Housel: COVID will produce completely unforeseeable downstream breakthroughs within a decade
Morgan Housel · How To Invest Like An Optimist With Morgan Housel · Apr 28, 2022 · at 19:46
Morgan Housel, author and partner at Collaborative Fund, discusses second-order effects and historical narrative fallacies with host Sahil Bloom.
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“There's going to be things 10 years from now that would be so absurd that you and I 10 years from now will be like, hey, because of COVID, we have the X, whatever it might be, and connecting those dots is going to be like the craziest thing you've ever imagined. You know that's going to be the case.”
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