Barry Diller: Instinct Over Algorithms 

Shane Parrish: At 83, you chose to reveal some of the most private parts of your life, and you’re a super-private person. Why now? 

Barry Diller: I can’t do the “why now.” It wasn’t like I chose this date or that date. It’s that I thought that my life was a good story and if I could tell it true, then I wanted to try to do it. It took me an endless amount of time, basically because I’d put it away for a year and come back to it and put it away for six months and then come back to it. It was only really in the last couple of years that I was… I wouldn’t call it dedicated, but I had more discipline. I never was sure I would publish it. And then I got to a point where I said, “I’ve done it. I’ve kind of told it. I got it down, so let it go.” My friends told me, “Publish it after you’re gone, after you die.” And I thought, “Well, I ain’t going to have anything to do with that.” I’d rather have agency of my own.