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So somebody I respect who has passed along good insights to me an email before.

We've never met, but he sent me a long email the other day after my Gerald Salente podcast.

If you've not listened to my Gerald Salente podcast, even if you have heard of Gerald, have an opinion of Gerald, listen to my 30 minutes of Gerald.

So this reader writes me and he says, quote, so I listened to Gerald Salente's podcast interview

during which there was a segment in which he almost went off the cliff in anger and discussed that the geopolitical, economic, and social state of affairs we witness in today's world.

Lack of passionate viewpoint is not something he can be accused of.

You were particularly quiet yourself, he's talking about me, at that point,

graciously affording him the space to articulate in full where he was coming from.

I'm curious what reactions you might have received from listeners.

Thing is, how he was feeling, what he shares resonates.

If one is of the glass half full tribe, as I wish to be,

maybe even harboring affinity for Kurzweil's singularity moment of arrival.

We're also on the cusp of some remarkable innovations in exciting times.

There's a silver lining on the horizon.

Yet something is awry.

It feels as if we're just spinning our wheels like a hamster.

Lots of activity, but no real progress.

We read familiar sources. He's talking to me. Tom Friedman, Seth Godin, Nassim Taleb, Neil Ferguson,

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