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Christian Rudder

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“Trying to make online eye tests so you don't have to go to the ophthalmologist to like figure out that you can't see or get your prescription. I think that's like a pretty cool idea. I guess I don't really follow. I'm not really a big entrepreneur scenster, you know? Too old. But yeah, I mean. I try to spend as little time as possible, though. I check my phone as much as anybody else, but I hate myself every time I do it. I try to spend as little time as possible screwing around on the internet because it sucks up a lot of time. And I want to set a good example for my daughter. I'm not like the world's biggest tech enthusiast, I guess.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, two of Chris and Max from the OK Cubit team, they started this company called Keybase, which is this kind of attempt to make essentially unbreakable cryptography accessible to everyone. You don't have to understand PGP or one-way functions and hashes and all this stuff to make sure your documents and your communications are completely private from Apple, from Google, from Iran, from the NSA. And it's a really hard problem actually because the math and it requires complexity. And so it's a very hard problem to essentially hide that complexity yet make it actually work. So they've been working on that. It's called Keybase. It's really cool. I mean, I'm an investor, full disclosure, but I think it's interesting regardless. Yeah, I mean, there's a variety of kind of smaller companies that I think are doing cool things. Yeah, I mean, there's, I work a little bit with this company that's...”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And since I've become friends with this guy named David Cohen-Hidey, he runs a nonprofit called the Humane League that I really love how they do things and talk to him more. So I've just kind of like, you know, whatever. I've just bought into it. Everybody's got their ideas.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm just, I don't know. I mean, I've been a vegetarian for a long time. This is my wife, so is my daughter. It's just something I've thought about a lot. You know, actually, I really liked Jonathan Saffro's eating animals book. I was kind of already on board before that. I imagine most of his readers probably were, but I thought that was a great way to talk about it. And I feel like it's like, It's really hard to talk about this without sounding preachy, but I feel like it's like a weird. One of the most notable inconsistencies in most people's lives, I think, is how they treat animals. Lots of people have pets and love them and then yet pay for people to torture very, very similar animals just right down the road and then eat them. And so it's just an interesting thing to me the way people treat animals.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some of it I haven't done very well, and there's been a lot of luck through that the whole time. But yeah, I've done that. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm kicking around a few ideas. I'm really into farm animal welfare, animal welfare in general. Just personally, and I would love a business, whatever I work on to reflect that or increase. What's the bad?”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um, you know, I mean, I would like to do something. One of the things that we all really liked about OKCuban, and one of the reasons that we started that business as opposed to like an ad network or something, you know, in 2003, was that it created some kind of positive real-world outcome. You know, people are falling in love, having sex, whatever, you know, based on what we were doing as a business, you know. And the business's goal was to make more of that happen in the real world. And so we really like that. And we could have, you know, whatever, we were all good with computers, we were all math people, we could have started some kind of like, you know, in an ad network or some other kind of thing and probably made a lot more money. And I would like to stay true to that idea to create some kind of like positive real world thing. I'm a little tired of the internet at this point, you know, been through, started at SparkNotes in 99. That's like the first bubble, pre-first bubble, you know. Kind of like been through all that. Done that? Yeah, a little bit, you know. Again.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And lay it over the website in a way that the users didn't find off putting. So it was cool. I enjoyed it. It was weird for sure. I mean, I definitely not ever discussed any finer points of accounting or any org charts and none of that stuff. I didn't know any of that stuff when I took the rollout, which of course I was promoted to because I was a founder and was just like what I needed to do at the time.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of OKCupid kind of after the blog had run its course. I was already working on my book. So I felt like creatively I kind of did what I would ever have wanted to do with OKCubid's data and that whole scene. And I had a creative outlet, i.e. the book. And business is creative in its own way. I had to figure out how to take our P&L, which at the time I took over was say we were making, I think I took over in middle 11 and I think our final EBITDA for that year was like 6 million bucks. Like, you know, match bought us earlier that year because they wanted a lot more out of it. And, you know, the year I left, I think close to 40. You know, it was like a cool challenge to take, especially to take the principles of how to run a business that matched new very well, sometimes to their own detriment, but they knew very well, and lay that over OKCupid, get the employees to buy into it.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We weren't arguing over who was better at X, Y, or Z, and you know, you don't know how to do this, or we definitely respected those fences between our roles. And that was very important.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Chris coin and I watch to a lesser degree. Chris would work on the product. He would do the front end. He would come up with the kind of ideas of like what feature is going to be on OKCube, but what feature should we try? Max is a fantastic programmer. He wrote all the back end, made it scalable, made it work. Without him, there would be no code to put a front end for Chris to put a front end on. Sam Yagan was the CEO before me, and he later became the CEO of the entire match enchilada. He's an amazing negotiator, a business person. He did the things that you think of a CEO as doing. And so we never really stepped. Chris and I were most similar in our role as we both kind of worked on the content and the things that the users would actually interact with. We have a great kind of professional relationship. Max definitely had his own single domain. Sam definitely had his own single domain. And that helped a lot because that was.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How did that shake out? Very little overlap at any given time in terms of the roles people were filling. I think we do have some actual overlap in kind of core skills. I mean, for example, I worked primarily on the editorial and the kind of product and the viral content marketing, aka the blog and a few other things until about 2011, at which point I basically became the CEO of the company for the last four years and ran. I just dealt with a P&L and did almost nothing traditionally thought of as creative. But among the founders,”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Only an idiot would not realize that that's going well, you know, and that you've hit a home run and would not want to stick with it and hire a bunch of people and really throw themselves into a nascent Facebook, right? But what do you do when things are like, all right? You know, I don't know if it's really going to be successful. Like we're stable now, but it's not stable long term. I might have might be wasting my time and my money, that's very hard. And it really helped there were four of us that were friends. If it had been one person, even maybe just two people who had started OKCupid, I don't know if it would have lasted through those times because it just, certainly for one person, no way, because you're just like, eh, you know, I'm just going to go get a job, you know.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, yeah. I mean, you know, we didn't know, and that's the hardest thing that is the hardest part about being an entrepreneur, I think, is when your idea is doing okay. When it sucks, hey, let's walk away, you know, obviously shut it down. When it's great, when you've created Facebook,”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We started that company in 2003. We weren't even really a thing until 2008 or 9. So there were some real lean years for us. You should be extremely persistent because we held on through all the lean years, but you shouldn't be too beholden to a single idea in your persistence. Be committed to the idea of having your company, but don't necessarily be too committed to this one match algorithm that you swear is going to work or that people are going to love or this one idea of bringing people together just use the dating example. It's one idea of how dating should work in defiance of whether people like it or not. You've got to keep an open mind and you've got to be able to listen to the data that's coming back.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That said, I mean, somebody who the way to position yourself best for success and an inherently in the big crapshoot that is starting your own company, I think you have to be willing to try a bunch of stuff. I think people, I mean, obviously there's counterexamples, but people who doggedly stick to the same idea regardless of whether it works or not, I think that's a recipe for disappointment a lot of the time. I think you have to be flexible. We tried all kinds of garbage at OKCube it through the...”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I guess I'm sure it's not for everyone, or I would imagine. I've worked with the same group of three other guys both times, and things have turned up very well both times. And so I don't know the failure case. Luckily enough, you know. But I think there is a lot of luck involved. I think we, me, my co-founder, Chris Coyne, talk about all the time. Like, we're smart guys. We worked hard. Things could have gone sideways very easily. And so I wish more entrepreneurs would recognize the amount of luck that has gone into their success because there's a tremendous amount”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. And for writers, frankly, I mean, you know, I mean, that was the hardest part about writing dataclysm was asking the right questions. The data was all there. I had data from Twitter, Facebook, Google, Reams and Reams and Reams of it from OKCupid. But I had to figure out what questions can I answer? What questions should I ask? What questions would people want to read the answer to? And to a degree, that's always going to be the question for any author.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think that's because we thought about it a lot and we were able to kind of work back from what do people want out of our website and figure out a metric that we felt like could measure that the best.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What does it say about a dating service if somebody is coming day after day after day after day for two years or something like this? It looks great for Twitter. That's horrible for us. They're not finding a date. So we ended up having, after a lot of thought, trial and error, we ended up picking this metric called four ways, which is essentially conversations. How many separate deep conversations are happening on OKQ because that's what we want to generate. We want people talking to each other. People come to OKQIT to meet people. How do we proxy them meeting someone? And that's they're having a conversation on our site. Because we don't know whether people actually meet up in person or not. And so, you know, that was a really important decision. If we had been managing towards page views or clicks or even just raw messages, our site would have failed, like raw messages doesn't work because people send might be sending all those messages just at the same handful, relative handful of attractive people, for example, and ignoring everyone else. And they're not getting responses. They're not happy. The recipient isn't happy, et cetera, et cetera. So we really had to like dig to create the right metric for success for us.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's what you do with the results of the math. It's always by far the hardest part. And, you know, like to what you said, which hopefully made it in here, is picking the right metric to manage against, you've got to do that intelligently just in case it wasn't covered. OKCupid, you know, in the early days, you think of a website, you're thinking engagement, you're thinking time on site, you're thinking page views. Well, you know, it occurred to us very early on that those are crappy metrics for a dating site. It doesn't.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The data that you see and the psychology that is generating the behaviors that are generating the data that you see. Some experience with people, and this is so cliched and stupid, but you just have to be able to understand, at least make intelligent guesses about what people want from your website, what people want from the page, what they want from the button that you're doing, why they're doing things. Some of it is just armchair theorizing that you can't prove either way, but you've got to make decisions based on whatever conclusion your math is spitting out. And so I just think a kind of like humanistic education reading a lot, doing a lot of different things really, really, really, really helps. Like the math is not that hard, you know?”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I mean, that the skill set, the skills that have been most important to me and what I've done has been a kind of Of real world experience, or like a sense of how people work. You know, I haven't spent my entire life in an academic department, done a lot of different things. I think that is extremely helpful in analyzing data. Certainly when you're working at OKCupid, and I assume also any data analysis in a social setting, Facebook, Twitter, aside from their advertising data analysis, but you just really, your goal is to understand human behavior, the behaviors that are generating.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah. I mean, which is cool. I mean, you can't discount the vision that it takes to think of this stuff, but it's not a great read for sure. I'm working through this kind of Stanford AI. Commission kind of white paper right now. Honestly, I would recommend that Bostrom is worth the time if you're into kind of slightly more technical reading. The WebY explanation is really great.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Yeah. The wait but why super intelligence explanation, which they talk about Bostrom a lot in that book is actually pretty compelling and very approachable. You know, the singularity is, of course, a very famous book. I've tried to read it. It's sitting on my nightstand. It's not very exciting to read. It's a lot of charts all kind of pointing up and to the right in a logarithmic fashion. Basically, things grow up spinny.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For example, and just lay it out and maybe tell the story from a personal level on the effects it would have, what the apocalypse would feel like. I don't know, just so people, when I talk to people about this, like there are a lot of people, I certainly have never heard of Nick Bostrom, never really considered the idea that the thing that's going to help them not have to drive their cars anymore given 10 years to grow could have like grave implications for the world. I just want to spell it out a little bit more. Like, yeah, I just got to figure out how to do it.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I mean, I have an inside track on how kind of tech businesses are run. And I would like to take my knowledge of how decisions are made in a big tech company, how computer programs really get written, essentially, and maybe run through a sort of speculative nonfiction walkthrough, essentially, of like how it could happen. Just to make it more real, I think like Nick Bostrom's book is amazing, it's extremely dense, as I know you know. And its power and its density also make it somewhat inapproachable for most people. It's like, you know, whatever, you know, it's very rigorously argued. And I think I would like to honestly sensationalize the ideas a little bit more, but make them not the Terminator, the kind of like Hollywood version, but like what this could really, this is exactly what could really happen.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, it's not hard to guard against it if you, well, if people, if you make the right laws and people obey them. You know, I mean, you could tax that income. Look, I mean, it'll just be interesting to see where things are in like 10 years if for the kind of 99, the 0.1% of the world, is it worth it to them to have whatever incremental dollars at the cost of, you know, living in fear of social unrest, for example, like do we want this to be like a South Africa type situation, not racially necessarily, but just in terms of there's certain people who live under guard all the time and there's people who want what they have, you know, that doesn't sound that attractive to me personally.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is going to be a huge economic challenge and therefore social challenge, I think, which I would be more sanguine about if I thought the government could like agree to get stuff done. But I think it's going to take some kind of be a shock, I think. What do you do when there's five million people who can't feed their kids? You know, I think there's going to have to be some kind of redistribution of because, you know, for example, if Uber no longer employs drivers, Uber's shareholders are all the richer, you know. And I think there's going to have to be essentially a tax on the use of artificial intelligence that will have to end up back in the pockets of the people that it's displaced.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, I think that question people are going to have to answer that question even before there's a general AI, even before there's kind of like specific AIs, because automated cars are going to put millions of people out of work, self-driving cars. And so, you know, I mean, these are automation in general.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Without seeming like a crazy person because of things like Terminator and I don't know who knows what else, X Machina, which I love, I bought those movies, but the thing is not going to be running around doing karate chops or shooting people with a shotgun or something. That's like what a person would do. I think it'll be maybe more painless death for everyone, but everyone will die rather than just like a couple extras.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The ruler for the entire world. That sounds horrible to me, almost as bad as the NSA, because who knows they're just some jokers in Silicon Valley, you know? I mean, I love programmers in general. Certainly everybody I've worked with, I love it, okay, keep it. I would not want the programmers at OK Cubit coming up with an AI. That would be horrible. And I think a kind of secretive fractured effort at creating this thing everyone moving in parallel, racing towards a goal, you cut corners when you race. And it's something that if the wrong corners are cut, it could, you know, what might happen. Yeah, we don't know what might happen. And it could destroy the world. I mean, I don't want to sound like a lunatic. It's really hard to talk about a kind of AI apocalypse.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To our children, certainly to ourselves to give a superintelligence the best odds of being altruistic and having it benefit all mankind rather than destroying it. And I think the best way to do that is some kind of Los Alamos level Manhattan project level national or hopefully global coordinated effort to have everyone agree and work on together relatively in the open on this project because I think whether it's a single government agency kind of doing it in secret, the NSA, the Chinese government, the Russian government.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I haven't thought as deeply or as well on this thing as Nick Bostrom, who's wrote a book intelligence, which is great. Maybe you've already, your listeners maybe already know about it through you. But I think, first of all, any super intelligence that exists, it's going to be a roll of the dice no matter how well thought out it is by us in the same way that you never know what's going to happen when you have a kid, no matter your genes or how you raise it or whatever. Who knows? But even more so with this. But that said, I mean, we obviously owe it.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The actual use case for the data, and therefore the implications for any individual. Anyhow, I think as people employ algorithms to make decisions about data or anything else, computers are obviously getting smarter. And I think I'm in that camp that thinks eventually in 20 years there will be a kind of general computer intelligence that will be as smart as a human being and therefore will quickly become way smarter than a human being and that that could have grave implications for the way the world works, the way life exists on the planet. I think you'll essentially be creating a god, a real God, and that just is a frightening idea.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, Cupid, Facebook, Twitter. No company is pulling out individual profiles, individual people and asking, you know, what does this person been up to? What are they into? What are they like? What are they going to do next? Who are they talking to? That never happens. One thing not worth the time. There's all kinds of rules in place to keep that from happening. It's just not a thing. That's the corporate side of what corporations do with your data. The government has sort of the reverse relationship. Nobody at the NSA is looking at what's going on and saying, you know, you know, let's go arrest 25-year-old guys. It just doesn't happen. They're looking at a specific 25-year-old guy who he's talking to, what he's doing, what he likes, what he might do next with a name and an address and a family. And it's far more pernicious and I think an invasive for that specificity. And I think it's important when people are thinking about privacy to separate.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, sure. Well, I guess let me start with just kind of finishing that thought about the NSA, like with, you know, when I say what they're doing, they're doing well. I mean, they're doing it efficiently and with focus, not necessarily what they're doing is good. Because I think, you know, the idea of corporate data gathering and government data gathering just usually those two very separate things get subsumed to this one idea of all these guys have all this data about us and it's violating our privacy. And I actually think kind of from the inside, I see it as two very different issues. The corporate side has its own problems. I mean, they're gathering data to sell you things, which is annoying. I don't like seeing ads any more than anyone else. I don't like spam based on the emails that I've sent. However, the way they're doing it is aggregated. Advertising sells a product to a consumer, which could be all people for Coca-Cola, but could also be for axe body spray, you know, 18 to 25 year old guys, or even a more narrow slice of the world. But it's never to a particular person.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Math major, the people who took 55 as freshmen, you have this aura about you your entire career. I mentioned the book because the NSA recruits heavily from Math 55 for its employees, from that class of people who took 55. And government workers have this reputation of being kind of lazy or whatever you think at the post office. You think sloth, you think indifference. And I mentioned this in the book because the NSA is not like that. They're the best of the best. They're on top of it, to say the least. And so, you know, you can't really talk about data without talking about government surveillance, the NSA, privacy. And I make the point, and it still holds that what the NSA is doing is powerful and you can pretty much, even if you don't know exactly what it is, you can be guaranteed that it's being done very well.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay. Yeah. I mean, math 2555 is essentially a pair of math classes. 25 is the one that you can elect to take as an incoming freshman, math major at Harvard. It's extremely hard. I didn't take it and maybe 40, 45 people do. If you do well enough in the first few weeks or you have such radiant talent that they identify it in you that quickly, you get invited to take 55, which is you're basically invited by the Harvard Math Department to take this special class, which is four people who will eventually become professional mathematicians. Essentially, the best, you know, the 10 people that they pick for math 55 are probably 10 of the best 100 their age in the world in math.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's good. It's good. It's something I didn't really know anything about. You know, I like books about stuff, I don't know what they are, that I'm not, I like when I'm unfamiliar with the topic.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I usually just go to the bookstore, which my bookstore is Word in Greenpoint, and I just like randomly browse and grab stuff. Like, I'd never read anything about Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War or anything, and one day I walked in, actually a different bookstore, but I just grabbed a couple things off the shelf and read them and loved it and got really into it. Same with Age of Miracles, just pull it off the shelf. It maybe had a little card because it's a Brooklyn or it's a Brooklyn book. Grabbed it. It seemed good. I'm kind of willing to give anything a try. I finished most things I read, though. Obviously not everything. I think the book I'm reading right now is I say this, I think, because I left it at my parents' house, so it's unclear if I'm still reading it. But SPQR about the history of ancient Rome. Cool.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, nonfiction and biography. Definitely I've spent the most time with. I've read probably way too many biographies of Napoleon. I don't know. I kind of would go deep dives like I was like Civil War for a while, then I was like Napoleon, which I know was also kind of a Marshall topic, which isn't really my thing, but just got into it as a thing and there's lots of stuff written about these people. The Civil War I like so much because it touches on issues that are still just so relevant today with the way Reconstruction went down and states rights and Americans fighting each other. And yeah, just race, obviously. It's just amazing.”
2016-10-11 · Invest Like the Best · Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are very different, but it has that kind of feeling to it. I love that book, I love Asian Miracles. I love Station 11, too. It's a great book. I mentioned, I think I mentioned Ageous for Hawk earlier. I really like that book as well.”
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“Hitler not dying in World War II, he wakes up. It's like whatever, 2010 or something like this in Berlin. And he's just kind of like, nobody really believes that he's really out of Hitler. He is. It's kind of like a farce. It's kind of amazing. It's also frighteningly appropriate in the age of, he's very trumpy, let me put it that way, in the book, of course unintentionally, this is before this election cycle. That book is great. I really liked Age of Miracles. Have you read that? It's about, it's like a sci-fi book read it a couple times. It's written from the perspective of maybe she's 13 or 14 year old girl, the world's rotation is slowing down and it just has this amazing tenderness, the science in it is actually kind of cool too, but it's just a great story. Have you read Station 11? Yes. It's similar in tone. It's also an apocalyptic book written by a Brooklyn woman, but they're subject.”
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“Something like that From which we can learn Sure. My all-time favorite book is pretty easy. That would be Shelby Foot's three-volume history of the Civil War. I've read it three times. When you're in a band, you have a lot of time just driving around. So I got really into very long nonfiction. I read the three-part biography of Theodore Roosevelt, the three-part biography of Winston Churchill, tons of stuff like that. But I just love Shelbyfoot's Civil War. easily my favorite book Let's see. I mean, I love Dune. I don't read that much science fiction or fantasy, but it's, you know, that's the way that Frank Herbert gets the kind of like interiorness and makes this world that's new but also plausible. I don't know that book's also amazing more recent stuff I really liked Laku's back. Have you read this book? No. It's a German book about”
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“Person, how do white men interact with Asian women, or how do white women interact with Asian men or black men interact with Asian women or whatever? And how do those Asian women react in turn? And then you get to ask and answer a lot of really interesting questions in a way that you can't really, it's a lens that you don't see very often, a way of looking at race that you don't see very often.”
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“The thing that I enjoyed the most about writing that chapter, I agree with you, it's depressing. But the thing that I guess I like the most about that chapter is that there's very little data about person-to-person interactions and how race affects those. There's tons of data on how this race or that race does on the SIT or graduates from high school or income or where people live and the loans that they're getting are not getting this class of person does better than this class of person on some third-party thing like a test or a loan application or whatever there's very very little in fact almost no data on like how this one group of people interacts directly with this other group of people and and online dating because we collect race and it's very reliable information and the people have to talk to each other on like on Facebook or Twitter where you kind of can just talk to your friends who are probably like you and the people are all strangers so there's no kind of pre-existing network laid over this whole thing you get to look at person to”
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“Yeah, no, no. I mean, Latinos are for all intents and purposes in the data the same as white people. They have the same biases against the same groups and they suffer no biases themselves in the data. That's obviously different than the way Orison society at large here or Asian women. They are part of the majority in this sense.”
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“And we publish the stuff and said, No, this is really what's going on. And that actually was our most popular blog post. It's kind of the, I think, the best part of the book to show that there really are types of people in America that have just a worse experience. You know, obviously, I'm looking specifically online dating or dating in general because I don't think it's just an online thing.”
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“Sure, yeah. I mean, I like that chapter because it speaks to the ability of data to make people talk about something that they might not otherwise talk about. And what's in the chapter is it basically shows that in online dating pervasively, whether it's OKCupid match any dating site whose data I've ever looked at, there's a very clear racial bias against black people and Asian men. From when I say against black people, I'd say from Asians and from Latinos and from whites. It's not just whites versus everyone versus minorities. And essentially those three groups, black men, Asian men, and black women, they have essentially 75% the experience of everyone else. They get 75% the likes, 75% the messages, 75% the replies. They just have a kind of lesser experience.”
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“So again, these are all this kind of gap in what people say they want, and then what they go out and do trying to close that gap or negotiate that gap is a big part of running a dating site.”
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