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Matt Levine: preference

14 Feb 2018 Conversations with Tyler Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ

“What I would say is that whatever set of biases I have to find things interesting and weird and funny and quirky, I just write about it.”

— Matt Levine

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Matt Levine
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14 Feb 2018
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Conversations with Tyler

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…What’s your framework for deciding whether something is weird? I don’t know that I have one. It’s if it matches with my prior intuitions. I like weird, so when I use weird it’s often just a synonym for interesting. I wouldn’t say I have a framework. What I would say is that whatever set of biases I have to find things interesting and weird and funny and quirky, I just write about it. That seems to have resonated with some audience. I’m not sure that I can articulate what that framework is. Next question. Yes, here, second row.…

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