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Jennifer Burns

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1621 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

So you're kind of calling on their sympathy by using number, reminding them that you're doing a hard thing. And then it's also reminding them that you're in this family with this code. And so you're you're signaling your membership and your closeness and your love really. And so it's, it's supposed to be an easy way to disagree without like breaking the relationship.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah. I think it's a really, a really neat aspect of their family life for sure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah. I think it's a really, a really neat aspect of their family life for sure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Yeah. I think it's a really, a really neat aspect of their family life for sure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

So he taught at the University of Chicago and he tended to teach for six months and then have six months off. And he spent the summers in New Hampshire or Vermont. Right near that border, they had two different houses. And that to him was the deep thinking time. And so when he's at Chicago, he's teaching, he's arguing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

So he taught at the University of Chicago and he tended to teach for six months and then have six months off. And he spent the summers in New Hampshire or Vermont. Right near that border, they had two different houses. And that to him was the deep thinking time. And so when he's at Chicago, he's teaching, he's arguing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

So he taught at the University of Chicago and he tended to teach for six months and then have six months off. And he spent the summers in New Hampshire or Vermont. Right near that border, they had two different houses. And that to him was the deep thinking time. And so when he's at Chicago, he's teaching, he's arguing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Some people love his teaching style, very much in charge, very much keeping students on their toes, confrontational. Others found it too much overwhelming, kind of shut them down intellectually, and they couldn't cope with it. And so I think it was kind of go time when he was teaching.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Some people love his teaching style, very much in charge, very much keeping students on their toes, confrontational. Others found it too much overwhelming, kind of shut them down intellectually, and they couldn't cope with it. And so I think it was kind of go time when he was teaching.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

Some people love his teaching style, very much in charge, very much keeping students on their toes, confrontational. Others found it too much overwhelming, kind of shut them down intellectually, and they couldn't cope with it. And so I think it was kind of go time when he was teaching.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

In that case, that was a lot of social time, interacting, talking, other professors, going out and giving papers, arguing with the people at Yale or Harvard. Then he would go and do these very deep dives over the summer. He would also regularly do these trips to New York to see Anna Schwartz, so his 12-year collaborator. Phone calls were really expensive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

In that case, that was a lot of social time, interacting, talking, other professors, going out and giving papers, arguing with the people at Yale or Harvard. Then he would go and do these very deep dives over the summer. He would also regularly do these trips to New York to see Anna Schwartz, so his 12-year collaborator. Phone calls were really expensive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

In that case, that was a lot of social time, interacting, talking, other professors, going out and giving papers, arguing with the people at Yale or Harvard. Then he would go and do these very deep dives over the summer. He would also regularly do these trips to New York to see Anna Schwartz, so his 12-year collaborator. Phone calls were really expensive.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

They did have quite an extensive correspondence, but then they would do these meetings. So he would basically come in at the beginning of the summer, going to Rahway, stop in New York, see Schwartz, and then again on the way back to Chicago. So you'd have these deep check-ins at that point. The other thing that happened is people would come visit him in New Hampshire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

They did have quite an extensive correspondence, but then they would do these meetings. So he would basically come in at the beginning of the summer, going to Rahway, stop in New York, see Schwartz, and then again on the way back to Chicago. So you'd have these deep check-ins at that point. The other thing that happened is people would come visit him in New Hampshire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

They did have quite an extensive correspondence, but then they would do these meetings. So he would basically come in at the beginning of the summer, going to Rahway, stop in New York, see Schwartz, and then again on the way back to Chicago. So you'd have these deep check-ins at that point. The other thing that happened is people would come visit him in New Hampshire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#457 โ€“ Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom

And so he would have these, he had a studio separate from the house. He would go and he would work. And then at night, his friends would come. His friends are all economists. There's a whole like cluster of economists. They all clustered within driving distance of the Dartmouth Library so that they could get their hands on books.