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28 Dec, 8 tweets, 4 min read
1/ Our 5 most popular podcasts by downloads for 2020 plus the 2 fastest growing in downloads, thanks to my co-host @InvestorAmnesia and producer @MathewPassy for providing this list:

#5 Our chat with @AnnieDuke about her new book

infiniteloopspodcast.com/annie-duke-how…
2/

#4 Our discussion with @profplum99 on his hypothesis of what long term trends are driving stock performance

infiniteloopspodcast.com/michael-green-…
3/
#3 Our chat with @morganhousel about the psychology of money

infiniteloopspodcast.com/morgan-housel-…
4/
#2 Our chat with Jim Chanos on financial frauds and manias

infiniteloopspodcast.com/jim-chanos-fin…
5/
And our #1 download for the year was our chat with @rorysutherland on human behaviour and how Alchemy can help you harness it

infiniteloopspodcast.com/rory-sutherlan…
6/ And now our two fastest growing in terms of downloads with

#2 being our chat with @Alex_Danco on @Shopify, SPACs and online status

infiniteloopspodcast.com/alex-danco-sho…
7/ and our fastest growing download is

#1 @trengriffin on well, almost everything

infiniteloopspodcast.com/tren-griffin-e…
8/ My profound thanks to ALL our guests on Infinite Loops for taking the time to help us and our audience understand things a bit more than we did before listening to them!

Looking forward to a great 2021!

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The Thinker and The Prover, Part 6

“What we need is not the will to believe but the will to find out.”
~Bertrand Russell

If you're still here and have tried some of the exercises I recommended about seeing the Prover working in other people and then tried the experiment on
2/ yourself by looking for things like green cars and perhaps surprised (as I was) by how many MORE of those things you saw, you've done more than most people in playing with Wilson's concept. But you're still on relatively safe ground in that you haven't yet tried to turn these
3/ new skills on some of your more deeply held beliefs. It is now that we enter what Wilson calls "“Chapel Perilous—Every thing you fear is waiting with slavering jaws in Chapel Perilous”

Change is scary for almost everyone. To paraphrase an Anthony de Mello quip,
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27 Dec
1/ I've noticed lots of folks asking for book recommendations recently and remembered I did these a few years back, still recommend all of them and will also list a few more that aren't on these two lists, but first, the two lists (not really only vacation reading...)
2/ Part 1:

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3/ Part 2:

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15 Dec
1/ The Thinker and the Prover, Part 5

“There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief"
~Bob Dylan

Congratulations! If you've stuck with me this far, you might actually be interested in changing things.
2/ The problem is, you've also entered what Wilson calls "Chapel Perilous"--a place filled with both our fears but also with some of the answers to the questions many would rather not ask. The point is simple: Many of us believe things that we’ve never questioned or considered
3/ questioning. And, like a computer operating system that is badly programmed, our Provers might be proving the *wrong* things, and that keeps leading us to suboptimal choices and results.

So, how do we rectify this situation? Wilson himself offered a pretty limited solution:
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15 Dec
1/Anything we don't find in nature came directly out of the minds of men and women.

One of the reasons I am a pragmatic optimist is because of the endless human ingenuity that created almost everything we use on a daily basis.
2/ Have you ever just looked at a smartphone and and marveled at the ingenuity and collective human intelligence that created it? We humans are an adaptable lot, but occasionally look and wonder how you could ever explain a smartphone to someone from 1900. Yes, there are problems
3/ and always will be--but given how far we have come so relatively quickly, I believe that the directional arrow of human progress points upward.

Here's a quote from Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that nicely makes a similar point:
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