Harder to Fool

business, careers, education, self improvement · EN

This podcast isn’t a manifesto, and it doesn’t offer a single grand theory to explain modern life. It’s closer to an almanac: a collection of observations, warnings, and hard-earned patterns—many of them unfashionable—meant to be consulted, not blindly accepted. Modern American life is saturated with advice but starved of wisdom. Institutions that once filtered nonsense now produce it at scale. Narratives are sold as facts, incentives are disguised as morality, and skepticism is increasingly treated as a character flaw. This podcast is an attempt to clear some of that fog. Episodes range across politics, economics, careers, money, institutional decay, and the quiet mechanics of everyday scams. They aren’t united by ideology, but by method—an insistence on incentives, tradeoffs, and first principles. Whenever possible, the question is simple: Who benefits if I believe this? Much of today’s public discourse is performative. Politics is framed as existential