472 - Eric Weinstein: How to Question the World Around You & Find Your Core Theories (Part 2)
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
4.6 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.4 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:12.4 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.2 | You're managing director of a big DC fun slash hedge fund. |
| 0:20.8 | So we're going to talk about our hair. |
| 0:22.8 | What do you do during the day other than brushing your hair? |
| 0:26.4 | It depends. Sometimes I'm working on physics, sometimes I'm thinking about markets and |
| 0:33.2 | contributing in our research group. Sometimes I'm listening to somebody |
| 0:40.8 | talking about a company or we're trying to think about where we might |
| 0:44.8 | take the philanthropic arm. But I don't get a chance to talk too much about Peter |
| 0:50.4 | Teal and I consider him not only my employer but he's an amazing friend, an amazing human |
| 0:56.1 | being and a great teacher. What's a couple of your takeaways from interacting with? |
| 1:01.3 | Part of the problem you see the reason I don't talk about Peter almost at all is |
| 1:04.9 | that the news media created a fictional character called Peter Teal. |
| 1:10.5 | And the two of them are totally different. The real Peter Teal and the fictional |
| 1:13.6 | Peter Teal aren't the same person. So every time I talk about the real Peter Teal, |
| 1:17.6 | people imagine that I'm talking about a vampire who lives on a seastead, |
| 1:22.1 | off of New Zealand drinking the blood of virgins to stay young and I've just never met that person. |
| 1:27.5 | They figured out a very effective gambit for trying to silence his insights. |
| 1:32.0 | But I'll give you one insight that I think was really particularly good. |
| 1:41.7 | So let's take this to the you know you coined the phrase the intellectual dark web. |
| 1:46.6 | You felt free to express opinions among the select group of friends and colleagues you chose |
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