#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life – Lex Fridman Podcast

#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life – Lex Fridman Podcast — Transcript

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Lex: The following is a conversation with Peter Levels, also known on x as Levels IO. He is a self taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities, programming on a laptop while chilling on a couch, using vanilla HTML, jQuery, PHP, and the SQL lite. He builds and ships quickly and improves on the fly, all in the open, documenting his work, both his successes and failures with a raw honesty of a t

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I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store. I recently tweeted about my belief as it stands now that Kamala Harris is not a communist and that Donald Trump is not a fascist. And there's some other nuance in that tweet.

And the response I got, the attacks I got from both sides that are very intense, that disagree, were fascinating. So one of the things I have on my to do list is to do a lengthy video and a lengthy podcast on communism and fascism and other economic and political systems. You know, there needs to be a good solid criticism and explanation of capitalism, for example. It's an economic system. It's a way for humans to work together that has, I believe, benefited the world way more than it has hurt the world.

But to articulate that and to steal man the criticisms and the perspectives that criticize capitalism is also really important. And so the same applies for communism, for fascism, for all kinds of ideologies that rule the world for a time and all the kinds of ways that they've broken down and to do so seriously, objectively, calmly, walking through the fire without the misuse of those words, Thinking clearly, not as a partisan, but as an independent thinker, as a human being. I think that's something that I would like to, work on more and more even amidst this insane political season. Anyway,

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