Ep.108 — Make Things, and Be Playful w/ Jimmy Soni

Jimmy Soni is an author whose work focuses on people who create and build interesting things—whether theories, carousels, or companies. His books include “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”, “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age”, and more!

Show Notes:

- The joy of curiosity
- How memes spread
- The Great Reshuffle
- How internet changed the publishing industry
- Parallels between early days of PayPal and Bitcoin
- Money as an information system
- Appreciating the micro-level decisions
- Three new things about Elon
- The Elon Effect
- How the PayPal founders brought the best out of people
- The unknown names who were critical to PayPal
- Claude Shannon’s financial decisions
- Wealth is a byproduct of the devotion to the craft

**Books Mentioned:**

- The Founders; by Jimmy Soni
- A Mind at Play; by Jimmy Soni
- Virus of the Mind; by Richard Brodie
- The Sovereign Individual; by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- What Works on Wall Street; Jim O'Shaughnessy