Michael Lewis: belief

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…Okay. Next category is videos, movies, TV shows. I just saw a movie two nights ago. We went to the theater, whole family went to the theater. Jay Kelly, it's new, Noah Baumbach. It's a new movie. It's George Clooney. I guess you'd say he's playing George Clooney with a midlife crisis. He's playing a famous actor who's trying to sort out the meaning of his life. It's just magical. It's a beautiful movie and a really ambitious movie. I've been thinking about it since I saw it, like what exactly it was getting across. What it's getting across I think, being famous like a movie star is, puts you at a certain distance to the world around you, and that distance has a price. It was taking the measure of that price. What makes that more general is that I think everybody has to make some decisions about the distance that they keep the world at. This was a way of having that conversation and entertaining what that distance should be. We got to see it. I have so many.…

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