David Rosenthal
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Appearances Over Time
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At the end of the thing I just finished, it's not like it's a great book, but I think it's so short.
And it's something that is speaking to our moment in our, especially how I govern ourselves.
It's, I always mispronounce his name, it's Vannevar Bush.
Who essentially created the American Science Project.
And it's a little, it's a basic, I think he started it as a memo to FDR, then FDR died, and it ended up being a memo to Terry Truman about what America could do if the government, in the right way, got behind science.
He was saying, look, what we did with the Manhattan Project, we can do with biology, we can do with the other hard sciences.
He was describing not a top-down approach, not like the government is going to just decide.
We're going to fund it and let the scientists figure out what they need to work on.
That was the big insight.
So those are two books.
He's a great explainer.
I had a chocolate-related story, and I flipped through it, and I didn't ever have time to read the whole thing.
But yes, I know the book.
Well, this is a layup.
Your podcast is the big addition to my rotation.
It started in July and I've listened to, I don't know, 10 of them or something.