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What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years

Dwarkesh Patel

๐„๐๐ˆ๐’๐Ž๐ƒ๐„ ๐‹๐ˆ๐๐Š๐’ * Transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/robert-caro * Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robert-caro-the-master-biographer-reflects-at-91/id1516093381?i=1000798931746 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4qFEcgsHB5hAnRoGw0Ypiv ๐’๐๐Ž๐๐’๐Ž๐‘๐’ * Antithesis lets you run thorough simulation tests on every PR your coding agents ship. Thatโ€™s because Antithesis is FAST. On a recent project, it packed fifteen hours of simulation into each fifteen-minute run: every change could be tested in thousands of hostile worlds before being merged. Every min

What Robert Caroโ€™s books taught me about power

I recently got to interview Robert Caro, who is my favorite author of all time. This gave me the excuse to reread his biographies of Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses. I decided to compile their lessons