How to come up with good ideas | Jim Keller and Lex Fridman

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Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, previously at AMD, Apple, Tesla, Intel, and now Tenstorrent.
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[@296jacqi]

“You’re not along for the ride. You ARE the ride.” I almost forgot.

[@alaricgoldkuhl155]

Add this quote to "The thinker is also a thought." and you might just have a recipe for enlightenment. Well spotted Michelle.

[@alaricgoldkuhl155]

@Arbane's Sword Not manners dude. At least put a saddle on her first.

[@catsteinhilb2880]

“You need to learn the language of your mind” spoken like a true engineer 👏🏻

[@BenSultanMusic]

So true. This was well put!

[@HalilKarad]

Is it just meditation that helps this? I am not too sure what is meant by this.

[@BenSultanMusic]

@@HalilKarad it is being in tune with your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing the way you learn/think. Like are you a visual learner or auditory learner? Do you work best in tense situations or relaxed? Etc

[@HalilKarad]

@@BenSultanMusic OK I'm starting to get it. Quick question, so when one acknowledges a weakness, so e.g I don't perform well in tense situations, can this line of thinking/meditation help me become more capable in those scenarios? Or is the idea to keep away from my weaknesses? I am probably asking this because the existence of my weaknesses do bother me quite a bit in an egotistical way. In my mind, I want to be the level headed hero archetype.

[@HalilKarad]

Also, is there a good test for which type of learning suits me best?

[@Jack-2day]

“Let it breathe, let it soak, & then put it to practice “ Sage advice

[@alaricgoldkuhl155]

Jim Keller you are a legend! Here's a bloke who sure, woke up one day with a mind possessed of great intellect, but he's done the work to explore it, determine its strengths and weaknesses and tweak his thinking with meta-cognition to both optimize it and create the brain he wants to work with. Few people ever exercise such deliberate control over their thinking processes. We are as a species very fortunate to count you as one of our number Jim. Thanks mate for all of your work and thoughts.

[@beyondthehorizon1474]

Tnx m8 4d gr8 eg of how2write well. God bless

[@alaricgoldkuhl155]

@@beyondthehorizon1474 yw

[@scottparker3323]

I totally dig the way the clip intro...enjoy the interesting interviews.

[@JEEPINJUSTIN]

Understanding is more important than memory.

[@fullmetalflix5195]

Being able to do both would be the ideal situation. I personally rely on the former due to a below average memory.

[@abeidiot]

Having both is infinitely more valuable. That's why 'searching the web' has become so ubiquitous with research and engineering

[@JEEPINJUSTIN]

As an civil engineer, I need to remember many things over a wide variety of subjects. I don't often performed the same calculations over and over again. You need to understand the problem to know what questions to ask to form a solution. Visualize how it will work. Rely on references you previously used but may not remember perfectly.

[@shreeyatyagi]

Wow that's some great clarity

[@muhammedcagrkartal9954]

man you saved me when ı wanted to have meaninful and mattering talks with people but could not find anyone to talk with thank you brother

[@Mindbombable]

Great conversation on visualizations Lex! I ask people what their internal "calendar" looks like. This one varies a lot.

[@monotheist7583]

Ideas and thoughts become good and more useful/practical by constant learning from your past, anticipating the future while considering the situation/problem in hand. And of course respected those dedicated people who become the source of guidance and learning for others.

[@letthewindcome]

'you need to learn the language of your own mind' incominggg...

[@RedHeroe1]

it fuck me up !!

[@jaysonscott187]

I resonate a lot with these guests. YOU DEFINITELY GOTTA LET IT SIMMER A BIT. IVE BEEN DOING THIS GUITAR and music theory

[@Colombia20102018]

What? This guy's brother in law is Jordan Peterson? Awesome

[@im_aleey]

Wait for real?

[@chriswible1365]

PSU EE for life 🤝

[@WayneStakem]

03:11 I get that too...It's like the ideas present themselves to me out of nowhere on their own accord. Sometimes they're triggered by something external or internal and other times they are not triggered. It's like they just embedded themselves into my mind. I guess that's just bottom up processes of the brain... I don't visualise and I'm terrible with numbers. When I do come up with an idea it is initiated by a bottom up synthesis where I see the bigger picture but the details are blurred. The difficult part is the top down analysis. That requires great effort. Whereas the ideas kind of just all come to me one by one over an extended period of time as they please without any deliberate prompting from me. Although I don't prompt them it seems that the top down thinking certainly creates this perpetual reemergence of the problem in a bottom up manner later on. For me, the synthesis part seems to involve a lot of systems thinking intuition and the association of ideas. But the association is often very abstract or subtle and difficult to explain... but tangible in some way. Sometimes it's a concept which has already been written about in the academic literature which I am unfamiliar with until I begin researching but I can already see. I just see the bigger picture and don't know how to explain it until hindsight. Now I'm just riding that wave so to speak. It is quite validating and empowering when all the parts start to come together and you realise you were really onto something big...

[@journeytothevoid2899]

Thanks for writing this. I am facing the same issue here. I'm 25 now but I struggled with math in college trying to obtain my physics degree. I graduated but my GPA suffered and I know I was not respected as an intellectual by my peers or faculty at my college. I still and trying to figure out the methods in which I can retain and process information to problem solve better. I played football in college and I think the hits and contact overall did not serve my brain processing due to the type of sport. Currently I can't help but have the feeling that I am failing upward... I got a new job (Plant Engineer) about 6 months ago but it is clear that the engineers on the team are much more capable than me. My problem solving and processing is slower than the rest at the moment and I can't create solid ideas. I know this sounds like a lack of confidence but I know when I am doing well and I know when I'm struggling. For the last 7 years life has felt like a struggle due to my inability to learn new things. I hope you see this and if you have any feed back that would be great.

[@mtribe3442]

Jim just became one of my favorites because of this segment. I listened to the first half of his episode and understood little of the details but it kind of made sense. Point blank on the process of mind though

[@fullmetalflix5195]

I was never one of those people who could cram the night before. My mind operates in a manner similar to the guest. As an engineering major, I felt that being tasked with learning so many concepts in such a short duration was done purposely to weed out those who could not handle the pace. I adapted by changing my approach of learning, honestly learning how to learn effectively from the top students in my classes. A very humbling experience

[@sw3tfilth207]

Best tips for learning how to learn

[@FsimulatorX]

Wow! I'm presently adopting a similar strategy: slow but consistent and deliberate learning approach, as I'm taking four math classes at my university. Please share how it went for you and what tips/advice you have based on your experience. Thanks!

[@moonsitter1375]

I had a problem a while back, thought about it a lot then forgot about it. 5 years later the solution just jumped into my head.

[@FsimulatorX]

Was that the proof for the Riemann Hypothesis? XD

[@cifey]

I have plenty of source material, still waiting...

[@Colombia20102018]

Listening to music

[@zp7126]

I work a lot. Alot of hand work. I'm not smart. But what he just talked about sleeping on the floor. It is why I sleep on the floor

[@llstarlight]

i have had dreams as line drawings

[@genedalefield]

I practice coming up with ideas, and if I don't see a picture of something that satisfies me immediately, I store it rather than forcing more out and eventually a few years down the line I come up with a way to complete it. If I'm talking, it's immediate, but I consider my best ideas to be products of years of experiments. When you're trying to make something linear, start immediately, if its a lateral thought, sit with it. Turning a lateral thought experiment into a linear process is not my strong suit though. I get too stuck into wanting to lateralize again. The world seems to like linear processing more, whereas being lateral seems far more interesting, and let's you make entirely new things, but arguing to linear people to start along a new linear vertical which you've achieved laterally seems like it would be difficult the first time, but a piece of cake after that.

[@genedalefield]

By lateral thinking I mean width not depth, relating thing from different domains. Whereas linear is moving along a single domain. I probably over emphasis lateral thought, but I enjoy it so whatever. I hope others can make great depths from my thoughts.

[@Nathan-no3gu]

"My goal was always to get it in" @0:49 - Mr.Jim Keller

[@DrakeMonroe]

Your best ideas will come when they come, just like love. Walk in good faith and it will come. 40s, baby ur young.

[@kennylo850]

Conscience

[@tomlawton5116]

Both my parents are good visualisers, both drawers/painters, and I'm just bizarrely bad. I see a dark, hazy, gap filled outline of the volcano that flashes in and out of my vision. Not easy.

[@Krock1969]

Did Jim write any books?

[@SkoolNerds]

THIS FUCKING GUY IS GREAT. I watched him stoned the other night and it was great, but its equally good sober

[@krissykatportal]

Feeding the algorithm

[@VGLV888]

☑️✅

[@adelinaquijano1083]

I mean I watch podcast

[@ivanbarbosa81]

two brilliant Intelects

[@maksxperia02]

how dare those four give them dislikes))))

[@DrakeMonroe]

Unconsciously seeding the future in anticipation for moves you haven't made yet, isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[@h.smeenk1273]

Si - Ni

[@sageandcross3713]

🙏🙏🙏🤙😘

[@lineupcomedy]

Open book bro?

[@suhomelands8259]

You can see this guy’s skull

[@joeangell7409]

This guy thinks he’s Adam Eget or something.

[@rexlincoln2046]

This guy is part nephilim