history

“I think at every point in history, there has been something, there have been two things, something that we were totally, 100% completely wrong about, and at the same time, a sense that we have figured everything out, and, you know, science, you know, we figure…”

“And history is almost never taught in business schools. It's all the live case studies. Or the case studies, you know, where the ending is known, and therefore implicitly, structurally looks predetermined.”

“They never go back. Nothing is going to go back. Like there, but history never goes back. Like when huge things happen, we don't go back. We go forward. And something new, something dies, and something new is born”

“What I find generally is if I don't understand something, I try to read backwards, and kind of the further back, back I read, the more universal themes I find, and the more things that I think are kind of remarkable and unique to our era actually turn out to b…”

“There is no history without inflation. It doesn't really exist. It's not really a thing.”