The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
How did Robert Moses, an unelected bureaucrat, become the most powerful man in New York for three decades?
By taking over weak government institutions and then rewriting laws to make them stronger.
Moses took the New York authorities - simple corporations that built roads and
Just heard a paraphrase of this quote on the @myfirstmilpod with @ShaanVP and @nickkokonas. Related as this year I'm starting at the bottom of the mountain to build software for @Apple platforms.
Naval on why you have to be willing to start over:
"There's the analogy around mountain climbing. If you find a mountain and you start climbing and you spend your whole life climbing it, and you get, say, two-thirds of the way, and then you see the peak is way up there, but
Just got into a Ford Expedition Uber Black here in Chicago. What a crazy downgrade over the Chinese Didi EVs. Ford better hope the US market stays closed to competition or they are cooked.
