Oz Veloshian

There's never been good news.

It's always been if it bleeds, it leads.

But the ecosystem of social media certainly is much more friendly to those who are much more binary and much more extreme in the moment.

And I strive for trying to be, hence the edgy part,

That there is an urgency to making sure we look at what's working and challenging people to do that in their own work.

It's interesting, you wrote a, I'm not sure it was an obituary per se, but a kind of semi-obituary of Paul Ehrlich.

Yes.

You know, it wasn't exactly ding-dong, the witch is dead.

There was no ad hominem element of it, but there was a sense in which here's somebody who was totally wrong and got very famous for being a doomer.

What made you want to kind of mark his passing?

I think it was important in that the world of the commentariat is a world without consequence.

Everyone can say something on Monday, be proven completely wrong on Friday, say I said all along something that is completely opposite to what they did, and there's zero accountability.

And that's just the way it is.

There's hardly any accountability in any walk of life these days.

So I think it's important to call people to account, myself included.

I've had people...

email me with things I've written and said, do you still think this?

And let's say 80% of the time the answer is yes, and 20% of the time the answer is yeah, no, I got that one wrong, or I anticipated something in a way that it didn't happen.

Ehrlich is just so famously, profoundly, unbelievably wrong, and over decades, and never stepped back and said, yeah, well, maybe I got this one a little wrong.

I mean, he...