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I originally had...a town I spent most of my teenage years in was called Athol, Massachusetts. I'll give you one guess what everyone else in the state called us. Asshole. Butthole. That's right. Asshole, Massachusetts.

Dirtbag, Massachusetts was going to be the heart of every essay that I put into this book.

I was raised in an unhoused shelter run by the Catholic worker. And I really think if you look at my childhood on paper, you look at my whole life on paper, you would think those early years were the hardest, whereas they were actually the best years.

So I'm in the confessional, there's a metal lattice between me and the priest. All I know is that at the age of 12, I was confessing many different things, and none of them held this person's attention. They truly were just going through the motions.

And the priest sat up, and the priest was paying more attention. His ears were more alert. His breathing became heavier. And he started to ask for more details.

So Cara, this is the story people don't know about the opioid epidemic. Patrick wrote a great book on Purdue and the Sacklers, but it's so much bigger than that.

They were like the Mexican cartels, but instead of guns, they had lobbyists and lawyers and business suits.

And they actually helped write a law that undercuts the DEA and our government, the people who were supposed to protect us from highly addictive pain pills, the companies undercut them by getting a law passed that basically defangs the DEA.

just like Doritos. Keep eating, we'll make more.

But what they're really angry about, yes, there's money that's being paid, they're angry that no executive of these Fortune 500 companies has gone to jail for this crime.

His recent book, The Missing Crypto Queen, The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con, and The Woman Who Got Away With It is out now. It's a fascinating book. I can't wait for the movie, let's just say.

Jamie's new book, The Missing Crypto Queen, the billion dollar cryptocurrency con, and the woman who got away with it is out now. I suggest everybody read it. It's a really, it's a gripping tale.

This book is better than I thought.

I loved hearing about it at the time and I love the book, it's fantastic.

And one of the things I interviewed Nick Kristof today and Frank Smyth, who wrote the NRA book.

The Frank Smyth was really interesting. Who's written a history of NRA?

COVID itself was insanely creative as a biological organism it was just novel enough to catch on and flummox our immune system and just a like with what we have inside our bodies to become a mass market success as evil as it was

Intellect is not the same as creativity the research will bear out first of all, IQ not the same as intellect but just for the purposes of research that's where a lot of it is IQ between 100 and 120 seems to be sufficient to be wildly creative over 145, 147 it actually seems to go down

Necessity is the mother invention I don't agree with that I think authenticity is the grandparent of invention and necessity is a subset of that

the prepared mind is one who understands the field but the permission I'm talking about is not an act of willpower and I think those aha moments are a function of subconscious dots collecting and you recognizing them and then secondarily you run those ideas over the analytical part of your brain the prefrontal cortex and they get assessed by based on their validity

Substances actually are not affiliated and I can tell you as someone who gets into that flow state a lot it's not necessary it is a short-term crutch but there are better ways at it

by the book Everywhere Babies it's wonderful they love to censor they're the censor people

She looks at the double-edged sword of public shaming, how it can help improve society but also how businesses, governments and social media exploit shame to increase profits and other cruel ends.

I wrote a book called Weapons of Math Destruction.

And yeah, so I was researching actually the way shame came up for me was that I was researching that book. I was talking to teachers who had been fired with an algorithm that nobody could explain to them.

Justice is a picture book. It's been received very well. I didn't draw the pictures. We have a wonderful illustrator, Sue Carnellus, and who did it and it's basically an introduction to very young people to courageous figures who advanced the cause of justice, you know, in modern times in America and also in in other ages in other parts of the world. We have Malala, you saw it, we have Gandhi, we have John Lewis, we have Nelson Mandela, we have so many.

I don't know if everyone knows the name Elizabeth Eckford. Yeah, she was the young Black girl who was the first to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. And this is iconic photo.

So I picked a title for my book. It's called Adrift america and 100 charts

Fulfillment by Alec.

Oh, I definitely haven't read that nor do I understand that.

Norwegian Wood, what the fuck is going on here?

Isaiah Jackson, of course wrote Bitcoin in Black America and he has a show, A Co-host of the Gentleman of Crypto, I kinda like that.

He wrote this great book called Howe and has been incredibly successful, great guy, married for 25 years to wonderful kids.

So I think we're at a really interesting moment and an inflection point here and the way that I've been thinking about it lately what I think is powerful about it is for years knowledge workers wanted more flex, have wanted more flexibility.

And so they were denied a lot of that flexibility for years. And now we have a situation where we were all forced into this experiment.

The negative is you just work all the time.

One of the big things too is if you like long term, it is such a benefit for companies to have their employees, you know, happier or feel like they have more of that flexibility in their lives. It's just kind of ridiculous to me that people don't see the long-term value of employees not being miserable all the time at work.

My big piece of advice is that whatever you were doing the last two years that's not the future of flexible work.

He revealed some of his tips on investing rather than trading in his new book, Nothing But Net.

In this book, what I tried to do is do... I go to investors and I say, look, you want to minimize two risks when you're investing in public markets. Valuation risk and fundamentals risk.

The book is called Nothing But Net, of course. Good book. The launch is today.

What I wanted to do was kind of document all of those changes for better and for worse.

Books themselves have stayed around.

And I think one of the reasons is that books can be the antidote to a lot of the inattentions and distractions of the internet.

Remember, like before you left someone's house, you had them write down directions and then you had to put the directions like on the seat next to you if, if you didn't have someone holding them.

Those kinds of challenges to go to put a backpack on and go traveling in China for six weeks by yourself and not even be able to make a phone call because you didn't have a phone card.