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Back in February I gave a Broken Money book talk at Princeton.

I put more prep into that presentation than any other I've done, since I often do firesides or panels and so forth. Eight months later it's still my go-to reference if someone wants the gist of the book. It recently crossed 100k views on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/soGXgiGoMRU

Lyn Alden 1y ago 💬 6

During this talk, I dunked on Egypt's currency as my primary negative example of Broken Money multiple times.

And then during the Q&A, since this was Princeton, one audience member of course was like, "yeah, I was the former minister of finance in Egypt."

Imagine a movie where the main character is like, "freeze frame, rewind, how did we get here?" That was kind of my thought at the moment.

But he was cool. He ran finance for a two-year period during a benign environment. He wasn't the source of the issue, fully understood the issue of course, he asked good questions, and we talked afterward. But it was still one of my favorite "holy shit" moments in presentation history.

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SF Hodl 1y ago

😂

EmperorLightyear 1y ago

Great leaders of (anything) are able to admit when they are wrong/practice humility. Sounds like he was still great!

Hodlrtchico 1y ago

Lol closest I got to that type of moment was having to teach a cpr course to nurses due to a poorly thought out federal regulation.

Brett 1y ago

I remember watching that!

Great talk. And great Q&A.

Sammytwofingers 1y ago

that’s epic lyn! so cool the intersects!

Andrew 1y ago

It was a great presentation Lyn, and so glad I could see it in person.

I feel like John Nash / Princeton comes up regularly when people speculate around who Satoshi could have been.

I was curious if that concept came to your mind at any point before, during, after the presentation? I can’t help but think that concept would take “Holy shit” to a whole new level.