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This week, Mark Rzepczynsky joins us for our weekly update on Trend Following, at the end of yet another busy week for inflation watchers. Based on an article by Cliff Asness at AQR, we discuss why you want to own managed futures and why you want to avoid getting "carried away" as a Trend Follower, the dual mandate and the difference between strategy and running a business, innovation in Trend Following and why macro trends do not always translate to price trends. We also discuss how high inflation affects Trend Following and the importance of divergence, why turning points kill the real issue beyond inflation and using the 70 percent rule to make trading decisions, the difference between trend following and momentum and much more.

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In the quiet moments of our lives, we can all sense that our hearts long for something, though we often don’t know what that something is. We seek an answer in our phones, and while they can provide some sense of extension and fulfillment — a feeling of magic — the use of technology also comes with significant costs in individual development and interpersonal connection that we typically don’t fully understand and consider.

My guest today will unpack what it is we really yearn for, how technology, when misused, can direct us away from the path to fulfilling those yearnings, and how we can find true human flourishing in a world in which so much works against it. His name is Andy Crouch and he’s the author of The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World. Today on the show we talk about the tradeoffs you make when you seek magic without mastery, and how we can understand our desires better once we understand ourselves as heart, soul, mind, and strength complexes who want to be loved and known. We discuss the difference between interactions that are personal versus personalized, as well as the difference between devices and instruments, and how to use your phone as the latter instead of the former. We end our conversation with why Andy thinks we need to redesign the architecture of our relational lives and create something he calls “households.”

#796: The Life We’re Looking For

In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss a federal judge siding with Trump announcing her preliminary intent to appoint a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, President Biden spending time with Jay Leno on the anniversary of the Kabul bombing, and heavily armed Antifa militants standing guard outside a drag show in Texas.

367. Andy & DJ CTI: Federal Judge Sides With Trump, Biden Has Fun With Jay Leno's Cars & Antifa Stands Guard Outside Drag Show

241 - The Status Game - Will Storr

In this episode we sit down with <a href="https://rushkoff.com/">Douglas Rushkoff</a>, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/survival-of-the-richest">Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires</a> – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.<ul><li>Live Event at Caveat: <a href="https://caveat.nyc/event/how-minds-change-9-20-2022">https://caveat.nyc/event/how-minds-change-9-20-2022</a></li><li>How Minds Change: <a href="https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome">www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome</a></li><li>Show Notes: <a href="http://www.youarenotsosmart.com/">www.youarenotsosmart.com</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="https://davidmcraney.substack.com/">https://davidmcraney.substack.com</a></li><li>Douglas Rushkoff's Website: https://rushkoff.com</li></ul>

242 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

Bookmakers #20 - L’auteur du mois : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Né à Dakar en 1990, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr est devenu – en 2021 et à 31 ans – le premier écrivain d’Afrique subsaharienne consacré par le plus prestigieux des prix littéraires français, le Goncourt, pour « La plus secrète mémoire des hommes », enquête au long cours et labyrinthe narratif enivrant, inspiré par le destin tragique du Malien Yambo Ouologuem (éditions Jimsaan / Philippe Rey). Mais avant le succès, ce wonderboy des lettres africaines était déjà l’auteur de trois romans diablement maîtrisés, aux sujets casse-gueule : « Terre ceinte » (2015, sur les milices djihadistes), « Silence du chœur » (2017, sur l’accueil de 72 migrants en Sicile) et « De purs hommes » (2018, sur l’homophobie au Sénégal). Il vit et travaille aujourd'hui à Beauvais (Oise).

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Sa mémoire n’est plus un secret (3/3)
« Je vais te donner un conseil : n’essaie jamais de dire de quoi parle un grand livre. Ou, si tu le fais, voici la seule réponse possible : rien. Un grand livre ne parle jamais que de rien, et pourtant tout y est. » Dans « La plus secrète mémoire des hommes », un jeune écrivain sénégalais, Diégane Latyr Faye, « doctorant fainéant écrasé par ses modèles », découvre à Paris, à la faveur d’une rencontre érotique, un roman légendaire « qui tient de la cathédrale et de l’arène ». Ce livre dans le livre s’intitule « Le Labyrinthe de l’inhumain », signé dans les années 30 par l’énigmatique T. C. Elimane qui, vite épuisé par les scandales que son chef-d’œuvre suscite, choisit d’arrêter d’écrire puis de « s’enfoncer dans la nuit » en disparaissant, purement mais pas du tout simplement. D’Amsterdam à Buenos Aires, de Dakar à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Diégane mène l’enquête – quitte à se perdre dans une toile d’araignée existentielle. À charge pour lui « d’élucider » le secret de la comète Elimane, accusé de plagiat.

Conjointement publié à la rentrée 2021 par deux éditeurs indépendants, les Sénégalais de Jimsaan et le Français Philippe Rey, ce roman d’initiation de 500 pages rédigées sans plan, d’une originalité folle, héritier des dédales de Borges, Gombrowicz ou Bolaño (auquel il emprunte son titre), convoque plusieurs genres : « la geste griotique, le récit historique, le rapport ethnologique, mêlés dans un plaisir très gourmand de la narration ». Joyeux ou graves, pleins de mystique et d’ironie, les récits s’enchâssent, du journal intime aux articles universitaires, à coups de « frottements » ou de phrases qui courent parfois sur huit pages. Critiques et libraires sont unanimes. « La plus secrète mémoire des hommes » décroche le Goncourt et s’écoule à près de 500 000 exemplaires.

Gloire à Mbougar Sarr, dont l’art paraît déjà si sûr. Dans ce troisième et dernier épisode, écoutons l’auteur raviver sa mémoire, lui pour qui l’écrivain « est un navigateur du Temps », lui qui semble bien là pour durer.

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Bookmakers : Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (3/3)

In this episode we sit down with NYU psychologist Jay Van Bavel who is very good at Twitter. His feed is always overflowing with the absolute latest and greatest research from psychology with links to papers as they come out – on many of the topics we so often explore on this podcast – and in this episode we discuss ten of those tweets and the research he’s shared.<ul><li>Annie Duke Live Event: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quit-a-conversation-and-qa-with-annie-duke-and-david-mcraney-tickets-406421235857">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quit-a-conversation-and-qa-with-annie-duke-and-david-mcraney-tickets-406421235857</a></li><li>How Minds Change: <a href="https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome">www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome</a></li><li>Show Notes: <a href="http://www.youarenotsosmart.com/">www.youarenotsosmart.com</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="https://davidmcraney.substack.com/">https://davidmcraney.substack.com</a></li><li>Jay Van Bavel’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel">https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel</a></li></ul>

243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel

In the 19th century, the source of the Nile River remained one of the greatest mysteries of geographic exploration. The story of how the British eventually found it is one of adventure, danger, and bravery, but also arrogance, envy, and resentment.

Here to offer some snapshots from this dramatic expedition is Candice Millard, author of River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile. Today on the show, Candice shares how two men who were very much opposites, Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke, ventured together on two years-long expeditions to locate the source of the longest and most legendary river in the world, the harrowing obstacles they faced in their quest, and how their partnership devolved into a bitter rivalry. Along the way, we discuss what made Burton such a compelling character, why we remember his name but not Speke's, and the African guide who was the unheralded hero in the achievements of both men.

#804: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

In this episode we sit down with Jeremy Utley of the Stanford d.school to discuss his new book, Ideaflow, which is all about how to create a practice for producing and trading ideas in massive quantities – whether in an organization or as an individual entrepreneur or content-creator – along with a system for sorting the garbage from the gold. We discuss, among many other things, why it is important to focus on input more than output, how to stop obsessing over quality while generating quantity, and peanut butter pumps.<ul><li>Jeremy Utley: <a href="https://www.jeremyutley.design/">https://www.jeremyutley.design</a></li><li>Ideaflow: <a href="https://www.ideaflow.design/">https://www.ideaflow.design</a></li><li>Stanford d.school: <a href="https://dschool.stanford.edu/">https://dschool.stanford.edu</a></li><li>How Minds Change: <a href="https://www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome">www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome</a></li><li>Show Notes: <a href="http://www.youarenotsosmart.com/">www.youarenotsosmart.com</a></li><li>Newsletter: <a href="https://davidmcraney.substack.com/">https://davidmcraney.substack.com</a></li><li>Jeremy Utley’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyutley">https://twitter.com/jeremyutley</a></li><li>David McRaney’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/davidmcraney">https://twitter.com/davidmcraney</a></li><li>YANSS Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/notsmartblog">https://twitter.com/notsmartblog</a></li><li>Berkeley Alembic Event: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-minds-change-with-david-mcraney-tickets-443811591417">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-minds-change-with-david-mcraney-tickets-443811591417</a></li></ul>

246 - Ideaflow - Jeremy Utley

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