Mentions personal use of The Name of The Wind.

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…Do you have a secret life as a fiction ghost writer? No, I do not, but I do have a secret life as a coach to writers and other writers. This thing was so compelling. I couldn't believe how good it was. I couldn't believe how good it was that he just got installed. The Name of The Wind, Patrick Rothfuss, I read at the beginning of the year, very beginning of the year, at the end of the thing I just finished. It's not like it's a great book. It's so short. It's something that is speaking to our moment. It's basically how we govern ourselves. I always mispronounce his name. It's Vannevar Bush who essentially created the American Science Project. It's basic. I think he started it as a memo to FDR, then FDR died, and it ended up being a memo to Terry Truman, about what America could do if the government in the right way got behind science. He was saying, look what we did with the Manhattan Project. We can do it with biology, we can do it with the other hard sciences. He was describing not a top down approach, not like the government is going to just decide. We're going to fund it and let the scientists figure out what they need to work on. That was the big insight. Those are the two books. How about you? Similar to you, it's been a research heavy year.…

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