Tom Wood show, episode 2166.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

Today I want to run you through something that I think you'll find valuable.

This is an article that Michael Males recommended to me

that's from 2004, and he recommended it a number of years ago when he was on the Tom Wood show.

He mentioned it in passing, and then I forgot about it.

And then recently it came to mind and I read it myself,

and I thought, okay, I see why Michael likes this.

I see why he would say this was influential in his own thinking.

I see a bit of Males throughout this thing.

And it's a piece called What You Can't Say by a guy named Paul Graham.

And if you go to his bio, the first sentence of his bio is simply,

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