Ep. 1236: Andrew McAfee Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies how digital technologies are changing the world. Throughout his career, McAfee has written and co-written several books on digital technology and related topics. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences.

The topic is The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Geek way mindset
Evolution of technology
Successful geek-driven companies
Challenges faced by geeks in different industries
Netflix and its success
Quality vs quantity in content production
Opportunity and challenges faced by streaming platforms

Jump in!

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Cobell, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.3	That's my passion.
0:33.6	My guest today is Andrew McAfee, Andy McAfee, as he likes to go by.
0:38.5	We are talking his new book, The Geek Way, the radical mindset that drives extraordinary results.
0:46.3	Andy happens to have a cool perch up there at that fine university, MIT, the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, or is it Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
0:56.3	I'm not sure.
0:57.3	Anyways, MIT, we all know it.
1:00.2	This geek way mindset is it.
1:03.3	It's the way I live my life.
1:04.9	It might be the way you live your life.
1:07.4	It might not be the way your neighbor lives his life. But guess what? Over time, the geek way is going to win.
1:15.1	No doubt. Without any further delay from me, let's jump right into my conversation today with Andy McAfee.
1:21.6	I hope you enjoy.
1:34.0	Andy, let's dive in here, and I'll give a little bit of a setup.
1:40.5	I'm a guy who had no tech background, political science major, George Mason University, but I saw Netscape go public in the summer of 95, and I was like, uh-oh, game on.
1:46.9	And I've been playing around with the email, probably starting in mid-1994.
1:51.5	But I was like, oh, I need to get a website up for the content that I'm involved in this
1:54.5	trading content and whatnot.
1:56.5	And it was a race.
1:57.3	It was like, I got to get something on.
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