Good or Bad: Privacy!

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In today's day and age, do you actually have privacy? And is it good, or is it bad to have privacy? In this episode, A.J. Jacobs and I are talking about the good and the bad about Privacy!Listen to the episode, tweet us at @jaltucher, and @ajjacobs, and tell us, what do you think about Olympics!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Good Or Bad with AT Jacobs and James Altiger.
0:07.1	This is the show where we take a big topic and we try to figure out whether it's good
0:11.5	for the world or bad for the world.
0:13.7	And this week's episode is privacy.
0:16.6	So privacy is it a fundamental right that is critically endangered by big tech and
0:22.9	big government and various other bigs?
0:25.9	Or is it an annoying vestige of past times?
0:30.3	Is it an excuse for scoundrels to do bad things and an impediment to progress?
0:36.2	Or perhaps a little bit of post?
0:39.1	So I was thinking though before this episode, you and I are kind of outliers because we
0:44.6	sort of give away our privacy more than your average Gen X or at least, maybe not your
0:51.4	millennials.
0:52.4	And you basically, I would say the, I always describe it as the AJ Jacobs technique.
0:59.0	So if you're going to write about, let's say, a topic like the Bible, many authors, you
1:04.3	know, analyze and theorize and philosophize about different texts in the Bible and they write
1:10.6	their book and no one reads it.
1:12.2	You on the other hand, you have this immersive technique where you take a topic and you don't
1:18.5	philosophize about it, you do it.
1:20.4	So you wrote the year of living Biblically where you actually live every single day by all
1:26.3	the tenets of the old testament and, you know, you then you document your life through
1:34.1	the book and you tell every, pretty much every aspect of what happens.
1:37.6	You're including, you know, your solutions when Julia, your wife is having a period and
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