Michael Lewis: belief

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…You have to have new insights that delight you as you're researching it so that you can make something great. I think the reasons Acquired will eventually fail, I don't think come from like platform disruption like, oh, TikTok's going to make it so people want short form instead of Acquired. Maybe, but the more likely reason that we eventually fail is we stop being delighted by new things we discover, so we have nothing new to deliver to listeners. Right. I agree with that. If you were going to ask me how you were going to fail, that's exactly the thing I would say. You'd run out of gas or run out of material that made your socks go up and down. Okay, listeners, now is a great time to thank one of our very favorite partners, Shopify. David, we recorded this episode with Michael the week after Thanksgiving. While you and I were nice and festive and coming off of some relaxing time with family, the Shopify team had been cranking because Black Friday and Cyber Monday is of course the biggest sales weekend of the year for merchants around the world.…

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