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Harder to Fool

Harder to Fool

Von: Elias T. Xenos JD MBA
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This podcast isn’t a manifesto, and it doesn’t offer a single grand theory to explain modern life. It’s closer to an almanac: a collection of observations, warnings, and hard-earned patterns—many of them unfashionable—meant to be consulted, not blindly accepted.

Modern American life is saturated with advice but starved of wisdom. Institutions that once filtered nonsense now produce it at scale. Narratives are sold as facts, incentives are disguised as morality, and skepticism is increasingly treated as a character flaw. This podcast is an attempt to clear some of that fog.

Episodes range across politics, economics, careers, money, institutional decay, and the quiet mechanics of everyday scams. They aren’t united by ideology, but by method—an insistence on incentives, tradeoffs, and first principles. Whenever possible, the question is simple: Who benefits if I believe this?

Much of today’s public discourse is performative. Politics is framed as existential theater while becoming less relevant to daily life. Economics is discussed in moral abstractions rather than incentive structures. Career advice celebrates passion while ignoring leverage. Personal finance is reduced to spreadsheets that miss the point. What ties it all together is the same pattern: decision-makers insulated from consequences.

This podcast starts there.

There are no calls for mass awakening or political movements. History suggests those rarely work. What does work is individual clarity—the ability to see how systems actually function, anticipate where costs will be shifted, and position yourself accordingly.

That may sound cynical. It isn’t. It’s pragmatic.

If this show succeeds, it won’t make you angrier or more righteous. It will make you harder to fool.

And in modern American life, that’s a form of independence.

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