Mentions personal use of A Conflict of Visions.

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…You mean Managerial Revolution? And The Machiavellians, especially for when they were written. Incredible books. The degree by which we have known a lot of these things but haven’t known the solution to some of the things that Burnham discusses are just remarkable. I think the best book I’ve read recently was A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. I just find that an incredibly insightful book by creating a prior to a lot of political conversations, like a higher-order differentiation between people. I fundamentally think humans are limited, and that’s the best thing about humans. That systems that we can build can lead us to incredibly amazing feats of cooperation and coordination. Optimizing everything you do to find the best set of tradeoffs feels like an extremely mature way of seeing the world. I’m just constantly fascinated with Sowell’s writing. Final question: What is it you hope to learn next?…

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