38. POLARIZATION, POLITICS, and AFGHANISTAN with Jordan Blashek

This is one of my favorite conversations so far. So grateful to be able to share this with all of you. 

Jordan Blashek is a Republican, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and an aspiring business leader. After graduating from Princeton University in 2009, he spent five years in the Marines as an infantry officer and was awarded two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University, and currently works at a venture firm for public benefit created by the CEO of Alphabet.

He is also the co-author of the incredible book Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground with his friend and travel buddy Christopher Haugh.

Jordan Blashek Book Recommendations: (THESE ARE AFFILIATE LINKS) 

The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt 

Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

America's Constitution - Akhil Reed Amar 

The Seventh Sense - Joshua Cooper Ramo 

Speech Recommendations:

I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. 

The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X

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