Russia, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Russia comes up
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 25:39 Dr. Gio Valiante Great, for a period of time, great tennis players came out of Russia.
Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
- ▶ 23:49 Pierre Poilievre And we can ensure that our continent is secure from Chinese, Russian, North Korean, and Iranian threat by doing our part in the Arctic.
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
- ▶ 10:05 Shane Parrish The Germans had killed his entire family in Russia.
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 2:01 Shane Parrish Fleeing Russia with just 66 dollars in her purse after lying to a border guard about vodka.
- ▶ 3:20 Shane Parrish In, in a village near Minsk, Russia, Rose Gorlik was born into a life of modest means.
- ▶ 6:44 Shane Parrish By 1922, they had saved enough to bring Rose's family over from Russia, her parents, brothers, sisters, and a cousin, and they all put down roots in Omaha, several living in the Blumpkin household. 2 times in the scene
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 4:26 Josh Wolfe Is going to become the next Afghanistan, that that region in the Sahel, all these coups and cascades of these coups of failed states where you have Russian mercenaries, violent extremists, Chinese CCP coming in with infrastructure and…
- ▶ 1:30:21 Josh Wolfe And Russia, and who thought that we were gonna see a land war, you know, in the 21st century, where Russia would invade Ukraine, and, uh, China, and Taiwan, and North Korea, and the African continent, as we talked about, and the Sahel and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:19 Josh Wolfe Which I'll give you first, which is I would really put priority on Africa as a continent, and particularly that's Sahel and Maghreb, because I do believe between violent extremists, Russian mercenaries, China infrastructure, you are one… 2 times in the scene
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:27:30 John Mackey We, there are 41 countries in the last 120 years, hundred, yeah, starting with the Russia in 1917 or 1918, that have tried socialism.
- ▶ 1:46:30 John Mackey But his boldness, I mean, the way Starlink, I mean, not Starlink, the way SpaceX got created, you know, he goes and visits the Russians and, and, um,
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:53:41 Tom Gaynor Born in Russia, raised there, educated there, but he'd been in America so long that he was very good at American idioms and the American culture such that he was spectacular in his role as an ambassador because he was able to understand…
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience
- ▶ 31:32 Dr. Gio Valiante So he went to the areas in Russia that were turning out champion tennis players.
Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living
- ▶ 1:08:39 Kevin Kelly And I would expect it to see these first in China and maybe Russia because they have a total vacuum of this.
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 28:08 Nathan Myhrvold So, oops, they don't have Russian gas anymore.
- ▶ 34:23 Nathan Myhrvold Really, they, they, they see the United States or, uh, the Soviet, former Soviet Union, now Russia, as superpowers and nuclear weapons.
Keith Creel: Lessons from Life on the Railroad
- ▶ 29:06 Keith Creel I think it's occurring and I think it will accelerate when it comes to nearshoring or, you know, the last six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, you know, the topic of ally shoring is, is just as prominent as an impactful.
Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
- ▶ 47:08 Tobi Lütke Like, it's just like a steel man, why this, steel, steel man me the argument that it should affect what, ah, ah, ah, you, like a, like a Shopify employee, ah, makes as lifetime earnings whether or not Russia invaded the Ukraine the week…
- ▶ 1:34:29 Tobi Lütke Russia invites Ukraine, which seems to be a recurring topic here. 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 2:13 Shane Parrish We talk about crypto tech investments, education, we go deep on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, how he's thinking about the Russia Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, not consumption asset, legacy,…
- ▶ 2:54 Shane Parrish And now we get the Ukraine Russian thing going on.
- ▶ 49:58 Shane Parrish Now that we're on crypto, how are you thinking about Russia, Ukraine, and the fear in the crypto circles that this will lead to sort of the West finger pointing 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:30 Balaji Srinivasan A lot of them have flipped to becoming nationalist, and they're the ones that are winning these conflicts, and certainly, you know, I'm not, not a supporter of what Russia is doing right now, but the power level is shifting. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:07 Balaji Srinivasan As I mentioned, they've taken on, uh, the right, the central left, tech, you know, Russia, China, some extent, India, Israel, and, you know, like a bunch of other smaller countries, like I've seen Iran and, you know, Hungary, and they're…
- ▶ 1:37:17 Balaji Srinivasan And you can argue whether Waterloo is the right analogy or, you know, Napoleon invading Russia and the Russian winter and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:15:12 Balaji Srinivasan But in theory they could like, imagine like what Russia did in Ukraine, but like what the U S did in Iraq, except Iraq was on social media and like Saddam was tweeting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21:53 Balaji Srinivasan He saw that both the U.S. and Russia were rising. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:34:50 Balaji Srinivasan All of China's neighbors are as nervous about China as like Russia's neighbors are nervous about Russia, but to 10 X because it's China, right? 2 times in the scene
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 17:07 Marc Andreessen Uh, but, you know, they, they tried, and there were some very brave people behind the Iron Curtain in, in Russia and in the other, you know, kind of East Bloc countries that, you know, that, that battled for a long time. 2 times in the scene
#119 Todd Simkin: Making Better Decisions
- ▶ 25:25 Todd Simkin So Lev Vygotsky was a, um, Russian psychologist. 2 times in the scene
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 24:44 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen There may be, you know, we may be launching or I'll just call it the Russians may be launching a top secret asset, but they're saying we're launching.
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 1:20:10 Seth Godin He was Russia, and I don't remember who I was.
#97 Roger Martin: Forward Thinking
- ▶ 19:03 Roger Martin We were tied with Russia. 2 times in the scene
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 29:42 Chamath Palihapitiya Russia. 3 times in the scene
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 1:02:36 Matthew Holland I mean, you look at China and Russia, they're remarkably aggressive with a lot of, I don't want to say disregard to their own intellectual property and what they're using, but they're certainly not quiet about what they're doing.
- ▶ 1:15:55 Shane Parrish Why do you think he's in Russia? 2 times in the scene
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 9:11 Daniel Gross Um, 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, like, a green plant planted on Mars,
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 54:28 Celeste Headlee So I had a taxi ride to the airport in California, and my taxi driver was a Russian immigrant, 2 times in the scene
#48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
- ▶ 32:50 Adam Robinson That was something also about Fisher, um, and he did it entirely on his own against the Russians, who were determined to beat him as a group, as a block. 3 times in the scene
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:20:48 Adam Robinson So you can be sure that when Russia or, or, or some other country decides to increase their supply of oil in the global markets, they're trading it, and you're taking the other side of the trade.
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 17:51 Tyler Cowen And other countries, you know, will do what they want, say, you know, in Syria, Iran, or Russia, and they won't pay much heed to us.
- ▶ 48:12 Tyler Cowen Is a sign that there's all this wealth out there in the world, Russia, China, but not really that many safe places to put it. 2 times in the scene
#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 1:19 Shane Parrish So, first of all, you've worked as a Russian translator on Russian boats.
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 1:14:53 Chris Voss Ronald Reagan was, is seen as a nice guy, but very aggressive, very pro American, very anti-Russia.
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 1:38:18 Rory Sutherland That was, was a Soviet attack on people who are insufficiently invested in Russia, and were therefore to be viewed with suspicion.
Santorini Wine with Panayiota Kalogeropoulou
- ▶ 4:39 Panayiota Kalogeropoulou We were selling, they were selling their grapes in Russia or different places, Italy, but for sure they would kept for their own consumption, their own house wine, as we call it.
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 12:28 Pedro Domingos They just learned to predict the time series from the stock itself and maybe other related time series in a way that human beings couldn't, but human beings could know that, oh, you know, today, you know, they began a war between Russia…