It's Wednesday, May 6, 2026 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

I like the abundance agenda a lot.

I like the abundance book, too, just not as much as the big idea of the agenda itself.

And also, I got to say not as much as the book by Mark Dunkelman,

why nothing works. Duncankelman was a guest of the gist, as were Klein and Derek Thompson,

who wrote Abundance, weren't. That didn't really play a big role in my choosing what I like

and what I don't like. But recently, I was listening to Klein and Thompson and Dunkleman on an episode of

Klein's podcast, and they were talking about what their books got right and what their

books missed. Some good stuff there, two-hour conversation, a lot of good stuff there.

But I got fixated, not just on the points they made, but how they made the points.

Klein and Thompson are very eloquent guys.

They're smart, really super kind of off-puttingly smart.

And they do speak with great fluidity.

But there is something about the words they sometimes use that I think might strike

an audience as more admirable than engaging,

something to marvel at rather than connect to, more Cicero than Pericles. And to some, I got to think,

the words might be a bit confusing. So there are a couple of words that I just think are too smart, too smart to allow

to come out of my mouth. One such word, reify. And I started getting said a lot a few years ago.

It doesn't do anything for me. I'm not a huge fan of orthogonal. I've used it a couple of times.

I've got friends who use it well. I understand. I'd rather say

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