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798 - COVID, Innovation, and Optimism with Matt Ridley
The James Altucher Show
The Rational Optimist
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The rational optimist totally changed my way of looking at the world and the evolution of everything. It's that wonderful phrase that dan dennet used, natural selection. Once you sort of got your head round it, it's like universal acid. And i do find that I just sort of see things through a different lens now. We're still not living up to our standards in most countries yet. You know, europe is having a fourth wave - all this miserable thing we can't seem to shake off. But with respect to the pandemic: yes, this has been a very uncomfortable and painful kind of global hit but as far back as 10 or 15 years ago there was no
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