Podcast appearances and mentions of Clive Thompson

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 28:18

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been edged out of the headlines this past week, or so, by the administration's current flirtation with a constitutional crisis. But the DOGE team is still busy. One project on the office's agenda, originally reported by WIRED late last month, is to rewrite the Social Security Administration's code base—in other words, the agency's computer programs, which handle millions of Americans' personal and financial data. Brooke sits down with Clive Thompson, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, and monthly columnist for Wired, to discuss the coding language under DOGE's microscope. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

500. The Coders' Mindset and Transformation of Society feat. Clive Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 61:07

What effects will generative AI have on coding and software engineering? Will it make anyone a coder? Will it just turn software engineering into copy/paste exercises? How will the top coders use AI to hack their own efficiency and productivity, and why is it so hard for the large tech companies to do the same things that the smaller ones do?Clive Thompson is a journalist for the New York Times Magazine and Wired as well as the author of multiple books, including Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better and Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World.Greg and Clive delve into the cultural and societal impacts of the rise of coders, exploring how the coding mindset infiltrates various aspects of life and business. They also discuss the nature of work in software engineering, the shift towards iterative and agile methodologies, and the potential future shaped by generative AI and its implications for the field. Clive explains the paradoxes of efficiency, the challenges of maintenance over creation in coding, and how his life experience and interests converge in his upcoming book about cycling across the United States and the future of mobility. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*Show Links:Recommended Resources:Max WeberNeil PostmanSamuel Taylor ColeridgePaul GrahamRay OzzieJeff AtwoodReid HoffmanGuest Profile:CliveThompson.netWikipedia ProfileSocial Profile on XProfile on LinkedInHis Work:Amazon Author PageSmarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the BetterCoders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the WorldWired ArticlesEpisode Quotes:Why do coders need an intense level of focus? If this thing happens [in coding], it will change this other thing. If that thing changes, this thing over here has to happen, and that's also reliant on this other thing. And it's so hard to get the structure of this in your head that you might spend several hours just looking at what you're trying to do, just thinking about it, sort of, getting it in your head. And when it's finally there, then you can begin to do the work. And of course, a couple interesting things fall out of this psychology. One is that you want to stay there. It took you three to four hours to get there, so you don't want to leave. So, you want to stay there for 10, 15, 20, 48 hours. The huge problem with managing coders.[18:15] This is a huge problem with managing coders is that they love learning, in a weird way. You would argue, isn't this an ideal employee? Someone who is eager to learn. Constantly learning new things. Very few employees are like, “I am just omnivorous in my spare time when I'm not being paid, I'm going to do more of this.” I mean, how many accountants at your company go home, and then from eight o'clock at night to two in the morning, do more accounting for fun, just voluntarily? That's a coder, right? And what they're doing is they're going home, and they're doing crazy new forms of software that they're not really allowed to do at work, but they often try and bring that in, and they'll be like, “I'm now obsessed with this framework. Hey, boss, can we use this? And it's like, “No! That framework is experimental and not reliable, and I want you to do the same old boring thing we've been doing for 30 years, because that is reliable.” And this is just a very hard thing. There's an excitement in the craft that a lot of software developers have that's not what the job requires.An interesting analogy between law and codingThat's a great analogy that I'd never heard or thought of before, which is that law needs to be patched the way that software needs to be patched. Because it's the same challenge, which is that [in] writing code and writing law, you're trying to create a system that other people are going to use. Humans are going to use it. And so you, the author of the law, or you, the author of the code, have to try sitting at your desk to imagine all the things that those dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, or billions of humans will do with this system. And you can't. There's no way you can. So, you have to just put it out there and watch and see what they do, and then fix it as it goes, basically. And, of course, the more critical the system, or the less critical system, the more or less you can get away with.The mental character of coding is closer to that of an artist than it is to many other forms of engineering.Coders hate being interrupted, and that's part of why they're regarded as being such irascible weirdos. [It] is like, if you tap them on the shoulder, they'll bite you.There's something delightful about that mentality of focus. There's something maybe even [to] be learned from it. It's one of the reasons why I realized the more I talked to coders about their attentional needs, and the sweep and drama, and a sort of, epic mental toil, that it reminded me of novelists, of artists, of poets, of temperament. The mental character of coding is closer to that of an artist than it is to many other forms of engineering.

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The Next Black Swan? Expert Warns of an Economic Crisis that Could Strike Without Warning

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 35:08

“I think we are at peak dollar... But it's not something that's going to happen overnight; it will take decades to unfold,” says Clive Thompson, retired managing director of Union Bancaire Privée in Switzerland. In an interview with Daniela Cambone, Thompson delves into the dangers of the insurmountable debt burden facing the U.S. economy. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310

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Episode 107: Reality Bites, the Rise of Reality TV, and the 90s. Whatever. With Emily Nussbaum

Historians At The Movies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 83:52

This week Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum joins to talk about the 90s, Generation X, and the rise of reality television during our discussion of Reality Bites.About our guest:Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously, was the magazine's television critic. She worked as an editor and a writer at New York Magazine, where she created The Approval Matrix. She's also written for Slate, The New York Times, Lingua Franca and Nerve, among other publications. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Clive Thompson and her two children. She doesn't have a favorite television show, but under pressure, she'll choose "Slings and Arrows."Find her new book, Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV right here: https://amzn.to/3CSw6tB

'We've Passed the Point of No Return' - Debt Bomb Will Ignite GOLD: Clive Thompson

Commodity Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 48:39

Clive Thompson believes the main driver for the gold price is the untenable debt and deficits in Western economies that are only set to accelerate, and he believes this debt bomb will ignite the gold price higher once it eventually explodes. Clive also provides his outlook for silver, explains where he's seeing value in markets today, and much more.West Red Lake Gold Mines (TSXV: WRLG | OTCQB: WRLGF)https://westredlakegold.comDisclaimer: Commodity Culture was compensated by West Red Lake Gold Mines for promotion. Jesse Day is not a shareholder of West Red Lake Gold Mines. Nothing contained in this promotion is to be construed as investment advice, do your own due diligence.Follow Clive Thompson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251Follow Jesse Day on X: https://x.com/jessebdayCommodity Culture on Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/CommodityCulture

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Unemployment Rising as FED Panics with Clive Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2024 33:51

Interview recorded - 22nd of October, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson. Clive has years of experience in the wealth management industry & a unique insight into central banks.During our conversation we spoke about the current state of the economy, FED weakening, decreasing interest rates, how the FED are losing control of the bond market, people are losing their jobs and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:40 - Currently seeing in the economy?7:08 - FED seeing workforce weakness?9:40 - Who is buying gold?12:10 - Decreasing interest rates positive?13:45 - FED losing control of bond market?22:57 - Yield rising linked to debt?25:54 - Underinvestment of precious metals28:34 - What is happening with silver?32:14 - One message to takeaway from conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition

Geopolitics & Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 65:18

Retired wealth manager Clive Thompson discusses the state of the economy, how the post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game, BRICS, and how the reset will most likely bring in CBDCs which is another form of ration coupon. In the early stages of this new system life may be relatively free, but he fears that down the line we'll get end up in a dystopian society. He explains what could happen to the old debt and old currency and what stores of wealth would be wise to have as we go through the transition. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition #484 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251 About Clive Thompson I have an un-blemished career of 47 years in the Wealth Management business. I started my career in 1975 at the age of 18 in the UK. After passing my professional exams "Institute of Bankers - Trustee diploma", I worked as a Trust officer for the leading Cayman Islands Trust Company for several years before accepting a similar title in Switzerland in 1985. In 1995 I joined Coutts & Co in Switzerland as a Private Banker. In 2015 the Wealth Management business of Coutts & Co in Switzerland was bought by Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, one of the four leading private banks in Switzerland. I continued to work as a Managing Director in the Wealth Management division of UBP until I retired in 2022. I am an active investor in all major asset classes, especially global equities. On a daily basis I am trawling through company balance sheets, reports and recommendations, and using several financial tools to help me identify and invest in quoted companies offering attractive risk and reward features. True gems are difficult to find, but if you look long and hard enough, eventually you will find them. I could quote countless examples of "Gems" I have found over the last 48 years. As an example I get very excited when I find companies with a profitable business, no debt, and holding more cash on their balance sheet than their market cap (Yes that's for real). There are plenty of interesting asset plays - situations where valuable corporate assets are not yet recognised by the market. Every year brings some kind of crisis. Some sector of the stock market will be heavily out of favour. I often find bargains in the least loved part of the market. In addition to equities I invest in Private Equity, Precious Metals, Crypto-currencies, Property, Art, and I am open to all kinds of tangible assets. Of course, I have cash and bonds, but frankly the interest rates don't do justice to the rate of fiat inflation. The post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game. The levels of government indebtedness continues to increase faster than GDP. This won't continue forever. Sooner or later something will break. When that happens, fiat-denominated assets, like cash and bonds, are likely to be the biggest losers. I don't want to be one of the bag-holders, hence my preference to hold more tangible assets. Despite being retired, I am in daily discussions with wealthy, and not so wealthy, individuals on topics encompassing residency, taxes, family structures,

Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition

Geopolitics & Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 65:18

Retired wealth manager Clive Thompson discusses the state of the economy, how the post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game, BRICS, and how the reset will most likely bring in CBDCs which is another form of ration coupon. In the early stages of this new system life may be relatively free, but he fears that down the line we'll get end up in a dystopian society. He explains what could happen to the old debt and old currency and what stores of wealth would be wise to have as we go through the transition. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Clive Thompson: Monetary Reset Will Bring in Dystopian CBDCs, How to Survive Transition #484 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use promo code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using this link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251 About Clive Thompson I have an un-blemished career of 47 years in the Wealth Management business. I started my career in 1975 at the age of 18 in the UK. After passing my professional exams "Institute of Bankers - Trustee diploma", I worked as a Trust officer for the leading Cayman Islands Trust Company for several years before accepting a similar title in Switzerland in 1985. In 1995 I joined Coutts & Co in Switzerland as a Private Banker. In 2015 the Wealth Management business of Coutts & Co in Switzerland was bought by Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, one of the four leading private banks in Switzerland. I continued to work as a Managing Director in the Wealth Management division of UBP until I retired in 2022. I am an active investor in all major asset classes, especially global equities. On a daily basis I am trawling through company balance sheets, reports and recommendations, and using several financial tools to help me identify and invest in quoted companies offering attractive risk and reward features. True gems are difficult to find, but if you look long and hard enough, eventually you will find them. I could quote countless examples of "Gems" I have found over the last 48 years. As an example I get very excited when I find companies with a profitable business, no debt, and holding more cash on their balance sheet than their market cap (Yes that's for real). There are plenty of interesting asset plays - situations where valuable corporate assets are not yet recognised by the market. Every year brings some kind of crisis. Some sector of the stock market will be heavily out of favour. I often find bargains in the least loved part of the market. In addition to equities I invest in Private Equity, Precious Metals, Crypto-currencies, Property, Art, and I am open to all kinds of tangible assets. Of course, I have cash and bonds, but frankly the interest rates don't do justice to the rate of fiat inflation. The post-Bretton Woods monetary system is drawing towards the end-game. The levels of government indebtedness continues to increase faster than GDP. This won't continue forever. Sooner or later something will break. When that happens, fiat-denominated assets, like cash and bonds, are likely to be the biggest losers. I don't want to be one of the bag-holders, hence my preference to hold more tangible assets. Despite being retired, I am in daily discussions with wealthy, and not so wealthy, individuals on topics encompassing residency, taxes, family structures,

Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology

The Gradient Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 147:35

Episode 136I spoke with Clive Thompson about:* How he writes* Writing about the climate and biking across the US* Technology culture and persistent debates in AI* PoetryEnjoy—and let me know what you think!Clive is a journalist who writes about science and technology. He is a contributing writer forWired magazine, and is currently writing his next book about micromobility and cycling across the US.Find me on Twitter for updates on new episodes, and reach me at editor@thegradient.pub for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (01:07) Clive's life as a Tarantino movie* (03:07) Boring life and interesting art, life as material for art* (10:25) Cycling across the US — Clive's new book on mobility and decarbonization* (15:07) Turning inward in writing* (27:21) Including personal experience in writing* (31:53) Personal and less personal writing* (36:08) Conveying uncertainty and the “voice from nowhere” in traditional journalism* (41:10) Finding the natural end of a piece* (1:02:10) Writing routine* (1:05:08) Theories of change in Clive's writing* (1:12:33) How Clive saw things before the rest of us* (1:27:00) Automation in software engineering* (1:31:40) The anthropology of coders, poetry as a framework* (1:43:50) Proust discourse* (1:45:00) Technology culture in NYC + interaction between the tech world and other worlds* (1:50:30) Technological developments Clive wants to see happen (free ideas)* (2:01:11) Clive's argument for memorizing poetry* (2:09:24) How Clive finds poetry* (2:18:03) Clive's pursuit of freelance writing and making compromises* (2:27:25) OutroLinks:* Clive's Twitter and website* Selected writing* The Attack of the Incredible Grading Machine (Lingua Franca, 1999)* The Know-It-All Machine (Lingua Franca, 2001)* How to teach AI some common sense (Wired, 2018)* Blogs to Riches (NY Mag, 2006)* Clive vs. Jonathan Franzen on whether the internet is good for writing (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013)* The Minecraft Generation (New York Times, 2016)* What AI College Exam Proctors are Really Teaching Our Kids (Wired, 2020)* Companies Don't Need to Be Creepy to Make Money (Wired, 2021)* Is Sucking Carbon Out of the Air the Solution to Our Climate Crisis? (Mother Jones, 2021)* AI Shouldn't Compete with Workers—It Should Supercharge Them (Wired, 2022)* Back to BASIC—the Most Consequential Programming Language in the History of Computing Wired, 2024) Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

Debt Crisis Inflating Assets Higher with Clive Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 44:29

Interview recorded - 17th of April, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson. Clive's entire career was in wealth management, mainly Swiss private banking. This provides him a unique insight into central banks.During our conversation we spoke about why we didn't experience a banking crisis in 2023, whether it could be a risk moving forward, governments getting poorer while someone else is getting richer, stickier than expected inflation, financial repression, precious metals and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction2:16 - Should we be worried about further banking crisis?11:21 - Light at end of the tunnel darkening?13:20 - Maybe long end of yield curve to increase further15:01 - Stickier than expected inflation?16:31 - Banks under more pressure?28:33 - FED and other central banks moving to financial repression?33:36 - Is this why we've seen an increase in precious metals?43:33 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Reset To Happen Drastically Without Warning; I Fear “Dystopian Future” For Grandkids Warns Insider

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 35:05

“If we get to a currency reset, the countries that have a lot of gold will be sitting at the table. And those who have no gold will be told what to do,” warns Clive Thompson, retired managing director for Union Bancaire Privée in Switzerland. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310

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“Monumental” Reset Looms, Think Twice Before Keeping Cash in the Banks Warns Swiss Banker

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 47:39

"Your purchasing power is being eroded literally by the day because the quantity of fiat wealth on the planet is going up every day," warns Clive Thompson, retired managing director for Union Banquette Privée in Switzerland. Questions on Protecting Your Wealth with Gold & Silver? Schedule a Strategy Call Here ➡️ https://calendly.com/itmtrading/podcast or Call 866-349-3310

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Clive Thompson Pt 2: CBDC's & Debt Jubilee Ep 407

NZ Everyday Investor

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2024 41:19

In today's show, you'll learn how the future could be more than a little good. That's right, all that cray cray crazy in the world is actually a good sign. Clive Thompson is a retired private banker and wealth manager of 47 years, based in Switzerland. None of this is financial advice, but I do hope it gets you thinking!Sign up to the newsletter!______________________Take The Home Buyers Blueprint: Get a better home; Get a better mortgage.Sign up to the KiwiSaver Millionaire Roadmap: From 6 figures to 7; Get a Rockstar Retirement!Sign up to New Wealth Foundations here: Personal finance from a wealth-builder's perspective.Thanks to Easy Crypto, New Zealand's most trusted crypto brand and what Darcy Ungaro uses.Book in a free 15-min phone call with Darcy Ungaro (financial adviser)- click on this link.Get SocialYouTube InstagramTikTok: @theeverydayinvestorwww.nzeverydayinvestor.comInstagramYouTubeDarcy UngaroLinkedInTwitter: @UngaroDarcywww.ungaro.co.nz________________________Affiliate Links!I may receive a financial benefit if you click on these links.HatchSharesiesEasy CryptoSharesight: (Get 5 months free)CMC MarketsRevolut: Sign up, and get a $15 credit.Disclaimer: Please act independently from any content provided in these episodes; it's not financial advice, because there's no accounting for your individual circumstances. Do your own research, and take a broad range of opinions into...

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Clive Thompson: How to Invest Through a Currency Reset, Ep 406

NZ Everyday Investor

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 45:41

Check out YouTube Version Here.Clive Thompson is a retired private banker and wealth manager, now living on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, after a career spanning 47 years.Read more.Book in a free 15-min phone call with Darcy Ungaro (financial adviser)- click on this link.______________________Take The Home Buyers Blueprint: Get a better home; Get a better mortgage.Sign up to the KiwiSaver Millionaire Roadmap: From 6 figures to 7; Get a Rockstar Retirement!Sign up to New Wealth Foundations here: Personal finance from a wealth-builder's perspective.Thanks to Easy Crypto, New Zealand's most trusted crypto brand and what Darcy Ungaro uses.Get SocialSign up to the newsletter!YouTube InstagramTikTok: @theeverydayinvestorwww.nzeverydayinvestor.comInstagramYouTubeDarcy UngaroLinkedInTwitter: @UngaroDarcywww.ungaro.co.nz________________________Affiliate Links!I may receive a financial benefit if you click on these links.HatchSharesiesEasy CryptoSharesight: (Get 5 months free)CMC MarketsRevolut: Sign up, and get a $15 credit.Disclaimer: Please act independently from any content provided in these episodes; it's not financial advice, because there's no accounting for...

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#190 Clive Thompson - Retired Value Investor Shares Market Wisdom

State of the Markets

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2023 90:43

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“Model collapse” shows AI doesn’t have the human touch, writer says

Marketplace Tech

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 8:22

AI chatbots have gotten pretty good at generating text that looks like it was written by a real person. That’s because they’re trained on words and sentences that actual humans wrote, scraped from blogs and news websites. But research now shows when you feed that AI-generated text back into the models to train a new chatbot, after a while, it sort of stops making sense. It’s a phenomenon AI researchers are calling “model collapse.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Clive Thompson, author of “Coders” and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Wired, about what could be a growing problem as more AI-generated stuff lands on the web.

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“Model collapse” shows AI doesn’t have the human touch, writer says

Marketplace All-in-One

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 8:22

AI chatbots have gotten pretty good at generating text that looks like it was written by a real person. That’s because they’re trained on words and sentences that actual humans wrote, scraped from blogs and news websites. But research now shows when you feed that AI-generated text back into the models to train a new chatbot, after a while, it sort of stops making sense. It’s a phenomenon AI researchers are calling “model collapse.” Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke to Clive Thompson, author of “Coders” and contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and Wired, about what could be a growing problem as more AI-generated stuff lands on the web.

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How and why Clive Thompson biked across the country

Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 48:18

In April, journalist and author Clive Thompson set out to bicycle across the entire country — 4,150 miles total — as part of the reporting for his next book on “micromobility.” He documented his trip in real time online: 70 days on the road, broken up by a brief return trip home. Here we discuss what micromobility is and why this ride was so important for him to do, plus some ups and downs of the journey and what cycling across the country does to someone physically, mentally and emotionally. Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com Email: hello@bkmag.com Follow along on Facebook: Brooklyn Magazine Twitter: @brooklynmag Instagram: @brooklynmagazine Follow Brian Braiker on Twitter: @slarkpope

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Central Banks Are In An Impossible Position with Clive Thompson

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2023 46:29

Interview Recorded - 31st of March, 2023On today's episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Clive Thompson, a retired Wealth Manager from Switzerland. During our conversation we spoke about what was behind the recent bank collapses, commercial real estate the next concern, what this means for the world of banking, how the FED can continue with unrealised losses and whether a BRICs currency could replaced the US Dollar. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:40 - What is behind the recent bank collapses10:30 - Commercial Real Estate the next issue?15:50 - Most inflated real estate cities to drop18:20 - Which banks have the most exposure to commercial real estate?19:30 - What does this mean for the world of banking?21:25 - Further concentration in largest companies?32:40 - Could the FED go bankrupt?40:10 - What does a pivot mean for currency and monetary system?43:05 - How bad would BRICS currency be for US Dollar?44:50 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

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Preparing for a Global Currency Reset with Clive Thompson

Wired For Impact

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 60:48

Clive Thompson is a retired managing director of a private Swiss bank with 47 years of experience advising families on how to manage their wealth. Now he is sharing his expertise with the public on preparing for their financial future in a changing world. Show Notes:Is a new global currency on the horizon? Can you imagine a world with no debt? Today I welcome retired investment banker Clive Thompson to the podcast. In this episode, Clive breaks down in detail how a global currency reset could happen and what that will mean for the average person. We discuss the value of gold/silver, tokenization, and a diversified portfolio. Listen to this episode now to learn why you shouldn't save too much cash and what investments you should research more. In This Episode, You'll Learn:How A Global Currency Reset Could HappenWhy There's A Need For Gold and SilverThe Value of TokenizationHow Individuals Can Prepare for Inflation and a Currency Reset Find More of Clive Thompson Here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/ Full Episode Timestamps:0:00:06 Who is Clive Thompson?0:01:41 What Is Going On With The Current Financial System?0:08:17 Why Aren't More Financial Advisors Concerned About American Debt and The Current Situation with Fiat Currency?0:10:12 What Will Potentially Be The Process for Switching to a New Currency?0:19:14 What Conflicts May Arise From A Global Currency Reset?0:22:25 Could a Financial Reset Lead To a More Authoritarian Government?0:25:59 Why Is There a Need For Gold and Silver?0:30:40 Is There A Possibility of CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) Not Being Adopted?0:32:59 What Is Tokenization And How Does This Impact Economics?0:38:29 What Should The Average Person Do to Prepare Against Inflation and a Financial Reset?0:44:04 Are The Prices of Gold and Silver Being Suppressed?0:48:55 What Is The Average Portfolio Ratio for High Net Worth Individuals?

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Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 46:01

Your freedom and liberty are under threat. The central bank digital currency is slowly making its way into our society. Other countries are already embracing it and willingly surrendering their rights- all in the name of 'protection.' Is the US next? So what are we to do? How are we to respond when our money will soon be digitized? Navigate through treacherous waters as Jason and Clive continue their discussion about the implications and ramifications of having a digital wallet as part of our society and how you can protect yourself from the impending darkness that is the digital dollar. Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 1:22 The elites increasing control over the population 2:05 The pyramid of the hierarchy of money 5:37 SEC goes after Coinbase 10:07 Banks are still drawing on the FED for $164 Billion of emergency cash 11:45 Join the Empowered Mentoring Program Zoom Meeting TODAY. https://EmpoweredInvestor.com/Mentor 13:40 Go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join for the 100% Financing Zoom meeting Clive Thompson interview 15:38 Keeping the Reset a secret as the world follows suit 17:05 The digital wallet would make it just so easy 22:17 Exceptions and different rules for the elite class 23:24 The speed to which it comes and the countries that go first 25:44 Engineering a crisis to usher in the CBDC 30:03 Strange bedfellows: FED tolerance and government bailouts 33:06 Two Huge FED problems- a HUGE asset that does not exist 36:01 How this all plays out 38:16 THE Action plan: invest in things that have intrinsic value 41:28 Cost of insuring against US default Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class: Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

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1978: Central Bank Digital Currency, Surveillance State, Open Ai, Inflation Induced Debt Destruction, Clive Thompson

Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 43:55

Again, Jason is sounding the alarm regarding the central bank digital currency that is coming in our already prevalent surveillance state. And when this finally happens, it is 'checkmate' for the human race! And talking with Jason about the impending RESET and the implications of this massive digital shift in our society is Clive Thompson. He is a retired Managing Director at Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA at UBP - Union Bancaire Privée. Invest in our Florida and Alabama markets- with 100% financing! Join our zoom meeting where Jason talks about how you can avail of this! Just go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join to register for this coming Thursday's webinar. Key Takeaways: Jason's editorial 1:22 The inevitability of digital currency and our surveillance state 5:39 Invisible banking and the power of a digital system 7:43 A blatant lie from the FED 9:01 Runaway inflation or banking system collapse 11:38 Inflation induced debt destruction 13:51 Three million US households making over $150,000 are still renters 16:01 Low housing inventory and the million dollar cities lost 18:03 100% Financing. go to https://www.JasonHartman.com/Join and register today! Clive Thompson interview 20:22 Welcome Clive from Switzerland 21:15 Global currency: truly horrifying 'Orwellian' levels of control 24:09 The inevitability of the digital fiat money by governments and corporations 25:16 Cost savings and convenience- like Sweden 26:35 What one can do to protect oneself? 27:42 What about Bitcoin? 28:31 The future in terms of Inflation, deflation and stagflation 30:48 Hard assets, things that have intrinsic value 33:13 Currency reset and how it affects the economy 34:40 Resetting the mortgage 37:07 Surviving the reset Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class: Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

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CBDC's and the End of Fiat Currency With Clive Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2023 42:37

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The F-Word: Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?

The Laura Flanders Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2023 3:30

The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests.Twenty-three minutes. That's how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance at a text, and you'll pay for what's called a “switch effect.”“We've fallen for a mass delusion that our brains can multi-task. They can't,” author Johann Hari found out in researching his latest book. We're paying a price for our stolen ability to focus and maybe that's one of the reasons we're falling for autocrats and punting on solving the world's grievous problems.Can we spare a few minutes to focus on Luddites? Read people's historian Peter Linebaugh, or Jacobin writer, Peter Frase; check out a Smithsonian Magazine's feature by Clive Thompson -- and you'll find that Luddites weren't backward thinking thugs, but rather, skilled craftspeople whose lives were about to be wrecked.Textile cutters, spinners and weavers, before factories came along, those British textile workers enjoyed a pretty good life. Working from home, they had a certain amount of autonomy over their lives. The price for their products was set and published. They could work as much or as little as liked. Come the early 1800s – war and recession - and machines and factories threatened all of that. The Luddites – a made up name - didn't start by breaking machines. They started by making demands of the factory owners to phase in the technology slowly. Some proposed a tax on textiles to fund worker pensions. They called for government regulation. Relief from the harms and a fair share of the profits from progress. It was only when they were denied all of that that they started breaking stuff up. Today, the big U.S. social media companies are facing lawsuits. On January 6th, Seattle Public Schools sued TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, and YouTube for their negative impact on students' mental and emotional health. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month over the protections the tech industry enjoys under law when their algorithms intentionally push potentially harmful content for profit. What would breaking the machines look like in our time? I don't know. But if Hari's right, it's not just the quality of our lives that's in danger. It's the state of our minds that's at stake. You can hear this week's show, via this podcast feed, with Johann Hari or catch Laura's full uncut conversation that includes, Noam Chomsky, the subject of his next book -- a man with no problem with focus it seems -- through a patreon subscription to theLFShow

Central Bank Debt Crisis to Usher in CBDCs? with Clive Thompson

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 54:00

Interview recorded - 12th of January, 2023On this weeks episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of speaking with Clive Thompson, a retired Wealth Manager from Switzerland. During our conversation we spoke about how Central Banks are becoming insolvent, three potential courses of actions Central Banks have, how this could lead to CBDC's and a monetary reset and what assets would protect wealth during this period. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction0:30 - How are central banks making large losses?9:25 - Could Central Banks print more money?10:00 - Normal accounting rules do not apply to central banks10:40 - Are central banks in a death spiral?12:20 - Can the current system be saved?14:15 - 3 potential courses of action?15:15 - Catalyst for a change in the system?16:37 - CBDC's and a monetary reset20:38 - Will this be different to current system?22:46 - How does this solve the debt issue?30:40 - Could banks be replaced by central banks?32:00 - How does a currency reset effect asset owners?34:20 - Any assets which would protect wealth?41:30 - When could this happen?52:35 - One message to take away from our conversation?Clive has 47 years of experience in finance & wealth management. This encompasses structuring and advice relating to quoted investments, Private Equity investments, family businesses, tax, residency, real estate, inheritance, Wills, legal, lending, Trusts, Companies and Foundations and all kinds of personal and private advice. He has been actively involved for decades in the arena of Trust structures. This often involved negotiating and discussing the contracts relating to the sale of family companies.Clive's latest position before retirement was as Managing Director in the Anglophone Private Clients Department of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, based in Geneva. He was responsible for wealth management services provided to a small number of wealthy English and French speaking families.Clive continues to remain very active in the world of wealth, with a strong focus on Private Equity, and direct Equity Investing via the global stock markets. His passion is the financial analysis of Balance Sheets, P&Ls, Cash Flow and business projections. Clive loves examining business opportunities, like Private Equity, and digging into the fundamentals of quoted companies to achieve a market beating performance.Clive Thompson - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-thompson-661997251/Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9aye4wQ8OkWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

Flipping The Bird

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2022 50:25

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week's On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections. 1. James Fallows [@JamesFallows], writer of the “Breaking the News” newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen. 2. Zoë Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen. 4. Clive Thompson [@pomeranian99], journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Flipping The Bird

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2022 50:18

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there has been nothing short of crisis — leading to massive layoffs and lost advertisers. On this week's On the Media, what this chaos means for activists worldwide who used the platform as a public square. Plus, how political predictions distort coverage of elections. 1. James Fallows [@JamesFallows], writer of the “Breaking the News” newsletter on Substack, on the political press' obsession with telling the future and the narratives that have a chokehold on elections coverage. Listen. 2. Zoë Schiffer [@ZoeSchiffer], Managing Editor of Platformer, on the mass exodus of employees from one of the world's most significant social media sites. Listen. 3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the impact of Musk's leadership on Twitter users around the world. Listen. 4. Clive Thompson [@pomeranian99], journalist and author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, on the website many are fleeing to amid chaos at Twitter. Listen.

Mastodon: The Platform Taking Twitter's Worn and Weary

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2022 25:43

In the wake of the five alarm fire at Twitter, a small, quiet social media alternative has been quietly attracting the tweeting weary. Mastodon, named for the prehistoric elephant relatives, was originally created by a German programmer named Eugen Rochko in 2016. And even though it shares similarities to its blue bird peer, the two platforms possess many differences. For one, Mastodon is organized by groups called "servers" or "instances," there's no universal experience like on Twitter. It's also completely decentralized — each server is run by individuals or small groups — with no overseeing company. But is it here to stay? This week, Brooke sits down with Clive Thompson, a tech journalist and author of the book Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, to talk about why people like Mastodon, who it's for, and why we should watch its latest evolution. You can find Clive Thompson on Mastodon at @clive@saturation.social and OTM by searching @onthemedia@journa.host. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

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Mastodon: The Platform Taking Twitter's Worn and Weary