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"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Is It Necessary to Engage in Deception at the Outset?

Sir clements is such a familiar figure, this kind of arrogant, pig headed authority figure. But the interesting thing for me about amonson is that he also has these certain bureaucratic constraints. It's so funny that any story about english life in this period always boils down to the stupidity of the british ruling class. And i think amanson had this very clear vision that it would all be forgiven if he succeeded. E to bring up the second silicon valley analogy at te,. little bit of a of elizabeth holmes in aminson, it's faketi you make it kind of thing, except he made it.

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