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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

After all, the only way to renew a drivers license or a passport (or a medical license for that matter) is to dive head first into the ridiculousness and grin and bear it for the sake of the end goal. Note: because we were so impressed and thankful, I also donated $9000 to Khan academy in 2016.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: — and having the guy — the attendant asked me, do you have an even number or odd number license plate? RITHOLTZ: My answer was, I’m 11, I don’t have a license plate, just give the kid a gallon of gas. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Right.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. And so I remember Quincy told me, if you think you’re in the music business, and you don’t own music rights, publishing rights, licensing rights. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there.

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

The Big Picture

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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Transcript: Cass Sunstein

The Big Picture

Here’s something that pulls them apart, I’m going to give a simplified version of the best data I’m aware of on this, where people in the 2016 election who favored Trump or Clinton also had predictions about whether Trump or Clinton would win before the election. Let’s take Clinton voters.

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