At the end of every podcast, i aske my guest, i'm going to make you the emperor of the world for one day. You can't kill anyone, you can't put anyone in a re education camp. But you can, you've seen the movieg inception, yo ye. The entire population of the world is going to be incepted with the two things you say into that microphone. Next day, they're going to wake up, they are going to think they thought of it themselves and pursue it with vigor.
Ben Hunt is the creator and primary author of Epsilon Theory, and co-founder and CIO at Second Foundation Partners. Epsilon Theory is a newsletter that examines markets through the lenses of game theory and history. Over 100,000 professional investors and allocators across 180 countries read Epsilon Theory for its fresh perspective and novel insights into market dynamics. You can follow Ben on Twitter at https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory and read Epsilon Theory here: https://www.epsilontheory.com/ Show Notes:
- Neurolinguistic hard reset
- Ben’s days at Harvard
- Why Klaus Schwab is a raccoon
- Human beings are social animals
- How language impacts and limits us
- The cost of the Metaverse
- How the nudging state is rewiring us
- Does narrative follow price, or is it the inverse?
- Traders respond to stories everyday
- How technology can fight the nudging state.
- NOAH: An ark of stories on the blockchain
Books Mentioned:
- The WEIRDest People in the World; by Joseph Henrich
- How the Irish Saved Civilization; by Thomas Cahill