Modern Wisdom

I have a new book out called Not the End of the World where I discuss all of this.

There's a business book called Only the Paranoid Survive, I think.

Yeah, there you go.

I wrote a book called No Med Capitalist.

The no mr. Nice guy was just so fucking like very very very incisive

There's a book that where a girl lives many different versions of her life and... Midnight Library.

Okay, there's a Conan Doyle piece.

I actually funny enough, one of the, I think one of the sources of my creativity was obsessively reading Sherlock Holmes short stories as a fairly young kid.

I would even go as far as to say like a bit of like a religious kind of attitude towards it like I I think of John McWorders book Woke Racism and and the idea that um this is kind of supplanting this like this ideology in a in a post faith world is oftentimes occupying that same part of the the human psyche I would say um but also it's so institutionalized at these colleges as well I think that even even if not every professor agrees with it certainly the administrators are extremely disproportionately left wing or left leaning and when I was at NYU for example we on the back of our AT cards it says here's 9-1-1 here's the phone number for the campus police which you probably could theoretically need in New York City at any point in time and here's the the student health center and all these emergency numbers and then also the bias response hotline where you could call if you felt aggrieved or offended by something that someone said and it's literally an institutionalized snitch culture on these campuses and it was literally on the back of the bathroom stalls too they'd have like posters of like has something happened to you call the bias response hotline and you're you know immediately on the phone with an administrator so I you're walking on eggshells and even if it is just a small percentage of kids who will hiss or who will call you any sort of easterism or a foe at any any opportunity just one kid doing that is enough to shut an entire class down I believe and I I saw it firsthand yeah it's a very effective leverage one person that has that what's that panopticon it's kind of like the panopticon right that you have one person that's able to be in the middle and manipulate an awful lot of people around them's opinions and the fear it's a race to the bottom in that regard like whoever has the most the highest purity level is the one whose opinion is is going to continue to be pushed forward

Ivan Elitsch writes beautifully about this in Gender, which I strongly recommend as a book if you're interested in the deep history of the relations between the sexes

You probably want some good books to read that are going to be easy and enjoyable and not bore you and make you feel despondent at the fact that you can only get through half a page without bowing out

Interestingly, I I read the Michael Lewis book and I went here's a guy who is just really odd and Who you know, it's it's so interesting. Like it's so easy to twist Sam Bankman freed and Say, you know, he's this horrible guy and all this stuff But like so much of what he was doing was like giving huge amounts of money away to charity Like who does that if they're like a true psychopath that wants to do bad things and defraud people again I mean he broke the law he Maybe he should be in jail. I don't know. I you know, I don't necessarily I don't know him and I don't have any Major opinions there but it is an odd thing like to hear somebody was committing fraud to give money to charity That's bizarre You know, that's like the I can't criticize that You know as much as I can someone who's running a Ponzi scheme to go buy a hundred Ferraris

So I had a really interesting conversation once with the author, Michael Lewis, um, of Moneyball and the Blind Side and the Big Short.

So I had a really interesting conversation once with the author, Michael Lewis, um, of Moneyball and the Blind Side and The Big Short.

I just finished Going Infinite the book about FTX and even if yes there are parts like many other people where I thought he was being unfair and supporting SPF and I didn't agree with but his storytelling is so good his sentence structure is so good his writing is so poetic that I will read it all day long no matter what it comes out with

Adam Smith imagined it in The Wealth of Nations wasn't what we have now. He wrote about a customerfocused, employeefocused capitalism.

We... read... Moby Dick.

Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan because he had to flee the English civil war.

You can learn a lot more in my book, Attention Span.

Anna Karenina