Jeson Lee on Ikigai, idle talent, and choosing good quests

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The Scaling Era

Oscar Hong

5 episodes

1 week ago

Sam Altman calls current AI infra buildout the “biggest joint industrial project in human history.” Across the world, companies are building infrastructure with urgency: big tech spending hundreds of billions on data centers, semiconductor fabs investing as much in new capacity, energy providers signing multi-gigawatt power contracts to power AI clusters. The Scaling Era tells the stories behind this buildout. We talk to chip designers, roboticists, data center operators, and founders across the value chain—the builders whose efforts determine whether AI scales or stalls.

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Jeson Lee on Ikigai, idle talent, and choosing good quests

The Scaling Era

30 minutes 16 seconds

1 year ago

Jeson Lee on Ikigai, idle talent, and choosing good quests

Jeson Lee is a repeat founder now building Savant (joinsavant.com), a program for technical talent to build frontier ideas. Joins us as we catch up and cover:

00:29 Growing up in Malaysia

02:31 Uber for propane gas?

05:59 Moving to Silicon Valley

08:04 Helpful concepts: the Zone of Genius, Ikigai, personality-market fit

15:38 Using writing to catch gaps in your own thinking & get feedback from others

17:53 Introducing Savant: An accelerator for technical talent

21:56 Why aren't the right people working on the right problems?

23:27 How will the world be different if Savant were to succeed?

25:59 One thing that has inspired us lately