"the following is a conversation with ryan schiller creator of librex an anonymous discussion feed for college communities starting at first with yale then the ivy leagues and now adding stanford and m..."

"let's start with the basics what is librex what are its founding story and finding principles and looking to the future what do you hope to achieve with librex sure let me break that down so what is l..."

"actually a really nice software that people should check out like a service uh it's using machine learning really nicely for podcast editing where you can it learns the voice of the speaker and it can..."

"librex so what uh what's the founding story what's the founding principles of librex sure so i was on campus as a freshman and i was talking to my friends many of them felt like it was hard to raise y..."

"so you've explored a bunch of different ideas you wrote a bunch of different stuff uh how did lee brooks come about it basically came to me that it had to be kind of a grassroots movement and it had t..."

"felt like we've created something special maybe a moment where you're proud of that this is a this is this has the potential to actually be the very uh implementation of the idea that i initially had ..."

"so what do you make of anonymity because it seems to be a fundamental aspect of the power of the app right but at the same time anonymity on the internet so it protects us right it gives us freedom to..."

"completely unanimous uh now in my all public interactions i try to be as real in every way possible like zero gap between private me and public me why exactly did you it seems like this is an intentio..."

"tell you actually why i didn't use the app very much uh so far is uh there's something really powerful about the way it's constructed which i felt like a bit of an outside because i don't know the com..."

"and then a lot of people connect in this way uh let me let me just take a small step into the technical i read somewhere enough it's true that uh one of the reasons you were rejected from ycy combinat..."

"yeah uh you've also kind of mentioned moderation which is really interesting so with this anonymity and this community i don't know if you've heard of the internet but there's trolls on the internet s..."

"so as a creator of this kind of community in place with anonymity and difficult conversations what what do you think about this touchy three words that people have been tossing around and politicizing..."

"but currently librex is small in the sense that it's just it's a small set of communities that i believe and you mentioned to me offline that by design you're scaling slowly carefully so how does libr..."

"not actually like that knowledgeable about the history of attempts of building social networks to solve the problem the year solving but i was made aware that there was an app app or at least a social..."

"as a small tangent let me ask you something about um parlor but it's less about parlor more about aws so aws removed parlor from his platform you know for whatever reasons doesn't really matter but th..."

"what do you think about this whole idea of safe spaces uh on college campuses because it feels like the the mission of librex is pushing back against the idea of safe spaces i think safe spaces are fi..."

"you mentioned mit is being added to librex has it already been added yes it was added um today today okay so let me ask this is exciting because um i don't know what your thoughts are about this but i..."

"you mentioned offline that you used to be into chess tell me about your journey through chess sure i was a very competitive tournament player growing up till about like 13. i got for the chess fans i ..."

"you're 20 21 21 21 uh so asking you for advice is uh is a little bit funny but uh but at the same time not because you've created a social network you've created a startup from nothing as we talked ab..."

"people love it uh when i ask about book recommendations in general of course your journey is just beginning but is there something that jumps out to you technical fiction philosophical sci-fi coloring..."

"which reminds me about the ridiculous question every once in a while ask about meaning and death so this this whole this whole ride ends you're at the beginning of the ride but it could end any day ac..."