Mustafa Suleyman: The first part of the book mentions this idea of “pessimism aversion,” which is something that I’ve experienced my whole career; I’ve always felt like the weirdo in the corner who’s raising the alarm and saying, “Hold on a second, we have to be cautious.” Obviously lots of people listening to this podcast will probably be familiar with that, because we’re all a little bit more fringe. But certainly in Silicon Valley, that kind of thing… I get called a “decel” sometimes, which I actually had to look up. I guess it’s a play on me being an incel, which obviously I’m not, and some kind of decelerationist or Luddite or something — which is obviously also bananas, given what I’m actually doing with my company.
