Crazy Wisdom
How has the world changed post COVID? - Jim O'Shaughnessy
- society
- politics
- reality
- delusion
- lawofattraction
- mainstreammedia
- covid
About this episode
James O'Shaughnessy is the founder, chairman, and co-chief investment officer at OSAM (O'Shaughnessy Asset Management). In this episode, we discuss the changes that have come about in the world post-COVID, mainstream media, politics, navigating the future as a society, the law of attraction, and much more.
You can catch Jim’s podcast, Infinite Loops, at www.infiniteloopspodcast.com.
Enjoy.
1:58 - How covid accelerated the evolution of work meetings
6:47 - What is quantitative analysis? And how is it different from hedging bets?
13:36 - The world, especially after covid, has changed with respect to investing and decision-making, what do these changes look like? What will they result in?
19:08 - The crazy thing about Silicon Valley
21:24 - A rule of thumb for filtering who to have political discussions with
22:07 - How mainstream media in America is committing suicide
31:12 - How to deal with self-deception and how it is easier for intelligent people to fall prey to self-deception.
36:47 - How do you navigate the differences between eastern and western philosophy?
48:04 - The dangers of premature certainty
48:43 - The truth behind the law of attraction
54:01 - What is negative compounding and why should you be wary of it?
1:00:50 - Why free societies do better than unfree societies.
1:12:31 - Why you should see life as a “choose-your-own-adventure” game
1:20:44 - Why the atomization of society, the destruction of geographical boundaries by the internet, and addiction to social media outrage all work to serve a healthy purpose.
1:31:20 - Why marketing is the bedrock of all of humanity’s greatest institutions.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom. Which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both acceleration as technology accelerates and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with this show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself, because we can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter to Stuart Alsop I I, I. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how the show has affected you. Thanks. Have a great day. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest is Jim o'. Shaughnessy. He is the founder, chairman and co chief Investment officer at osam. Is that how you pronounce it?
I'll give you a plug here. If you're thinking about it, give it a try. It's pretty cool.
And I mean, we can go into that and we can go into so many different things, including being a quant, what that actually means. I mean, there's so much we can talk about. Well, actually, I want to ask you what. Because I noticed that you wanted to do an in person podcast last time we did this. And it's. I actually enjoy the in person, but I also am completely adapted to this and have been adapted to the remote thing for a long time. I would like to understand your progression, how what you've experienced over the past year as remote has now taken over.
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