#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs
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The following is a conversation with Mark Cuban, a multi-billionaire businessman, investor and star of the series Shark Tank, longtime principal owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and is someone who is unafraid to get into frequent battles on X, most recently over topics of DEI, wokeism, gender, and identity politics with the likes of Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got listening for, well, listening to things like research papers, Cloak for protecting your personal information, Notion for taking notes and collaborating on those notes with your team, Eight Sleep for naps, and Shopify for shopping or creating shops on the internets. Choose wisely, my friends.
Also, if you want to work with our amazing team where I was hiring, or if you just want to get in touch with me, go to lexfriedman.com slash contact. And now onto the full ad reads. Never any ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you must skip them, please do check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by listening. an app, a website that allows you to listen to academic papers, listen to a bunch of stuff. I think you can listen to emails, to websites, all of that. I haven't tried that aspect of it. I should, probably, to listen to emails. I wonder how that would work. They have a Chrome extension, but I don't think it's through the Chrome extension.
Anyway, the way I use it, and I think the original use case, which I think is awesome, is listening to research papers. And this includes super, super technical papers or more narrative-driven philosophical papers. For example, you can take the Turing paper on the Turing test. Obviously, the paper title is not the Turing test. I think it's called Computing Machinery and Intelligence. And of course, you can go to super technical papers, and I use it for that as well. I often do the following. I'll print out the paper, because the haptic feedback of a sheet of paper is really powerful for me. So I'll take notes on that with a highlighter and with a pen. I will also take notes on a PDF, and I will also listen to it over and over and over.
So for me, the process of reading an academic paper is one that requires returning to it over and over and over again, unless I'm doing a quick skim. So for skimming, I can look at the PDF and quickly skim and then listen to certain parts that I find useful. So sometimes related work is really powerful because it summarizes in a nice way where the field stands. I'll listen to that. Sometimes the abstract is good to listen to. Sometimes the abstract introduction related work jump into the conclusion. If there's a methods in the paper, you listen to that. Anyway. I will basically use the listening function while I'm walking over to get some coffee or I'm on a run, and I'll listen to different parts of a paper to get a sense of what that paper contains and the main idea and so on that can build on. Or, as I said, to review a thing I've already returned to many, many, many times. And I have a large number of favorite papers that I've returned to many times.
It's super easy to upload a paper. They have really nice AI voices that pronounce stuff well. And also just at the sentence paragraph level, the kind of narration style they have. is really, really nice. And obviously, SAI improves. They will keep improving. So jump on board now and enjoy this whole process. I highly recommend it. Normally, you would get a two-week free trial, but listeners of this very podcast get one month free. So go to listening.com slash Lex. That's listening.com slash Lex. This episode is also brought to you by Cloaked. As I mentioned last time, it's a thing that I always thought and hoped would exist, and now I know it exists, and it is awesome. It's a platform that lets you generate a new email and a new phone number every time you sign up for a website, so you can hide your actual email and your actual phone number from the world.
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