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Astro Teller
Episode 237
Vocabulary
destigmatize (verb)
- Definition:
- make people see that something, like failure or asking for help, is not shameful
- Example from the episode:
- “If we just agreed we're gonna spend ninety plus percent of our time learning, then we need to destigmatize failure so we can have our learning loops be as tight as possible.”
- Example sentence:
- “We need to destigmatize making mistakes.”
guardrail (noun)
- Definition:
- a barrier at the side of a road or a rule that helps keep people or ideas safe
- Example from the episode:
- “So that's one way to help put some intellectual guardrails around what we're about to go do.”
- Example sentence:
- “We set guardrails to keep the game safe.”
audacious (adjective)
- Definition:
- very bold and willing to try new or risky things
- Example from the episode:
- “So the goal is actually to come up with these audacious ideas and strivings and then to as quickly as possible negate them.”
- Example sentence:
- “She had an audacious plan to build a robot.”
institutional knowledge (idiom)
- Definition:
- the knowledge, habits, and ways of working that people in an organization learn over time
- Example from the episode:
- “The truth is, some of it is just institutional knowledge, and that's sort of a background radiation that's very real at X.”
- Example sentence:
- “We need to write down institutional knowledge for future workers.”