It's so funny that any story about english life, i in this period, always boils down to the stupidity of the british ruling class. Thete i sir clements is such a familiar figure, this kind of arrogant, pig headed authority figure who thinks the who has a kind of abstract notion of the way things ought to be. Ye, to bring up the second sillicon valley analogy, there's a little bit of a of elizabeth holmes in aminson. It's faket you make it kind of thing, ye, except he made it. But but that idea of it, for someone who's attempting something incredibly that it may be necessary at some time to
We’ll be back in September with new episodes of Revisionist History. In the meantime, I got to sit down with my good friend and host of Cautionary Tales, Tim Harford.
We discuss his recent trilogy about the epic race between two explorers to the South Pole and all the challenges they encounter along the way. We draw parallels between the 1920s explorers and Silicon Valley startups, and of course, who of the two explorers we’d prefer to have dinner with. Enjoy!
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