Podcast Appearances
So, I mean, can I expand on that?
My wife is an avid reader.
And I get to benefit from that because she reads all the books and then she tells me like all the good ideas in it.
And I restate them like they're on my own idea.
Like I read the book.
I did have like a reading phase earlier on.
I think kind of helped help me understand like a lot of how the world works.
These are like boring recommendations, but I'm a big fan of a bunch of Taleb's work.
I think he's basically got like a couple of good ideas and it's maybe hard to read a whole book because the book is just one good idea inflated into a book.
But these are just fundamental true things about the universe that you can just see play out everywhere.
So a huge fan of stuff like skin in the game.
Obviously Black Swan is super popular.
A lot of this stuff that I found to be very influential on myself is the idea of emergent properties.
almost everything great in the world is came not through like top-down design it came through a bunch of smaller entities operating together randomly and then something kind of great comes out of that and that you see that whether it's in like robust software or like what makes a city great what makes a neighborhood walkable what makes like an organism like uh capable of surviving disease so this whole like bottom-up first top-down uh in terms of designing systems
There's a few books that talk about that.
Taleb is one of them.
And I feel like I see that everywhere.
Like once you kind of understand his ideas, you realize they kind of underpin the whole world.