"well once upon a time I was a Mormon missionary knocking doors and sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then one day I decided I didn't believe in it anymore and so I quit and I went home but I carr..."

"decade of pre-tenure research uh into why being around smart people is more important than being smart yourself uh some people warned me hey you don't have tenure don't do this work on IQ wait until a..."

"eventually uh the World Bank created went through the great effort of creating uh Math Science and reading School assembling them assembling various databases making them comparable so that we can com..."

"less democracy um I argued that basically oligarchy is kind of underrated and democracy is kind of romanticized uh and I didn't just draw partly I drew on my experience working in the Senate where we ..."

"third book is called the culture transplant um and my lesson there is that uh migrants ultimately never fully assimilate on average uh the grand historical versions of this that have been studied almo..."

"Singapore Trilogy uh Singapore is a nation with high average test scores a lot of technocracy and they illustrate the success of the Chinese diaspora so um some quick lessons on the trilogy first get ..."