Lex Solo #3 – In Memory of My Grandmother

Lex Fridman records this solo episode days after learning that his grandmother died in Moscow at 91, soon to be 92. Lacking finished words, he decides to speak about the lessons she taught him: how to be strong, wise, compassionate and loving, and that he could do anything he set his mind to.

at any moment, life can end.

He begins with a plain instruction to listeners to tell friends, family and loved ones that they love them, then explains that he could not write a tribute and instead has only disparate notes to talk from.

The first lesson is to be mentally strong and never to complain, and he says her life tested it. She was born and raised near Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city close to Russia, and survived in childhood the famine of 1932–1933 that Stalin inflicted on his own people, in which millions died.