Subsist

Money, and the stories we tell ourselves about it and everything else around us, is the focus of conversation this week.

Stuff mentioned in this conversation:

• Bitcoin and Simon’s Bitcoin article.
• Mark Boyle, the Moneyless Man and an interview with him.
• La Digue island in the Seychelles.
• You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney.
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
• Nassim Taleb, the Twitter curmudgeon.
• The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall.
• David Blaine’s Real or Magic.
• The Renamer.