Former Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chair Charlie Munger once used an apocryphal story about Max Planck to deliver a sharp warning about the growing divide between genuine expertise and performative intelligence.
Charlie Munger's Max Planck Story Explained During a 2007 commencement speech at USC Law School, Munger recounted the story of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Planck, who spent years touring Germany giving the same lecture on quantum mechanics.
According to Munger, Planck's chauffeur eventually memorized the speech and asked to switch roles for one event because he was bored with the routine.
Planck agreed.
The chauffeur, according to Munger, delivered the lecture flawlessly.
