Im just going to read a few sentences i cobbled together from your book. As i lead into my first question. You might in the book innovation is the most important fact of the modern world but one of the least well understood. It is the reason most people today live lives of prosperity and wisdom area and the main ingredient in the secret sauce and indeed innovation is freedom and freedom to exchange, experiments, imagine, investment fail. Liberals have argued since the 18th century that freedom needs prosperity but i would argue that they have never persuasively found a mechanism that drives change in which one causes the other. Innovation is that drives change, that missing link. Innovation is the child of freedom and apparent prosperity. Matt, do you think youve written a contrary and book your in 2020 because there seems to be a growing belief we havent innovated since the apollo space program. Living standards have been stagnant for decades and growth only help the elites, growth ki
All righty. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to powerhouse arena. Thank you all for coming. We. Were very excited for tonights event. What a great turn out. Yeah, so excited. Were obviously here for Malcolm Harris as palo alto. So yes, we are. So to start off, malcolm and Patrick Harrison, who is the audiobook narrator, are going to be doing a reading and then he will be joined by melissa, jared grant and ed. So junior for a little discussion. And then after that, well do q a. So ill pop back up here after that. So yeah, thank you all for masking up. So yeah. Anyway, enjoy. All right. Thank you all so much for coming out. This has been a very successful release as you can see from all the people here. I cant cant believe it. My heart is bursting with thanks and also for wearing masks. I know their pain. I appreciate you all so much for doing that allows me to sit up here without a mask, which makes a huge difference. Reading. So thank you all for me. Thank you. From everyone else in the room
All righty. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to powerhouse arena. Thank you all for coming. We. Were very excited for tonights event. What a great turn out. Yeah, so excited. Were obviously here for Malcolm Harris as palo alto. So yes, we are. So to start off, malcolm and Patrick Harrison, who is the audiobook narrator, are going to be doing a reading and then he will be joined by melissa, jared grant and ed. So junior for a little discussion. And then after that, well do q a. So ill pop back up here after that. So yeah, thank you all for masking up. So yeah. Anyway, enjoy. All right. Thank you all so much for coming out. This has been a very successful release as you can see from all the people here. I cant cant believe it. My heart is bursting with thanks and also for wearing masks. I know their pain. I appreciate you all so much for doing that allows me to sit up here without a mask, which makes a huge difference. Reading. So thank you all for me. Thank you. From everyone else in the room
Mitco supports c pan 2 as a public service. Allwe righty. Welcome to powerhouse arena. Thank you for coming. [ applause ] we are excited for tonights e vertebrate. Turnout. For the we are here from malcolm harris. Yes. [ applause ] so, to start off malcolm and patrick who is the audiobook narrater will dohe a reading. He will be joined by malissa. This is for a little discussion and well do a q and a after that. Thank you for masking up. Any way, enjoy. All right, thank you you also much for coming out. This has been a very successful release as you can see from all of the people here. I cant believe it. My heart is bursting withso thanks. Also for wearing masks. I know they are a pain. I appreciate you for doing that. Allowing me to situp here without a mask that makes a huge difference reading. Thank you for everyone else in the room for not getting sick. Ill readho with patrick harrisn who is the book reader. Bowe will read not from my book per se but section from the 1901 novel the
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