Surviving The Great Reshuffle - Jim O'Shaughnessy - #326

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Jim O'Shaughnessy. He's an investor and the founder, chairman and chief investment officer of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management. Time, space and geography are collapsing. The richest people on the planet are no longer in charge of labor or buildings. They're symbol manipulators. The skill sets we need today are completely different to what was needed 50 years ago, let alone 500 Jim is here to give us some advice on how we can try and survive this catastrophic reshuffling. So today, expect to learn why 2020 was the best thing to happen to talented people in the developing world, the danger of grade inflation in top flight universities, why we both have a man crush on Rory Sutherland, why Isaac Newton was dick and much more. Jim's so much fun. I really, really enjoyed this. He's got so many insights from histories, obviously super ridiculously well read, kind of like an investor, philosopher, king of some kind. So yeah, enjoy this one. Also, if you haven't already downloaded my ultimate life hacks list yet, then what are you doing with your life? Head to chriswillx.com/lifehacks and pick up a copy of my ultimate life hacks list, over 200 ways that you can upgrade your life instantly. It's everything that we covered in the first two and a half years of life hacks episodes on this very podcast chriswillx.com/lifehacks.
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