Radical Personal Finance Podcast for today, Monday, August 25, 2014.

Thank you for being here, you awesome people, you.

I appreciate you listening.

I'm excited about today's show. Today's show is going to be an interview show.

What can we learn about personal finance from poker, startups, and PhDs in computer science.

I hope that tickles your interest.

Today's show is your interest.

Today's show is going to be an interview with a listener and this listener his name is

Daniel Bernstein and I'll tell you just a quick couple of tidbits on his story and

then which cut right to the interview. I'm excited for you to hear today's interview.

Daniel actually was a listener to the show and emailed me and said, hey dude, a big fan, thought I'd like you might like to know something about my story I really like

what you're doing and thought I'd tell you a little bit about my story so I said well

let's get you on the show and and let's tell your story and in his email he

he piqued my interest when he said, I did a PhD in computer science, worked in a startup, played professional poker, and then recently became financially independent and retired.

So this was a really, this was very interesting. recently became financially independent and retired.

So this was a really, this is very interesting to me, especially the poker angle.

And I've wanted to have somebody on the show who is a professional poker player.

I'm fascinated with the, and hopefully somebody

that actually knows what they're doing

and hopefully this person would actually

be someone who makes money at it.

But I'm fascinated with the mindset that would go into being a professional gambler.

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