"writing a book is just such a pain in the ass I'm just like I don't know if I can do this again then I came across code interpreter I'm just like oh my God things that were taking me four months are a..."

"a lot of things get overhyped but on the things that you've just mentioned it is very difficult to overhype what that will be able to do across every industry the geek shall truly inherit the earth th..."

"if you look at the data both African-American and Caucasian males much more likely to reach the NBA if they come from a two parent home if they come from a middle class background rather than a four b..."

"shasy with yet another infinite Loops I am so excited by today's guest Seth Stevens David a witz did I get that right close enough yeah close enough in the ballar for a guy who's oh what to see I get ..."

"can unlock so many things that you do not intuitively get to listen you you've got a ba in Philosophy from Sanford you were 58 to Kappa PhD in Harvard and economics wow you are quite the overachiever ..."

"love a graduate of the American Comedy Institute yeah so that is true yeah what a what a talent stack welcome SE well it was more just I was so burnt out I was doing a PhD in economics and I was just ..."

"yeah it was really fun it ended with a show in New York City I I kind of rigged the audience I had all my friends and family there so everyone like just cheered even when my jokes sucked everyone just..."

"graduate level course in economics and the the guy was going on and on about you know the model does this the model does that and it was you know typical Kan I'm 64 so it was when kanes was still kind..."

"do he goes maybe you better try comedy instead of Economics Mr well what I love I love all your books I recommend them to people who makes the NBA don't trust your gut everybody lies they are just pac..."

"chance to talk about all of them today but but I want to start with a comment that you made when you when you discovered code interpreter you were like holy [ __ ] this stuff rocks and then you made y..."

"I was so I'd written these two books everybody lies and don't trust your G and I was really happy you know proud of them and they led to all these great opportunities and you know they're bestsellers ..."

"know for for me I'm just a perfectionist so you know like there you know I got to disappear for years in writing these books and you know I I do a lot of regional research data analysis and then I cam..."

"of like a data scientist life code interpreters just doing it in seconds and I'm just like wow that just leaves me to do the things I actually really like which is coming up with ideas testing them uh..."

"of I kind of say it was the best 30 days of my life which I was explain to a friends that recently and I just like said that like that was a normal thing and they're like set that's kind of odd like m..."

"for 14 years so he's number one so I'm like you know uh so I called the stat bugies after him and I'm like you know it' be really interesting uh I should like that should be an acronym for something m..."

"equivalent uh for data scientists like in other words 7 foot tall one and seven chance to get into the NBA right what about a guy not being height but is there a similar metric for finding that fabulo..."

"makes a great soccer player I don't think there's something like height that is so important relative to everything else I think there are lots of traits that come into play on that note do you think ..."

"I found out some interesting things one of the things that I uh found out is that kind of the stats people so much of picking the players just have to do with Arcane and very formulaic salary cap rule..."

"you know in and even the great picks in basketball yeah and and outside of sports there are many other industries that kind of fall into the same uh sunt cost fallacy uh and by that I mean like no thi..."

"specifically black players in the NBA which are the majority um and and the the common um wisdom is that they have unusual strikingly unusual in many uh uh instances names but you found that was not t..."

"rather than a poor background wealth is a huge advantage to reaching the NBA and the way you see it most striking is in the first names of black NBA players uh so the name the title for the chapter wa..."

"why people were struck by that um is because elsewhere you you write about you know there's a huge percentage of stories that fit into six structures right and and one of them is the rags to riches uh..."

"story for people to get involved with emotionally but you also point out that location where where the player grows up very very important the the father super important to the player as well and and ..."

"and they tend to be uh insiders like really they know their business well and they tend to have already been good employees they were good at their job before they left out of their own to be an entre..."

"we pay really close attention to novel dangers dangers that have been around for a long long time we're like he yeah we we we know about that and as I was listening to you of course intuitively one wo..."

"that particular class of football players and and and I think that it makes sense that the the Vivid unexpected unusual is is going to grabb our attention much more than the much more you know pedestr..."

"right right yeah and and that's the part that intrigues me to no end right the the movies are entertainment right and what's entertaining what's entertaining is not watching a guy go build a car deale..."

"lead to really bad decisions down the road right be because if you if you are um going the root of I gonna take this incredibly rare individual who I have great admiration for and and I'm going to do ..."

"I used to say I tell stories to explain to you why you shouldn't pay attention to stories when making your investment decisions but we we it seems to me that we humans are OS runs on stories right and..."

"other methods of telling stories cuz you know they are the stories of the masses they're this the stories of how Society Works in some like fundamental way and that is something I do put a lot of work..."

"something similar in business sometimes where even if you are like a total geek like maybe you just need to sell the total Geeks right if you came and gave the presentation it was all numbers and grap..."

"not found the right people to go on dates with so yeah and that also brings up your observation that people often uh with regularity choose the wrong metric right like Beauty career are they Rich are ..."

"us right so if someone shows up to the date like one of them is just stunning but they don't really have their stuff together and the other one is a little plain looking but gets the job done you know..."

"to the smaller was was very helpful but I think that we also we can't do that everywhere it's it's like the famous story about the Brits trying to get rid of rats in uh Colonial India and and they sai..."

"a universal pattern i' I've seen in in many areas yeah one of the things that is also difficult and I wonder if you've run into this situation as well sometimes when a pattern or a again I'm thinking ..."

"I'm coming across and my personal experience here is sort of interesting because I look at the world same way as you do and uh another thing that was found to actually not add anything and in certain ..."

"that I gave all of them was the S&P 500 is a total return index in other words it reinvests dividends and gives you the total return had you reinvested dividends over this period from 1926 27 through ..."

"frustrations I have with like the world and definitely business is just people don't collect enough data so like it's really frustrating to me that they've been doing all these interviews and they hav..."

"driven by the way the they didn't call my group at be Stern's quantitative Equity they called it systematic Equity right just used say yeah right and one of the things that um I have always believed i..."

"right I who knows whether this idea that I think is great really is great or really is going to attract the right type of audience that I'm interested in and one of the things you call it doubleganger..."

"your site whatever metric you're interested in and I think Google was one of the first ones that really used this and you know initially they're doing a few experiments and they realized you know we c..."

"experiments CU it's very easy to get a group of a thousand people in you know for a treatment control group to do an experiment and another advantage of scale is they can find someone just like you wh..."

"individuals this this composition of the meds works best Etc I have a um uh a relative who like you highly degreed he's also got an MD but he's got I think he's got a PhD in data science as well and t..."

"better do you see those kinds of things getting unlocked across various disciplines and industries for sure but you have to be careful I don't want to get too technical but obviously overfitting is a ..."

"huge frustrations in health is just the data is all over the place there's so much data but you know it it seems clear that you could cure all kinds of diseases at this point uh if someone just had ac..."

"enormous data set to find that yeah and um the obviously the quality of the data as you point out and the availability of the data are critical um and one of the reasons why uh I've invested in a lot ..."

"I there's this example I talk about everybody lies my first book it was all about all the things we could learned people about people from search data and there's this study where they followed people..."

"by the medical community nobody has data sets that big you know with the time series of symptoms and I it's it's kind of like but you know so Microsoft did this study but I don't think Google's done a..."

"the biggest things is just you know changing the idea of what's ethical and what's not ethical you know and I think there is a a bit of a paranoia I I feel around some of these issues you know why why..."

"want to analyze and understand some of this data yeah I I think a a big factor here is cultural leg in other words the time it takes a culture to change and adopt some of the new tools that it it can ..."

"regulations in other areas but it just does I I sure that there are diseases that could be cured and that and there are you know L many many lives that could be saved sa with existing data that we sho..."

"example of the difference you know based on the incentives you give people what kind of data you get and also the difference in uh you know you what's really going on I think a lot of depression these..."

"picture definitely in people's Google searches uh I have long said social media is the ultimate poent good Village yeah yeah I definitely agree with that other you know sometimes there's a Darkness to..."

"dangerous too you know can lead to riots and uh Wars and all kinds of problems yeah and uh should not be ignored um and it brings us back to that point right like I I I agree with you on the sensitivi..."

"available to people right and and potentially it changes their mind yeah I I think it was a public so a lot of the data I analyze and everybody lies is Google Treads data and they make all this Anonym..."

"ways the other thing that we've touched on uh throughout our conversation but we haven't explicitly called out and and that is the the seeming preference of many people for small data sets where they ..."

"for doing these kinds of research studies and and learning so many new things that that people should consider yeah I think a lot of it is slicing and dicing the data set so you know you the example o..."

"yeah I agree are you working on a new book right now uh not I don't know I maybe I'm going to the same Parts trip and if I get inspired I might start one I kind of initially when I wrote who makes the..."

"have a whole bunch of ideas cooking I definitely hear you on that obsessive uh pull um I very much like you in in that respect I guess we could say uh gotta always make [ __ ] for infinite books maybe..."

"to incept in the world's population wait so are they just going to hear the idea decide whether to act or they're going to hear the idea just they're going to think they came up with the idea th Incep..."

"next week I would say I love both of those uh data uh can definitely set you free if you use it the right way and ask the right questions it can also enslave you as we talked about uh when when people..."