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WiM025 - Laws of Power with Ben Askren

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Power Dynamics in Physics

Ben Affleck: I think maybe we could try to like, define power a little bit a in context of e, i guess, this bookd and the world more generally. The traditionally accepted definition is leverage you have over another group of people. And then there's the actual physics definition of power, which is the capacity for work over time. So it's like force over distance over time. He says he came from a boo collar family; his parents didn't talk about this type of thing.

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