Today you'll hear the audio from my event in DC with Andrew Sullivan and David From.

I love the event, I love the conversation, but here are the two mistakes I think I made.

The first is I brought politics to DC, which was a totally natural thing for me to do.

When I go to a city, I'm first trying to find local guests, so I was to spare people the

hassle of traveling, and in DC it's quite natural to think of people in politics, and having

speakers of the caliber of David From and Andrew Sullivan there, it was natural to grab

them.

But the reality is, if there's any city in the world that would have loved to have me

avoid politics altogether and talk to a physicist or a biologist, it has to be DC, and honestly

that hadn't occurred to me until after the fact.

So I should have taken David and Andrew to some of the city, and that would have made

much more sense for the local audience.

But also as you'll hear, David and Andrew are people with so much to say that I found

myself moderating a conversation between them largely, which again was totally natural

for me to do and felt fine at the time because I was interested to hear what both of them

had to say.

But in the aftermath I realized that most of the people who came out that night came to

see me.

In fact, most of the tickets to the event had sold before I had even announced who my guests

would be.

So from the perspective of someone who came out to hear me talk, that person got short

changed.

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