Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedMichael Lewis: evaluation
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“I've had exciting collaborations with people, and the feeling I get is this person is bringing out a better version of me, which is why I asked if your spouses were threatened because Kahneman and Tversky's spouses were threatened is too strong a word, but they were very aware that the relationship that was the most important in their lives was not with their spouse.”
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- Speaker
- Michael Lewis
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…No. I only found out years into doing Acquired. He was a French lit major. That's important. This broad curiosity about things other than business and technology, I hear it in your program. I hear it in your podcast. What I'm thinking of in my head is Kahneman and Tversky. I wrote a book called The Undoing Projects. It got me think about collaboration. I've had exciting collaborations with people, and the feeling I get is this person is bringing out a better version of me, which is why I asked if your spouses were threatened because Kahneman and Tversky's spouses were threatened is too strong a word, but they were very aware that the relationship that was the most important in their lives was not with their spouse. I got the sense from The Undoing Project that Kahneman and Tversky's relationship was very intense. I don't know that I would describe our relationship as intense.…
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