Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

If you're anything like you

you know, you know, tech Twitter obviously.

Also for me, English football Twitter, comedy and improv Twitter,

Wall Street Twitter, as I mentioned, and also for me, econ

Twitter. If you want the single best person in Economics Twitter to follow, it's Noah Smith,

Bloomberg's Economics Opinion Columnist.

If you want to follow him, it's at Noa Opinion, by the way.

If you want a great substack to sign up for, try Noopinion. Substack.com. The free article he shared this week is called

Triumph of the Hodlers. I hope I remember to link to it in the show notes because it's the

best summation I've read of what's going on with Bitcoin at the moment and also as you'll hear

he has a great new podcast with another economist I respect Brad DeLong link to

that hopefully also in the show notes Noah is just a smart smart guy. If he want a smart economics

angle to anything happening in the world right now, he's just the best.

I sat down with him to hash out some of the sort of tongue-and-cheek questions we've been asking obliquely lately,

like is, you know, remote work for real, is it the future, and is Silicon Valley, quote, over?

No, and I have been friendly on Twitter over the years,

occasionally doing dorky dams about obscure details about the Holy Roman Empire,

but this is the first time I met him, if you will. It's been a while

since I was sort of starstruck to interview someone, but here you go. The great Noah Smith.

All right, so let me bring up my notes here, start my timer. First, do you want to see rabbits though?

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