There is so much baked into these things that we take for granted. And to me, one of the challenges right now s it's not just that we take them for granted, we flat out criticise them. I tried to find the people that made those decisions and try to get them to get as excited 20 years later as they were then. But i am cinated by elon musk because i just watch kind of in awe of his ability at persuasion. In my opinion, i cannot imagine how many elon haters are going to put when this goes off, on like twitter or in the comets, for our home infinite loops page.
Jimmy Soni is an author whose work focuses on people who create and build interesting things—whether theories, carousels, or companies. His books include “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”, “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age”, and more! You can follow Jimmy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jimmyasoni and go through his work on https://jimmysoni.com/ Show Notes:
- The joy of curiosity
- How memes spread
- The Great Reshuffle
- How internet changed the publishing industry
- Parallels between early days of PayPal and Bitcoin
- Money as an information system
- Appreciating the micro-level decisions
- Three new things about Elon
- The Elon Effect
- How the PayPal founders brought the best out of people
- The unknown names who were critical to PayPal
- Claude Shannon’s financial decisions
- Wealth is a byproduct of the devotion to the craft
Books Mentioned:
- The Founders; by Jimmy Soni
- A Mind at Play; by Jimmy Soni
- Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
- The Sovereign Individual; by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- What Works on Wall Street; Jim O'Shaughnessy