Welcome to Five Good Questions. I’m your host, Jake Taylor.
Fact: the average American watches 5 hours of television per day. What would the world be like if we dedicated one of those hours to reading books instead?
I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.
So to inspire others to read more, I ask five good questions of interesting authors and share the results with you every Friday. Let’s see if together, we can’t rescue some of those lost hours.
In addition to author interviews, we also publish "The Hikecast."
The Hikecast is a show where interesting people take me on their favorite hikes or walks and we talk about big ideas in an unconstrained format. No planned agendas, just deep conversations, recorded out in nature.
The idea is for you to put on The Hikecast and get outside to simulate taking a hike with us. I want you to feel like you're there with us out in nature.
William Green is the author of "The Great Minds of Investing." He has written for The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, and The Economist. He edited the Asian, European, Middle Eastern and African editions of Time.