LynAlden on Nostr: During this talk, I dunked on Egypt's currency as my primary negative example of ...

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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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