Going Infinite

“his books include liars poker Moneyball The Big Short Flash Boys and now going infinite the rise and fall of a new Tycoon”

“here's how Michael Lewis begins his new book going infinite this is from the audio version with leis himself reading”

“here is a passage from going infinite”

“here's a passage from going infinite Sam had long since decided that any discussions about his inner life and its consequences for others were feudal”

“the book is called going infinite the rise and fall of a new Tycoon by Michael Lewis coming up next time on the show”

“we speak with Michael Lewis about the rise and fall of Sam bankman freed and Lewis's new book on the topic called going infinite”

“and they that Michael Lewis book on Sam bankman freed has just been published it's called going infinite the rise in Fall of a new Tycoon”

“Ah, so we've been talking around the book Going Infinite, which is Michael's terrible book on Sam.”

“And he sets this up early in the book talking about Sam's childhood. Quote, 'He had a fault line inside him. Pressure was building on it.'”

“Perhaps the biggest major through line in Going Infinite is Michael Lewis not getting the joke.”

“One of the most remarkable things about going infinite is how much detail Lewis provides about FTX's collapse without ever calling Sam a liar.”

“and in fact and this is why that's weird the actual villain of his book going infinite the one person that Lewis is super critical of and like a really uncharitable way is the CEO brought in to take over the FTX after Sam like leaves and declares bankruptcy a guy named John Ray the third.”

“Lewis has all of the ingredients for a great modern Icarus story of hubris and the fall, but making it work tonally would require him to see these things that are obvious warning signs as warning signs and structure his book that way, right? And then you get some catharsis in the payoffs.”

“so perhaps the biggest major through line in going infinite is Michael Lewis not getting the joke”

“One of the most remarkable things about Going Infinite is how much detail Lewis provides about FTX's collapse without ever calling Sam a liar. The Guardian's review noted this, too.”

“this is right at the start of going infinite and it's about a phone call that Sam has during his billionaire ERA”

“this is like the weirdest through line in going infinite which is Michael Lewis does not understand games”

“And I still have not read the Michael Lewis book. You have. I just finished it. Yeah, yeah. Actually, how do you feel now? You finished it right before the conviction. We talked a little bit last week, but have your feelings on the book changed at all?”

“Okay, so I might be a little Lewis-pilled because at the very end of the book, he makes this point that John Ray, who was in charge of the bankruptcy of FTX, was able to find $7 billion of the $8 billion missing assets.”

“In the meantime, I got to say, Ron John, I have been reading the Michael Lewis book on SBF and I like it. And? It's, you, wait, sorry. What was that? I like it.”

“And Molly Wyatt actually was fascinating in breaking down the effective altruist community on the podcast on Wednesday. And she, you know, remember a couple months ago where we were wondering why there were all these AI letters coming out”

“and uh I bringing Mike Lewis into it cuz I'm reading his book and he actually explains it quite well talking about basically that if you can if you can earn a ton of money over your life even as like a banker or you set up an exchange and you spend that to help people out”

“everybody knows SPF is um in all likelihood a deranged sociopathic lunatic and Michael Lewis book just came out going infinite where he covered and it's he's created a little bit of controversy”

“and what whether it's Flash Boys or Going Infinite leads you to wonder about what these companies are doing.”

“And I think I could be wrong about this; it's possible they canceled him because they just decided they didn't need him, but I think between the time they teed him up and the time they called him, they read my book and they saw that he presented the same kind of problem I would present.”

“I'm just about done, and I'm starting to get angry at this point. It was very, very good. I think the first two-thirds were very, very good, and then Sam starts doing the crimes, and Michael Lewis is just, like, just irresponsibly soft on him.”

“Michael Lewis is an amazing author wrote about ftxs um downfall”

“The thing is, as you read Michael Lewis's book, it's hard to separate Bankman-Fried's illegal behaviors from the ones that were just sloppy or weird.”

“The story really begins in 2017 when Bankman-Fried quit his job at the trading firm Jane Street Capital to start his own crypto trading firm, Alameda Research, as Lewis's book makes clear.”

“Here is a passage from Going Infinite.”

“He ultimately decided to make as much money as possible; his personal goal was infinity dollars, thus the title of Michael Lewis's book.”

“Here's a passage from Going Infinite: Sam had long since decided that any discussions about his inner life and its consequences for others were futile.”

“There is a particularly revealing scene, particularly sad scene toward the end of Lewis's book.”

“And that Michael Lewis book on Sam Bankman-Fried has just been published; it's called 'Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.'”