A few things:
The Secret Podcast will be very late today. We haven’t even taped yet. Don’t freak out.
Our Dallas show is sold out but there are still tickets for the March 19 show in Austin. Get them here.
You guys are going to hate today’s newsletter. The only subjects that perform worse than foreign policy are tech and finance. Today I’m writing about both tech and finance—and to make it worse, I’m doing it with esoteric ideas about fantasy/sci-fi novels. So if you do manage to read through to the end, thanks; and I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.
1. Mortality
I’ve always wanted to write a novel about vampires that focused on real estate.
The fundamental fact of the vampire is not that he drinks blood. It’s that he’s immortal. Capitalism requires mortality. If you have an immortal being—a vampire—he can accumulate an infinite amount of capital over centuries and wind up as the king of the world.
In my story, the vampire wouldn’t concern himself with luring young maidens to his castle to feast on their blood. Instead, he’d buy