This week, we converse with Michael Lewis. We focus on Season 3 of his podcast Towards the Guidelines. We additionally delve into the thirtieth anniversary of Liar’s Poker: Rising By means of the Wreckage on Wall Road, and his new audio recording of the e-book. He’s additionally the creator of Undoing Undertaking, Moneyball, Flashboys, The Massive Quick, and so many others.
Now, 30 years post-publication, the audio rights to Liar’s Poker reverted again to Lewis. He recorded an entire, uncut audio model of Liar’s Poker himself together with a companion podcast.
We focus on how troublesome it was for him to reread Liar’s Poker for the primary time because it was revealed in 1989. His first e-book reveals a brand new author who has not fairly discovered his voice but however nonetheless resonates with readers as genuine and insightful. He observes that what he thought was humorous when writing seems to fall flat now, however the characters and story find yourself being (unintentionally) hilarious.
He additionally explains why experience has change into devalued, regardless of ongoing enhancements in practically each subject. Experience has change into probabilistic and data-based when individuals desire extra squishy narratives. The desire is for assured, daring certainty reasonably than nuanced chance and doubt, to the detriment of the lay observer.
An inventory of his present studying is right here; A transcript of our dialog is out there Monday.
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Make sure to take a look at our Masters in Enterprise subsequent week with Alex Guervich of Hon Te Advisors, a discretionary international macro hedge fund. Beforehand, Guervich ran JP Morgans’s macro e-book. In 2020, Hon Te was ranked 2nd in web return, and a high 10 rising supervisor. He’s the creator of The Subsequent Excellent Commerce and most lately, The Trades of March 2020.
Michael Lewis’ present studying