Henry Oliver

Listen to this episode from Undertone on Spotify. Henry Oliver is the author of the book "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life" and prolific blogger on literature. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:38) Late Bloomers (0:07:28) Great Man theory of history (0:16:14) The Common Reader (0:20:56) Rear Window (0:22:58) Literature vs film or music (0:26:41) Mimesis (0:30:07) Artistic themes (0:38:11) Knausgaard, Bolano, Ferrante (0:39:27) Misreading (0:42:54) Harold Bloom (0:45:47) Art and economic growth (0:47:25) LLMs (0:50:55) Hayek (0:52:20) Keats (0:54:35) Literature vs philosophy (0:57:25) Morality (0:59:11) Nepotism (1:00:00) Shakespeare (1:06:57) Henry’s output -- Links - Henry’s Substack - Henry’s book, “Second Act” - Follow Henry on X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow Dan on X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Subscribe to Undertone on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Watch or listen to previous episodes of Undertone with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tyler Cowen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Vitalik Buterin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Scott Sumner⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Samo Burja⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Steve Hsu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠more⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - I love hearing from listeners. Email me any time at [email protected] - Share anonymous feedback on the podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/w7LXMCXhdJ5Q2eB9A⁠