Ep. 571: Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guests today are Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.

Soni is an American author and former managing editor of The Huffington Post. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his award-winning biography of Claude Shannon. Soni became the managing editor at The Huffington Post in January 2012. Previously he had worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company, as well as a speech writer at the office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Goodman is a political theorist joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and was previously a Mellon postdoctoral researcher at McGill University.

The topic is their book A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Information theory
Turning complex into simplicity
Complexity is the enemy
Bell Labs
How to deal with freedom in the work space
Short-term-ism in our economy
Dealing with critics and competitors

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.

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Transcript

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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 Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today, Jimmy Sonny, Rob Goodman.
0:37.2	One of those rare episodes where I get to have the co-authors of the same book on the show at the same time.
0:45.5	And where these two men decided to go, where Jimmy and Rob have gone, there has been a need for this for a long time.
0:55.8	The book, A Mind at Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.
1:02.3	That is no exaggeration.
1:04.3	He was a groundbreaking polymath, brilliant tinkerer, digital pioneer.
1:09.4	Just about everything that we use today traces back,
1:15.0	at least technology, traces back to Claude Shannon.
1:18.5	I give all the props to Jimmy and Rob for digging deep and bringing this very special man's
1:24.0	life story to my podcast.
1:27.0	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Jimmy Sonny at Rob Goodman.
1:38.9	So guys, today we were talking via Skype.
1:43.6	You know, it's pretty ubiquitous today.
1:45.3	Hey, you know, speak on Skype, send an email, whatever.
1:49.6	But there's one guy out there that none of us pay enough homage to.
1:55.4	It's the ground zero, the start of all this.
1:59.1	And you guys have put this wonderful book together. And I'm
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