Brendan Greeley

An Internet mob made me get a dog because my daughter did something cute.

She was begging for a dog.

And then I woke up the next morning and I put it on Twitter.

I made the mistake of putting this on Twitter seven years ago.

I woke up the next morning and J.K.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, so the dog's name is J.K.

Growling.

So I'm in this room alone with J.K.

Growling the dog sitting on the floor and I begin to have ideas.

The problem is if you have ideas alone in a room, one of two things is true.

You're onto something or you're insane.

And I got worried that I didn't know what I was doing.

And around the same time, I got invited by Seth Rockman, he's a historian of early America at Brown, to a conference about the history of money.

I literally did not know that there were historians who studied money.

And I loved what they did.

They were reading all the same things that I was reading.

They were worried and they were curious about all the same things that I was curious about.

They were dealing with the same questions.

And I told a bunch of PhDs, this is amazing.