Patrick O'Shaughnessy

I love your rule of seven in research too, that if you just keep pushing for seven levels, you will ultimately hit bedrock.

Like it's hard to go deeper than seven levels.

Did collecting all of this advice change your mind or change you in any material ways?

I'd love to spend a minute or two just having the benefit of having you on the call to ask about your conception of technology.

Before reading this book, like I said, I'd been preparing this for a long time because I read all your other books about

your notion of the technium has been very influential on me and how I think about how I spend my time and how I invest and everything else.

How do you think about the history of technology and the stock of, you call it the technium, the stock of technology that exists in the world and why that's such a natural extension of human beings?

Wonderful.

idea.

Do you think that if you were to draw the timeline of technology, it seems like we've harnessed information with the printing press, we've sort of harnessed energy with oil and fossil fuels, and that maybe we're about to harness intelligence with AI.

Is that a clean progression and is it fair to put AI on the same scale as those other two?

Is there anything else that you think is over or underestimated about what's happening in this technological change?

One of the things that I remember distinctly from my teenage years was my two favorite magazines, which were probably Maxim and Wired.

My two burgeoning interests as a teenager.

And you've also created so many interesting other forms of content, whether that's photography, whether that's books.

What do you think explains the best?

I guess I'll just call it content media.

What do you think unites the very best things that you've created and that you've appreciated that others have created?

When you were running Wired, and Wired obviously was like the expression of your taste and personality, what practices or what did you do to protect that?

It seems incredibly desirable in any publication that it's like the taste of the person magnified or something.