Are You a Riskoverse Person?

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Ay, thanks for being here. Two more questions next over here. Ah, something that surprised me about what you just said earlier in the conversation was that you feel you're a very riskoverse person. Can you expand on that? Well, i'm a product of one of the greatest welfare states in the history of welfare states, canada, nd sevens. I have come from y home with two happily married people who were, you know, the sweetest, kindest, o most non threatening parents of all time. And then i got out of college and was almost immediately given a job by a very, very well healed fortune 500 company wherei cosseted

Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”

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