We were very active on our blog back when blogs were podcasts. But then, after the people make their bad predictions, they always have an ex-post story to explain, “I was actually right, I’m actually very smart. And I thought, had that happened and had that happened among every group of people or individuals who find themselves cowering behind a wall or putting up a wall to keep somebody out, I think you immediately melt about 50 percent of the aggression and garbage. And I’m way too insecure to want to coast.Yeah, Malcolm’s argument, it’s really interesting. He is the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name – it is “the hidden side of […]Freakonomics ® is a registered service mark of Freakonomics, LLC. This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar.” We begin today on the South Side of Chicago, in Dawes Park. Honestly, the reason they asked me to write about him was a reason I didn’t want to write about him, which is [that] he had just won an award, the John Bates Clark Medal. People who think very, very, very differently than, let’s say, the standard mind-set of the Times. His or her own party, the nation, the populus. The famous book "Bowling Alone" by Bob Putnam kind of described this world where people were not doing things communally the way they used to. Because if you start to measure your self-worth on the outcome of the thing, I think you just kind of coast. Freakonomics has sold more than five million copies in 40 languages, and the podcast has been a major success, too. Youngest of eight, Jewish, Catholic, rock band, yeah. Sometimes they’re sophomoric.
And then I got a job at New York Magazine. [laughs]Well, the other one has nothing to do with Freakonomics. […]This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “100 Ways to Fight Obesity.” [MUSIC: Jonathan Clay; “Carousel” (from Everything She Wants)] DUBNER: Steve Levitt is my Freakonomics friend and coauthor. Deliberate practice means constantly trying to get feedback on how you’re doing, what you’re doing. Or what was it about literally? There were a lot of things that, as a writer, you’re like, “Well, they got that wrong, they got that wrong.” And we told them, and we had what they called some kind of approval, but they just laughed at us when told them.Exactly. But yeah. And when we talk about diversity, there’s a lot about diversity that goes beyond race and gender. I’ve been reading a book called Petty — it’s a biography of Tom Petty, written by Warren Zanes. The reason my prediction didn’t come true is because, well, things were different.” Well, of course things are different! One of our favorite podcast series is Freakonomics Radio with Stephen Dubner and from WNYC Studios that seeks to “have fun discovering the hidden side of everything.” We highly recommend you listen to the series. A lot of people talk about when they get to a position that they hadn’t envisioned they would ever get to, which was the case for me, that you never stop feeling an imposter. And sometimes we wished there was a transcript so we could go back to a key point that was mentioned or remember a book that was recommended. Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers. Levitt’s new podcast, "People I (Mostly) Admire" premieres August 21st. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. Today, […]This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “The Economics of Sleep, Part 2”.
And I think imposter is not quite the right word for me. I don’t think it made us look idiotic. It’s summertime. Nice car, great. I know the actual story of how I got referred there, but I’m not allowed to say it because it was a secret. And especially, we have a strong appetite for talking — in the podcast or writing — about things that other people aren’t talking about and thinking about, which seems hard.As a journalist you know, when you’re learning to be a journalist, it seems so hard to find the stories that other people aren’t finding or to talk about ideas.Exactly. And he was really one of the big reasons to convince me to quit rock and roll even though he didn’t know he said anything that led to that. That’s not nearly enough.Larry Ellison has abruptly shut down the foundation he spent years setting upThe Oracle billionaire has made a drastic decision yet again so he can focus on combating Covid-19.The new Apple-Google contact tracing tool finally seems usefulPublic health authorities won’t need to make their own apps in order to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool.Walmart+ will finally launch in September. That’s what people don’t get.I don’t think they want to be famous, I think they want to be admired and adored and petted and loved.I think so, because it’s very easy to conflate the good things about being recognized, like the money and the power. And then it was actually really fun to have a blog when you publish a book that then blows up. That camp didn’t love Malcolm’s interpretations, not surprisingly.That was part of it.
But it will be interesting. But he has been thinking about our collective […]This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “Parking Is Hell.” [MUSIC: Artist Name; “Song Title” (from Album Title)] [MUSIC: The Diplomats of Solid Sound; “Don’t Touch My Popcorn” (from Let’s Cool One)] Donald SHOUP: I think, you know, 50 years from now, when people look back on New York, and of course other cities, that they’ll […]This is a transcript of the Freakonomics Radio podcast “When Is a Negative a Positive?” Kai RYSSDAL: Time now for a little Freakonomics Radio, that moment every couple of weeks we talk to Stephen Dubner, the coauthor of the books and the blog, it is the…Here we go. I do. So I for years have been kind of just arguing with not a ton of ... because this is a hard thing to compile evidence of the typical sort that we use. I tried it a few times.