Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal and I'm here today with Chris Dixon, a general partner on A6 and Z Crypto, and Stephen B. Johnson, who is the author of many books, including where good ideas come from, the PBS series, How We Got to Now, a book on Play called Wonderland, and his latest book is F-sighted, which is how we make the decisions

that matter the most. So welcome. Thank you for having me. Could you start just telling us a little bit

about the book? Yeah, this is a book that has been a long time in the making, which is appropriate

for a book about long-term decision-making. It had a long incubation period. One of the things that occurred to me that

got me interested in this topic is that there had been a lot of material written, both in terms

of academic studies, but also in terms of kind of popular books. But a disproportionate amount of

that was focused on people making gut decisions or instinctual decisions.

Just like thinking fast and slow.

Also, Blank is like that.

It is amazing the amount of processing and all the heuristics we have for making short-term

instinctual decisions.

But the decisions that really matter the most are slow decisions,

are decisions that have a much longer, both time span

in terms of how much time you spend deliberating them

and then also the time span of their consequences.

And I got interested in what the kind of the science is

and some of the art in a way behind those kinds of decisions. Actually,

the book partially starts with the great excerpt in Charles Darwin's diaries where he's trying

to decide whether to get married. And it's a beautiful list where he's like, okay, against getting

married, I'll give up the clever conversation with men in clubs.

My favorite against marriage was less money for books, et cetera.

Yeah, yeah.

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