Morgan Housel

Yeah, it was just a better story.

But you see that everywhere of just the person who can tell the best story.

This is why a lot of, the example I like to use is Bill Bryson, fantastic author, one of the greatest authors of our times, written some amazing books.

And my understanding is that if you are an academic historian, you know, if you're a Harvard historian, by and large, you don't like Bill Bryson because you consider him a pop historian is what they would call him.

And to me, pop historian just means you're a good writer.

It just means that you can communicate things better than the academics who are writing in the most dense, verbose language that nobody wants to read.

And so if you can, I think there's a lot of room in the world for people to take really good ideas from academics who have no communication ability and just explain them a little bit better.

You can move mountains doing that.

Both of us?

It's a great thing to do.

I mean, this is what the internet and social media has done so well is it's just turned a lot of things into a pure meritocracy.

It's so fucking egalitarian.

Nobody gives a shit where you went to school.

If you can tell a good story, you go straight to the top.

Now, that can be gamified, of course, on social media in a way that can be kind of nasty.

When people learn that the right way to get attention on X is to do this and say that and rage bait and whatnot, you can gamify that.

But still, it is 100,000 times more meritocratic than it was 20 years ago.

Yes, yeah, people, yeah.

That's good.

You want to make the other person feel good about themselves.