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How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
- ▶ 18:02 Dr. Giulia Enders It's written in wonderful, like, British language where it's like, you know, uh, smooth and soft like a snail or something.
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 36:09 Bill Gurley And once again, these other countries, which include UK, Australia, India, China, Argentina, they've all done this, but we never did it.
The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
- ▶ 1:44:17 Shane Parrish British journalist Simon Winchester visited the Olsen factory years later and could not help comparing it to the empty shipyards of his own country. 4 times in the scene
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 20:01 Shane Parrish Britain was the opposite. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 Shane Parrish In 1968, they started shipping fries from Florenceville following the same sequence that had worked in Britain and Europe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:03 Shane Parrish It took years of patient diplomatic work by other executives to rebuild that relationship, particularly the British team who had already won the McDonald's account in the UK, but slowly trust was repaired.
- ▶ 32:37 Shane Parrish He saw that Britain had no frozen fries and shipped them over.
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 23:29 Morgan Housel And as housing becomes more unaffordable all over the Western world, it's like this in the UK, it's like this in Canada, it's like this in Australia.
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 14:27 Rory Sutherland We just go on Willow, Zillow, sorry, or Rightmove in the UK, or whatever it is.
- ▶ 30:13 Rory Sutherland In the, and I've told everybody this, in the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards in the UK, my argument is that with the exception of P&G, Diageo, Unilever, marketing-led companies, I don't think that PLC is, what do you call them in, you…
- ▶ 49:44 Shane Parrish If you have a client or go back to real estate for a sec, you have a client who's looking at a lake house or a cabin or a cottage or whatever you call them in, in the UK or in the United States, and you get a property and you say, my…
- ▶ 56:36 Rory Sutherland You produce wonderful people, and you're always trying to import people like me from the UK or people from the US.
- ▶ 1:06:43 Rory Sutherland The gender thing isn't quite the flashpoint in the UK or Canada as it is in the United States. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:30 Rory Sutherland So it strikes me as highly problematic in the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:12 Rory Sutherland So I can't pick five Canadians and get them British citizenship.
- ▶ 1:29:27 Rory Sutherland I mean, one of the things that used to make me really annoyed in Britain was when people, rich people, got really snarky about poor people having large televisions.
- ▶ 1:31:09 Rory Sutherland Conspicuous consumption, as is argued by various people like Lord Layard in the UK, do I make my neighbors less happy if I buy a newer, better car?
- ▶ 1:37:10 Rory Sutherland Because this is something that's slightly bemusing, because in Britain, we didn't have the social stigma of hanging clothes up to dry, to the same extent. 3 times in the scene
Panera Founder Ron Shaich
- ▶ 35:48 Ron Shaich Uh, it had actually been developed in the UK with a company called Tesco and came through Kroger in the United States where your best customers were treated different, differently.
- ▶ 1:36:51 Ron Shaich Uh, that business is now thirty-odd restaurants in Spain and Portugal on its way to the UK and, and, and France next year.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 54:45 Benedict Evans Coming from the UK and seeing the US system, I never really liked the US idea that, like,
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
- ▶ 1:33:36 Harley Finkelstein Maybe it's to be the youngest billionaire in the UK like Ben Francis and Gymshark, or maybe it's just to afford, you know, hockey equipment.
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 39:24 Shane Parrish Through Wall Street contacts, he'd arranged British financing at 13% interest.
Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top
- ▶ 4:53 Indra Nooyi We were growing up in an environment where India had just come out of 350 years of British rule, and it was trying to find its place in society.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 1:34:13 Bret Taylor But they're really, um, their, their maps modeled the A to Z maps in the UK and were just beautiful, and they just had a lot of passion for mapping.
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
- ▶ 29:21 Pierre Poilievre We have the second slowest building permits in the OECD, and, um, it takes us 17 years to get a mine approved, three times longer to get approval for a housing development in Canada versus the UK or the US.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 13:43 Shane Parrish As war with Britain loomed and then erupted in 1812, these investments positioned him perfectly to capitalize on the shifting trade patterns. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:19 Shane Parrish White successfully secured an initial contract from Nicaragua, but the company soon faced controversy when Britain protested, asserting control over strategic points in Nicaragua. 4 times in the scene
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
- ▶ 52:54 Bruce Flatt We've now just got licensed in the, uh, United Kingdom.
- ▶ 56:16 Bruce Flatt Uh, so instead of, instead of going out of our, uh, comfort zone on the type of liability, what we're doing today is we're expanding to the UK, and, which is a big, uh, pension risk transfer market, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:06 Bruce Flatt Now we're going to the UK to do the same thing we did in the United States, and we just got a license to do that, but it, um, we now have all the experience we have from the United States. 3 times in the scene
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 10:37 Shane Parrish Around him, post-war Britain hummed with possibility. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Shane Parrish Wine was beginning to catch on in Britain in the late sixties, and this unlabeled plonk had a certain cachet among the arty.
- ▶ 30:19 Shane Parrish To launch the Ball Barrow, Dyson and his partners borrowed 200,000 pounds, about 275,000 dollars, at a punishing 24% interest rate, a reflection of Britain's troubled economy in the mid-nineteen-seventies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Shane Parrish Unable to find an existing manufacturer in the UK willing to produce this vacuum, Dyson turned to Japan, where a licensing deal with a company called Apex allowed the GeForce cleaner to be marketed as a luxury item, selling for the… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:21 Shane Parrish In Britain, where entrepreneurs at the earliest opportunity often sell out to take their companies public, Dyson's approach stands out as particularly unusual.
- ▶ 1:03:41 Shane Parrish It was five years before the G-Force, but it was 15 before he really took off in the UK.
Andrew Mellon: America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
- ▶ 59:37 Shane Parrish The crisis came to a head in September of 1931 when Britain abandoned the gold standard, triggering another cascade of bank failures across America. 3 times in the scene
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 1:48:42 Shane Parrish I want you to imagine for, you're in charge of, let's say Canada, the US, and maybe the UK, and I tell you that we are optimizing to be the best in the world at AI.
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 30:11 Abigail Shrier So the fact that they were testing it with a control group, both in the UK and in Australia made me realize, oh, this social emotional learning thing, this feelings focus, this obsessing over kids feelings and therapy with kids, um,
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 1:07:47 Christopher Davis We saw some of the chaos at, you know, First Republic and Silicon Valley, saw it in the UK pension plans.
Nathan Myhrvold
- ▶ 54:55 Nathan Myhrvold Um, you know, you have this issue that, uh, the developed countries of the world, like the United States or the UK is an example.
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 1:15:33 Kunal Shah For the region, and British made the entire rail network to support his opium business, which grew opium across the world, India, and shipped it through Bombay to guess where? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:51 Kunal Shah Like, it's almost like trying to, I don't know, trying to mix a Japanese cuisine to, like, Italian cuisine to a British cuisine, and you're like, it doesn't make sense, but the moment you acquire these 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:34:07 Balaji Srinivasan As I mentioned, they've taken on, uh, the right, the central left, tech, you know, Russia, China, some extent, India, Israel, and, you know, like a bunch of other smaller countries, like I've seen Iran and, you know, Hungary, and they're…
- ▶ 1:53:33 Balaji Srinivasan Can you name a country that is a democracy that was not a former UK colony or does not have a US military base? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21:23 Balaji Srinivasan And in this sort of final four showdown, you had Japan, Germany, the US, the USSR, also, you know, France and, um, and the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35:05 Balaji Srinivasan And, um, the US plus UK plus USSR, it was like, you know, the UK, I think it was like, and the US and USSR were like one 50. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:43:49 Balaji Srinivasan Of folks who speak English, but have taken the UK code base and, you know, like places like India, but also Israel, Singapore, Nigeria, they've taken that like UK code base and they've kind of forked it in a different way than the US code… 2 times in the scene
#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep
- ▶ 18:32 Dr. Matt Walker It's six hours and 49 minutes in my home country of the United Kingdom.
#122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
- ▶ 6:38 Robert Cialdini Actually in the countries of Colombia and Brazil, where researchers, in fact, my colleague, Steve Martin, who runs our office in UK, and was commissioned to do this study in South America, did a study where, for a week,
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 20:52 Shane Parrish I like the idea of these pockets of sort of innovation that crop up, whether it's Britain or Florence or Silicon Valley.
#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness
- ▶ 29:42 Noreena Hertz Um, there's even cases in shopping malls in the United Kingdom, where in order to keep out undesirable youths, um, they emit a very high sonic pitch sound, which only young people can hear a very unpleasant sound.
#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation
- ▶ 1:17 Shane Parrish He's also a biologist, newspaper columnist, and member of the House of Lords in the UK.
- ▶ 45:47 Shane Parrish I mean, for the last 50 years it's been, say, Silicon Valley in California, and that seems to be coming to an end right now, and before that it was Victorian Britain, and then, you know, before that it was Renaissance Italy, um, and at… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:23 Matt Ridley There's a fascinating period in history soon after the American Revolution when Americans were engaged in rampant industrial espionage to try and steal secrets of Britain's industry.
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 3:45 Matt Mullenweg And this fellow I'd never met in the UK named Mike Little was like, hey, if you're serious about this, let's work on this together.
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 1:04:11 Shane Parrish Wasn't the NHS hack in Great Britain the result of a stolen zero day from an allied government?
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 7:25 Hannah Fry I think, you know, one of the, um, certainly in Britain, I think in the States too, there's this massive book called Fermat's Last Theorem, um, massive as in, in terms of its sales rather than physically big.
- ▶ 32:23 Hannah Fry How bad it's going to get from here, but, but certainly in the last month, I mean, they're the first ones, really the epidemiologists and the mathematical modelers are the ones who've been sort of raising the alarm and driving the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:24 Hannah Fry And up until a couple of years ago, uh, it sounds mad to say it, but you know, given that everyone's carrying mobile phones, but up until a couple of years ago, the best possible data that we had within the UK, at least, um, for how people…
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 1:28:23 Neil Pasricha That number he kind of artificially decreed, 65, became the western barometer through the 1935 Social Security Act in the U.S., U.K., Canada was 65.
- ▶ 1:38:56 Neil Pasricha With the decline of the church and the rise of secularism, ah, by the way, National Geographic reports that the fastest growing religion is no religion, and certain countries, like I believe France, Australia, UK, are about to cross into a…
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 1:29:42 Hugh Howey So I'll do deals just in North America, basically, and that lets me do separate, like wool is with Random House in the UK and here in Australia and New Zealand and basically worldwide English.
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 17:00 Jonathan Haidt I know in the US and UK things are very, very similar. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:01 Jonathan Haidt Um, the numbers in the UK are not that different. 2 times in the scene
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 39:58 William MacAskill Um, I mean, I think there are some things that governments do that are, you know, more kind of genuinely philanthropic, so especially from countries like Sweden and the UK, the money that they send on overseas development aid.
- ▶ 40:42 Shane Parrish I mean, if you were put in charge of the UK government, how would the charitable giving or how would you tackle things differently than what's happening now with the same amount of money?
- ▶ 45:42 William MacAskill They're still in the richest 10 to 15% of the world's population, and that's not at all to, um, you know, belittle the problems that people in the poverty line in North America are going through, or the UK. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:26 William MacAskill Um, and maybe I'm just saying this in the UK where people are notoriously emotionally reserved.
#33 Dan Ariely: The Truth About Lies
- ▶ 21:13 Dan Ariely We tried the UK.
#32 Patrick Collison: Earning Your Stripes
- ▶ 10:06 Patrick Collison Um, and of course there's the reverse version where so many Irish people themselves, uh, have sort of benefited enormously from being able to go and sort of pursue lives in the UK and Australia and the US and Canada, uh, and so on.
- ▶ 1:14:54 Patrick Collison And, you know, was it the abundance of, uh, or was it the abundance of coal in the UK? 3 times in the scene
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 2:36 Margaret Heffernan It wasn't a sort of, ah, what I think of as a sort of jolly hum, and it certainly didn't sound like companies I'd run in the UK, and I 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Margaret Heffernan And bear in mind, certainly in the US, that most people, the US and to be honest, the UK, most people are coming out of competitive education systems.
- ▶ 42:20 Margaret Heffernan And I heard exactly the same thing from the chief executive of a big supermarket chain here in the UK that had some, um, significant, uh, accounting issues leading to, you know, restatements of earnings and so on, and also some issues…
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 49:39 Gary Taubes It's lymphoma after Burkitt, so he was a very well-known, very famous physician, and Idi Amin comes into power in Uganda, and he has to flee back to the UK, and he's looking for things to do.
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 35:23 unnamed speaker Si on regarde les corrélations, quand les corrélations restent parfaites entre le nouveau dénoiement des grandes villes, le nouveau popularité de certains partis politiques, à la fois en Grande-Bretagne, aux États-Unis, en France, mais…
Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising
- ▶ 18:29 Rory Sutherland In Britain, we're not that bothered, you know, no one asks whether Anne Summers has a PhD, right?
- ▶ 30:36 Rory Sutherland In the UK, more than it does in the US. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:42 Rory Sutherland I have never met anybody in Europe, or the, including the UK, ok? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:59 Rory Sutherland But in Britain, you used to have, obviously, in Canada, you have tetra packs that contain eight litres of milk, don't you?
#13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
- ▶ 18:12 Pedro Domingos And, and in fact, one of the applications of this that's quite exciting is, um, you know, in the UK they developed this complete robot scientist
#9 Maestro Alexander Shelley: The Architecture of Music
- ▶ 49:47 Alexander Shelley But I feel also, this is one of the reasons that, that, that new creation and, and commissioning Canadian composers and, and artists to work with us is very important, is that, um, I've always felt, we have in the UK, the BBC, you know,…