.
- ▶ 27:31 Daniel Gross Um, uh, but, but there's this one interesting flaw that Google's trying to fix in its alphabet model. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:15 Daniel Gross So, you know, I actually believe it's kind of a tangent, but I actually believe YouTube is more important to Google than web search if, if they're thinking about it properly, but that's an acquired asset. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:12 Daniel Gross Um, and, and the reach is bigger than kind of Google, uh, search results reach.
- ▶ 34:15 Daniel Gross Incredibly important reason is that YouTube is proactive and Google is reactive. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:16 Daniel Gross The fact that we don't necessarily have all the data that we need and the fact that Google will be able to get to market first on very, very specific, particular things.
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 1:12:58 Scott Page I have the students vote, like, you know, using a Google form, like, you know, which ones they do.
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 50:36 Josh Wolfe We have certain queries and elements that we use in the syntax of how we describe these things, whether we're meeting with a person or giving a recap of a board meeting, but it's all there, and so if I type, you know, Shane Parrish into…
- ▶ 1:27:13 Josh Wolfe I was at a board meeting, and there was somebody there from Google, and there was somebody there who spent a lot of time at Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 8:30 Adam Robinson Google's company, DeepMind said, what if we don't train it on human games? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:02 Shane Parrish And then what do you see that role as in the future is, are those data sets going to be proprietary or will some guy in his garage be able to compete with Google on search? 7 times in the scene
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 11:57 Adam Robinson And when I say technology, I mean, uh, Google or Facebook or your email, all of that 9 times in the scene
#44 Barbara Coloroso: The Kids Are Worth It
- ▶ 1:41:48 Barbara Coloroso Um, age appropriate, ability appropriate again, but he goes to Google and Twitter and Yahoo and the latest app producers and
#43 Jennifer Garvey Berger: The Mental Habits of Effective Leaders
- ▶ 57:15 Jennifer Garvey Berger You look at Google was developing a way to help people think about, um, a way to help people kind of codify their search results for hotels and travel sort of stuff, and then suddenly that springs into its own business, right?
- ▶ 1:05:37 Jennifer Garvey Berger If what we want is, is stuff that's known, Google will do that for you, right?
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 42:56 Tobi Lütke Um, I think apparently, I, I, I've never worked for Google, obviously, but apparently people talk internally, talk about sort of a Googliness score, which, um, to me sounds super dystopian, and I hope I score lowly, I score low in that.
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 1:36 Ben Thompson It returned zero Google search results.
- ▶ 3:58 Ben Thompson Not just, not just Google or Apple or, or Facebook.
- ▶ 42:42 Ben Thompson And so what happened was the, the media completely switched to being, from being a gatekeeper to being a, uh, a, uh, subservient supplier to platforms like Google and Facebook, where they, they had to go on the platforms according to the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:32 Ben Thompson A great example is Google. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:28 Shane Parrish Who do you think and why has a better controlling demand position in a relative basis between not only now, but going forward between Google, Facebook, and maybe Amazon? 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:47 Ben Thompson And to the extent Google search ads are very compelling because they are helping you find the thing that you want.
- ▶ 1:04:37 Shane Parrish I mean, it is becoming harder, but is it, is it insurmountable now that the person in their garage could compete with Google? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:34 Shane Parrish To an extension of that, to some part, do you think government plays a role in making Facebook or Google provide data to everybody so that everybody can access it? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:18 Shane Parrish Like, how do you create your own personal Google or what's your backend system for that? 3 times in the scene
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 23:23 Tyler Cowen Use Google creatively.
- ▶ 36:06 Tyler Cowen Well, you can Google to such a high percentage of the world's information, and again, this is pretty new.
#37 Annie Duke: Getting Better by Being Wrong
- ▶ 1:39:38 Annie Duke Um, and so maybe they, they're like, oh, I don't have my phone to Google this right in front of me, so I don't want to say anything because I, I think I might be wrong. 2 times in the scene
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 19:08 Patrick Collison And so we'd kind of forlornly Google for it, you know, with different sort of permutations of keywords, and then sort of after a couple months became, you know, somewhat resigned to the fact that no, it did not in fact, you know,…
- ▶ 56:03 Patrick Collison Uh, in that you can sort of draw a lineage of HP and Intel and Microsoft and Google and Facebook and so on.
- ▶ 1:13:24 Patrick Collison And just, you know, share an email or a Google doc or something, uh, or, or just share snippets with friends.
- ▶ 1:40:06 Patrick Collison Um, Facebook, Google, Apple, Intel, um, you know, they're all based in a, um, you know, a fairly small number of square miles, right?
#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest
- ▶ 47:41 Dacher Keltner Google, you know, et cetera, science, you know, biotech.
- ▶ 56:02 Dacher Keltner Governments, to, you know, biotech firms, to startups, to Google, to, you know, really every imaginable kind of group.
#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
- ▶ 33:20 Michael Mauboussin Um, you just think about, you think about the amount of data that some of these large technology companies have, you know, the ones that come right to mind, of course, would be Google, 3 times in the scene
#26 Warren Berger: Improving The Questions You Ask
- ▶ 52:40 Warren Berger Um, we already have an answer machine at our fingertips with, uh, with Google, you know, so, um, you don't have to, you don't have to be in that role.
#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
- ▶ 1:17:58 Shane Parrish I think that that's a helpful framework to kind of, as we walk through this and kind of walk through anything in life about, you know, whether it's taking, uh, Google, 20% time and implementing it at your organization, any idea that we're…
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 23:03 Rory Sutherland Google's mostly tested this thing in California.
- ▶ 29:19 Rory Sutherland In the first ever crash of a Google self-driving car, where the car was inarguably at fault, it pulled out in front of a bus, expecting the bus to give way. 3 times in the scene
#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher
- ▶ 1:06:24 Naval Ravikant In the day and age of Google and smartphones, memorization is obsolete. 2 times in the scene
#15 Samuel Arbesman: Future-Proof Your Knowledge
- ▶ 4:32 Sam Arbesman So for example, when people talk about how, uh, the internet and Google is ruining our brains or our memories, um, I am actually much more positively inclined towards those technologies simply because it, if we don't necessarily have as…
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 27:19 Shane Parrish It seems like everybody's getting into artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence, machine learning from Facebook and IBM to Amazon and Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:55 Pedro Domingos There's this network effect of data where, uh, if you have a good product and people start using it, then you have a lot of use this, for example, you know, how Google has built up such an unassailable position in search, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:55 Pedro Domingos There's this network effect of data where, uh, if you have a good product and people start using it, then you have a lot of use this, for example, you know, how Google has built up such an unassailable position in search, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:08 Pedro Domingos But in the months that it spent learning by playing against itself, I don't know exactly how much, you know, how many, you know, servers Google use, but I've heard that it was, you know, a very large number, continuously playing for months…