I'm inspired by your take on this. As a business owner I'm really impressed by this account taking, planning and revisions. I'm crazy busy and probably one of your less intelligent and/or less well-read listeners but I make up for it with absolute enthusiasm for the show! I'm constantly surprised by the shifting focuses, but I like them! I never expect to be surprised but somehow every single episode feels unexpected and gives me a broader perspective. Thank you so much!
I'd actually like less episodes like the Noah Smith one. I get the desire to pull back from specific issues and try to examine things within a wider frame. It's baked into the original concept for the show, after all. But it's rare that you have a Zeihan or a DiStefano worthy of the task who can combine wide-ranging knowledge of a field based on deep study with some epistemic humility about their conclusions. I found Smith to be intolerable and didn't even make it halfway through the episode. It was just dramatic, unsupported assertion after dramatic, unsupported assertion, jumping all over the map. It seems unlikely that someone could know that many things, much less with that much certainty. (Though I concede this may be a personal stylistic preference.)
I'd honestly be much more interested in hearing you both in a focused discussion episode that tried to tie together a year or a quarter of interviews into some big themes and conclusions as opposed to Marshall politely querying a professional take-haver. We hear less from Saagar anyway, so this is another way to make that easier for him. Just my two cents. Thanks again for all the work you put into this.
I'm inspired by your take on this. As a business owner I'm really impressed by this account taking, planning and revisions. I'm crazy busy and probably one of your less intelligent and/or less well-read listeners but I make up for it with absolute enthusiasm for the show! I'm constantly surprised by the shifting focuses, but I like them! I never expect to be surprised but somehow every single episode feels unexpected and gives me a broader perspective. Thank you so much!
I'd actually like less episodes like the Noah Smith one. I get the desire to pull back from specific issues and try to examine things within a wider frame. It's baked into the original concept for the show, after all. But it's rare that you have a Zeihan or a DiStefano worthy of the task who can combine wide-ranging knowledge of a field based on deep study with some epistemic humility about their conclusions. I found Smith to be intolerable and didn't even make it halfway through the episode. It was just dramatic, unsupported assertion after dramatic, unsupported assertion, jumping all over the map. It seems unlikely that someone could know that many things, much less with that much certainty. (Though I concede this may be a personal stylistic preference.)
I'd honestly be much more interested in hearing you both in a focused discussion episode that tried to tie together a year or a quarter of interviews into some big themes and conclusions as opposed to Marshall politely querying a professional take-haver. We hear less from Saagar anyway, so this is another way to make that easier for him. Just my two cents. Thanks again for all the work you put into this.