Person

Noam Chomsky

Linguist at MIT. Mentioned in 2 episodes of Lenny’s Podcast, including the conversations with Tobi Lütke and Edwin Chen.

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Person

Noam Chomsky

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Linguist

Company

MIT

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Transcript mentions

  • … I went to MIT because it's obviously one of the best places for math and CS, but also because it's the home of Noam Chomsky. My dream in school was actually to find some underlying theory connecting all these different fields.

  • … is an awesome segue to the other theme that I wanted to spend some time on which is thinking from first principles, Elon is the classic example of that. Honestly, I think you're the other most classic example of that these days.