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“Thanks for your most interesting Ep: 571: Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman Interview!”

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Hello Michael,

Thanks for your most interesting ‘Ep: 571: Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman Interview’ re Claude Shannon.

I’ll admit that his paper was mostly over my head when I read it as a grad student in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado, but certainly the idea of applying wide interests to supposedly specialized fields is something I do understand, having gone from a BA in another interdisciplinary program, a great books program as an undergrad, to doing software development and architecture at Nortel in the 90s, by way of a long period of budget travel in Europe in-between.

Re your exchange w/ the authors re collaboration: the below podcast is a glimpse into Penn & Teller’s collaboration over 40yrs, not so smooth as the collaboration that Soni & Goodman describe among themselves. May your collaboration be as fruitful as P&T’s, and more in-sync at a personal level!

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/619/the-magic-show?act=1

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Thanks.

Ep: 571: Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Posted on by Michael Covel
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

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My guests today are Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.

Soni is an American author and former managing editor of The Huffington Post. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his award-winning biography of Claude Shannon. Soni became the managing editor at The Huffington Post in January 2012. Previously he had worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company, as well as a speech writer at the office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Goodman is a political theorist joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and was previously a Mellon postdoctoral researcher at McGill University.

The topic is their book A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Information theory
  • Turning complex into simplicity
  • Complexity is the enemy
  • Bell Labs
  • How to deal with freedom in the work space
  • Short-term-ism in our economy
  • Dealing with critics and competitors

“It’s not about talking louder, its about talking smarter.” – Jimi Soni and Rob Goodman

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