Stephen Dubner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I have archives from when I was a musician.
I have set lists from my band, like all of them, but I can't throw them away.
I was staring down those boxes one day in my office, faced with paralyzed dread.
And then I got a text from Steve Levitt, my co-author on Freakonomics.
And he said, happy 20th anniversary of publication.
It was the day.
And I didn't even remember the day.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know how he remembered, because he's not a sentimental guy.
So this is what I ended up writing the foreword about.
But honestly, what I'm feeling...
around this 20-year anniversary is what anybody feels as they get older.
Even you, you're young, but as you get older, you have such a different reckoning and appreciation for your own past and the past of other people.
Things mean more.
Life is cumulative.
It's not, I feel this way now instead of that.
It's like, I feel this and all of those other things too.
And in some ways, I think you get wiser.
I've really enjoyed that.
You get more experience.