Beach Reads feat. Isaac Beach
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min · 14 segments
This week, Sini goes to the pub with writer and literary critic Isaac Beach to talk about a range of things. Everything from the state of…
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Isaac BeachGuestMattHost
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min · 14 segments
This week, Sini goes to the pub with writer and literary critic Isaac Beach to talk about a range of things. Everything from the state of…
Isaac BeachGuestMattHost
Because just saying it, expressing it in the world, in situ isn't really going to go anywhere because the likelihood that the person that you're talking to is the person that ought to hear what you have to say is very very low probabilistically so if you write it down it might not be now but eventually at some point maybe a hundred years in the future someone will pick it up and now have conceptualized the thought that they were seeking and that will give them like another angle to view whatever the subject matter is um And so I started writing.
I just had all of these strong opinions because I was getting aggravated by various features of the literary landscape globally and locally.
And I think I've got a sort of sustainable balance going on now where I'm able to have this sort of artsy literary stuff on one hand and then I can go to my job on the other and I can do my financial analysis.
And when you get into more abstract concepts of economics or finance itself sometimes, they're very distinct
fields,
Day
them.
Do you sort of see it as an escape, literature and writing?
I think, like, you gather a bunch of different ways of doing things, a bunch of different sort of metaphors, which sounds a bit wanky.
of...
I think a...
Because just saying it, expressing it in the world, in situ isn't really going to go anywhere because the likelihood that the person that you're talking to is the person that ought to hear what you have to say is very very low probabilistically so if you write it down it might not be now but eventually at some point maybe a hundred years in the future someone will pick it up and now have conceptualized the thought that they were seeking and that will give them like another angle to view whatever the subject matter is um And so I started writing.
I just had all of these strong opinions because I was getting aggravated by various features of the literary landscape globally and locally.
And I think I've got a sort of sustainable balance going on now where I'm able to have this sort of artsy literary stuff on one hand and then I can go to my job on the other and I can do my financial analysis.
And when you get into more abstract concepts of economics or finance itself sometimes, they're very distinct
fields,
Day
them.
Do you sort of see it as an escape, literature and writing?
I think, like, you gather a bunch of different ways of doing things, a bunch of different sort of metaphors, which sounds a bit wanky.
of...
I think a...
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