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Comment by Cyph0n | Hacker News Reader

Best humble brag I’ve ever seen.

Doesn't strike me as a humble brag at all. He just seems self-aware about how he's motivated and that that he functions better when it's someone else's money on the line.

Oh, I understand the intention.

If you liked that you'll love the Lex Fridman interview.

I watched some clips from the interview, good stuff. I personally don’t like Lex’s interviewing style though, so I couldn’t watch the whole thing.

Glad I'm not the only one. I'm 90 minutes in and finding some of Lex's questions really bad. Especially "What is the best programming language?", but I'm also astonished that Lex doesn't seem to know what an x86 is, hasn't really heard of Pascal, and was incredulous that anyone could write a game in assembly language (but as Carmack points out, everyone in the 80s was writing games in assembly, BASIC just wasn't fast enough).

Maybe Lex was trying to dumb things down for a non-technical (or younger?) viewer, but it doesn't come across that way and just interrupts Carmack's flow. Carmack is excellent though.

Yeah, bad questions is one part of it. Lex also tends to interject with his own observations or anecdotes that end up interrupting the guest's flow. I'm tuning in because of the guest, not the host. In a guest-oriented format like this, I feel like the goal should be to get the guest to talk. It's just a personal preference for me, so YMMV.

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