Open Book, Vibes, Cannabis
Podcast appearance + links and recommendations
You can now watch my recent conversation with Anthony Scarammuci on the Open Book Podcast with Anthony Scarammuci.
Links for Spotify and Apple Podcast.
From the archives:
The Bumble Founder's Prophecy for the Future of Dating and Romance. Some of your desires, especially in romance, resist categorization.
Links and recommendations:
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Forced Treatment of the Seriously Mental Ill Isn’t Racist by Carolyn D. Gorman
Household Instability in Childhood and the Risk of Depression by Laurie DeRose
The vibes-BASED international order by Alex Kaschuta
Humanity's Real Problem: Accelerating Evolutionary Mismatch by Mike Brooks
Maddened by articles in the New York Times by Paul Bloom
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Three interesting findings:
1. “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” If a child goes through puberty doing a lot of archery, or painting, or video games, or social media, it will cause lasting structural changes in the brain, especially if the activity is rewarding. (source: The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt).
2. Between 1995 to 2022, THC content in the average cannabis plant increased by 307 percent. Compared with nonusers, cannabis users faced an 11-fold increase in the risk of developing a psychotic disorder. (source).
3. A real exchange from 1973 (source):
Mao Zedong: "Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you 10 million. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burdens."
Kissinger: "It is such a novel proposition, we will have to study it."
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Thomas Sowell has written on A Conflict of Visions and The Vision of The Annointed, among others. Have you read any of his books, can you compare his Annointed Vision with your Luxury Beliefs?
I find his discussion more complete, so far, but your phrase much easier to repeat and explain, for describing pretty much the same thing.
Any plans to do a mutual interview with him? I hope so.
One for the AMA: given your positive experience of military service, would you be in favour of compulsory national service in some form? Or do you think it mostly benefits people from troubled backgrounds?