Michael Lewis on knowledge

In the arenas of human ambition, in Hollywood or Silicon Valley, or Washington or Wall Street, there's a knowingness about people.  They don't want to seem like they don't know.  They think that if they don't know, they're going to seem stupid.  And that leads to greater stupidity.

~ Michael Lewis, "Michael Lewis on what he learned by studying the elites," Brief But Spectacular, November 4, 2024