Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-02-13 · 10 min · 1,930 words

#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More

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So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one. Welcome back to another episode of More from Sam. Hey Sam, it was uh nice seeing you a few minutes ago and seeing you again here. Long time up to stay. Yeah, we just did a Substack live.

I thought that was really good. Yeah, yeah. It's is actually Kinda surprised me that live still feels like something different, right? I mean, it's like obviously the experience of looking at a camera and and talking is identical, but just the knowledge that it's live and that you can't take any of your words back is uh somehow uh uh thrilling or uh gets your attention.

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