5/12/2023 0 Comments Author jared diamondLEVITT: So, many listeners know your books like Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse - massive bestsellers. First, how could anyone know so much about so many things as he does? And second, what sort of arrogance - err - self-confidence does it take to think that you can unravel some of the biggest, toughest questions in human history? My goal today is to figure out the answer to both those questions. I’ve long marveled over two things about Jared Diamond. Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt. What might surprise you is that the study of civilizations, it wasn’t his first career, it wasn’t even his second career.ĭIAMOND: The MacArthur grant means that people think that you can do more valuable things than gallbladders and even more valuable thing than New Guinea birds. My guest today, Jared Diamond, has written some of the bestselling popular science books of all time, including Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse.
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