They say, if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

The idea being that we only get better when we surround ourselves with people who are brighter,

more experienced, or more talented than we are.

My name is John Dick, and I'm never, ever in the wrong room.

At my company, Civic Science, the brightest minds in the world are studying people, culture, and I'm never, ever in the wrong room. At my company's civic science,

the brightest minds in the world are studying people, culture, and markets in revolutionary

new ways, providing glimpses into a future you've never seen before. Me? I drank my way

through a party school in college and only became an entrepreneur because I couldn't get a real

job doing anything else. I owe everything to a long list of colleagues,

mentors, and friends who made me better, or at least made me look better. So I started a podcast to

introduce you to some of the brilliant people I've encountered along the way. You'll meet

visionaries in business, technology, media, entertainment, even politics. They'll tell us how they see

the future and how they're making

it happen. But we'll also keep it real. You don't go through life with the last name Dick without

learning how to laugh at yourself. So we'll ask these incredibly successful people to share some of

their most embarrassing stories, their dumbest mistakes, and how they made them into the people they

are today. And we'll do all of that with data at the center of everything,

because the world has never been in greater need of truth.

And you can only get there with honest, objective, and reliable data,

which is what civic science is all about.

So please, subscribe to this show on your favorite podcast player.

Come listen to some of the smartest people I've ever met, and me, the dumbestomm Show. I'm David Frum, a staff writer at the Atlantic.

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