Steve Levitt
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962 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Steve Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he had very self-consciously left out any characters.
It wasn't like he didn't know he did it.
But I don't think any interviewer had ever brought that up.
And so when I did that, I felt a complete change in his attitude.
And we ended up having a really amazing open conversation.
I think that's the most downloaded episode that we've ever had was that one.
He surprised me because honestly, before I interviewed him, I wondered whether he wasn't
Fraud's too strong a word, but like a faker.
There are these public intellectuals who have written a book.
It contains everything they know.
Yeah, or you get exactly the same thing over and over.
He really surprised me because every time I asked him a question and I had read everything he had written and I had watched every interview, he would give a novel answer that was just really, really smart, like the examples you just gave, that I would stop in my tracks and say, wow, that's really right.
Now, I don't ever like to say bad things about people, but should I make one exception just for contrast?
Because I had interviewed Jared Diamond before I had talked to
And Jared Diamond, I think, fell more into that other camp where I felt like if you had read his books, then when you talk to him, he would tap into chapter seven, page 38, and he would just da-da-da-da-da-da.
And it was really interesting to me the difference in the way those two, who ostensibly are the same person in a public sense.
Their books have a lot of similarities, and yet talking to them was a completely different experience.
No.
It was interesting for me to see it.
I've always cared a lot more about process than outcome.
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