"I hate waste. And it just seems like there's all of this unnecessary waste happening where people are leaving value on the table," he says. "And so in the name of efficiency almost, I'm driven to show people, no, you don't have to make that sacrifice."
Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.