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Ryan Schiller

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“Yes. And I think the details are so little that as humans, we are not capable of parsing even what they are. But I'll tell you my perspective on it, knowing that I am also a human with biases. In this particular case, very significant biases. Yeah. So I started building LibreX for its own merits. So as you said, the one difference between Yakyak is the geographical versus community-based aspect going along with that. Thing I realized by researching social media sites is that the majority of the negative content, the content that's Terrible in breaking all the rules is created by really, and the people who are not reformable, so to speak, the people who Not showing the best part of the human. It's a really small minority, right?”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got a lot of problems, content problems. But the content problems go deeper than maybe what the press would reveal. There's a lot to say, and part of it is parsing exactly. To talk about when it comes to IK. And when you talk about startups, I mean, you know this startups and you look at the postmortem, it's almost never what people think it is. And oftentimes these things are somewhat unknowable. And the degree to which people seeking confirmation bias to somebody, seeking closure. Look to find a singular attribute that caused the failure.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“100% crossed my mind. To some extent, this is something where I understand the college experience. I understand the need I've never worked at Google. I don't know if they would hire me. Hopefully maybe as a product manager. Think if there's a community that needs this product and has that will, which I think Especially as LibreX continues to grow and expand and change and learn. And because that's what we're doing is we're learning, right? With each community, it's not just about growing. It's about learning from each of these communities and iterating. I think it's quite likely there are going to be all sorts of communities that could use this tool to improve their Culture, so to speak.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's one difference that I think will help us. The other thing is that we're scaling intentionally, meaning that when we expand to a school, we have moderators in place. We have moderators who understand that school's environment in a very personal level. And we're growing responsibly. We're growing as we're ready, both technologically but also socially. As we think we have the tools to. Preserve the community and to encourage the community to create this sort of content that we want them to create.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At the same time, the goals of Librex are to create these positive communities and these open conversations where people can have real conversation and connection in their communities in a vulnerable and authentic way. And so to that end, which I imagine might be different than the goals of a Facebook, for example, one thing that we want to do is keep things intimate and community-based. So each school is its own community. And perhaps you could have a slightly broader community. Maybe you could have a, I know, the California system is an obvious one. Pac-Time might be an obvious one. And we can think about that. But fundamentally, the unit of community is your school or your school community.”
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“It's a long timeline. I'll say this gets back to like. Where did Facebook go wrong? Because clearly they did a lot right. We can only speculate about what the objectives were of the founders of Facebook. I'm sure they've said some things, but it's always interesting to know what the mythology is versus what the truth is of the matter. So perhaps they've been very successful. I mean, they've taken over the world to some extent.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a tremendous amount. I think when you think about the reasons people post, fundamentally people want to make a positive impact on their community to some degree. Now there will always be bad actors and part of the benefit of sort of our moderation structure is that we can limit some of those bad actors. Same time, the more you incentivize a certain type of behavior, the better it's going to be. And we don't see it as our role as the platform to force the community in a direction. And frankly, I don't think it would be good for anyone, the community or the conversations, if we forced a specific type of conversations. We just need to make the tools to allow people to be good. To incentivize good behavior.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He does seem to care. I've listened to him. I mean, he has a very particular way of saying things. But you get the impression that he's someone who actually cares about these things within the limits of his power.”
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“One thing that I think about a lot is how do you incentivize positive content creation? How do you incentivize? Really intellectual content creation. Something that frankly, you know. Think about every single day. And I think there are ways that One thing that's great about humans is that they can be incentivized, right? And I think there are ways that you can incentivize people to make the right kind of content if that's your goal.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the fact that people are so creative and so looking to, because people are genuinely interested in figuring out these things about social media. And so they'll 100% see like, where's the edge? And I mean, part of that's maintaining some level of vagueness in your rule set. Which has its own set of questions and something we could think about. And I'm not implying I have all the answers, but there is something really interesting about people being so engaged that they're looking to figure out where those edges and what does that mean? What does that edge mean”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's difficult, but what it comes down to is be specific. And when you think about what are sweeping statements against core addendum groups, right, oftentimes these are sort of hackneyed subjects. These are things that have been broached and Heard them before, they don't really lead anywhere productive. So it goes under this principle of be specific in the ideas you're discussing.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Racism Going back to the name of the app, Librex. Libre free X was support for free exchange and the free exchange of what? My purpose was to create as many as much inner communication of ideas, be them repugnant or otherwise as possible, and of course to do that within legal bounds and to do that without causing anyone to be harassed or doxed, so to keep things focused on the ideas, not the people. No BS crap, you know, stuff. And so to me, the easiest way to moderate around that, because as you said, figuring out what is hateful and what is hate speech is really hard was to say no sweeping statements against core identity groups. And that seems to work on the whole pretty well to be pretty light touch.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a tough one, right? There's a lot there. So I come from the background of being a math major. It's important to start with that. And I found myself. Middle of this question of freedom of speech. One uh one of the wonderful things is that the Librex community is filled with PhDs and governance majors who have taught me a ton about this sort of thing. And I'm still learning. I'm still growing. I'm still probably going to modify my perspective to some degree, hopefully. Don't worry. I imagine I'll always support free discourse”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can't pretend I know how to run a business that's going to have millions and millions of users. I expect that there are going to be a lot of amazing people who will teach me and that a lot of people who have already kind of stepped into my life and helped me out and taught me things. And I imagine that I'll learn so much more. I just know that moderation is always going to be important to me because I don't think Librex is Librex unless we have open discourse and moderation reasonable open light touch moderation is at the heart of creating that, right?”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the way, I'm 21 years old. Let's remind us everyone of that. If this thing Does scale, and if this thing Continues to be a positive force in a lot of people's lives. Who knows what will happen in the next? What I'll learn, I'm still growing definitely as a leader, still growing as a thinker, still growing as a person. I can't pretend that I know how to run a business that is worth up to billion dollars, whatever.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can never fully. I don't think I can fully ever abdicate that responsibility. I think that would be like, I mean, that would be like Bezos abdicating e-commerce, that's part of the job.”
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“And hopefully, I'll be able to just like you can hire a CTO. Hopefully I'll be able to be integrated in hiring people who understand the way that we are sort of operating and the reasonable standards of moderation. And there can be a sort of hierarchical structure. But I think when you have a product whose key purpose is to allow people to have these difficult conversations on campus that need to be had.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I see it, open discourse is fundamental to the purpose of the app, right? So as the, I guess you could say, founder, CEO, what have you, part of my purpose has to be to enforce the vision, right? And part of the vision is open discourse. And that does come down in part to reasonable moderation and community guided. So I imagine that will always be something that I'm intimately involved with to some degree. Now, the degree to which the way in which that manifests, I imagine, will have to change, right?”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And from there, we choose a set and they have the power to take down posts. Of course, everything at the end of the day pens my review, but they can take them down and we can reinstate them if it's a problem. But they can take down posts and they can advocate for different moderation standards and different moderation policies.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. So, how are the moderators chosen? The moderators are all volunteers, they're Librexers who reach out to me and respond to the opportunity to become moderator and the way they're chosen is basically we want to make sure that they're in tune with their community. We want to make sure they come from. Sort of understand what the commune is about, and then we ask them some questions about how they would deal with certain scenarios, ones that we've had in the past and we feel strongly about, and also ones that are a little more murky where we want to see that they're sort of thinking about these things in a critical way.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So the way I think about it is we have these principles. They're pretty simple and they're pretty easy to enforce. And then beyond the principles, we have a set of moderators moderate from every single Ivy League school, team of diverse moderators who enforce these principles, but not only enforce the principles, but kind of clue us in to what's happening in their community and how the real life context of their community translates to the Librex context of their community. Beyond that, We have conversation with them about the standards of the community and we're constantly talking about what needs to be further elucidated and what needs to be tweaked and we're in constant communication with the community now if you want me to get into the principles that underlie Lee Brexit's moderation policy.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These big freaking boxes and like, I don't, I could go on, but it was my genius design skills. I almost failed art class when I was in first grade, and I think I still have similar skills to my first grade self. It's gotten a lot better, and thanks to a lot of my friends who have, you know, sort of chipped in here and there.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we very quickly realized that user privacy was something that was not only a core value, but was something that users really cared about. And we added this functionality. It's just a button that says forget me. You press it Two clicks. It's not that hard. We just. Remove your email from the database.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, to be honest, it's quite simple. I mean, we talk about this platform, people are talking about their most intimate secrets, their political opinions. You know, how are they feeling about what's going on in their city, you know, during the summer? How are they feeling about the political cycle and also their mental health, their relationships? These are some of the most intimate thoughts that people were having point blank. I don't think it was ethical to pawn them off for a profit. I didn't think it was moral. I don't think I could sleep at night if that was what I was. Beliefs and secrets into a currency that I bought and sold. There's something very off about that.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Anyway, we have this anonymous direct message system where you can direct message the original poster of any post, the OP if you're a Redditor of any post. And that makes it really easy to meet up because once you guys are one-on-one, you can exchange a number. You can exchange a Snapchat. You can exchange an email. Probably not very often, but you could. And then that's how people meet up matching.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But what you mean by anonymous front-end w And the reason that we made that decision. Is because we wanted people to connect to ideas. Want people to connect to things in the moment. We don't want people to go, oh, I know this guy. He said this other thing. And we didn't want people to feel like they were at risk of being doxxed. So these are small communities, right? We talked about this. Everyone knows someone who knows you. And in 2021, it would not take much to be able to figure out who someone might be just through a couple of posts. So it was both safety and about the ideas in terms of not adding usernames.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are no usernames on Lib It's all just schools' names. So he made this post about coin collection. You got a direct message”
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“So I guess the sort of magic of it, and I was talking to a bunch of Harvard Librexers who I met off the app while I was in Boston. And every time they told me this is my favorite part of the app, this is what I love about the app. We have this matching system, which is an anonymous direct message that you can send to any poster. So like I was talking to this guy who he was really into coin collection and he met other people who are really into coin collection through a post. And what he would make a post about coin collection. And then someone would come to him and they'd be like, and they could direct message him anonymously, and it would just show them that it would just show him their school. And then they could just text chat totally anonymously, direct message if he accepted the anonymous request.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kind of need a similar context to be able to have productive conversations. So to me, it's really important that these groups, they share something in common, a really big lived experience, the Ivy League, or their school community, and they have a similar vocabulary. They have a similar background. They know what's happening in their community. And so having social media that is community connected to me was fundamental. Like you talk about anonymity. To me, community is the thing that when I think about LibreX, I think what makes it different, it's the fact that everyone knows what's going on. Everyone comes from a similar context and people can socialize in a way where they understand each other because they've been through use the word lived experience. They've been through so many of the same lived experiences.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One thing that was important to me is talking about social media as a concept, right? I think the way people socialize is very much context dependent. So we're talking about people understanding each other through language, through English. And these languages are constructed in a very nuanced way, in a very Sort of temperamental way, right?”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I mean, it's incredible. First of all, as an entrepreneur, the amount of stuff I learned from these people and when they reiterate and I hear that they got the message through the process, I mean, that's incredibly validating, but also, I mean, I think it's just important to be able to put a face to a brand, and especially a brand that's built on trust. Because fundamentally, the users are trusting us with some really important discussions and some really, and a movement to some degree. It's a community and a movement.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Something I realized really quickly, one of the lessons throughout the startup was that people don't totally connect to products as much as they connect to people. I mean, I don't know if much you spent on Librex. You've only been here the last couple weeks, like last week, but. I mean, I love the product, and one of the aspects of me loving the product is that I was super active and I've been super active. Throughout the entire time. And the amount of support I've received has made that very easy to do. From the community and the fact that I mean, so I came to Boston for this interview, right? I came to Boston. I got off the train. 5 30 p.m. I check Librex. Someone is writing Hey, I'm in Boston. Does anyone want to get dinner 30 minutes later, I'm getting dinner with them.”
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“Something I noticed, which was of the people you mentioned, those things have had ramifications in terms of letting things go too far get out of hand. And you wonder, it's an aspect of lying, right? You say one lie, goes to another lie, you push it down, doesn't matter. You can talk it out later, you can figure it out later, pretty soon. Duga, a pretty big hole. And I think if we look at Twitter and we look at Facebook, I think it goes without saying what sorts of holes have been dug because of perhaps because of a lack of honesty that goes all the way up to the leaders.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People have a natural tendency to be able to tell bullshit. And it makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, right? Exactly. Of all the things that we could evolve to be good at. Being able to detect honesty seems like one that would be particularly valuable, especially in the sorts of societies we developed into.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why exactly did you? It seems like this is an intentional mission. What made you want to sort of bridge that gap between the private sphere and public sphere? Because that's unique. I know a lot of intellectuals who would make a different decision.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a spectrum. It's not just Librex is anonymous, right? Because Librex isn't totally anonymous. Everyone's a verified Ivy League student. You know exactly what school everyone goes to. You only have one account per person at Yale, meaning if, I mean, what that amounts to is people have more of an ownership in the community and people know that they're connected and they have a common vernacular. So the anonymity is a scale and it's a tool.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And of course, there's this other side where people can sometimes break rules or say things that they wouldn't otherwise say that people don't always agree with or that people might find repugnant. And to an extent, these can facilitate great conversations. And on the other hand, we have to have moderation in place and we have to have community guidelines to make sure that the anonymity doesn't overwhelm the purpose, which is. That anonymity, first of all, anonymity is a tool in Librex. It was not the purpose of Librex, it is a way that we get towards these authentic conversations given our campus climate. And first of all, I would say.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, just to break that down a bit, I would say a lot of those same things about a place like Twitter where people are very unanonymous. Having said that, of course, there's a different sort of capacity people have when they're anonymous, right? In all different sorts of ways. So, what do I make of anonymity? I think it can be incredibly liberating and allow people to be incredibly vulnerable and to connect in different ways, both on politics. And there was a lot to talk about this year regarding politics and personally, being vulnerable, talking about relationships and mental health. Think it allows people to have a community that's not performative.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was powerful to me. Yeah, hearing someone, someone who should be feeling supported by this culture say. Actually, this is not doing anything for me. Like, this is not helping me. This is not where I feel at home.”
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“I remember this one really amazing comment from this. He was a Mexican international student who spoke out, and this post was super edgy, but yet it got hundreds and hundreds of upstops within the Yale community. It was a Yale community specific post. And we should point out that there's a school specific community now, and there's an All Ivy community. So this was specifically in the Yale community. And this was a little while ago, but it stuck with me this Mexican international student comes to Yale and he starts talking about his experience in the La Casa, which is the Mexican Latin X, as they would say, cultural center at Yale, and how he doesn't feel welcome there because he's Roman Catholic, basically, and international and how he doesn't feel like he fits with their agenda. And as a result, this place that's supposed to be home for him, he feels outcasted and feels more alone than he does.”
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“Like they've been waiting for it. You know, some people are more skeptical, but a lot of people were like, great, I'm excited to try this. I'm excited to meet people and connect. And I mean, the way Dharma is taken to it's incredible. Everything from professors writing poems during finals period to be like good luck in finals period, you're going to rise like a phoenix or whatever. To like, yeah, it's crazy. I heard about two women meeting on Librex and starting a finance club at Dartmouth to significant others, meaning there's an article recently written up at Yale as well about two queer women who met on Librex and started a relationship, which was pretty, it was pretty interesting to see people throwing parties pre-COVID. Yeah, it was just amazing to see how when you allow people to be vulnerable in social, they connect. People have this natural desire to connect.”
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“Exactly So all I do is I'm very factual. I said, and this is where I kind of ended up coining the kind of the line that I now used to say it because I said it so many times in those 24 hours. I just said it's an anonymous discussion feed for Dartmouth. And they're like, yes”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think people get it. You don't need to. What I've realized is you don't need to tell people why to try it. They know There's a hunger.”
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“He's like, you got to get out of here. And I then go to every single dorm door. I put a poster under every single dorm door advertising the app with a QR code. Walk around campus saying hi to everyone and telling them about the app. I go Introduce myself, say hi, and come download the app. It's exhausting days so many steps, so many crouching down to slip the poster under the dorm door. My legs were burning. But by the end of it, 24 hours later, I'm sitting on a bus and I'm just pressing the refresh button on the count creation panel. It's like going up by hundreds I'm like, oh my gosh Word of word is word.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know. Yeah, I found the limit. And I think Live Starf is about finding the limits. Maybe that's a little piece of advice socially.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Beautiful, oh my gosh, I could talk so much about I was blown away by Dhartmouth. I started wondering why I didn't apply. Legitimately between the people and the culture, it was a beautiful vacation. So I arrived there, no Uber, but eventually I call this guy who's like the only guy who can get you to Dartmouth and takes a couple hours, but we get there. I sleep on this guy's floor. I wake up. I ask him if there's any printing. He's like, oh, Dartmouth happens to have free printing in the copy room. I print out like 2,000 posters. Until the guy in the coffee room literally ghosts me is like, kid, I don't know what you're doing, but you need to get out of here.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yell is, well, Yale's in New Haven, which is a real city. It has Ubers, it has food, it has culture, has a nightclub even Like, we're talking about a real city. It's not New York. It's not Philadelphia where I'm from, but it's a city. New Hampshire is something very different”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he ended up today, he's still really close, he's a really close friend. But anyway, I take a train knowing nothing about this guy besides his first and last name, and I arrive, and Dartmouth is really, really remote, way more remote than you think, to the point where I'm like, he's like, he warned me he's a really hospitable guy. He warned me like, it's going to be hard to get to campus from the train station because it's really remote. And I'm like, I'm sure it's fine. I'll just get an Uber. There are no Ubers in Hanovers What do you think this is?”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Purposefully, I didn't want to defraud anyone, but I was purposefully non descriptive in my clothing. Yeah. No Yale stuff, no darkness stuff. Just blend in. I'll go back there. So, what happened was. This was like March of last year. So almost a year ago today. And I really wanted to see if we could go from sort of one campus to two campuses. So I didn't know anyone at Dharma's campus, but I kind of Had some cold emails, some warm ish emails. And I went to people and I was like, basically, can I sleep on your floor for two days during finals period? A lot of people who said, this is crazy. No one wants to download an app during finals period. A social after in finals period. But I email a few people and I was like, you know, can I sleep on your floor? And one of them was crazy enough to say, sure, come to my dorm. I have a nice floor.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, there's some crazy moments I could talk about sort of going to Dartmouth because it's one thing to get some traction at your school. People know you, and you know, it's your school, you know. It's another thing to go to another school and where no one knows you and sign up 90% of the campus overnight.”
2021-03-30 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source