Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose
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5 років томуSam Altman - / sama - expands on ideas that have come up in several of his essays. Specifically: choosing projects, creating value, and finding purpose.
Sam’s the president of YC Group - ycombinator.com/ - and co-chairman of OpenAI - openai.com/
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon - / craigcannon
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Topics
:55 - From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short - Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most people are at it. blog.samaltman.com/the-days-ar...
3:20 - Stepping back and evaluating your work
5:00 - Creating metrics for your projects
6:00 - Taking a year off
9:00 - Figuring out when to commit
11:00 - Poker
12:00 - From Productivity - Sleep seems to be the most important physical factor in productivity for me. Exercise is probably the second most important physical factor. The third area is nutrition. blog.samaltman.com/productivity
14:30 - From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming - If what you are doing is not important, and if you don’t think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?’ blog.samaltman.com/you-and-you...
16:00 - From The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short - Things in life are rarely as risky as they seem. Most people are too risk-averse, and so most advice is biased too much towards conservative paths. blog.samaltman.com/the-days-ar...
17:00 - Perspective shifts
19:45 - From Productivity - My system has three key pillars: “Make sure to get the important shit done”, “Don’t waste time on stupid shit”, and “make a lot of lists”. blog.samaltman.com/productivity
22:00 - What Happened to Innovation blog.samaltman.com/what-happen...
24:20 - From You and Your Research by Richard Hamming - He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. blog.samaltman.com/you-and-you...
26:20 - The deferred life plan doesn’t work
31:20 - From The Merge - Our self-worth is so based on our intelligence that we believe it must be singular and not slightly higher than all the other animals on a continuum. Perhaps the AI will feel the same way and note that differences between us and bonobos are barely worth discussing. blog.samaltman.com/the-merge
33:40 - Weight training
35:00 - The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello www.amazon.com/Way-Love-Medit...
@Im-a-cyber-imbiber Місяць тому
"OpenAI is doing really well" -- what an understatement
@FsimulatorX Місяць тому
brugh back in 2018 (around the time of this recording) Elon was saying they won't be able to do this without Tesla
@Im-a-cyber-imbiber Місяць тому
you're totally right actually @@FsimulatorX
@JoeGariano 25 днів тому
An example of a statement that has aged well.
@nelsonc5339 5 років тому
18:18 “surrounding yourself with people that will make you more ambitious”
@raskolnikov6347 4 роки тому
@Crebs Park ???
@shubhammishra478 5 років тому
This has got to be the most worthy 30 minutes spent on the internet. Thanks Sam and amazing flow Craig.
@mythnow 4 роки тому
This is really gonna balance out those 30 hours of cat internet..:3
@stillakzo 4 роки тому
@@mythnow 🤣🤣🤣
@FW7737 3 роки тому
abdullah zaheer o
@JaydenLawson 6 місяців тому
Comment has aged well
@JanAmeriCanExpress 2 місяці тому
2x video speed it’s just 15mins
@sethgrayson2470 5 місяців тому
This is such a great episode! Very well hosted by Craig.
@SiddharthKulkarniN 5 років тому
Very cool interview. No beating around the bush. Thanks Sam
@thedigitalceo 11 місяців тому
Sam Altman is fierce. Such a force to learn from
@batirchariyev6888 4 роки тому
"Deferred life plan" discussion was eye-opening. Great talk. Thanks!
@CosmonautCoding 3 роки тому
I remember the first time I listened to this (maybe 6 months ago), I wrote that exact line down and tapped it above desk. It's a simple yet really powerful idea
@JamieRawsthorne-op1kh 5 місяців тому
I thought it was interesting too but can’t help but think SpaceX and Blue Origin, the two most innovative rocket companies followed the path of making a ton of money first, then building the rockets
@joelw2413 4 місяці тому
Elon and bezos probably exceptions to the rule.
@sup3a 5 років тому
This is an amazing youtube channel. Wish more people would have the patience and interest in listening to these :-)
@notapplicable2u Рік тому
I absolutely adore Sam Altman. From what I’ve seen and heard thus far, he is very very much deserving of all the success and accolades he has gotten. We need more people like him working in tech.
@samdemn 10 місяців тому
Never confused the persona with what people deserve. I feel the same about him too, but we should be careful of that
@proviah4770 10 місяців тому
DON'T adore people! Adore God ONLY, FOR HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS WORTHY OF ALL OUR WORSHIP, PRAISE, ADORATION, AND OUR ALL. I LOVE YOU JESUS✝️ REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND.
@the_overman8302 9 місяців тому
@@proviah4770😂😂😂
@01_abhijeet49 5 місяців тому
Yeah, actually ilya sutskever is the genius behind chatgp5
@BackToBackSWE 5 років тому
I wish this conversation went forever, I'd keep listening.
@mjai1120 5 років тому
I took a little over a year off between jobs this past year and it’s been the most transformative experience, both personally and professionally, I’ve ever had. 🙏🏾 Truly a privilege, as Sam says. Highly recommended, if you can manage it!
@ukrainaponaduse3728 Рік тому
Amazing interview. Thanks for sharing and inspiration!
@gfang3694 5 років тому
If you're a geek you probably know the explore/exploit tradeoff or the multi-armed bandit problem, which are related to what Sam talked about at the beginning of the video. Explore early on in one's career and exploit the info you've got from exploration should be an optimized strategy. I learnt this from the book Algorithms to Live By, would strongly recommend it.
@TAntonio 5 років тому
Appreciate the reminders from Sam. I moved to SF specifically to work at a startup. This is basically my year off from founding!
@mosialive 5 років тому
Loved it... A very good conversation.
@blazefrostt Місяць тому
This is so packed with value and wisdom. Thank you guys!!
@ansleymiao1204 4 місяці тому
Most useful videos ever, thanks for this podcast, my role model Sam Altman!
@Estrav.Krastvich 11 місяців тому
A precious talk.
@artur330 5 років тому
Genius, so motivating!
@El_Diablo_12 11 місяців тому
11:57 sleep, exercise and nutrition 26:30 why commitment to one thing matters 27:30 figuring out basic financial security vs making the huge bucks 30:20 success requires some emotion duress, people can smell your commitment level
@avinashdwivedi2015 4 роки тому
every word is GOLD.
@LoganMcNay 2 місяці тому
I find it crazy I watched this video & others of Sam years ago and now that OpenAI has blown up, I'm revisiting these videos with a much different perspective.
@jaywalker11 3 роки тому
Thank you for the great insight
@MikeWilliamsYoroomie 5 років тому
Another great vid and please keep these coming!
@Hastingsnow 5 місяців тому
Thank you for sharing!
@hellosagar 5 місяців тому
worth spending time to listen
@oln3678 5 років тому
The host did a great job
@sergenzali9252 5 місяців тому
This guy is a visionary. Now I understand why and how he built OpenIA ❤
@austinmartin9201 5 років тому
enjoyed the honesty in his experiences
@vambire02 5 років тому
Austin Martin it would be very cool if your first name was Aston.
@kumarmyanmars 3 роки тому
What a great video and just at the right timing to the day, I needed to hear this. This makes me rethink about a lot of things. But how do you change your work to what you really love when you've already invested too long to what you don't. I guess it comes down to disruptive change in retrospective and risk appetite, saved for later thought.
@saismaran8958 Рік тому
So what type of dog are we getting?
@pathakkkk 10 місяців тому
it's called the sunk cost fallacy
@prodcdebeatz7205 4 місяці тому
Whatever you think of Sam, gotta appreciate him coming in sharing game
@tings3365 2 місяці тому
The host constantly moving his chair and Sam has been sitting steadily the whole time. That’s very interesting to learn Sam has such a calm personality.
@Estrav.Krastvich 9 місяців тому
"If you take Armodafinil or something you get 20" - my favorite part). Sam can't be so open and free to speak anymore with all that big politics around OpenAI, so a rare piece.
@vincenzodigennaro8025 Рік тому
This guy is excellent
@adamlee9347 5 років тому
I love all the people at Y combinator!! Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Justin Kan etc.. Im just a high school student now, but will definitely apply to Y combinator later on.
@estherlee6713 5 років тому
Me too here. I mean I love them too
@marcusposey5517 4 роки тому
Adam Lee That’s cool I’m in high school now also and definitely want to apply later. We should talk?
@jeremykuo7788 4 роки тому
Adam Lee I’m in the YC Startup School and applying for the summer batch this year. I’ve seen you around YC videos a lot and I love connecting with other smart startup enthusiasts - let’s chat.
@debasishdutta9073 3 роки тому
Don't wait for a good time it's never gonna come
@adamlee9347 3 роки тому
@@marcusposey5517 sorry I just saw this mobile.twitter.com/AbecidAdam
@ianborukho 5 років тому
Watching this during my year+ off :D :D :D
@ansleymiao1204 4 місяці тому
Totally debunked and made me realize my previous mistakes, so timely!
@saloni379 Рік тому
I love to read book by Sam Altsman to have an insight on his thoughts his approach and his viewpoint on business startupa etc
@Estrav.Krastvich 11 місяців тому
Probably his personal blog as a whole might be that thing.
@saloni379 11 місяців тому
@@Estrav.Krastvich can you share his personal blog
@malonium 3 роки тому
Great post
@barbarabain4303 3 місяці тому
such a brilliant lad, mercy....
@SalmanNeedsAJob 4 роки тому
I am watching this episode on Dec 31st today, and Sam is giving me straight up tip on what I should be doing on this date / now. Check out 3:56
@marcussosa-bassillio3189 5 років тому
If the Y Combinator doesn't accept you because you're not far enough along to show rapid growth very soon, there are other incubators/accelerators out there. Like the Founders Institute and Launch accelerator
@zkitty3838 4 місяці тому
The advice “deferred life plan doesn’t work empirically and usually” gave me up to try balancing the rice-work and dream-work. Early retirement/FIRE movement sounds proud of their discipline to achieve their financial independence. But working just for money sometimes break my aspiration and curiosity to pursue, because I cannot stand with spending my time and effort for something not valuable I think, and I decrease the competency of self-believe. I’d like to say big thank you for Sam to make me wake up.
@zwill62 5 місяців тому
This 30mins is probably more useful than what I learned past year I need to stop wasting my time😂
@Omahaneb6 2 роки тому
Inspiring
@theempoleon78 4 роки тому
Could you link to a copy of their essays in the descriptions? Being able to read them would be really helpful.
@SuperKillaki 5 років тому
If you distill what he is saying it really is just try some stuff, stay healthy and use a mixture of data and your intuition to optimise your time. One cool way I keep the value of my time at the forefront of my thinking is I wrote a function that notifies me what every monetary expenditure I make is as function of my productive time. So if I spend $100 i get a notification saying “You spent 120mins to get that purchase” Seems to be making me second guess any frivolous spending + remind me my time is valuable.
@potowogreedo 5 років тому
You can apply the inverse to your free time. I value my free time more than double my hourly rate. This helps me cut out time-wasters like Facebook, Reddit etc. HN is the one website of that ilk where I can justify it as part of my 'explore/exploit' activities. The rest is just ideology, 'non-free time', creating value for a foreign corporation which optimises towards sustaining the last vestiges of my 'addiction mindset' leftover from cigs & alcohol & etc.
@Estrav.Krastvich 9 місяців тому
By the way, if you didn't read the whole Sam's blog yet, it could be very interesting thing to do.
@wonderit918 5 місяців тому
First 5 seconds, very contemporaneous.
@julianriise5618 3 роки тому
Sam Altman on Joe Rogan, has it been done? Can it be done??
@CosmonautCoding 3 роки тому
Sign me up
6 місяців тому
Now it has!
@octavioavila6548 2 місяці тому
Impossible
@seanflanagan8155 3 роки тому
The Call is to start with YC. That’s the path.
@Intelligenceisawesome Рік тому
💡20:11 Changing system leads to plasticity. Hence don't overcomplicate things. Change system slowly.
@i_youtube_ Рік тому
This guy is very inspiring. You should figure out how to apply Sam's mindset in your own way.
@Oscarnnanna 5 місяців тому
Sam the goat 🐐
@leonleon8715 2 місяці тому
I was 13 when Everquest came out. I would play/hardcore grind around 16-18 hours a day and then sleep for 12-14 hours. Some days I'd play for 30-36 hours straight and sleep for 16-18 hours straight. I never played less than 10 hours a day. My nights and days would flipflop and there were many instances when I'd stay up (keep gaming) for an extra 8-12 hours just to "reset my clock" (AKA be awake during the day). I did this for years. Once I spent 3 months straight doing this without going outside. This wasn't my introduction to gaming but it was my first grindy mmorpg. That level of intense gaming never went away. I've done this with a lot of games, I have over 40,000 hours in PC gaming. At work, I can basically do the same thing if nobody demotivates me. It's very easy for me to put 12-14 hours on the clock. I might not even eat, or drink water, sometimes I wont use the bathroom, I just get sucked in... I've had kidney stone problems because of this (not drinking water at all). But in order for me to be able to achieve that, I can't experience demotivation. Office politics, bad players, etc. will result in less than an hour of work a day with many many breaks...
@ChristianHedman 3 роки тому
Who is this guy and how did I not hear about him before UKposts algorithm presented this video to me? The way he thinks is beautiful
@alefalfa 8 місяців тому
There is no one I would trust more with opening the door to AGI than Sam
@skywalker1574 Рік тому
25:00 deferred life plan
@ericb.grynspan5452 10 місяців тому
Chapters please!
@swfh3542 5 місяців тому
GOAT....🔥
@jay4450 2 роки тому
My guy was flexing the whole time
@VineetSinha 5 місяців тому
"It's nice to be back" - Sam Altman, 2018, 2023, 2028...
@avatarhzh5035 5 років тому
If they wanted to make a Diablo II movie in 50 years time with the Necromancer as the main character, Sam Altman would be PERFECT for the role.
@TheAIEpiphany 11 місяців тому
I love the 0 BS silicon valley mentality, so refreshing
@zcanann 5 років тому
I'd love to see a conversation with a sleep scientist/expert . I don't have a specific person in mind. Your guests have said they needed wildly different things (4 hours of sleep, 8 hours, 9+ etc), I'm curious about the science of it -- lots of misinformation in the startup world around this
@ycombinator 5 років тому
Good idea! Thanks. -Craig
@aldig3935 5 років тому
7 hrs but it depends,theres a stage of sleep that one must not be disturb as its the real recovery period..if u woke up and grumpy and tired, its likely its at this stage.ill leave u something to research on.
@moarshath1868 4 роки тому
Its covered here, www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep
@jayaram.ramanarayanan 5 місяців тому
Crazy this starts with “Alright.. the return of Sam Altman..” 💀
@fergalhennessy775 5 місяців тому
11:42 bro lost his shirt 🤣🤣🤣
@akshaykamathb2788 10 місяців тому
15:49 rd "days r long, decades r short", it's a blog?
@Cristobal8605 5 місяців тому
The bromance is strong
@TheDavidlloydjones 5 років тому
Great video. In the old days, we were only able to read this stuff. With video now, we can see what modern business uniforms actually look like! I used to be surprised that people like Zuckerberg and Jobs, excuse me, that's Mark and Steve, could pay a thousand dollars for a T-shirt. Now I've come to my senses: I see it's the natural replacement for the $5,000 three-piece suit.
@adityasanthosh702 3 роки тому
What's wrong with $5,000 three-piece suits.
@TheDavidlloydjones 3 роки тому
@@adityasanthosh702 If you're a centi-billionaire hoping to become a trillionaire, I think the style is the $2,000 T-shirt with one's face firmly fixed in a sneer whenever you utter the phrase "the suits." I've never been to Stanford Junior Univesity, but isn't that what "Mark and Steve" learned there? Along with theft of other people's ideas, that is...
@adityasanthosh702 3 роки тому
@@TheDavidlloydjones Well, in a positive way, Those $2,000 T-shirts are way comfortable than those suits. Also they started as a normal people too. I am sure they won't look down upon Average Income Earners. Those Middle Class Employees are the ones they stand upon.
@TheDavidlloydjones 3 роки тому
@@adityasanthosh702 I dunno, Aditya. five years ago Zuckerberg was your usual hippy-dippy grad-school coding genius who'd just tripped over his first billion courtesy of Sand Hill Road. His politics were about what you'd expect from your normal average, jeans-and-T-shirt wearing, all-night coder: Kumbayah for immigration reform. Today he's a dominant monopolist with very sharp business elbows and a powerful machine that elected Donald Trump and is working to do it again. Middle-class employees? He relies on a handful of stock-option multi-millionaires as manages and his grunt labor is tens of thousands of underpaid Philippine women. There's no middle-class in that structure: it's wealthy but tractable overseers and peasant labor. His business uniform: same as that worn by another sharp and shady Master of the Universe, the famous invention-thief Steve Jobs. Oh-so-humble, those T-shirts.
@adityasanthosh702 3 роки тому
@@TheDavidlloydjones agree with the Monopoly and Anti Trust Laws.
@user-oc6dh2yp2w 5 місяців тому
Watching this video in November 2023.Sam is so much more mature now. Eslecially, acter the unfortunafe eposode with firing him from his post at OpenAI.
@ER-sv1np Рік тому
สร้าง และ บริหาร openAi ได้ยังไง?
@Khobalt664 Рік тому
6:34 I couldn't agree more. I was privileged enough to take 6 months off. I was able to check in on so much that I just took for granted and made so many decisions that resulted in a much better life.
@Estrav.Krastvich 11 місяців тому
Yeah, time is abilities.
@kebabmarley2505 5 років тому
Hanes t-shirts and Lacroix
@neo69121 5 років тому
so meta
@pradyumnaprusty38 Рік тому
What did he mention the two things that helped him understand risk? Poker and _____ ? Did he say "Big Iron Science and Engineering Projects in History"?
@Estrav.Krastvich 11 місяців тому
Angel investing I guess.
@shimkporku1814 5 років тому
10:47 Bill Gates played a lot of poker at Harvard as well.
@adamlee9347 5 років тому
Wow didn't know that
@Stock2003 5 місяців тому
What lecture is it referred to at 14:29
@karlk5801 8 місяців тому
18:29 "Basically all people, almost like 98% of people in the world will try to pull you back and say it seems a little bit too crazy, a little bit too out there, a little too ambitious."
@MarketingBabyCom 5 місяців тому
14:10 what’s the lecture he references?
@marcosalcantara8050 5 років тому
I always come to watch Sam talking when I loose one morning worth of code in a vagrant destroy
@luvpiggery 5 місяців тому
Compartmentalized maximalism is the best short path forward
@bulleshah2028 4 роки тому
Hollywood have Spider man... California have sam altman
@AbhikChakraborty1 3 місяці тому
33:36 what does this mean " intelligence is so highly rated that people seem oddly disconnected from their bodies" ?
@pjacefilms 2 місяці тому
Basically that computer nerds will neglect their bodies because working out isn’t a status symbol in Silicon Valley as much as being seen as smart is
@davetelekom443 5 місяців тому
It looks to me that this guy knows more about people, pyschology and be social, than tech itself
@timmyt1293 5 місяців тому
Uh yeah he's not a researcher, he's a business man. That's why he's ceo and not chief researcher.
@hl236 5 місяців тому
This is true for many of the world's most successful people.
@bidhanmajhi 5 років тому
Sama and jack ma, two guys always talk a lot of effective things that actually works in real life
@Pl15604 8 місяців тому
1:45 "playing status and power games" to him it feels ... "so fun"?! What the heck?!
@MarcusVini2023 2 місяці тому
Cadê a equipe?😮
@AlbertoRivas13 4 роки тому
Thats a fresh haircut bro
@archak737 5 місяців тому
Sam was going to say something deep after saying about seeds were planted at that time ( of break) and the interviewer interrupted 🤦 He later took Sam to what went wrong in break and why 🤦🤦 Focus on what came positive out of it what Sam wanted to say! Could have helped so many people!
@CindyLipscomb 6 місяців тому
hey
@mudman189 4 роки тому
Is that dark t shirt their uniform in their circle?
@aminuolawale1843 2 роки тому
26:34 , just ridiculed my masterplan :(
@anjalikhandelwal7129 7 місяців тому
What is the Heming lecture?
@jianghong6444 6 місяців тому
you and your research, you can find a copy of transcript.
@JaydenLawson 6 місяців тому
The Heming Lecture is a series of lectures organized by the Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT). These lectures feature eminent theorists discussing crucial issues in the field of International Relations
@hobo8610 5 років тому
The Thiel cut, eh
@apj5949 Рік тому
13:50🎉😢
@UnCanny_ 11 місяців тому
Damm ,this has only one Dis like , (Im using Vanced )
@ditonarendro2019 6 місяців тому
9:10 : how do you figure out what to commit to? Be brutality honest to yourself. It's hard. Because you usually anchor yourself to... 24:25 : balance between close and open your door. Sam Altman spend 10-15 hours/week to random stuff (most of them are rubbish, but when it works, it's very valuable. You can't cut it all totally, but if you're not willing to work hard, then you do have to just cut it down a lot
@seanflanagan8155 3 роки тому
We can build for Nono, and I can move to Apple later.
@user-ut5dk5us9d 6 місяців тому
Поверьте в успех моего стартапа. поданной мною в этом году как заявку:
@atharvadeshmukh3155 5 місяців тому
i do feel that the world moves too slow , enough time for us to work on a better product
@atharvadeshmukh3155 5 місяців тому
get into your own , know your actions , don't judge yourself on what people think about you , anytime you could prove them wrong , belive belive
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