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Scott he has a new book coming out called the what is it called the algebra happiness

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What's next for dating apps is trying to bridge that gap between the two-dimensional profile and the first date.

Ted Cruz...started to attack the curriculum at Georgetown Day. But it wasn't in the curriculum. It was on some website for resources. And of course his own school in Houston where his kids go had the same books on them. He kept holding up books about anti-racist babies.

And she has a new book called The Art of Power. We talked a little bit about that.

I had the, I had like a sort of aha moment where I thought I'm not doing great in a man's world. I'm doing great making it run well for them. I'm doing great propping it up.

If you play into that, if you consider other women a threat, if you think marginalized, if you think if you're a white woman like me and you think a black woman is even further marginalized than I am so I'm not going to help her, you are propping this all up.

And when you fight to make sure that you're paid what you are worth, that's going to help another woman down the line. And when you cut yourself, when you undersell yourself, that is devaluing all women.

And I think our fates are more linked than we ever appreciated. And that is, it's like you got to get at the root of that of feeling of acting like you are a visitor, which is why the book is called She Proclaims because we have to say this stuff out loud otherwise.

I accept as a white woman, my lot in life is way better than any black American. Right? I don't have the fears that they have. I don't have this, I haven't had to live that experience.

These books, you know, written by the, you know, these great reporters like Bender and and and Carol Anig and and Phil Rucker, they don't actually have that much on what Trump was actually doing

I remember John Kelly reportedly went out and bought the book by a bunch of psychiatrists saying he was a danger to the Constitution. The Case Against Donald Trump. And Kelly brought that.

That's the LinkedIn guy, right?

So like we're going to find out I think in 10 or 20 years when these documents are unsealed and either we become a lesser power or someone takes over Russia and things are unsealed. We're going to find out that these organizations have effectively become the most innovative act of the last 10 years has been the weaponization of these platforms that we financed for the use of governments that are one 17th the size of ours.

I think the conceit of the book was that it was about women and the conceit was to remind folks how Donald Trump was actually the losing-est president in the history of presidents.

And so it started as a way of saying, actually, we win in the courts a lot, and when we organize, we win at the ballot box a lot.

And then those Lock Her Up chants started to be directed at AOC and Christine Blasey Ford and any woman in a public space, E. Jean Carroll, who he wanted to lock up.

And so I think you're right. I think it started as a mechanism of just rhetorically expressing that women in public places should be investigated and incarcerated. And then weirdly post-Dobbs, it became true.

And so I think what I wanted to say in the book is that women remember that in their bones, that it wasn't so very long ago and for centuries, if not millennia, the power of law was used to do horrific violence to women.

Zadie Smith's stuff is always fantastic.

I wrote an article for the diplomat on this topic about, you know, disruptive technology and understanding the future trends, including artificial intelligence and the need... I brought in Isaac Asimov and the three rules.

Their life is turned upside down. They have to recover from a massive upheaval.

I made a declaration back then about staying active on national security, advocating for public service, accountability and demanding values based leadership.

I think there's a little bit of an irreverence that I guess I've always had.

Another one is having a sense of yourself and having a bit of a... Already having a moral compass as a background to build on.

One of the questions, when you talk about getting more people it's so funny, because right now I'm reading this book from Alvin Roth, remember him, The Nobel Prize in Economics? It's called Who Gets What and Why? It's all about, it's exactly what's that.

But when they do that like Bolton someone near Bolton's dropped this book which is like the president's liar and I was in the room and that's what the book is called. It's an astonishing situation we're in.

I have a bunch of resources and I point to other people. I mean, Weapons of Math Destruction was a great book.

As a reminder, this was a movie starring Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar for a role about Leanne Toohey, who brought homeless teenager Michael Orr into her family.

Orr, now former NFL player, is alleging that Toohey family never actually adopted him, instead put him into a conservatorship and exploited him for years.

The Toohey family's denying those claims, is making a few new claims of their own, even mentioning a shakedown for $15 million.

Michael Lewis seems to be backing, who wrote the book, The Blind Side, very well-known journalist, saying that nobody made money from this movie.

Well, it's a white savior complex. Yeah, exactly. But a lot.

Washington has gone through a big break, right? The country has gone through a big break. That's sort of the Donald Trump years.

And also there's a whole bunch of people who are trying to take advantage of this new frontier of Washington that's gone through this moment and they're searching for their own big breaks.

The place is broken. The people are broken. The politics is broken. Confidence is broken. Relationships are breaking.

It's a place that's just not really, you know, set up for this moment. And this moment meaning that Trump has broken everything, although maybe it was destined to break. Maybe it was that brittle that someone came along and this is who he is.

And the important part of that for me was to kind of get a sense of how people were acting in Washington in this moment. Trump was gone, but he was maybe on the rise. Biden was trying to make things normal again. But clearly nothing is ever going to be normal again.

When I started two years ago, I was just thinking about writing the book that I wanted to hand my younger self, the book I wish I could have read in eighth grade.

But what I really just wanted to do was write the book that I knew teachers and parents could use, especially young people.

I sold out my hometown, which was very humbling. 675 people in Northern Michigan wanted to have that conversation.

I taught eighth grade. I'm a dad, I wrote a completely age appropriate book.

The thing I want people to know, especially parents, is that I could have benefited from a 10-second conversation with them when I was younger if they sat me down and said, it's okay to be yourself.