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A Book with Legs

Smead Capital Management
Smead Capital Management
Psychology
Investing
Wealth
Capitalism
Oil Industry
History Of Psychology
Religion
Copyright
Wall Street
Inflation
Charlie Munger
Poker
Human Decision-Making
Positive Psychology
Corporate Law
Financial Freedom
History Of Copyright Laws
Investment Markets
Energy Market

In each episode, we explore value investing through an entirely unique lens, bringing in authors to discuss books that have directly or indirectly influenced the decisions the Smead Capital Management team has made on their investments in stocks and equities. The podcast is for the curious-minded looking for worldly wisdom. Investing is the last great liberal art, and the team at Smead wants to le... more

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Can an IQ test comprehensively define an individual’s intelligence? Are there aspects of human capability that tests fail to take into account?

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How did one family build Fidelity into one of the most powerful forces in American investing, and what allowed it to endure across three generations?

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What makes a civilization endure, and how did a Chinese empire that conquered everything fall apart in 15 years?

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What in the subconscious mind informs our actions, and what are our neural networks capable of that distinguishes them from machines such as LLMs?

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Recent Guests

Howard Gardner
John H and Elizabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; author of Frames of Mind
Harvard University
Episode: Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind
Justin Baer
Award-winning journalist and deputy markets editor at The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Episode: Justin Baer - House of Fidelity
Andrew Seth Meyer
Author of To Rule All Under Heaven
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Episode: Andrew Seth Meyer: To Rule All Under Heaven
Gaurav Suri
Computational neuroscientist and experimental psychologist; associate professor at San Francisco State University; distinguished scientist at Stanford
San Francisco State University; Stanford University
Episode: Gaurav Suri - The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
Jason Socrates Bardi
Award-winning journalist and author; focuses on the history of mathematics
Author of The Great Math War
Episode: Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
Kathryn Paige Harden
Professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
Episode: Kathryn Paige Harden - Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, And the Future of Forgiveness
Tom Griffiths
Author of The Laws of Thought, Professor at Princeton University
Princeton University
Episode: Tom Griffiths - Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Amy Gamerman
Author and journalist who has written for the Wall Street Journal
Episode: Amy Gamerman - The Crazies
Tim Wu
Professor at Columbia Law School, known for developing the term net neutrality
Columbia Law School
Episode: Tim Wu - The Age of Extraction

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Cole Smead
Host of A Book with Legs, guiding conversations with guests and shaping the episode flow

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Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind
Q: How do language and other domains relate to intelligence, and how should education adapt to changing technologies like AI and large language models?
He argues that intelligences are domain-specific computational capacities and suggests that education should prioritize human relations, critical thinking, and cross-domain creativity rather than solely focusing on traditional linguistic or logical-mathematical skills.
Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind
Q: What counts as an intelligence, and what are the signs you use to determine if someone has a particular competence?
Gardner describes criteria such as precocious development, cultural value, and neural specialization, culminating in the eight (originally seven) intelligences and later additions like naturalist and existential intelligence.
Andrew Seth Meyer: To Rule All Under Heaven
Q: So we did this a little bit before we started today, but you have to tell us a story of why the Warring States were, why this book, why this story, how this all came to be.
The guest describes a lifelong fascination with early China sparked in college, the desire to translate complex historical periods for general readers, and the motivation to write a book that explains the broader historical context behind classical texts.
Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
Q: How do historical debates in mathematics relate to contemporary investing and risk management?
Both domains hinge on how we deal with uncertainty and what we measure; the discussion shows that optimizing for a metric without considering ultimate outcomes can mislead, a concept transferable to evaluating investments and forecasting risk.
Tom Griffiths - Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Q: What inspired you to tell this story?
Griffiths explains he wanted to provide context for how ideas about math, mind, and computation developed, tracing a lineage from early thinkers through modern AI to show how our understanding has evolved and where it might go next.

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2. Justin Baer
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4. Gaurav Suri
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