My guests today are Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman.

Soni is an American author and former managing editor of The Huffington Post. He is best known for A Mind at Play, his award-winning biography of Claude Shannon. Soni became the managing editor at The Huffington Post in January 2012. Previously he had worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company, as well as a speech writer at the office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

Goodman is a political theorist joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and was previously a Mellon postdoctoral researcher at McGill University. 

The topic is their book A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Information theory
• Turning complex into simplicity
• Complexity is the enemy
• Bell Labs
• How to deal with freedom in the work space
• Short-term-ism in our economy
• Dealing with critics and competitors

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