This is the reason interview with Nick Gillespie. Please rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast

and share it with someone you think will find it interesting. My guest today is Jim O'Shaughnessy.

He's a superstar investor in VC who heads up O'Shaughnessy Ventures and hosts the wonderful

Infinite Loops podcast. He's also the co-author of the excellent new collection,

Two Thoughts, which pulls together provocative quotes from figures ranging from Sam Adams to Ludwig

von Mises to Frank Zappa. That's A to Z and everything in between, as you can notice.

We talk about the power of free minds and free markets to improve the world, why societies

thrive or perish, and how to build a better bullshit detector in an age of information overload.

And we discussed what went wrong during Joe Biden's presidency, especially related to COVID

and AI policy, and what might go right under

Donald Trump's second term, especially and really only if special interests are kept at

bay.

Here is the Reason interview with Jim O'Shaughnessy.

Jim O'Shaughnessy, thanks for talking to Reason.

Hey, thanks for having me, Nick.

So the book, the new book is Two Thoughts, A Timeless Collection of Infinite Wisdom that you wrote with Votsol Kowshik. I hope I'm pronouncing that kind of right. This is an incredible

collection of wisdom from people all over the place. You break them down into the two categories,

which I have written down and now can't find in front of me. Sorry, they are.

The two main categories you talk about in the introduction are thinkers and

provers.

Is that it?

That's a separate essay that I did, I think, in 2020.

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