Morgan Housel

And that's another where I'm reading and I have to remind myself that he made all this up.

Wasn't there a thing that, I think many years ago, they made a version of the Harry Potter books that had adult covers on them?

Correct.

Because adult doesn't want to hold a book that has a cartoon cover on it.

So they made it just a... And I think you could do that with some of those rom-com books or like those... I was proudly reading The Housemaid by Freda McFadden.

I was brandishing it to be, I'm reading the film, you read it, it's really lovely.

I wonder what the twist is going to be.

I mean, so many of those are just, they're just amazing storytellers and they just, they keep you up.

So I'm sure if, if Freda McFadden wrote a John Grisham novel about, you know, or like, like a crime novel or a legal thriller, like it'd be amazing.

I think if you did that, I don't know if it would go both ways.

I think if you had...

jk rowling if you told her to write a non-fiction like hey jk rowling write uh write a thousand word article about what's going on in gaza whatever it might be uh it'd be amazing but i think if you asked michael lewis or malcolm gladwell to write a fiction it'd be much harder to make that work the street goes in one direction because the storytelling is more compelling than the other way around all of you guys you george mack who's you know knee deep in his current bucket the

Yeah, you're just trying to tell stories.

So much of that in finance is important because 99% of financial media is...

is A, a lecture, and B, incredibly boring if it's formulaic.

And that's the vast majority of personal finance books.

It's a lecture.

You're doing it wrong, you idiot.

And here's a really boring formula that looks like an algebra equation of how you can fix it.

And nobody wants to read that.