My guess today is John Green, he's the author of The Fault in Our Stars, which began as

a novel for young adults and ended up a cultural phenomenon.

And he also, with his brother Hank, created the Educational YouTube Channel Crash Course,

which has grown to an incredible 13 million subscribers.

If there's one thing I've learned after 30 years of being on the internet is that I have

absolutely no idea what the future looks like.

Welcome to People I Mostly Admire, with Steve Levin.

One of the perks of having teenage kids is that it gives you an excuse as a grown man

to read young adults' fiction without people thinking you're strange, so I've secretly

been a fan of John Green for a while.

But when I stumbled on his latest book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, I was shocked to

discover that it was an unfiction, actually meant for adults.

I bought it, I went home, and I immediately started reading it.

I could not believe how good it was.

I put it down, grabbed my phone, and I fired off an email inviting John to come on the

podcast.

Then I picked the book back up, and I finished it that very same day.

People I know often asked me, who my next guest will be on this podcast?

This is a way of making conversation, and when I tell them, they typically say something

like, oh, who's that?

Or, yeah, I've heard of that person.

So a few days ago, I was waiting for a meeting to start at my little center at the University

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