So in 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran emigrated to America, along with his family after a four month harrowing journey that ended up in Carlisle , Pennsylvania, a small town where the Tran family struggled to assimilate into their new life. In this coming of age memoir, told through the themes of books such as "The Metamorphosis," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Iliad," and more,
Somebody says thanks and wishes me well. Ron Carlisle is trying to seduce Julie Nichols.
And we were there until some American sponsors sponsored our family. And so we ended up going to Carlisle , Pennsylvania. And that's where my family settled.
This is Minh. And he will talk about the culinary side and how delicious soy and pulses can be. And then we have Liz Carlisle , author of "Lentil Underground." She'll talk a lot about the history of and including into food systems in general, and sustainable agriculture, and how pulses and lentils really are a big supporter of sustainable agriculture and in support of a healthy ecosystem.
They had to find people, able people. And an unsuccessful cabinet maker from Carlisle called Thomas Edmondson got a job at one of the stations on the Newcastle and Carlisle railway, one of the very early lines. It was built completely isolated from anything else at that time.
Ben Graham's deep value investing philosophy. So please help me welcome Toby Carlisle . Thank you. Hi folks, thank you very much for having me here today.
Happiness quantified has the numbers. A synthesis seems possible.' 'What's Carlisle 's hypothesis in a nutshell?' 'People are foolish and bad. Especially the French. And are always quickly seduced by power into insanity.
And he texted me, and he was like, dude, you nailed it. You really captured both our experience in small town America in Carlisle , and also like sort of the dysfunction of our family life. You know, my parents didn't read it for a long time.
So the schools were about conformity and compliance. Now this group of sad people is the 1977 Concord-Carlisle High School math team. And this is me.
And so the plan was like, oh, don't let these Vietnamese people settle together because then that way we're throwing them into the deep end. And so that's why we ended up in Pennsylvania as like-- or in Carlisle as the only refugee family. So, yeah. Of course, now I live in Orange County, California.
And the changes to get there. As for the process itself, Thomas Carlisle 's The French Revolution is always interesting to ponder.' 'He has numbers?' 'No. but he has a hypothesis.
John knew that. Producer of the record knew that. You guys may not remember this song, but Belinda Carlisle , "Heaven on Earth" was a huge single.
Four and a half months later, I had 600 pages of a manuscript. I met one of the best agents in the business, Michael Carlisle from InkWell, who introduced me to publishers across the world. Today, we are published in more than 12 languages, even before the launch of the book, and including some of the top publishers worldwide, Simon
I'm very much looking forward to speaking to Google. Just a little bit about me, my name's Tobias Carlisle , I'm the managing director of Eyquem Investment Management, and I manage the Fund and some separately managed accounts. My most recent book is "Deep Value", and before that I published "Quantitative Value", co-authored with a gentleman who did his qualitative research
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, everyone kind of, as part of the diaspora-- I mean, everyone left Carlisle eventually. Actually, I have like aunts and uncles and stuff who moved to San Jose.
We might go on tour in the summer if it's possible for bands to tour in a safe way. that I was not the most high-profile member of The Go-Go's, and that Belinda Carlisle , who's a huge star, had already written a memoir.
Welcome, everyone. We have a very special guest here today with us, Toby Carlisle . Welcome to our Talk at Google, at Author series.