Unlike Schopenhauer, you're an industrial philosopher, like an industrial designer.

Your philosophy is designed for the masses.

Like everybody else on Twitter, we're philosophizing for wide adoption.

People suggest you read the great books, read Aristotle and Littgenstein and all the supposedly

great philosophers.

I mean, I've read almost all that stuff.

And I've gotten very little value from it. Where I have gotten value is the philosophizing of people on Twitter, like you. Anybody who wants to read philosophy, I would just tell them to skip it and go read

David Deutsch.

You were not wrong. I can't stand any of the philosophers you talked about. I don't like Plato either.

Every other piece of philosophy I picked up and put down relatively quickly because they're just making

very obscure arguments over minuté and trying to come up with all-encompassing theories of the world.

Even Schopenhauer falls into

that trap. When he tries to talk to other philosophers, he's at its worst. When I like him is in his

shorter essays, that's where he almost writes like he's on Twitter. He would have dominated Twitter. He

has high density of ideas, very well thought through good minimal examples and analogies. You can pick it up and read one

paragraph and you're thinking for the next hour. I think of a better writer, a better thinker,

and a better judge of people and character thanks to what I read from him. Now, he's writing from

the early part of the 19th century. Whenever he wanders into topics that are scientific or medical or political,

he's obviously off-based. That stuff doesn't apply anymore. But when he's writing about human nature,

that is timeless. When it comes to anything about human nature, I say go read the Lindy books,

the older books, the ones that have survived the test of time. But if you want to develop specific

knowledge, get paid for it, do something useful,

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