Subsist

Money, and the stories we tell ourselves about it and everything else around us, is the focus of conversation this week.

Stuff mentioned in this conversation:

Bitcoin and Simon’s Bitcoin article.Mark Boyle, the Moneyless Man and an interview with him.La Digue island in the Seychelles.You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney.Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.Nassim Taleb, the Twitter curmudgeon.The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall.David Blaine’s Real or Magic.The Renamer.

“The three most harmful addictions are heroin,carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. ”

— Maybe Nassim Taleb