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Podcast: HousingWire Daily (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: What's happening in the secondary market?
Pub date: 2022-02-09
Mortgage Reporter Bill Conroy about the latest happenings in the secondary market. From home-equity investment pioneer Unison jumping into the secondary market to mortgage servicing rights being in high demand right now, Conroy breaks down the current market appetite for these topics and what this means for the housing industry.
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Podcast: That Annuity Show (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 156 - Selling Equity As New Way To Access The Value of Your Home In Retirement With David Shapiro
Pub date: 2022-07-15
A home is typically one of the largest individual assets we must include in a retirement plan. However, it's also one of the most illiquid ones. We've had several episodes exploring the role of home equity loans in solving the problem. Today, we look at a second option - selling part of the equity in your house to a third party. David Shapiro, Founder and CEO of EquiFi Corporation explains the new product and the benefits it potentially offers. Also, do you want to get regular updates on news about guests of our show? Go to https://thatannuityshow.com and subscribe to our newsletter. We hope you enjoy the show. Links mentioned: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dshapiro1/ https://www.equifi.com/
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Podcast: Power House (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Unison’s Thomas Sponholtz on alternative homeownership models, QM lending, and co-investing
Pub date: 2020-01-27
This week, Thomas Sponholtz, the CEO and chairman at Union Home Ownership Investors, discusses his industry origin story, as well as his determination to bring housing innovation to the United States.
Additionally, Sponholtz touches base on new QM lending rules and the housing sector's emergence of alternative homeownership models, which he says will be needed to better service homebuyers.
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Podcast: Fintech Impact (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Unison with Thomas Sponholtz | E164
Pub date: 2021-03-09
In this 164th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Thomas Sponholtz, CEO of Unison, a company that enables equity financing of residential real estate and gives institutional investors access to the world’s largest asset class!
Episode Highlights:
- 0:33 – Thomas Sponholtz introduces Unison.
- 3:16 – What was the impedance for the creation of Unison?
- 6:06 – Thomas explains the consumer experience when working with Unison.
- 7:37 – To what degree is Unison participating in the change in the value of the house?
- 8:44 – What happens if the homeowner sells the property at a loss?
- 9:36 – How long do these deals take to get closed?
- 11:10 – Thomas discusses the return expectations by investors.
- 13:24 – How much attention is paid to regional diversification?
- 16:00 – Jason and Thomas discuss the potential risk for residential homeowners.
- 19:28 – Thomas discusses Unison’s goal of giving people the experience of having a home without the financial commitment of owning.
- 20:25 – What kind of feedback has Unison gotten back from its clients?
- 23:28 – If Thomas could change something about his company and his industry, what would he change?
- 26:09 – What has been the biggest challenge in getting Unison to where it is today?
- 27:24 – Thomas shares the motivations that get him up every morning.
3 Key Points
- Unison introduced equity financing to residential homeowners while also enabling institutional investors to get access to the world’s largest asset class.
- By bearing a high percentage of risk than the homeowner, Unison bears a disproportionate percentage of both gains and losses.
- Investing in a single home brings as much volatility as investing in the stock market while diversifying your portfolio with thousands of properties across the country can lower volatility from 15% to 5%.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “When you retire, your biggest expense is most likely to be housing but you could not invest in housing as an asset class as an institution.” – Thomas Sponholtz
- “Theoretically, this could be closed in a week, in practice because of that coordination between the homeowner and appraiser, it typically takes about 2 or 3 weeks.” – Thomas Sponholtz
- “To date, the only option for investment in residential real estate has largely been residential REITs, in which case you’re dealing with a renter environment, not an ownership environment.” – Jason Pereira
- “A single home has the same volatility as the stock market.” – Thomas Sponholtz
- “Communicating directly to the consumer is a lot easier sometimes than through an intermediary.” – Thomas Sponholtz
Resources Mentioned:
- Facebook – Jason Pereira’s Facebook
- LinkedIn – Jason Pereira’s LinkedIn
- FintechImpact.co – Website for Fintech Impact
- JasonPereira.ca – Sign up for Jason Pereira’s newsletter
- Woodgate.com – Website for Woodgate Financial
- Unison.com – Website for Unison
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Podcast: Bank On It (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 408 Thomas Sponholtz from Unison
Pub date: 2021-04-29
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In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Thomas Sponholtz, Co-founder & CEO of Unison. Unison is a provider of home-ownership investments used for long-term financing.
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About the host:
John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and Million Dollar Startup, a fully remote, high quality pitch competition podcast. He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system ListenDeck.
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Podcast: Bank On It (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 495 Eddie Lim from Point
Pub date: 2022-03-29
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In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Eddie Lim, co-founder & CEO of Point. Point provides shared home equity financing, shared equity, HELOC alternative to existing homeowners and new homebuyers.
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John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized podcast production system ListenDeck.
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Podcast: Startup Hustle (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Building a Home Equity Loan Alternative
Pub date: 2023-03-15
Join Matt Watson and Eoin Matthews, CoFounder, and Chief Business Officer of Point, as they talk about home equity investing. Gain new perspectives by listening to Eoins' entrepreneurial story and hear how he and his CoFounder built a business involving home equity investments.
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Podcast: Fintech Confidential
Episode: Stop being House Rich & Cash Poor: Tap into home Equity without Tapping Out with the CEO of Hometap
Pub date: 2023-10-24
Jeffery Glass is the CEO and Founder of HomeTap, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the way homeowners access their home equity. In this episode of Fintech Confidential, Glass reveals the secrets to success in the real estate market and shares invaluable advice for entrepreneurs.
Three important items Covered:
1️⃣ Discover the game-changing alternative to traditional loans that homeowners are raving about.
2️⃣ Uncover the shocking impact of rising interest rates and inflation on the residential real estate market.
3️⃣ Learn the essential steps to building a strong team and finding the right capital partner for your entrepreneurial journey.
Also, watch the entire episode on YouTube. Links:Hometap
Website: https://www.hometap.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hometap-equity-partners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HometapEquity/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hometap_/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hometap
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOS30gqJ9HVS3cCbH_M4LxA
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Time Stamps:The mission of HomeTap [00:00:00]
Unlocking the secrets of homeownership and crushing traditional loans!
The origin story of HomeTap [00:02:33]
How Jeff Glass turned personal experiences into a game-changing financial solution!
HomeTap's mission to change homeownership financing [00:08:40]
Making homeownership a breeze for cash-strapped homeowners!
The importance of homeowner experience [00:12:27]
Creating a homeowner experience that will blow your mind!
Ensuring transparency and clarity for homeowners [00:14:08]
No more confusing financial jargon - HomeTap keeps it simple!
Providing capital for homeowner needs and opportunities [00:15:56]
Get the cash you need for life's challenges and dreams!
Home equity and target demographic [00:24:05]
HomeTap's got your back if you're sitting on a goldmine!
Tailoring services and marketing [00:26:51]
Home renovations made easy with HomeTap's tailored services!
Resilience and market trends [00:32:13]
Why residential real estate is the ultimate investment!
The impact of rising interest rates on housing [00:35:23]
Rising interest rates are killing the housing game - find out how!
Future goals and plans for HomeTap [00:40:51]
HomeTap's big dreams of becoming a national sensation!
Competition and defenseability in the industry [00:45:06]
How HomeTap stays ahead of the game in a cutthroat industry!
The importance of passion and dedication in entrepreneurship [00:48:36]
Starting a business ain't for the weak - Jeff Glass spills the tea!
Challenges and considerations of being an entrepreneur [00:50:18]
Think you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Think again!
Optimizing for success over ownership [00:53:51]
Why success trumps ownership in the world of entrepreneurship!
This is a Production of Diamond D3, Media ABOUT: Jeffery Glass:
Entrepreneurship has been a passion for Jeff since his teenage years. By age 22, he started two college marketing businesses that helped pay off some of his college loans. Over the next two decades Jeff ran 4 other successful businesses and learned a ton about what it takes to start, build and grow technology and data-driven companies in this ultra-competitive world. He’s also been in the investor’s seat, spending 6 years as an MD at Bain Capital Ventures.
Jeff is currently the co-founder and CEO of Hometap, a data-driven residential real estate platform that is changing home ownership financing. Hometap invests in residential properties, making passive investments alongside homeowners, and participates in the future value of the home. For homeowners, this is a simplified, sensible alternative to debt and monthly payments that allow them to pay off bills, build their savings, and fund the things that come up in life. For investors, this is a new asset class, allowing them to participate in the multi-trillion-dollar residential real estate market without the operational and management hassles of owning and operating homes.
Jeff lives in Brookline, MA with wife and three children. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Business School.
Hometap :
Hometap is a smart loan alternative that allows homeowners to access their home equity to do more in life without taking on debt. An investor, not a lender, Hometap gives homeowners cash in exchange for a share of their home's future value. They can use the money for anything they'd like, from paying off credit card debt to starting a business or buying a second home, without the hassle of monthly payments or interest. When the homeowner settles the investment at or before the end of the 10-year effective period, Hometap receives an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or current appraised value.
Tedd Huff:
Tedd Huff is the Co-Founder of Voalyre and the President and founder of Diamond D3, a professional services consulting firm focused on global payments and marketing. He is also a video podcast host and producer of Fintech Confidential.
Over the past 24 years, he has contributed to FinTech startups as an Advisory Board Member, Co-Founder, and Chief Experience Officer, providing strategic and tactical direction for Global Payments OpenEdge, Heartland Payments, Nuvei, and TSYS, among others, focusing on growth while delivering innovation, process improvements and user experience-driven value to simplify the complexity of payments.
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DD3 Media is a media creation, management, and production company that delivers engaging content globally
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Podcast: Chrisman Commentary - Daily Mortgage News (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 12.21.23 Lending's Winter Solstice; Hometap's Dan Burnett on Home Equity; More Housing Metrics
Pub date: 2023-12-21
Make 2024 your most profitable year yet! WithLender Toolkit’s AI-powered AI Underwriter and Prism borrower income automation tools, you’ll be able to get loans approved in under two minutes. By providing lightening-fast underwriting decisions, your market reputation with borrowers and Realtors will soar—which means more repeat and referral business. Notes Mark Workens, CEO of Mortgage 1 Inc.: “Lender Toolkit's Maas™ Platform solutions have fundamentally transformed how we do business Our profitability has skyrocketed, and our employees have never been happier.”
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Podcast: Power House (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Home equity investment’s growing opportunity with Hometap’s Sarah Dekin
Pub date: 2023-10-12
On today’s episode, HW Media CEO Clayton Collins speaks with Sarah Dekin, the president and chief operating officer at Hometap and a 2023 HousingWire Women of Influence winner. Sarah joined Hometap in 2017 as their chief marketing officer, following her previous roles at many notable brands, including Zipcar, House of Blues, California Pizza Kitchen and Virgin. She brings a powerful combination of strategy, product and marketing expertise in both the consumer and B2B spaces.
During today’s conversation, she and Clayton explore the home equity investment space, the different business models that consumers and homeowners are tapping to access their home equity, and some of the opportunities that lie ahead.
Related to this episode:
- Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn
- Follow Hometap on LinkedIn
- Hometap
- 2023 Woman of Influence: Sarah Dekin
- HousingWire on YouTube
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The Housing News podcast explores the most critical topics in mortgage, real estate and fintech. A new mortgage or real estate executive joins the show each week to add perspective to the top stories crossing HousingWire’s news desk. Hosted by Clayton Collins and produced by the HW Media team.
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Podcast: The Joe Walker Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan
Pub date: 2024-09-19
Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto, a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on uncertainty.
Full transcript available at: https://josephnoelwalker.com/nassim-taleb-158/
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Podcast: My DPC Story (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 146: Understanding the DPC Laws with Jay Keese - Executive Director of DPC Coalition
Pub date: 2023-10-08
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Jay Keese is CEO of Capitol Advocates, a Washington D.C. based policy and advocacy firm specializing in healthcare issues. Jay has represented physicians for decades, starting with a career in government relations at American Medical Association. Over the years, he has won important legislative and regulatory battles for doctors, employers, payers, states, health technologists, hospitals, device and pharmaceutical manufacturers on critical health care delivery and payment reforms. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay worked closely with physician groups, Congress and both administrations on critical waivers to state and federal laws that allow practices to fully utilize digital health services such as telehealth and remote patient monitoring to provide better care in a public health emergency.
Jay currently runs several national healthcare stakeholder coalitions. He serves as Executive Director of the Direct Primary Care Coalition. He was instrumental in drafting a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which defines Direct Primary Care (DPC) as a medical service offered outside of insurance which meets ACA Essential Health Benefits criteria. He then played a major role in the passage of over 30 related state laws and regulations clarifying the treatment of DPC medical services and bringing value-based primary care arrangements to Medicaid and State Employees’ health programs. He also leads advocacy work for the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PFCD), a coalition of patients, providers, community leaders, businesses, unions, and health policy experts, committed to improving health outcomes and controlling costs by slowing the spread of preventable chronic disease by implementing more value-based payment and delivery reforms. He played a role in shaping many of these innovative reforms in the ACA and has helped implement programs like physician direct contracting with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI).
Jay has worked with doctors, health technologists and software manufacturers for decades to support the adoption of health information technology and patient care applications. He worked with a broad bipartisan group of stak
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Podcast: My DPC Story (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: A Deep Dive into Direct Musculoskeletal Care with Dr. Fred Bagares of MSK Direct
Pub date: 2024-04-28
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In this episode of the My DPC Story Podcast, Dr. Fred Bagares, a board-certified physiatrist specializing in sports and rehabilitation medicine, shares his story which includes details on his transformative journey from traditional, insurance-based practices to launching his own Direct Primary Care (DPC) model, MSK Direct, in Virginia Beach, VA. Throughout the episode, Dr. Bagares discusses the importance of personalized patient care, his transition to a cash-based system, and the challenges of establishing a micro practice. He also delves into his experiences with telemedicine, the impact of COVID-19 on his practice decisions, and his approach to integrating medical services organization (MSO) into his practice. Emphasizing patient relationships over procedural care, Dr. Bagares illustrates how direct primary care empowers physicians to deliver more attentive, tailored healthcare. This episode is a must-listen for healthcare professionals exploring DPC models or anyone interested in innovative healthcare solutions. Tune in to learn about the evolving landscape of patient-centered care and the strategic decisions involved in creating a fulfilling medical practice. Hear the EXTENDED INTERVIEW CONTENT on our My DPC Story PATREON today!
Key topics: Direct Primary Care, MSK Direct, patient care, telemedicine, healthcare innovation.
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Podcast: My DPC Story (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Crafting Better Healthcare: The Lantern Health Story - Pt. 1
Pub date: 2024-06-09
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In this episode of the My DPC Story podcast, Dr. Ben Aiken of Lantern Health, a family physician with a background in international studies and public health, delves into the innovative model of Direct Primary Care (DPC), where a low monthly membership allows patients to build lasting relationships with their doctors. Dr. Aiken shares his journey from being part of a traditional health system to establishing an independent DPC practice unexpectedly. He emphasizes the importance of community-oriented care, system-level healthcare change, and the role of health coaches in primary care. The episode also touches upon the challenges and successes of transitioning a DPC practice, branding, staff roles, and fostering a supportive environment for other physicians to join the DPC movement. Lastly, he reflects on the broader implications and potential growth of the DPC model in the future of American healthcare.
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Podcast: My DPC Story (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Crafting Better Healthcare: The Lantern Health Story - Pt. 2
Pub date: 2024-06-16
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In Episode 169 of the My DPC Story podcast, we hear Dr. Ben Aiken's continued story as he discusses the challenges and strategies involved in expanding his Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice, Lantern Health, in North Carolina. Dr. Aiken explores the importance of fostering team independence, maintaining high standards of patient care, and the potential for opening new locations. He shares insights on working with employers to integrate DPC into employee health plans and the critical balance between maintaining practice autonomy and meeting employer expectations. The conversation also highlights key legislative advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C., particularly around the Medicaid Improvement Act and the crucial role DPC physicians play in shaping policy. Dr. Aiken emphasizes the need for storytelling and relationship-building to convey the benefits of DPC to various stakeholders effectively. The episode concludes with a call to action for DPC physicians to engage in advocacy to ensure the sustainability and growth of the DPC model.
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Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience (LS 96 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #2190 - Peter Thiel
Pub date: 2024-08-16
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and co-founded Palantir Technologies, where he serves as chairman. Thiel is a partner at Founders Fund and leads the Thiel Foundation, which funds technological progress and long-term thinking. He is also the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zero to One.
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Podcast: Outcomes Rocket (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Physician Entrepreneurship in the New Era of Healthcare with John Shufeldt, Founder and CEO of TribalEM and MeMD
Pub date: 2021-03-16
In this episode, we are privileged to feature the outstanding Dr. John Shufeldt, Founder and CEO of TribalEM and MeMD. John is an emergency physician, author, serial student, pilot, and multidisciplinary entrepreneur, who has founded and operated several multi-million-dollar businesses. John shares the genesis of TribalEM, and how it is making a difference in the lives of the people in the valley. He also talks about MeMD and his desire to improve the delivery of health and helping other physicians transition into entrepreneurship do the same. He also shares his thoughts on virtual primary care, AI, and many more. John’s passion for healthcare and entrepreneurship is inspiring and definitely a must for healthcare entrepreneurs so please tune in!
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Podcast: The Forbes Books Podcast with Joe Pardavila (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Featured Guest: John Shufeldt
Pub date: 2021-01-26
This week we're featuring John Shufeldt, MD, one of the nation’s leading medical entrepreneurs and the author of the upcoming book, Entrepreneur Rx. John discusses how he founded and operated several multi-million-dollar businesses all while being an emergency room physician.
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Podcast: White Coat Investor Podcast (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: WCI #281: Physician Entrepreneurism and Venture Capital With Dr. John Shufeldt
Pub date: 2022-09-22
This episode Dr. Dahle interviews Dr. John Shufeldt. He has had a pretty remarkable career in entrepreneurship. Dr. Shufeldt talks to us about physicians being entrepreneurs and the life cycle of starting up a business. He walks through how to scale, mistakes he made over the years, raising money, selling your business and so much more. See the full show notes here: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/physician-entrepreneurism-and-venture-capital-with-dr-john-shufeldt-281
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Podcast: The Exit - Presented By Flippa (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: ER & Entrepreneurship: John Shufeldt's MeMD Walmart Deal
Pub date: 2024-04-15
This week on The Exit: John Shufeldt was an ER doctor before embarking on a decades-long career as a serial healthcare entrepreneur with three companies and a health-tech VC firm under his belt.He details the sale of his virtual medicine business, MeMD to Walmart in 2021.He recognizes that, while he happened to sell at a peak valuation, it wasn’t due to timing the market, but rather his success came in selling the company while there was still a “blue ocean” of growth opportunity ahead, and a compelling story of year-over-year historic growth.When selling to large buyers like those of Walmart, he emphasizes how important it is to have your numbers in order, and how much easier it is to build this into your business operations early, rather than retroactively trying to clean up finances when an offer is at your doorstep.For more details and insights from his entrepreneurial journey, listen to the latest episode of The Exit.John Shufeldt has more than three decades of healthcare entrepreneurship. In 1993, John founded NextCare, Inc., which expanded under his leadership from one to 60 clinics across six states, generating nearly $100 million in revenue. In 2010, after his tenure as NextCare’s CEO, John launched MeMD, LLC, connecting over 500 medical professionals to patients virtually. Walmart acquired MeMD in 2021. John created Tribal Health in 2015, addressing healthcare needs in Indigenous territories. The organization now employs over 450 providers across 35 Native American healthcare facilities. In 2021, he founded Xcellerant Ventures, a VC firm focused on investing in health-tech startups.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-shufeldt/ Website: https://www.johnshufeldtmd.com/ Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xcellerantventures/ For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: https://flippa.com/exit --The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/
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Podcast: The Kinked Wire
Episode: Episode 34: Finding success with an office-based lab in interventional radiology
Pub date: 2022-09-13
“So in general, an office-based lab might be more easy to stand up. There might be less cost associated with an OBL and fewer hurdles from the regulatory standpoint for a physician to jump over.” —Joel R. Rainwater, MD
Host Roger T. Tomihama, MD, speaks with interventional radiologist Joel R. Rainwater, MD, about his experience building a network of 12 office-based labs (OBLs) in 5 states, what interventional radiologists should keep in mind when considering the OBL business model, opportunities for IRs-in-training, and more.
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Podcast: Whats Best For The Patient Is Best For Business
Episode: Going Direct to Employer: The Clinical (doing) Side: Part 3 - Interview with Zach Walston, DPT Clinical Lead of Second Door Health
Pub date: 2024-04-30
In this episode, the third in our 3 part series with Second Door Health, we continue our exploration of innovative approaches in physical therapy with Zach, the head of clinical strategy. Having previously discussed the foundations and business aspects with co-founders Scott and Ryan, this conversation with Zach goes deeper into the clinical implications and transformative potential of direct-to-employer healthcare services. Zach shares his extensive background and the pivotal transitions from hands-on clinical work to developing broad-scale health strategies that aim to redefine patient care.
We discuss the critical role of personalized care plans, the importance of understanding patient needs beyond the clinical environment, and how physical therapists can leverage their expertise to deliver holistic, impactful health outcomes. The discussion also covers the necessity of integrating educational outreach and behavioral health into physical therapy practice, challenging traditional treatment models.
Tune in to gain insights into how physical therapy can evolve from a service-based to a value-based profession, enhancing both patient well-being and professional satisfaction.
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Podcast: Whats Best For The Patient Is Best For Business
Episode: Going Direct to Employer: The demand is insane! PART 1 - Interview with Scott Hebert, Ryan Klepps, Founders of Second Door Health
Pub date: 2024-04-23
Welcome back to the What's Best for the Patient is Best for Business podcast where today we will dive into the evolving world of physical therapy, focusing on the cutting-edge approach of direct care models. Join Jerry Durham and the founders of Second Door Health as they discuss the transformative shift from traditional patient management to innovative strategies that engage directly with self-insured employers, sidestepping the usual insurance pathways. Scott and Ryan bring their rich backgrounds in technology and physical therapy into the conversation, sharing their journey from creating StriveLabs to founding Second Door and how these experiences have shaped their current mission.
Explore how engaging directly with employers and adopting direct-to-consumer models are opening new doors for physical therapy practices to flourish amid staffing, inflation, and cost challenges. The trio also delves into the crucial role of physical therapy in slashing musculoskeletal costs — the heftiest expense for employers — through intelligent, aligned healthcare strategies.
Listen in as our guests lay out actionable steps for PT practices to implement these models, stressing the critical need to target self-insured employers eager to curb spiraling healthcare costs. This episode is packed with insights into the physical therapy business landscape today and a forward-looking perspective on making practices more sustainable and profitable by embracing direct care.
Tune in for a deep dive into the future of physical therapy, where reducing healthcare costs and enhancing patient outcomes are paramount. And make sure you catch part two of our discussion, where we'll delve even deeper into making these innovative care models a reality.
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Podcast: Whats Best For The Patient Is Best For Business
Episode: Going Direct to Employer: What does it actually look like? PART 2 - Interview with Scott Hebert and Ryan Klepps, Founders of Second Door Health
Pub date: 2024-04-25
Welcome back to part 2 where we dive deep into the transformative world of direct care models in physical therapy, brought to you by Second Door Health. In the first episode, we laid the groundwork by discussing the 'why'—the core motivations and the targeted audience of direct care. Transitioning to this episode, we shift gears to focus more tactically on the 'how'—the concrete steps and strategies required to operationalize these innovative care models within your practice.
Joined by Scott and Ryan from Second Door Health, this session explores the practical aspects of integrating direct care into existing practices. Learn about creating efficient workflows, reducing administrative burdens, and utilizing Second Door Health’s software solutions designed to enhance care delivery, streamline billing, and maximize return on investment. We discuss the importance of starting with familiar connections in your community, leveraging relationships to ease into direct contracting with local employers.
Whether you're a seasoned practice owner or a newcomer curious about direct care, this episode provides a comprehensive roadmap and real-time insights into making the transition smoother and less intimidating. From benefit design and enrollment marketing to the final steps of showing tangible results and getting paid, every facet of implementing a successful direct care strategy is covered.
If you'd like to learn more about Strata EMR & RCM and achieving a 99.99% reimbursement rate for your PT, OT, or SLP Clinic head over to stratapt.com and book a demo with our team!
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Podcast: The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 20VC: Why 95% of Venture Capital is Not Really "Venture Capital" | The Five Core Levers Needed To Assess Risk and Price a Startup | The Future of Venture; Who Wins, Who Loses, What Happens to the Crossover Funds with Will Quist, Partner @ Slow Ventures
Pub date: 2022-09-12
Will Quist is a Partner @ Slow Ventures. Over the last decade, the team at Slow Ventures have invested in the earliest rounds of over 500 companies including Robinhood, NextDoor, Airtable, Solana and many more. As for Will, prior to Slow he spent over 8 years at Industry Ventures and before industry, cut his teeth in the world of finance at Banc of America.
In Todays Episode with Will Quist We Discuss: 1.) Entry into Venture:
- How Will made his way from 6th generation San Francisco to Partner @ Slow?
- What are 1-2 of the biggest takeaways from his early 1-1s with Don Valentine?
- What does Will know now that he wishes he had known when he started in venture with Industry?
2.) WTF Really is Venture Capital?
- Why does Will believe that 95% of venture capital today is not really venture capital?
- What is true venture capital in Will's mind?
- How does Will divide the world of VC into two with; venture classic and new venture?
- How are they different? How are their return profiles different?
3.) The Questions: Discovering Greatness:
- Why does Will believe “for the most part, investors across asset classes are just asking the same questions”?
- What are those questions? What different answers are each looking for?
- What are the 5 core questions that will needs to understand to determine conviction and accurately price an asset?
- How does Will think through and analyze the question when meeting founders of; “what needs to come true for this business to become a great business”?
4.) The Future of Venture Capital:
- How does Will predict the venture capital ecosystem will look in 5 and then 10 years?
- What are the most concerning traits of the venture ecosystem for Will today?
- Who will be the winners of the next decade? Who will be the losers?
- What happens to the crossover funds? What will happen to Tiger?
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Podcast: "Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and Investing (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: E31: Slow's Will Quist on VC's Job to Fund the Creation of New Data Sets
Pub date: 2024-03-19
Today's episode features an interview with Will Quist, partner at Slow Ventures. In this conversation Will talks about his transition from water polo player to helping build Slow, Slow's unique thesis in venture, the old model of VC versus new VC, and treating venture capital like a phD program.
Check out our two interviews with Will's partner at Slow, Sam Lessin:
Seed is Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7IPmDKjb4
VC in 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crj_H3JPHvg
BOOK CITED:
The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael J. Mauboussin
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro
(00:14) Will Quist's Journey from Pro Athlete to VC
(04:44) Slow's Evolution
(07:00) Anti-Platform From the Jump
(09:51) Helping Founders Become Better Investors in Their Own Business
(14:49) Sponsor: Turpentine
(15:12) Old vs. New Venture Capital Models
(20:46) VC Framework
(26:05) Franchises
(29:49) Success in Venture Capital
(31:13) Fund Size and Portfolio Construction at Slow
(36:11) Multistage Challenges and Opportunities
(39:25) Introducing the Slow PhD Program
(44:22) Philosophy of Building and Investing
(54:06) Wrap
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Podcast: "Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and Investing (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: E18: Sam Lessin on What's Going to Happen to VC in 2024
Pub date: 2023-12-19
Today we’re back with Sam Lessin for a round 2 focused on the changing landscape of venture. We dig into the viability of M&A as a strategy for startups, “its always been crypto”, media businesses, and the role of reputation systems. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/momentofzen for a $1/month trial period.
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TIMESTAMPS:
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(01:27) Round 2 with Sam, the VC Doomer
(06:24) The mechanism of how low interest rates leads to public markets valuing companies at super high multiples
(10:28) Disruption fundamentally changed who the winners and losers would be
(15:49) Sponsor - NetSuite
(16:50) What would a $100B company look like in 15-20 years
(23:20) The emergence of cultural changes after Covid-19
(28:27) The only way to make real money is to be betting differently
(36:36) Do franchises go public and the fundamental liquidity question
(42:01) What's the best business to build on top of media company?
(51:20) Sam's insights on reputation businesses
(55:00) Sam's take on advanced reputation system
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Podcast: "World of DaaS" (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sam Lessin of SlowVC: The End of Factory-Farmed Unicorns
Pub date: 2023-12-12
Sam Lessin is a GP at Slow Ventures, a former Facebook product manager, and the founder of Drop.io and Fin. He’s also the co-host of an excellent podcast on tech called More or Less.
On this episode of World of DaaS, Sam gives a comprehensive breakdown of the state of venture capital. Auren and Sam discuss the “unicorn factory” for building public companies, the influence of megafunds like Tiger Global and Softbank, and the fundamental changes that VC went through in 2018-2022.
Sam also shares his outlook on the best areas for investment in 2024 and beyond, including which founders are set up to thrive and which businesses are likely to struggle. They also go deep on the dynamics of investing in AI– Sam is confident he knows who the winners will be in artificial intelligence.
To close out, Auren and Sam dive into some of the “weird” investment ideas they’re exploring, like income share agreements and backing creators. They also reflect on the changing global landscape of tech and discuss whether the era of the “open internet” is over.
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You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Sam Lessin on X at @lessin.
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Podcast: The Founder Hour (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Keith Rabois | Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of Opendoor and OpenStore
Pub date: 2024-06-11
Keith Rabois is a Managing Director at Khosla Ventures and CEO of OpenStore, bringing over 20 years of experience as a founder, operator, and investor. At Khosla Ventures, he led early investments in DoorDash, Affirm, and Stripe, and co-founded Opendoor. Previously, at Founders Fund, he invested in Ramp, Trade Republic, and Aven, and personally invested early in YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Lyft, and Eventbrite. In 2023, he ranked #25 on the Forbes U.S. Midas list.
Keith has served on numerous boards, including Yelp, Xoom, and Reddit, and currently serves on the boards of Affirm, Ramp, and Trade Republic. His career began with leadership roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square.
He started as a litigator at Sullivan and Cromwell after clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Keith holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University and a juris doctor degree with honors from Harvard University.
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Podcast: The Thoughtful Entrepreneur (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 796 – Franchises are a Business in a Box with Franchise Logic’s Careyann Golliver
Pub date: 2021-08-01
796 - Franchises are a Business in a Box with Franchise Logic's Careyann Golliver
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Podcast: Mortgage Broker Acceleration (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Business In A Box
Pub date: 2022-06-12
There’s a key difference between being a mortgage broker and being the owner of a broking business. As a business owner, your mission is to put yourself out of a job. That means you should build your business for you, not around you. And you should be doing this from day one.
In this episode of Mortgage Broker Acceleration, James Veigli and Ash Playsted explain how you can do this. They unpack their "Business in a Box'' mindset, which aims to systemise everything so it doesn't rely on anybody – including you. Tune in to learn how you can achieve this nirvana of business and mortgage broking.
The Key Questions
- What is the “Business in a Box” mindset? (1:28)
- When is the right time to systemise? (3:07)
- How do you get started with a “Business in a Box” mindset? (7:36)
- Does the “Business in a Box” mindset help you grow your team? (14:11)
What You’ll Discover
- A common stumbling block for many mortgage broking business owners (10:02)
- The importance of proper documentation (15:20)
- The number one driver of business value and freedom (15:57)
- What you achieve by putting yourself out of a job (21:04)
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Podcast: Millionaire Mindcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Revolutionizing Wholesale Real Estate - Your Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Successful Real Estate Business in a Box That Makes Millions | Mike DeHaan
Pub date: 2023-03-13
In this episode of the Millionaire Mindcast, we have a stellar guest, Mike Dehaan who imparts a ton of valuable insights around real estate wholesaling, the effective wholesaling sales and marketing process, the mindset around building a successful Virtual Assistant Team, and building a successful real estate business that making millions while getting more freedom in life!
Mike Dehaan is an entrepreneur, a real estate investor, lead generation master, systems specialist, host of the Collecting Keys Podcast, and the owner of Collecting Keys LLC, Backyard Home Buyers, and INW Properties, a real estate service company based out of Spokane, WA that specialize in buying properties for cash throughout the Inland Northwest. The properties they purchase are primarily restored with lasting quality and made available for lease.
Real estate stuff is never on Mike’s radar. After spending 5 years as a corporate engineer, he quit his engineering career in 2018. He spent the following 2 years studying real estate investing and business to start an investing venture. At that time, he found a major skill set and passion in building scalable repeatable systems that creates disruption in the real estate wholesaling space. Since 2020, Mike has made from 0 to 200 real estate deals in 3 years. Currently, he is working to productize the wholesale business system and process that anyone can benefit from.
Some Questions I Ask:
Where did these real estate, investing, entrepreneurship, and/or professional careers start for you?
What do you think the problems are of wholesaling in the industry as a whole?
By partnering with the right people, how can you guys allow them to accelerate getting to a place of profitability and the benefits of having a really strong sales and marketing process?
How have you approached building such a successful Virtual Assistant Team?
What do you think some of the people that have failed with Virtual Assistant Teams are overlooking and might need to revisit?
Who is the ideal partner for your company? How do you go about identifying who the right person is and what the right market looks like?
What does the startup investment look like for this wholesaling system?
What is your vision as you see your company taking off?
Is this something that only applies to single-family or is there a commercial aspect and approach that you guys have been exploring and providing as well?
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
The effective step-by-step sales and marketing process.
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Podcast: The Deep Specialization Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: An Agency Business in a Box w/ Jeff Tomlin
Pub date: 2024-05-22
"The average small business uses over three dozen different pieces of software to run different aspects of their business." – Jeff Tomlin, Co-Founder & CMO of Vendasta
If you had to summarize Vendasta’s marketplace for small and medium sized agencies, it would be, in Jeff’s words, “Business in a box”.
Vendasta gives 80k+ agencies a full-stack platform to rebrand and resell online services to local business clients, granting them the scalability of a SaaS recurring revenue model. Simplifying operations, the company lets agencies acquire, retain, expand and manage clients all in one place, removing many of the pain points agencies face as they’re looking to grow their business.
Jeff joins The Deep Specialization Podcast to share his 17-year founder journey, going from building solutions for the media vertical and reputation management software to shaping up what Vendasta is known for today: a central online growth hub for agencies.
Jeff and Corey dive into topics like finding product fit, building Vendasta, successes and failures, as well as invaluable leadership lessons accumulated along the way.
Here’s what we cover in this episode:
- Vendasta’s 17-year journey and Jeff’s background.
- Typical inefficiencies in running a small business tech stack at an agency.
- The audacious goal Jeff’s team is working towards.
- Differentiation and positioning.
Here are some actionable key takeaways for agency founders:
- If you’re offering solutions, building a suite can 3x retention rates.
- As you grow, be mindful of your growing tech stack and how to manage it.
- Embrace agility as a young organization, and don’t be afraid to fail.
- Don’t get caught up in the minutia of operations, build workflows with tech, instead.
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Podcast: Social Proof Podcast (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Agency That Serves You With A Business In A Box - David, Kenn & Derrick #395
Pub date: 2023-09-18
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Podcast: The 10 Minute Entrepreneur (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: INTERVIEW: Ben Gaskill - The Business In a Box
Pub date: 2023-04-12
This is a unique episode and also a business opportunity! Ben is Co-Owner and VP of sales of Everest Ice And Water Systems. He explains their unique product and how it could be a business opportunity or additional revenue.
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Podcast: Blocked and Reported (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 107: Mormons and Furries and Babies, Oh My!
Pub date: 2022-03-28
Jesse is wandering around Cuba looking for internet so our extremely online podcast apprentice Tracing Woodgrains steps up to the mic. Discussed: Mormonism, furries, cultural appropriation, cultural gatekeeping, and Dave Rubin’s miracle babies. To discuss this episode with other premium subscribers, click here.
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Podcast: The ContraMinds Podcast
Episode: #053 Brandon Hendrickson on Making Education Engaging
Pub date: 2024-05-31
Making Education Engaging: A Journey of DiscoveryBrandon Hendrickson credits Kieran Egan as a significant influence on his educational philosophy. Diagnosed with ADHD, Brandon found traditional schooling uninspiring until he encountered Egan’s work, which revolutionized his approach to teaching and learning. Egan’s perspective on education, emphasizing the importance of making learning emotionally engaging and relevant, resonated deeply with Brandon. This new outlook led him to prioritize understanding and curiosity over mere academic performance, fostering a love for learning in both himself and his students.Watch the video episode on YouTube.About BrandonBrandon Hendrickson is the founder of Science is WEIRD (https://www.scienceisweird.com/) — a startup that’s developing a new approach to science education. At Science is Weird, they're building a progression of courses that rockets kids to a full, up-to-date understanding of science — from the subatomic to the intergalactic.Brandon also writes at The Lost Tools of Learning (https://losttools.substack.com/).Five key takeaways from this conversation:1. Importance of Making Learning Matter: The most crucial element in education is making subjects matter to students. When a topic resonates emotionally, students are more likely to engage deeply, remember, and understand it.2. Integration of Stories and Logic in Education: Egan's educational philosophy emphasizes the integration of stories and logic. While traditional education focuses on logic and facts, Egan believes in using stories to make learning engaging and memorable.3. Holistic and Interconnected Curriculum: Effective education should present subjects as interconnected. Understanding how disciplines like physics, chemistry, and biology relate to each other helps students see the bigger picture and appreciate the complexity of the world.4. Role of Teachers, School Founders, and Parents: Each stakeholder has a unique role in making education meaningful. Teachers should focus on making lessons emotionally engaging, school founders should design curricula that integrate Egan's principles, and parents should foster an environment that encourages curiosity and love for learning.5. Potential of Modern Educational Tools: With advancements in technology, such as LLM AIs and online educational resources, there is now a greater opportunity to create the best educational systems ever. These tools can help tailor education to individual needs and make learning more accessible and engaging.Brandon on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-hendrickson-36270b20/Swami on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaraman-swaminathan-9856501/For Show Notes, visit https://www.contraminds.comThis episode was made possible by the great folks at Effortless.Effortless has been designed to be user-friendly, aiding you in your journey to streamline financial tasks. Experience the convenience of achieving e-Invoicing and E-way Bill Generation in just a couple of clicks, simplifying your business processes.Visit www.goeffortless.ai to learn more.
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Podcast: The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Pub date: 2024-03-13
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire from academic economics.
Transcript available here.
Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics and is currently an economics PhD student at Stanford University. He is also currently a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a research associate at the Hoover Institution.
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Podcast: Undertone
Episode: Tyler Cowen
Pub date: 2024-01-15
Tyler and I talk about nearly everything.
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) Intro
(0:00:28) Identifying talent on Tyler’s podcast
(0:03:48) Why are follow up questions overrated?
(0:04:21) Tyler’s preferred guest career stage
(0:05:16) Optimal frequency for recording podcasts
(0:05:50) Tyler’s podcast prep
(0:07:39) Importance of in-person episodes
(0:09:56) What would Tyler ask Paul McCartney
(0:10:16) When to read literature in translation
(0:13:31) Tyler on Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche
(0:15:39) Elena Ferrante and the importance of pseudonyms
(0:17:17) Misreading literature
(0:17:56) Will literature get better in the next 10 years?
(0:19:21) Watching complex film
(0:22:14) Enjoying art
(0:23:08) Jonathan Swift and Peter Thiel
(0:24:45) Crude comedy
(0:25:28) Can we trust elites in the internet age?
(0:26:44) Generational theories of politics
(0:27:57) Religious thinkers and Tyler’s implicit theology
(0:29:33) What did Tyler get from Plato at a young age?
(0:30:51) Why are Shakespeare, Proust, and Melville in a league of their own?
(0:31:32) Fernando Pessoa
(0:31:59) Implications of demand sloping down
(0:33:22) Innovation in governance structures
(0:36:14) Should business leaders study the greats?
(0:38:36) GDP growth from today’s AI models
(0:40:35) LessWrong and worries about AI
(0:41:46) Feminized societies in times of chaos
(0:43:17) Fernand Braudel
(0:43:52) Best argument against NGDP targeting
(0:47:06) AI business models
(0:48:19) What is a bubble?
(0:49:33) Where are there too few Emergent Ventures applications?
(0:50:09) Unsolved problems in economics
(0:51:27) Immigration policy
(0:52:56) If Tyler wasn’t an economist
(0:53:50) Would Tyler go to Burning Man?
(0:54:33) The MR Universe
(0:55:32) Tyler’s equanimity
(0:57:15) Tyrone
(0:59:27) Joyce Carol Oates and Susan Sontag
(1:04:45) Wasting time
(1:04:54) Bach’s productivity
(1:05:29) Competitors to MR
(1:07:51) New Jersey and The Sopranos
(1:11:56) Rapid fire - what Tyler learned from different people
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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: What to Expect in 2024: Predictions from Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, Peter Attia, John McWhorter and More
Pub date: 2024-01-05
Last year was certainly eventful. It brought spy balloons, Donald Trump’s indictments, the coronation of a king, the fall of a crypto prince, and no shortage of chaos in Washington, from the ousting of Kevin McCarthy to the farcical George Santos scandal. Oh, and then there’s the small matter of two major wars, one in Gaza and one in Ukraine. Plus, ongoing tension between the U.S. and China. On a cheerier note, 2023 was also the year of Barbenheimer, the year it felt like AI really arrived, and the year the 90s were finally cool again.
But, as crazy as last year was, will the next twelve months prove that it was actually just the calm before the storm?
For many of us, 2024 begins with a distinct feeling of dread.
The Middle East grows increasingly unstable, the war in Ukraine is not going Kyiv’s way, and Xi Jinping’s rhetoric gets more bellicose by the day. Here at home, there’s the small matter of the election from hell, in which American voters face the unappetizing prospect of once again having to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
To try and figure out whether things will really be as terrible as we fear, today on Honestly Bari Weiss and Free Press editor Olly Wiseman are calling up some of our favorite experts to get a better sense of what’s coming down the pike.
The great Tyler Cowen looks into the economic crystal ball. Leandra Medine Cohen clues us in on fashion trends in 2024. Our very own Suzy Weiss talks through the cultural year ahead. Linguist John McWhorter looks at language. Doctor and longevity expert Peter Attia tells how to start the year healthy. Eagle-eyed political observers Nate Silver and Frank Luntz try to forecast the election. And historian Niall Ferguson tells us whether we’re right to be having nightmares about World War III.
Some guests cheered us up, others freaked us out. All of them were a pleasure to talk to. Welcome to 2024!
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Podcast: The Social Radars (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch
Pub date: 2023-11-22
Today we talk with Emmett Shear, who was in the very first YC batch in 2005 with a startup called Kiko. But you know him better as the co-founder of Twitch, which YC funded in 2007. Learn how Twitch grew from one guy walking around with a camera on his head to one of the biggest communities on the internet. It's a crazy story even by startup standards. Enjoy!
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Podcast: The Social Radars (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Patrick & John Collison, Co-Founders of Stripe
Pub date: 2023-11-14
In this episode we catch up with Patrick and John Collison, two brothers from Ireland who founded Stripe in 2009. Since then we've watched Stripe grow from a two-man show to one of the great powers of the tech world
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Podcast: The Social Radars (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits & Rippling
Pub date: 2023-12-06
Today we're talking with Parker Conrad, who founded two startups that went on to become unicorns: Zenefits in 2013, and Rippling in 2016. Parker’s story is one the more dramatic ones you’ll hear on this podcast. In fact this episode is two stories: his misadventures at Zenefits, and the ambitious ideas he has implemented at Rippling.
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Podcast: The Bayesian Conspiracy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 200 – The Educated Mind with Brandon Hendrickson
Pub date: 2023-11-15
We talk with Brandon Hendrickson about his ACX-contest winning book review of The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan. “A novel theory about why schools, as they are now, don’t work.”
The winning book review in its original text (also in audio (itunes, spotify))
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Podcast: ParentData with Emily Oster (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: High-Achieving Kids: The culture of never enough
Pub date: 2023-09-21
Kids today face an unprecedented pressure to succeed, and it's pushing their mental health, and their families, to a breaking point. Today on ParentData, journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace explains her research in her bestselling book, "Never Enough," how we got here, how these problems exist across both class and culture, and how we can combat this pressure by simply allowing our kids to matter as much as we already know they do.
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Episode: #148: Constructing the Computational Paradigm — Stephen Wolfram
Pub date: 2023-08-17
Podcast: The Joe Walker Podcast (formerly Jolly Swagman) (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% )
Episode: #148: Constructing the Computational Paradigm — Stephen Wolfram
Release date: 2023-08-16
Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and the author of A New Kind of Science.
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Podcast: The Theory of Anything (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 40: Byrne vs Deutsch on Animal Intelligence
Pub date: 2022-02-14
In this (mostly) standalone episode, we cover how Deutsch and Byrne each interpret Byrne's theory differently. Deutsch emphasizes the micro-level actions and gestures of great apes and the clear lack of understanding of what each gesture does. Byrne emphasizes the macro-level and the flexible intelligence required to come up with a program of action to accomplish a novel goal. Byrne's theory of 'animal insight' makes specific testable claims. To Byrne, great apes (especially Chimps) can 'think.' His theory says that animal insight was a necessary precursor to human insight and that humans utilize both kinds. If he's right, then animal insight has relevance to AGI studies. Deutsch has doubts about all of this and thinks of Bryne's theory more as evidence that animals cannot think.
We also discuss how Byrne and Deutsch both understand the mirror test differently. And finally, we dip just a bit into animal sentience and discuss why the theory that animals feel things is the prevailing theory not so much because it's a great theory but more because it has no real current competitors. It's difficult to explain much animal behavior without either tacitly referring to animal feelings or just clearly making up bad ad hoc explanations.
While it's helpful to have listened to the 3 previous episodes, this episode mostly stands alone.
Links:
- Richard Byrne's book Evolving Insight: How it is we can think about why things happen
- Richard Byrne's bookThe Thinking Ape: The Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence
- Video on dolphin intelligence/communication
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Podcast: Voices4Ed (LS 29 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 23: The Opportunity Myth
Pub date: 2018-12-21
In this episode, we discuss The Opportunity Myth: a report by the TNTP dispels the myth that all students have the same opportunity to attain their college and professional goals. First, we speak with Justin Thach, a high-schooler from Salem, Oregon about his observations of inequity in the classroom. Then, we speak with Bailey Czupryk, lead researcher for The Opportunity Myth about concrete things we can do to move schools towards providing equal opportunity for all students.
Full show notes and links at http://educationpost.org/conversation/podcast/
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Podcast: The Logan Bartlett Show (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP 62: Keith Rabois (Partner, Founders Fund) Lessons from Peter Thiel & Reid Hoffman, and Why He'd Never Invest in a Remote-First Company
Pub date: 2023-04-28
(0:00) Intro
(1:14) Welcome back, Keith
(5:35) Hating OKRs
(10:03) On making decisions
(14:09) Not believing in remote work
(17:33) Social Issues in the Workplace
(19:00) What is the role of a VC?
(22:08) Thinking about what can go right
(29:35) The "why you" in a potential investment
(34:28) Fitting the founder to the story
(37:59) The most successful founders are trending older
(43:21) The firm brand at Founders Fund
(47:57) Lessons learned from Keith's only five bosses in his career
(55:48) Thoughts on AI
(59:36) Artificial Intelligence in China
(1:03:23) What is your most contrarian view today?
(1:06:56) On Elon & using Twitter
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Podcast: Conversations With Coleman (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Multiverse of Madness with David Deutsch
Pub date: 2023-05-09
My guest today is David Deutsch. David is a renowned physicist and philosopher, best known for his work on quantum computation and his contributions to the field of quantum mechanics. He's a fellow of the Royal Society and a visiting professor of physics at the University of Oxford. David has written two books called "The Fabric of Reality" and "The Beginning of Infinity"
In this episode, we talk about the purpose of science. We discuss the concept of an explanation and its crucial role in the scientific process. We examine the famous double-slit experiment. We discuss rival interpretations of quantum mechanics and what they imply about the nature of reality. We also talk about progress in physics and advances in artificial intelligence.
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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Peter Thiel Says America Has Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
Pub date: 2023-05-03
Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first outside investor) to Gawker (he successfully conspired to put the website out of business) and, of course, to Trump (he threw his support behind the nominee in 2016).
Unlike many in the Silicon Valley set, who often say the popular thing in public and the thing they actually believe behind closed doors, Thiel has used his voice and his fortune to steer the country in the direction he believes is right—despite tremendous blowback. That was true in last year’s midterms, when Thiel threw his support behind two anti-establishment Republican candidates: Arizona’s Blake Masters and Ohio’s JD Vance.
But the billionaire entrepreneur and investor tells me in this conversation that he’s changing course. When I asked him who he’d back in 2024, he demurred. He says he’s decided to step away from supporting select politicians and instead is urging the political right to shift its focus from the culture wars to issues he believes matters more: like economic growth and tech innovation.
We cover a lot in this conversation. Why does Thiel believe that Democrats are the evil party and Republicans are the stupid party? Why is our infrastructure so far behind other nations? And why are Americans so impressed by the apps on our phones instead of dreaming of the next Sputnik?
Also: A.I., China, TikTok, Twitter, the right way to defeat what Elon Musk musk calls the “woke mind virus” and what Thiel’s going to bet on next.
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Podcast: TED Talks Daily (SD video) (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The amazing AI super tutor for students and teachers | Sal Khan
Pub date: 2023-05-01
Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.
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Podcast: "Moment of Zen" (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: E12: Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz
Pub date: 2023-03-11
Anonymous founders of the Effective Accelerationist (e/acc) movement @Bayeslord and Beff Jezoz (@BasedBeff) join Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, and Nathan Labenz to debate views on AI safety. We record our interviews with Riverside. Go to https://bit.ly/Riverside_MoZ + use code ZEN for 20%.
(3:00) Intro to effective accelerationism(8:00) Differences between effective accelerationism and effective altruism(23:00) Effective accelerationism is bottoms-up(42:00) Transhumanism(46:00) "Equanimity amidst the singularity"(48:30) Why AI safety is the wrong frame(56:00) Pushing back against effective accelerationism(1:06:00) The case for AI safety(1:24:00) Upgrading civilizational infrastructure(1:33:00) Effective accelerationism is anti-fragile(1:39:00) Will we botch AI like we botched nuclear?(1:46:00) Hidden costs of emphasizing downsides(2:00:00) Are we in the same position as neanderthals, before humans?(2:09:00) "Doomerism has an unpriced opportunity cost of upside"More shownotes and reading material released in our Substack:
https://momentofzen.substack.com/
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Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 12 Rules Thousand Oaks: Truth in Speech, and Meaning
Pub date: 2019-04-28
For this episode, we’re presenting Jordan’s lecture at the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California on June 30, 2018.
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Podcast: Bankless (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 167 - Eliezer is Wrong. We’re NOT Going to Die with Robin Hanson
Pub date: 2023-04-17
In this highly anticipated sequel to our 1st AI conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky, we bring you a thought-provoking discussion with Robin Hanson, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
Eliezer painted a chilling and grim picture of a future where AI ultimately kills us all. Robin is here to provide a different perspective.
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on Bankless https://www.bankless.com/159-were-all-gonna-die-with-eliezer-yudkowsky
What is the AI FOOM debate? https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/the-hanson-yudkowsky-ai-foom-debate
Age of Em book - Robin Hanson https://ageofem.com/
Grabby Aliens https://grabbyaliens.com/
Kurzgesagt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDSf2h9_39I&t=1s
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Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 336. How to Educate Your Children | Jeff Sandefer
Pub date: 2023-03-02
Dr Jordan B Peterson and Jeff Sandefer discuss the k-12 education machine, its origins and failures, and how the Acton Academies are making leaps to correct the system.
Jeff Sandefer is an entrepreneur and Socratic teacher. He started his first business at 16 and graduated from Harvard Business School. Jeff has started and runs many successful companies, his most recent being Sandefer Capital Partners, an oil and gas investment firm with several billion dollars in assets. He has also started multiple academic programs and schools, such as the Acton School of Business, whose students were named the “most competitive MBA’s in the nation” by the Princeton Review. This has since extended into k-12 with the Acton Academy, a cutting-edge program that blends a one-room schoolhouse, the Socratic Method, and 21st-century technology to empower each student to change the world.
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Podcast: The Theory of Anything (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 56: Rationality, Religion, and the Omega Point
Pub date: 2023-04-10
Special guest, Lulie Tannett, asked me if she could come on my podcast and interview me about religion. Lulie and Peter ask me numerous religion-related questions such as:
- How is the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (i.e. Mormon church) similar and different from Deutsch's Four Strands worldview?
- What might the Deutsch Four Strands worldview learn from religion?
- In a modern world, what (if anything) can religion still teach us?
- Is religion an ally or a foe of a rational worldview?
- For what matter, what is the most widely accepted rational worldview?
- What about supernatural truth claims of religion? Can they be reconciled with a rational worldview?
- How was the Omega Point theory (from the final chapter of Fabric of Reality) informed by religion?
- What is the Omega Point theory? Why did Deutsch abandon it (in Beginning of Infinity)? What did he replace it with?
- Is Frank Tipler (creator of the Omega Point theory) a nutter or a mad genius?
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Podcast: FQxI Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Constructor Theory and Irreversibility: A conversation with Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral on a novel unification between information theory and thermodynamics and their recent experiment that tested, and corroborated, the constructor theoretic notion...
Pub date: 2022-04-20
Constructor Theory and Irreversibility: A conversation with Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral on a novel unification between information theory and thermodynamics and their recent experiment that tested, and corroborated, the constructor theoretic notion of irreversibility. With Logan Chipkin.
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Podcast: Increments (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #37 - Montessori Education w/ Matt Bateman
Pub date: 2022-02-16
We're joined today by Matt Bateman, one of the founders of Higher Ground Education, to discuss the Montessori method of education and how it compares to other teaching methodologies. Get ready for tiny furniture, putting on your jacket upside down, and teaching your toddler to make eggs benedict. We discuss:
- Maria Montessori
- What is a Montessori education (besides tiny furniture)?
- How Montessori classrooms differ from regular ones
- Why long periods of interrupted problem solving is important for a child's development
- How Montessori integrates with technology
- Drawbacks of traditional methods of testing and grading, and how they might be amended
- The importance of cultivating a love of work
- How Matt wants to reform high school education
Bio:
Matt is one of the founders of Higher Ground Education, a worldwide Montessori network. He runs Montessorium, Higher Ground’s think tank. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, where he focused on the philosophy of science. Make sure to follow him on twitter for some golden education nuggets
References:
- Matt on the Where We Go Next (formerly New Liberals) podcast.
- Montessorium
- Vocational Training for the Soul: Bringing the Meaning of Work to Schools
- Matt's History of Education Course
Social media everywhere
- Follow us on Twitter at @IncrementsPod, @BennyChugg, @VadenMasrani
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- Come join our discord server! DM us on twitter or send us an email to get a supersecret link
Special Guest: Matt Bateman.
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Podcast: Increments (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: #41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)
Pub date: 2022-06-20
We're joined by the wonderful Lulie Tanett to talk about effective altruism, pulling spouses out of burning buildings, and why you should prefer critical rationalism to Bayesianism for your mom's sake. Buckle up!
We discuss:
- Lulie's recent experience at EA Global
- Bayesianism and how it differs from critical rationalism
- Common arguments in favor of Bayesianism
- Taking Children Seriously
- What it was like for Lulie growing up without going to school
- The Alexander Technique, Internal Family Systems, Gendlin's Focusing, and Belief Reporting
References
- EA Global
- Taking Children Seriously
- Alexander Technique
- Internal Family Systems
- Gendlin Focusing
Social Media Everywhere
Follow Lulie on Twitter @reasonisfun. Follow us at @VadenMasrani, @BennyChugg, @IncrementsPod, or on Youtube.
Report your beliefs and focus your Gendlin's at incrementspodcast@gmail.com.
Special Guest: Lulie Tanett.
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Podcast: POD OF JAKE (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: #126 - KEITH RABOIS 2
Pub date: 2023-04-04
Keith is the CEO & Co-Founder of OpenStore and a General Partner at Founders Fund. He is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur, a prolific investor, and a self-described contrarian. Keith previously served as a General Partner at Khosla Ventures. Before that, he was COO at Square and served in influential roles at LinkedIn. He also co-founded Opendoor. Keith began his career in technology as a senior executive at PayPal. He has since invested early in many great companies including YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, DoorDash, Stripe, Quora, Yammer, Affirm, Eventbrite, and many others. He also served as a Board Member from inception to IPO at Yelp and Xoom. Follow Keith on Twitter @rabois.
[0:00] - OpenStore's early momentum and fundraising strategy
[5:35] - How an decentralized department store could unlock eCommerce growth
[12:33] - Introducing OpenStore Drive and why it is great for Shopify store owners
[16:49] - OpenStore's horizontal approach and why Keith believes it is best
[18:41] - OpenStore’s business acquisition strategy and thoughtful process design
[24:09] - How learnings from OpenStore’s initial acquisitions have led to improvements
[28:56] - Why OpenStore’s business is resilient in various macroeconomic environments
[35:06] - Acquisition offers and accept rates as metrics and countermetrics at OpenStore
[38:45] - Introducing Gumdrop which matches long-tail influencers to long-tail SKUs
[41:40] - The advantages of aggregation that benefit OpenStore’s business model
[45:19] - Building a great company culture; finding & developing undiscovered talent
[51:11] - The most high-leverage activities Keith allocates time to as OpenStore's CEO
homeofjake.com
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Podcast: Fallible Animals (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fallible Animals Episode 10: Interview with Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder
Pub date: 2019-11-29
I interview physicist and science writer Sabine Hossenfelder. She is a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where she leads the Analog Systems for Gravity Duals group and researches quantum gravity. We discuss ideas from her book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, such as the role of philosophical ideas of beauty, naturalness, and elegance in fundamental physics and the sociological factors that affect scientific research. We also discuss often misunderstood ideas in fundamental physics, such as the difference between a Grand Unified Theory and a Theory of Everything, and the difference between time-invariance and time reversibility.
Dr. Hossenfelder's Twitter - @skdh
Dr. Hossenfelder's book, Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray - https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray-ebook/dp/B0763L6YR7
Dr. Hossenfelder's website - http://sabinehossenfelder.com
Dr. Hossendelder's blog - http://backreaction.blogspot.com
My appearance on Christofer Lovgren's podcast, Do Explain - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-big-three-case-against-government-logan-chipkin/id1482313214?i=1000457352171
My recent article with Areo Magazine, People and the Cosmos: Constructor Theory - https://areomagazine.com/2019/11/25/people-and-the-cosmos-constructor-theory/
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals
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Articles - www.loganchipkin.com
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Podcast: Scaling Knowledge
Episode: On Accelerating the Growth of Knowledge & Wealth - with Logan Chipkin
Pub date: 2023-03-03
I had fun chatting with my friend Logan Chipkin about various topics and misconceptions related to the growth of knowledge and wealth including:
- Austrian Economics and Critical Rationalism
- Black Box View of Government
- Economic Creationism
- Time Imperialists
- Why Equality is undesirable
- Moralizing
- Anarcho Capitalism
- Austrian Economics
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Podcast: Fallible Animals (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Constructor Theory of Information with David Deutsch
Pub date: 2021-01-19
This is my interview with David Deutsch, Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. We discuss the constructor theory of information, some of its conjectured principles, the unification of classical and quantum information, and more.
Constructor Theory of Information paper - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.5563.pdf
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Podcast: Fallible Animals (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fallible Animals Episode 6: Interview with Physicist Chiara Marletto
Pub date: 2019-10-27
I interview Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto, who has been working on constructor theory for several years. She's published papers on its applications to various fields, including those of information, thermodynamics, life, and probability. We discuss the origins and motivations of constructor theory, problems the theory may solve, current research programs, the universal constructor, response to potential criticisms, why constructor theory can explain more of Reality than the prevailing conception, and more.
Constructor Theory Homepage - www.constructortheory.org
Constructor Theory of Thermodynamics - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Thd-ArXiv-2.pdf
Constructor Theory of Probability - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20150883.full_.pdf
Constructor Theory of Life - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ct-life.pdf
Constructor Theory of Information - http://constructortheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ct-info.pdf
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan
Articles - www.loganchipkin.com
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Podcast: Fallible Animals (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Fallible Animals Episode 9: Laws vs. Principles
Pub date: 2019-11-16
We discuss the difference between laws versus principles as elucidated by constructor theory, and why it matters. Constructor theory may be thought of as a 'theory of theories' whose principles constrain other theories. Just as these subsidiary, object-level theories constrain the behavior of physical phenomena, so too constructor theory, as a meta-level theory, constrains the behavior of object-level theories both known and unknown. Constructor theoretic principles can also constrain and solve problems with theories that explain inherently unpredictable phenomena, such as those of biology, economics, and epistemology.
My patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/Fallibleanimals
Economic Creationism - https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/economic-creationism/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan
Articles - www.loganchipkin.com
Foundational Paper on Constructor Theory - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.7439.pdf
Constructor Theory of Life - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.0681.pdf
The Upright Thinkers - https://www.amazon.com/Upright-Thinkers-Journey-Living-Understanding/dp/0307908232
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Podcast: Fallible Animals (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Universal Constructor with David Deutsch
Pub date: 2023-03-07
I speak with physicist David Deutsch about the universal constructor, a machine that can be programmed to cause any physically possible transformation.
Note-this interview was recorded in early 2022.
In the time since this interview was recorded, David has stated that disobedience is by far the primary reason that humans and human societies aren't universal constructors.
David Deutsch's website - https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/.
Constructor theory website - https://www.constructortheory.org/.
Logan Chipkin's website - www.loganchipkin.com/.
David Deutsch Twitter - https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf.
Logan Chipkin Twitter - https://twitter.com/ChipkinLogan.
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Podcast: The Theory of Anything (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 54: How do Computational and Explanatory Universality Relate? (IQ part 2)
Pub date: 2023-03-13
In this episode, we continue our discussion of Dwarkesh Patel's article "Contra David Deutsch on AI" compared to Brett Hall's tweet on IQ theory. This time we concentrate on criticisms of Patel's Hardware+Scaling hypothesis. To Patel's credit, he admits that his hypothesis is problematic.
Then Peter asks Bruce about why Brett Hall believes explanatory universality implies 'equal intellectual capacity'. Bruce gives a steelmanned version of Brett's theory that takes us through an explanation of what explanatory universality is and how it relates to computational universality and the Turing Principle.
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Podcast: The Theory of Anything (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 53: Universality and IQ - Part 1
Pub date: 2023-02-17
Dwarkesh Patel published an article called "Contra David Deutsch on AI". This article was actually a defense of IQ theory against the charge (often made by fans of David Deutsch) that the existence of Explanatory Universality destroys IQ theory entirely. But how accurately does Dwarkesh portray Deutsch's view? (For that matter, how accurately do fans of David Deutsch portray Deutsch's viewpoint?) And how good are Patel's criticisms of Deutsch's view?
With some help from a tweet from Brett Hall on IQ theory, we compare and contrast Patel's and Hall's viewpoints and lay out the disagreements that exist.
Brett argues that Explanatory Universality implies we are all equally intelligent (i.e. have an equal capacity to learn) and that the only difference between people is our levels of interest in the knowledge that currently society happens to value. Is he correct? Or are the experiments cited by Patel wrong? If so, how?
Or to put this another way, if we did demonstrate via an experiment that some people do gain knowledge faster than others (as Patel claims), would that refute the theory of explanatory universality? Or are Brett's claims not actually implications of explanatory universality?
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Podcast: Naval (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1
Pub date: 2021-07-02
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity
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Podcast: Naval (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2
Pub date: 2021-12-22
Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1
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Podcast: ToKCast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
Pub date: 2022-06-22
In this episode - unlike the other also titled "Work and Heat" - we actually cover the content of Chiara's book and go through some readings. We look at Work and Heat through the lens of Constructor Theory. How so-called "work-like" transformations are reversible but "heat-like" are not and hence we have an avenue to an exact expression of the second law without approximations or talk of what will "most likely" or "probably" happen. We also go over some discussions about the universal constructor.
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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #662: David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More
Pub date: 2023-03-23
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David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) is a visiting professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, a part of the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information and especially constructor theory, which he is proposing as a new way of formulating laws of nature. He is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, and he is an advocate of the philosophy of Karl Popper.
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder of Airchatand AngelList. He has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes, such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, Opendoor, Postmates, and Wish. You can see his latest musings on Airchat, and subscribe to Naval, his podcast on wealth and happiness, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al.
For more Naval-plus-Tim, check out my wildly popular interview with him from 2015 (nominated for “Podcast of the Year”) and our conversation from 2020.
Naval also co-piloted the interviews with Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and famed investor Chris Dixon.
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[08:03] The impact The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity have had on Naval.
[10:07] The four strands.
[13:04] Dispelling common misconceptions about science.
[19:26] How does knowledge grow?
[24:26] The benefits of understanding the four strands.
[32:47] How quantum computing arose from trying to test a multiverse theory.
[37:40] What a good explanation looks like.
[42:43] How do conjecture and criticism give us a basis for optimism?
[48:38] Translating knowledge into action.
[51:20] Artificial intelligence (AI) vs. artificial general intelligence (AGI).
[56:54] AGI is people! But how do we ensure it’ll be good people?
[1:03:03] What’s taking AGI so long to get here?
[1:08:59] Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars.
[1:17:47] Are humans central to the universe, or just a sideshow?
[1:20:17] Wealth and resources.
[1:25:30] Recommended thinkers.
[1:28:05] Taking Children Seriously, ToKCast, Critical Rationalists, and Popper 101.
[1:31:55] David’s most interesting problems right now.
[1:39:24] Parting thoughts.
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Podcast: Crash Course (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Artificial Intelligence vs. Humanity
Pub date: 2023-03-07
Artificial intelligence, or “AI” – the foundation of decades of science fiction and movies – has gone mainstream. It’s here. ChatGPT, a chatbot launched in late 2022, is a free, ask-me-anything tool that can write seemingly perfect essays and accurately answer most questions users throw at it. Its AI is built atop a vast reservoir of digital information and languages. Sydney, a glitchy and trippy Microsoft chatbot, recently told a New York Times reporter that it loved him, wanted to be alive and harbored destructive impulses. It's cool. It’s disturbing. It’s empowering. It’s vaguely threatening. It challenges us to wonder whether we’ll stay in control of the bots or whether they’ll control us.
For this episode, Tim spoke with both Parmy Olson, a Bloomberg Opinion technology columnist who is an AI guru, and Tyler Cowen, a genius economist and Bloomberg columnist, to help sort through all of this.
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Podcast: Always Better than Yesterday with Ryan Hartley | A Podcast for Heart Centred Leaders (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 197 Interview Sessions with Dr. Gordon Neufeld | Hold On To Your Kids
Pub date: 2022-11-02
Join our mail list here for exclusive content here.Sign up for our January Good Fathers group here; https://abty.co.uk/good-fathersOn episode 197 I am joined by Dr. Gordon Neufeld, author of the best selling book Hold on to Your Kids, co-authored with Dr. Gabor Maté.Before he retired, Dr. Gordon Neufeld had accumulated more than 40 years of experience as a clinical psychologist with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld continues to be an international speaker, a best-selling author (Hold On to Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm.Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. While formerly involved in university teaching and private practice, he has devoted the best part of the last two decades to creating courses for parents, teachers and helping professionals.These courses are offered primarily through the Neufeld Institute – an online educational institute and world-wide charitable organization devoted to applying developmental science to the task of raising children.Dr. Neufeld’s life's work has been to help adults provide the conditions for children to flourish. He is a father of five and a grandfather to seven.In this episode you will hear:03:00 why parents are struggling07:30 we are being educated out of our instincts09:30 the universal force of attachment12:30 peer orientation vs. the village of attachment17:00 why it is so difficult for step-parents20:00 our roles as fathers21:30 a child’s natural desire to be good versus counter-will23:00 true power isn’t something we draw attention to26:30 we are the answer28:30 universal principles of attachment30:00 the paradox of independence35:00 it is always too early to retire39:00 who am I the same as and the importance of family values42:30 pick your battles45:00 the damage caused by sending them to their room48:00 hold on to your kids50:30 the impact of parents that are always on their phones53:30 you’re not going to feel on the battlefield, but home is where we get our hearts back57:30 vulnerability is the enemy and the essence of the bully59:00 Dr. Gordon’s Heartprint1:02:00 the most important belief to have as a parentConnect with Dr. Gordon NeufeldWebsite: https://neufeldinstitute.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NeufeldInstituteYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/neufeldmediaConnect with Always Better than YesterdayWebsite: https://abty.co.uk/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alwaysbetterthanyesterdayuk/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/abty/Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/weareabtyThank you to our friends at Elevate OM, proud supporters of the Always Better than Yesterday Interview Sessions.Head to https://www.elevateom.com/ for Online Marketing & Web Design services that are affordable, bespoke & awesome.podcast@abty.co.uk
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Podcast: Finding Genius Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Quantum Theory of Computation and Developing Constructors to Revolutionize Computing with Chiara Marletto
Pub date: 2021-05-19
Where can quantum computing take the next step to continue improving and begin outperforming current computers. Theoretically, physical transformations may be the next stage of development. Listen up to learn:
- The basic unit of quantum computation
- The challenges that face quantum computation development
- If biological systems can be emulated in quantum computers
A Research Fellow working in the Physics Department of the University of Oxford, Chiara Marletto, joins the conversation to discuss the quantum theory of computation.
While our current understanding of computers focuses mainly on speeding up and bolstering computing power, research leads quantum computational researchers in a new direction. Constructors theoretically have the capability to modify shape within the laws of physics and appear to be on the horizon for quantum computing.
Constructor theory relies on solving the problems from the current generation of computing machines, such as the noise, need for cold, and computational powers. What sets constructors apart from classical computers is the possibility of self-reproduction and a wide variety of other previously thought to be impossible tasks.
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Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 167 | Chiara Marletto on Constructor Theory, Physics, and Possibility
Pub date: 2021-10-04
Traditional physics works within the “Laplacian paradigm”: you give me the state of the universe (or some closed system), some equations of motion, then I use those equations to evolve the system through time. Constructor theory proposes an alternative paradigm: to think of physical systems in terms of counterfactuals — the set of rules governing what can and cannot happen. Originally proposed by David Deutsch, constructor theory has been developed by today’s guest, Chiara Marletto, and others. It might shed new light on quantum gravity and fundamental physics, as well as having applications to higher-level processes of thermodynamics and biology.
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Podcast: ToKCast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
Pub date: 2022-12-22
Here we set the scene for an explanation of the functioning of quantum computers and their significance. What are the problems that quantum computation might solve? What is the fundamental advantage of computation and hence quantum computation for humanity and for an understanding of "the fabric of reality". We connect quantum computation to the technologies that preceded it - indeed back to the use of hammer, chisel and water wheels. Understanding reality and the laws that govern it enable technology which enables automation and increased time to work on the next problems allowing solutions that continue this ratcheting up of objective progress in the world. This chapter could very well be a book on its own as we mount the argument that not only is computation, life and thought significant in this world but that the laws of physics mandate the existence of all three in a deep way. How can we explain this apparent providence? Answers in this episode :)
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Podcast: ToKCast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 161: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 8 ”The Significance of Life”.
Pub date: 2022-10-26
This chapter is about just what you get in the title: the significance of life. Is it true we are just a chemical scum? Much of "The Beginning of Infinity" worldview is contained here, in an earlier form, in this chapter. In this, the first part, we primarily consider the question of what life itself is. We conclude that it is best thought of as a kind of resilient information. And that is knowledge.
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Podcast: ToKCast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 115: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 5 “Virtual Reality”
Pub date: 2022-04-27
Although an episode devoted to "virtual reality" may seem quirky, parochial or quaint: the fact is that the concept of virtual reality runs very deep. Our understanding of reality is via virtual reality: that conjuring of the external physical world that our minds manage to do. I cannot do better than a part of the chapter itself where David writes "All reasoning, all thinking and all external experience are forms of virtual reality. These things are physical processes which so far have been observed in only one place in the universe, namely the vicinity of the planet Earth. We shall see... that all living processes involve virtual reality too, but human beings in particular have a special relationship with it. Biologically speaking, the virtual-reality rendering of their environment is the characteristic means by which human beings survive. In other words, it is the reason why human beings exist."(1) These are lofty claims but as always - as appropriate for this book, grounded entirely in reality and understood through reason. I refer to this chapter in some senses as the "synecdoche" chapter: a part of the book that represents the whole. (1) Deutsch, David. The Fabric of Reality (Penguin Science) (p. 121). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
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Podcast: THE INTELLECTUAL DARK WEB PODCAST (HOBBES + LOCKE + ROUSSEAU + US CONSTITUTION in ONE SINGLE BOOK) (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Karl Popper - Science, Epistemology, & Political Theory
Pub date: 2021-10-05
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Podcast: The TED Interview (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The limitless potential of human knowledge | David Deutsch
Pub date: 2021-06-26
In an ever expanding world, it can be easy to think of our lives as insignificant. But according to David Deutsch, we all possess one skill that gives each of us infinite reach: our ability to attain knowledge. In the final episode of this season dedicated to making a case for optimism, Chris revisits his interview with the father of quantum computing to explore how knowledge first developed, how it sets us apart and how we can use it to shape a more hopeful future.
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Podcast: ToKCast (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 100: David Deutsch
Pub date: 2021-12-01
This is the complete and unabridged discussion I had with David Deutsch largely about "The Beginning of Infinity". It contains all my "Questions for David" - which were published separately - AND much more content too.
00:00 Introduction
12:51 Why aren’t testable theories enough?
14:37 Predictions vs Explanations
18:33 Verisimilitude
23:54 Are people a “chemical scum”?
25:43 The Earth is uniquely suited to life?
30:22 What does “provable” mean?
33:44 Undecidability
37:45 Classifying abstractions
41:29 The nature of physical laws.
47:06 Direct Observation
50:29 The nature of mind
55:40 The Supernatural
59:52 Epistemology and Morality
01:02:00 The physical limitations of knowledge?
01:09:24 Some history of quantum computation
01:16:44 Tic Tacs, UFOs and aliens
01:19:01 Dark Energy
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Podcast: The Jolly Swagman Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: #139: Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch
Pub date: 2022-04-24
Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world, from decision theory to the philosophy of science. But does it make sense to quantify our beliefs about such ineffable things as scientific theories or the future? And what separates empty prophecy from legitimate prediction?
David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, and is widely regarded as the father of quantum computing. He is the author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011).
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Podcast: Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: AJ Juliani on Genius Hour, PBL, Design Thinking and Student Inquiry
Pub date: 2018-06-11
Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb
Connect with AJ Juliani
Twitter: @ajjuliani | Website: http://ajjuliani.com/ | Books: AJ Juliani on Amazon
Links & Show Notes
- Skip to Minute 9 to get to the Interview with AJ Juliani
- What is Genius Hour? (01:33)
- Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom (02:07)
- Structure (02:30)
- Getting Started with Genius Hour
- Genius Hour Blueprint
- Numbers app template
- Inspiration (03:45) | Kid President on Empowerment | Jack Andraka TED Talk | Caine’s Arcade | Genius Hour Examples
- Authentic Audience (05:17)
- Three N’s (06:46) - What did you learn that’s new, what do you need from me, what are you going to do next?
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20time / #geniushour
- AJ Juliani Intro (9:07) - Director of Technology and Innovation at Centennial School District
- Genius Hour, what it is, how AJ started with it (10:40)
- Read Daniel Pink’s book Drive - Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose
- The 20% Project blog post | #20Time
- Joy Kirr, Gallit Zvi, Hugh McDonald, Denise Krebs
- The Genius Hour Manifesto
- Examples of Genius Hour projects (15:28)
- How Genius Hour works (17:42) Planning → Topic Selection → Pitch → Research → Making → Presentations → Reflection
- Topic Selection: March Madness Bracket for ideas
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- Mapping to Standards (21:12)
- Managing Time (22:53)
- Getting started with Inquiry-based learning (25:35)
- Get kids comfortable talking without the teacher asking a bunch of questions: Discussion games, sentence stems, fishbowls, symposiums, etc
- Genius Hour / Passion Projects for teachers (28:34)
- Teacher Innovation Pitch in Centennial SD
- Student Innovation Lab / Centennial X
- Design Thinking (31:50)
- Launch book | co-authored with John Spencer
- Chris Lehmann quote: “If you assign a project and get back 30 of the exact same thing, that’s not a project, that’s a recipe.
- HBR Article on Design Thinking
- Stanford d.school
- IDEO
- Failures to watch out for with Design Thinking & Genius Hour (36:08)
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- Compliance - Engagement - Empowerment Continuum (42:34)
- Empower book
- Developing choice & decision skills (44:47)
- 14,000 hours with students - how much of that time do we give them practice making choices and decisions?
- Other podcasts / interviews with AJ
- Cult of Pedagogy | AJ’s podcast, Inside Innovation | TLTalk Radio
- Homework for teachers (47:46)
- What were the last 5 things you learned and why were you excited about learning them? Then, think about how you learn best, and then think about your classroom
- Ajjuliani.com - @ajjuliani on all social media
- Post interview takeaways with Becky & Ben (49:34)
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Podcast: Modern Classrooms Project Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 83: Misconceptions About Self Pacing
Pub date: 2022-04-03
This week, Zach is joined by Andrea Mahr, Beth Benavides, and John Tyler to address six common misconceptions about self pacing and self-paced classes.
Outline and Show Notes
- Get to know Andrea, Beth, and John
- Andrea and Beth's previous MCP Podcast episode: Elementary Math
- Kareem on the Cult of Pedagogy podcast
- Everything you need to know about building a great screencast video
- How to create a self-paced classroom
- Setting up mastery-based grading in your classroom
- Misconception: Self-paced classes have no deadlines
- Misconception: Kids do whatever they want in self-paced classes
- Misconception: Teachers don't teach in self-paced classes
- Misconception: Self-paced classes never have any full-group collaborative activities
- MCP Podcast episode on full-group collaborative activities: Planning for Collaboration in a Modern Classroom
- Blooket
- Gimkit
- Misconception: Students lack the skills to self pace effectively
- Misconception: Students can never collaborate since they're working on different things
- Connect with Andrea, Beth, and John
- Connect with John by email and on Facebook
- Connect with Beth by email and on Facebook
- Connect with Andrea by email and on Facebook
Contact us, follow us online, and learn more:
- Email us questions and feedback at: podcast@modernclassrooms.org
- Send us an audio note and we'll include it on a future episode!
- Modern Classrooms: @modernclassproj on Twitter and facebook.com/modernclassproj (remember you can tweet us questions by using the hashtag #askMCP)
- Kareem: @kareemfarah23 on Twitter
- Toni Rose: @classroomflex on Twitter and Instagram
- The Modern Classroom Project
- Modern Classrooms Online Course
- Take our free online course, or sign up for our mentorship program to receive personalized guidance from a Modern Classrooms mentor as you implement your own modern classroom!
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Podcast: The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 158: How to Create a Self-Paced Classroom
Pub date: 2020-11-08
In a self-paced classroom, each student is met where they are, is given an appropriate level of challenge, and grows at a steady pace throughout the school year. In this episode, Kareem Farah of the Modern Classrooms Project teaches us how to get started.
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Podcast: World of DaaS (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Keith Rabois: Velocity, Differentiation & Disruption
Pub date: 2022-11-01
Keith Rabois is the CEO of Openstore and a general partner at Founders Fund. He’s had an amazing career as a founder and senior operator at some of the most innovative companies of the last 20 years, including Paypal, Square, Opendoor, and LinkedIn.
Auren and Keith take a deep dive into spotting talent— one of Keith’s strengths— and discuss how he’s managed to hire so many incredible people over the years. They break down what makes a successful founder, why sitting on “too many” boards is the right move for VCs, and how Keith has reverse engineered a tech scene in Miami.
Keith has a highly unique perspective and brings sharp insight to everything from fundraising to culture to personal health.
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You can find Auren Hoffman on Twitter at @auren and Keith at @Rabois.
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Podcast: Rupert Spira Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 41: Bernardo Kastrup
Pub date: 2022-03-22
In this episode Simon Mundie hosts a conversation between Rupert Spira and Bernardo Kastrup.
Simon opens this wide-ranging and far-reaching dialogue by stating that most people’s everyday, ordinary experience is that they are themselves an entity that happens to contain a mind, within a world of entities.
The two-hour conversation that follows is all about how this so-called common-sense perspective is, in fact, false.
Bernardo has two PhDs, one in computer science and another in philosophy. He was employed first at CERN, the European council for nuclear research, where he began working in artificial intelligence (AI) in connection with the Large Hadron Collider. Then he moved on to artificial consciousness (AC), wondering if he could build an artificially conscious entity, which piqued his interest in philosophy.
Simon Mundie is the host of the podcast 'Life Lessons: From Sport and Beyond’, which explores life's bigger questions.
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Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Pub date: 2022-06-09
Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Lambda: https://lambdalabs.com/lex – Audible: https://audible.com/lex – BiOptimizers: http://www.magbreakthrough.com/lex to get 10% off – BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Robin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson Robin’s Website: https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson Grabby Aliens (paper): https://grabbyaliens.com/paper The Elephant in the Brain (book): https://amazon.com/dp/0197551955/ref=nosim?tag=turingmachi08-20 The Age of Em (book): https://amazon.com/dp/0198817827/ref=nosim?tag=turingmachi08-20 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman
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Podcast: Stranded Technologies Podcast
Episode: Ep. 13: Michael Gibson on Learning from Peter Thiel, Backing 19-Year Old Vitalik Buterin and Self-Education as the Path to End the Great Stagnation
Pub date: 2022-09-06
Niklas speaks with Michael Gibson, co-founder and General Partner at 1517, a VC firm that backs dropouts, renegade students & deep tech scientists at the earliest stages.
Michael is the author of the book “Paper Belt on Fire - The Fight for Progress in an Age of Ashes”, coming out on November 8, 2022 (pre-order on Amazon).
Michael dropped out of his philosophy PhD program and was then picked by Peter Thiel to run the now legendary Thiel Fellowship Program from Day 1. With no traditional VC background, Michael then founded 1517 to find young entrepreneurs willing to leave the traditional paths to build the next great thing.
One such renegade entrepreneur Michael backed early was Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, whom he noticed early to be a voracious self-learner who taught himself not only the necessary coding and math but also to speak Mandarin Chinese.
In this wide-ranging conversation, we learn about the failures of the higher education model and science funding ("the paper belt" from NYC, Washington to Boston), and "The Great Stagnation" in technological progress starting in 1971.
Michael talks about the notion of the "frontier", a place where you can go to if the established institutions are corrupt and favor insiders over outsides, to do it all differently. In American History, the frontier was the West.
The new frontiers now seem to be the internet, the crypto/blockchain movement, and charter cities. We invite you to join us at the frontier to build the industries of the future together on Roatan, Honduras, a beautiful Caribbean island:
Prospera Healthtech Summit, September 23-25, 2022
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Podcast: Manifold (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Richard Hanania: Wokeness, Public Choice Theory, & Geostrategy — #3
Pub date: 2022-02-10
Richard Hanania is President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI). He is a former Research Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His interests include personality differences between conservatives and liberals, morality in international politics, machine learning algorithms for text analysis, and American foreign policy. In addition to his academic work, he has written in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Hanania holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and a JD from the University of Chicago.
He is the author of the recently published Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.
Resources
Richard Hanania on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RichardHanania
CSPI - https://cspicenter.org/
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy
https://www.amazon.com/Public-Choice-Theory-Illusion-Strategy-ebook/dp/B09L9Y2W7S
The Great Awokening | Zach Goldberg & Richard Hanania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmdveWMURc&ab_channel=CSPI
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.
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Podcast: Manifold (LS 35 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing, Unsolvable Problems, & Artificial Intelligence — #9
Pub date: 2022-04-07
Scott Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. Previously, he taught for nine years in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His research interests center around the capabilities and limits of quantum computers, and computational complexity theory more generally.
Scott also writes the blog Shtetl Optimized: https://scottaaronson.blog/
Steve and Scott discuss:
- Scott's childhood and education, first exposure to mathematics and computers.
- How he became interested in computational complexity, pursuing it rather than AI/ML.
- The development of quantum computation and quantum information theory from the 1980s to the present. Scott's work on quantum supremacy.
- AGI, AI Safety
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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.
Please send any questions or suggestions to manifold1podcast@gmail.com or Steve on Twitter @hsu_steve.
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Podcast: The Founder's Mindset
Episode: S2 | E5: Wanting it All, or Nothing at All: A Case for Being 'Married to your Work'
Pub date: 2022-09-07
In this episode Gena spoke with Ray and Rebecca Girn, two people who utterly defy all conventional wisdom about maintaining work-life balance.
When it comes to both work and love, they are, as they often describe it, “all in”. Ray and Rebecca are part of the founding team of Higher Ground Education, which offers a radically different kind of education, centred around developing natural interests rather than formal teaching. Higher Ground owns and operates over 100 Montessori schools, one of which Gena’s daughter attends.
This is a conversation about what it’s like to put all your eggs in one basket. Ray and Rebecca don’t mince words about what makes that approach so difficult, but they’ll also get you thinking about why it’s so sublimely and unquestionably worth it.
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Podcast: Yaron Brook Show (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: YBS: Parenting, an Objectivist Perspective with Gina Gorlin & Rebecca Girn
Pub date: 2021-07-07
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Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #101 – Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Pub date: 2020-06-13
Joscha Bach is the VP of Research at the AI Foundation, previously doing research at MIT and Harvard. Joscha work explores the workings of the human mind, intelligence, consciousness, life on Earth, and the possibly-simulated fabric of our universe. Support this podcast by supporting these sponsors: – ExpressVPN at https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod – Cash App – use code “LexPodcast” and download: – Cash App (App Store): https://apple.co/2sPrUHe – Cash App (Google Play): https://bit.ly/2MlvP5w This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn,
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Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness
Pub date: 2021-08-21
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Coinbase: https://coinbase.com/lex to get $5 in free Bitcoin – Codecademy: https://codecademy.com and use code LEX to get 15% off – Linode: https://linode.com/lex to get $100 free credit – NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Joscha’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plinz Joscha’s Website: http://bach.ai PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out
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Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 142. Philip Goff — Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
Pub date: 2020-11-09
Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something “extra,” beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we persist in our standard scientific methods, our questions about consciousness will eventually be answered. And some even suggest that the mystery is so deep, it will never be solved. Decades have been spent trying to explain consciousness from within our current scientific paradigm, but little progress has been made.
Now, Philip Goff offers an exciting alternative that could pave the way forward. Rooted in an analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of modern science and based on the early twentieth-century work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell, Goff makes the case for panpsychism, a theory which posits that consciousness is not confined to biological entities but is a fundamental feature of all physical matter — from subatomic particles to the human brain. In Galileo’s Error, he has provided the first step on a new path to the final theory of human consciousness. Shermer and Goff discuss:
- the problem Galileo’s approach to science solved,
- Galileo’s error in solving the consciousness problem, that is the qualitative,
- Dualism, Monism, Panpsychism,
- Material Monism, Mind Monism, and Idealism,
- hard problem of consciousness defined,
- how consciousness is at the bottom of reality,
- why science cannot discover the ultimate nature of reality,
- Model Dependent Realism, philosophy, and science,
- Arthur Stanley Eddington and Bertrand Russell build panpsychism back into science,
- philosophical zombies and the “other minds problem,”
- free will, determinism, compatibilism, and panpsychism,
- objective moral values and science,
- fine tuning and the multiverse, and
- implications of panpsychism for attitudes toward nature and the meaning of life.
Philip Goff is a philosopher who teaches at Durham University. He is the author of Consciousness and Fundamental Reality and has published more than 40 academic papers. His writing has also appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement, and he has guest-edited an issue of Philosophy Now. He lives in Durham, England.
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Podcast: FUTURES Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Mysteries of Consciousness w/ Philip Goff
Pub date: 2021-11-01
Philosopher Philip Goff shares his thoughts on a radical new understanding of consciousness called panpsychism, the relationship between consciousness and the material world, and the implications of this new theory on the modern scientific method.
Philip Goff is a philosopher who teaches at Durham University. He is the author of Consciousness and Fundamental Reality and has published more than forty academic papers. His writing has also appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement, and he has guest-edited an issue of Philosophy Now. He lives in Durham, England.
Find out more: futurespodcast.net
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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Panpsychism to the rescue | Philip Goff
Pub date: 2020-08-18
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Is it possible for all matter in the universe to hold consciousness? And can the theory of panpsychism be the solution to the problems of materialism and dualism?
To help us explore realms of panpsychism we’re joined by author and professor of philosophy at the university of Durham, Phillip Goff.
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Podcast: Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Philip Goff on panpsychism | Living Mirrors #77
Pub date: 2021-12-15
Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University in the UK. His research focuses on how to integrate consciousness into our scientific worldview and he is an advocate for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and widespread in the universe. He is the author of an academic book on the subject, Consciousness and Fundamental Reality, and a book aimed at the general public, Galileo's Error. Today we talk about the place of consciousness in our universe with a particular focus on panpsychism. @Philip_Goff
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Podcast: Counter Apologetics (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: CA80 Secular Christianity with Philip Goff
Pub date: 2020-12-17
Non-believing Christian Philip Goff joins us to discuss religious fictionalism, literalism, religious language, Jordan Peterson, the resurrection, the spread of Christianity, the transcendent, and Christianity without theism.
After the interview, I try to work through my thoughts on secular Christianity. I reflect on antitheism, fundamentalism, and what replaces religion after the death of god.
Philip is a philosopher who teaches at Durham University. He is the author of Galileo’s Error and Consciousness and Fundamental Reality. He’s published more than forty academic papers, and his writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement.
You can follow Goff on Twitter @Philip_Goff and Emerson @waldenpod
Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness – Goff [Amazon]
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality – Goff [Amazon]
Robin Le Poidevin on Religious Fictionalism [PDF]
Ozymandias Ramses II on New Atheism
Sean Carroll’s Speech (begins at 1:23:13)
philipgoffphilosophy.com
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Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Panpsychism vs physics | Philip Goff
Pub date: 2022-03-15
How does panpsychism clash with fundamental physics? Does it? Can we find a theory that supports science AND philosophy to finally explain consciousness?
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In this episode Philip Goff responds to recent critiques of panpsychism by theoretical physicists Sean Carroll and Sabine Hossenfelder, and then explores some implications for the science of consciousness.
Philip Goff is a philosopher of consciousness at Durham University. His research focuses on integrating consciousness into our scientific worldview. His 2019 book Galileo's Error sets out his defence of panpsychism rooted in an analysis of the work of Arthur Eddington and Bertrand Russell.
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Podcast: Walden Pod (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Unlocked - Thomas Nagel's 'Mind and Cosmos'
Pub date: 2020-05-06
We discuss Thomas Nagel's controversial book, Mind and Cosmos. The book has quite a reputation, but I think it's often misunderstood. Intelligent design proponents, happy to be taken seriously for once, hilariously extol the book. They don’t seem to realize that while the book does take them more seriously than they’re used to, it also provides naturalistic answers to all their objections. I guess they only read the subtitle. Naturalists, atheists, and darwinists, on the other hand, seem to perceive this book as a threat, which is mostly Nagel’s fault for his controversial presentation, and failing to make clear that he’s making adjustments to the dominant paradigm and not rejecting it in favor of theism or mysticism. His proposed adjustments are radical to be sure, but it’s flatly untrue to say he’s an evolution denier or anti-naturalist.
We also discuss Nagel's neutral monism, natural teleology, and philosophy of science.
Mind and Cosmos [Amazon]
Nagel - The Core of Mind and Cosmos [NYT]
Sean Carroll on Mind and Cosmos [Preposterous Universe]
Michael Chorost - Mind and Cosmos [Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 79, The Absurd (Part I - Thomas Nagel)
Pub date: 2020-05-17
Meet Jack. Jack, like most individuals, takes great care of his health, appearance, the fulfilment of his projects, and the quality of his relationships with friends and family.
Today Jack is preparing for another episode of his iconic philosophy podcast. He has been reading diligently, noting fastidiously, and practicing his jokes in the mirror. Fully invested in his work, he goes to great lengths to ensure that the podcast is well received. But today is no ordinary day for Jack, something is about to happen that he could never prepare for.
Sat at his desk with his nose in Thomas Nagel’s Mortal Questions, Jack reaches for his cafetière to refill his Nietzsche coffee mug - when he hears the sound of a heavy creak above him. The room begins to shake, the coffee mug spills, and Jack jumps out of his chair as dust begins to fall around him. Fearing that the roof will cave, he runs out of the house, but finds that the streets are shaking too.
Like the set of a stage, the neighbourhood before his eyes begins to fall backwards. As the walls hit the ground, Jack sees countless figures in black uniforms running frantically in all directions. He looks up to the sky and sees several tall figures on ladders: a blue figure holds a large, blinding torch, a white figure holds a watering can, and a black figure holds what seems to be a large block of cheese. Jack is overwhelmed with disbelief - he is standing in the middle of a stage. Suddenly, one of the figures shouts instructions to another, who frantically pulls on a rope - the stage rising back to its original position, the figures disappearing.
It dawns on him: Jack is the actor in a play. What of his life? His childhood? His family and friends? What of his projects? Will he ever be able to return, to his old life?
Jack ponders the thought for a moment and walks back into his home. He cleans up the coffee, brushes up the dust, sits back down in his chair… and continues, with his reading.
Contents
Part I. Thomas Nagel
Part II. Camus, Criticisms, and Comparison
Part III. Further Analysis and Discussion
Links
Thomas Nagel, The Absurd (1971).
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942).
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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 25, Philip Goff and David Papineau Debate 'Can Science Explain Consciousness?' (Part III)
Pub date: 2017-09-10
Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. In the words of David Chalmers, “The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience. When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. What unites all of these states is that there is something it is like to be in them. All of them are states of experience.” Debating the question, 'Does physicalism address the hard problem of consciousness?' are Philip Goff (www.philipgoffphilosophy.com) and David Papineau (www.DavidPapineau.com).
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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 25, Philip Goff and David Papineau Debate 'Can Science Explain Consciousness?' (Part II)
Pub date: 2017-09-03
Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. In the words of David Chalmers, “The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience. When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. What unites all of these states is that there is something it is like to be in them. All of them are states of experience.” Debating the question, 'Does physicalism address the hard problem of consciousness?' are Philip Goff (www.philipgoffphilosophy.com) and David Papineau (www.DavidPapineau.com).
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Podcast: The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 25, Philip Goff and David Papineau Debate 'Can Science Explain Consciousness?' (Part I)
Pub date: 2017-08-27
Everything you could need is on www.thepanpsycast.com! Please tweet us your thoughts at www.twitter.com/thepanpsycast. In the words of David Chalmers, "The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience. When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. What unites all of these states is that there is something it is like to be in them. All of them are states of experience." Debating the question, 'Does physicalism address the hard problem of consciousness?' are Philip Goff (www.philipgoffphilosophy.com) and David Papineau (www.DavidPapineau.com).
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Podcast: Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals - [Invest Like the Best, EP.283]
Pub date: 2022-06-28
My guest today is Ken Stanley. Ken is a Professor in Computer Science and a pioneer in the field of neuroevolution. He is also the co-author of a book called, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, which details a provocative idea that setting big, audacious goals can reduce the odds of achieving something great. We discuss that revelation in detail and how to apply it in our day-to-day lives. Please enjoy this great discussion with Ken Stanley.
For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.
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Show Notes
[00:02:36] - [First question] - The best way to change the world is to stop trying to change it
[00:06:26] - The kinds of goals his work addresses and the ones it doesn’t
[00:08:46] - Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that major invention in mind
[00:14:04] - Picbreeder
[00:17:21] - How looking for specific results often makes arriving at them a longer process
[00:24:00] - The importance of the individual in a web of invention and disruption
[00:28:30] - How generations progressed in Picbreeder when consensus mechanisms were inserted into the process
[00:31:24] - Examples of stepping stones that were invented that became something even greater
[00:36:02] - What his research means for how we should conduct ourselves writ large
[00:44:17] - Thoughts on necessity being the mother of all invention
[00:50:08] - The ways that society is arranged is psychologically toxic
[00:55:14] - The role that constraints play in creative output and outcomes in general; Brett Victor - Inventing on Principle
[01:01:10] - What the constraints are that he sets for himself in AI development
[01:04:44] - To know what’s new you need to know what’s not new
[01:06:47] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him
[01:08:28] - How he would allocate resources to create more innovation in the world
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Podcast: What Could Go Right? (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S2. Ep. 5: The Information Horizon with Tyler Cowen
Pub date: 2022-04-27
What's coming next? We sit down with a modern renaissance man, economist, and podcaster Tyler Cowen to participate in what he calls his greatest pleasure: information extraction. We pick his brain on everything from mRNA to housing bubbles to literature. "The world," he tells us, "has never been more optimistic than it is now."
What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.
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Podcast: The Daily Objective (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nikos interviews Matt Bateman - TDO 455 - Nikos Sotirakopoulos
Pub date: 2022-03-10
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Podcast: Teacher's Lounge (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Matt Bateman: Vocational Training for the Soul
Pub date: 2021-12-02
Matt Bateman from Higher Ground Education & Montessorium joins Tony Kinnett this week to dig into Montessori education, the differentiation as kids age, and why vocational training and apprenticeship is essential for the cultural needs of our students and children.
Chalkboard Review, 2021.
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Podcast: Philosophy of Education
Episode: Doing Real Things: Opportunities in High School: A conversation with Staci Hill and Dr. Laura Mazer
Pub date: 2022-01-08
Staci Hill and Dr. Laura Mazer join Matt Bateman to discuss the value of adolescents "doing something real" during their middle and high school years.
Staci Hill is the head of academics at Polygence, an online academy that supports students with independent research and passion projects alongside expert mentors. Dr. Laura Mazer is the Vice President of Academic Programs at Higher Ground Education, which operates schools for students from birth through adolescence, provides training to educators, and more.
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Podcast: Philosophy of Education
Episode: Should There Be Less Education? A conversation with Bryan Caplan
Pub date: 2022-02-15
This week, Byran Caplan, author of The Case Against Education and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, joins us to discuss the causes of bloat in education, and why we might be better off with less of it.
You can find Bryan on Twitter (@bryan_caplan) or check out his website at http://www.bcaplan.com/.
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Podcast: Philosophy of Education
Episode: The Future of Education: A conversation with Yusuf Ahmad
Pub date: 2022-02-08
What will education look like in a century? Piecemeal and unbundled, or integrated? Eaten by tech—and how, if so? Where is pedagogy headed? EC? K12? College? This week, we are joined by Yusuf Ahmad, researcher, developer, and member of the Lifelong Kindergarten group, to discuss the future of education.
You can learn more about Yusuf's wide-ranging and innovative work at https://www.yusufsa.com/, or check out his blog, Samba, at https://samba.substack.com/.
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Podcast: The Deep End (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Building Education Treadmills with Ryan Delk & Maksim Stepanenko
Pub date: 2021-11-03
Primer cofounders Ryan Delk & Maksim Stepanenko join the Deep End after meeting through On Deck. They are currently building a community for curious and ambitious kids to find and explore their interests together.
Education is deeply personal, and so our conversation begins on a personal note, with a discussion of Ryan's background growing up homeschooled & Maksim's experience with highly structured curriculum back home in Kyrgyzstan.
Both of them look back on their own learning experience and lament an education system designed with the assumption that all children should move at the same pace. Kids' talents & interests vary wildly. Ryan and Maksim came to the realization with Primer that they could build educational treadmills for kids to run as fast or as slow as they would like towards their particular interests.
Our conversation centers on how to augment the education system to create more Michaelangelos and Albert Einsteins. How might we enable self-guided homeschooling without total involvement from parents? How can we leverage the dynamics of popularity to make learning cool?
The kids that Ryan & Maksim are working with so far are incredible. They have a huge sense of ownership of their online community and are naturally creating governance protocols that limit toxicity and bullying. They're making friends and collaborating on projects, all while learning at a clip that outpaces traditional K-12 school.
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Podcast: The Argument (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Could Breaking Up Meta Make Things Worse?
Pub date: 2021-12-01
Facebook, Meta — whatever you want to call it, the tech titan has drawn a lot of ire, and not just from privacy advocates and people fighting misinformation. Antitrust regulators are sharpening their knives, too.
Forty-eight attorneys general want to slice the Big Tech giant into less-powerful pieces. They’ve joined a parallel lawsuit with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to challenge what the agency alleges to be a monopoly engaging in illegal acquisitions. And overseas, Britain’s competition regulator has already directed Meta to sell one of its companies, the gif-sharing platform Giphy.
Meta reaches 3.6 billion monthly active users across platforms, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. Amid a growing techlash, how to fix Meta is a big question.
In today’s episode, Jane Coaston explores two opposing views on whether breaking up the company might help. Sarah Miller, the director of the American Economic Liberties Project, argues Meta engaged in anticompetitive practices by buying its rivals. And Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, is a champion of big business who lauds Meta as an “antimonopoly” engine.
(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)
Mentioned in this episode:
- The case summary of Federal Trade Commission v. Facebook, Inc.
- "Breaking Up Facebook Is Not the Answer" by Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications
- Sway's episode with Lina Khan "She's Bursting Big Tech's Bubble"
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Podcast: Chiwi Journal
Episode: #124: Unschooling, Innovating Education, Intuitive Learning and Startup Cities with Zach Caceres
Pub date: 2021-10-31
My guest today is Zach Caceres. He is an experienced software engineer and focuses on modern web technologies. He is interested in education and ##StartupCities and initiated a couple of cool projects in the relevant areas.
In today's episode, we discussed:
- Zach's unschooling experiences at a young age and his way of learning.
- Why choose to go back to university later on?
- Hilarious stories on the arbitrary bureaucracy of our modern education
- What's the essence of education?
- Case study of innovating education from within Guatemala's top university
- Sneak peek of The Intuitive Programmer project, learning how to learn
- What's community technology? What's Startup City?
- Stories on informal entrepreneurs and almost dead experience in Africa and South America.
- How does technology power up the city building and enhance people's living conditions?
- Brief introduction of Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
- What's 'The Great Fact' raised by Deirdre McCloskey
- What get you most excited about the future?
Books and links mentioned in this episode:
- Zach's super cool website
- Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
- Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University
- Professor Barbara Oakley
- Polymath Michael Polanyi
- The Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn Programming
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
- Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity
- Focused vs. diffuse thinking: which is better for learning?
- Pathological Altruism
- The Start Of Startup Cities
- Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US!
- CityDAO: Blockchain Cities IRL
- Informal Entrepreneurship
- Stealth of Nations by Robert Neuwirth
- City of God movie
- Amazing video shows 10-story high-rise built in a day
- Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit
- Benjamin Blooms's two sigma problems
- Khan Academy
- Duolingo
- Ad Astra Academy
- The Great Fact- the humongous increase in humans' standard of living that began about 200 years ago.
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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #540: Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pub date: 2021-10-21
Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Brought to you by Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, and Headspace easy-to-use app with guided meditations. More on all three below.
Noah Feldman (@NoahRFeldman) is a Harvard professor, ethical philosopher and advisor, public intellectual, religious scholar and historian, and author of 10 books, including his latest, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America.
Noah is the founder of Ethical Compass, which helps clients like Facebook and eBay improve ethical decision-making by creating and implementing new governance solutions. Noah conceived and designed the Facebook Oversight Board and continues to advise Facebook on ethics and governance issues.
Feldman is host of the Deep Background podcast, a policy and public affairs columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and a former contributing writer for The New York Times. He served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of Iraq’s interim constitution.
He earned his A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard, finishing first in his class. Selected as a Rhodes Scholar, he earned a DPhil from Oxford University, writing his dissertation on Aristotle’s Ethics. He received his JD from Yale Law School and clerked for Justice David Souter of the US Supreme Court.
He is the author of 10 books, including Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem — and What We Should Do About It; What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building; Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition; Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices; and The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President.
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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #541: Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions on the Horizon, and Exploring the Meaning of Life
Pub date: 2021-10-26
Eric Schmidt — The Promises and Perils of AI, the Future of Warfare, Profound Revolutions on the Horizon, and Exploring the Meaning of Life | Brought to you by ShipStation shipping software,ButcherBox premium meats delivered to your door, and Pique Tea premium tea crystals (pu’er, etc.). More on all three below.
Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) is a technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He joined Google in 2001, helping the company grow from a Silicon Valley startup to a global technological leader. He served as chief executive officer and chairman from 2001 to 2011 and as executive chairman and technical advisor thereafter. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a culture of innovation. In 2017, he co-founded Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative that bets early on exceptional people making the world better.
He serves as chair of the Broad Institute and formerly served as chair of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. He is the host of Reimagine with Eric Schmidt, a podcast exploring how society can build a brighter future after the COVID-19 pandemic. Eric has a new book out titled The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, which he coauthored with Henry A. Kissinger and Daniel Huttenlocher.
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Episode: #542: Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs
Pub date: 2021-10-28
Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs | Brought to you by UCAN endurance products powered by SuperStarch®, Theragun percussive muscle therapy devices, and Tonal smart home gym. More on all three below.
Chris Dixon (@cdixon) is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where for the past six years he has been an active seed and venture-stage investor.
Previously, Chris co-founded and served as the CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011.
Chris has been a prolific seed investor, co-founding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.
He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium and before that at cdixon.org. His a16z Podcast appearances can be found here.
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He is an angel investor and has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes, such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, Opendoor, Postmates, and Wish. You can subscribe to Naval, his podcast on wealth and happiness, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al.
For more Naval-plus-Tim, check out my wildly popular interview with him from 2015—which was nominated for “Podcast of the Year”—at tim.blog/naval. We also had a second long-form conversation in 2020, and you can find that here. His most recent appearance was helping me interview Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin here.
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Podcast: World of DaaS (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Daniel Gross (CEO of Pioneer): Why Energy is the Best Predictor of Talent
Pub date: 2021-09-24
Spotting talent is really hard. Identifying A-players can feel impossible. Peter Thiel has one of the best interview questions for identifying talent, “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” But Daniel Gross disagrees. Daniel believes easygoing questions like “What movies do you like to watch?” elicit more telling responses.
Daniel Gross is the CEO of Pioneer, a reimagined version of the startup accelerator focused on identifying, motivating, and enabling the next wave of founders. Daniel previously founded Cue, which was acquired by Apple, and was a partner at Y Combinator. Daniel co-authored with Tyler Cowen the soon-to-be-released book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World. Simply put, Daniel is an expert on spotting talent.
Auren and Daniel dive into Daniel’s favorite interview questions, how to distinguish between good and great employees, what makes a 10xer, and how to measure productivity. They also explore why the strongest leaders are energetic, enthusiastic, and funny.
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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
Pub date: 2021-09-10
Tyler Cowen is an economist at George Mason University, the co-founder of the blog Marginal Revolution, and host of the podcast “Conversations With Tyler.” But more than that, he’s a genuine polymath who reads about everything, goes everywhere and talks to everyone. I’ve known him for years, and while I disagree with him on quite a bit, there are few people I learn more from in a single conversation.
In this conversation, I wanted to get at the connective thread in Cowen’s work: the moral imperative of economic growth. Growth doesn’t have the best reputation in left-wing circles these days, and often for good reason. It’s hard to look at a world where rising G.D.P. has driven rising temperatures and shocking inequality, and then to continue venerating growth as an all-encompassing good.
Cowen admits those criticisms — particularly the climate one — but still argues that growth, properly measured, is central to a moral economy. The East Asian economic miracles are, he’s written, “the highest manifestation of the ethical good in human history to date.” Time, he argues, is a “moral illusion,” and the most important thing we can do for the future is set the power of compounding growth to work now. We do that by generating new ideas, new technologies, new ways of living and cooperating. And that, in turn, requires us to find and nurture human talent, which is where his recent work has focused.
So we begin this conversation by discussing the case for and against economic growth, but we also get into lots of other things: why Cowen thinks the great stagnation in technology is coming to an end; the future of technologies like A.I., crypto, fourth-generation nuclear and the Chinese system of government; the problems in how we fund scientific research; what the right has done to make government both ineffective and larger; why Cowen is skeptical of universal pre-K (and why I’m not); whether I overestimate the dangers of polarization; the ways in which we’re getting weirder; the long-term future of human civilization; why reading is overrated and travel is underrated; how to appreciate classical music and much more.
Mentioned:
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
“Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time” by Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow
(No book recommendations on this one, but tune in for some classical music and travel recommendations)
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Podcast: EdChoice Chats (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 264: Big Ideas – "Micro-Schools versus Waitlists" with Matt Ladner
Pub date: 2021-08-24
In this episode we speak with Matt Ladner about his recent report, "Micro- Schools versus Waitlists: A Guidebook for the Innovative Arizona Educator." He tells us about the innovative school choice options available in Arizona right now.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #1 John Danner - EdTech Investing, Trends & Opportunities
Pub date: 2021-01-19
John Danner is the general partner of Dunce Capital, which makes pre-seed investments in the "future of learning and work". John has a wide range of experience in technology and education. Having started in Silicon Valley in the late eighties, then pivoting to education in the early two thousands and building three companies along the way (NetGravity, Zeal Learning & Rocketship Education).
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #3 Kelly Smith - Microschools & Putting Learners First
Pub date: 2021-02-03
Kelly Smith is the founder and CEO of Prenda. Prenda helps launch in-home micro schools by providing curriculum, equipment, supplies and ongoing support.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #9 Ryan Delk - Homeschooling & Redefining Learning
Pub date: 2021-03-09
This week I talk with Ryan Delk, co-founder and CEO of Primer.
Primer is building tools for homeschooling. We talk about the misconceptions & advantages of homeschooling, Ryan’s own homeschooling experience, interest & community-driven learning, and much, much more.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #12 Ana Fabrega & Chrisman Frank - Learning via Games, Problem Solving, & First Principles
Pub date: 2021-03-30
This week I have two guests from Synthesis: co-founder and CEO, Chrisman Frank, as well as Chief Evangelist, Ana Fabrega. Synthesis is a weekly enrichment program where students learn through "simulations".
Synthesis was born out of Ad Astra, a school started by Elon Musk and Josh Dahn for students of SpaceX employees.
We talk about the value of games in learning, why “how” you learn is more important than “what”, & more.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #13 Damian Brychcy - Colossus and Mapping Business & Investing Knowledge
Pub date: 2021-04-06
This week's guest is Damian Brychcy, CEO of Colossus. Colossus was born out of Patrick O'Shaughnessy's podcasts, and it's on a mission to create and curate the world's best information on business and investing. Damian and I discuss curiosity, mapping knowledge, the vision of Colossus, & more.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #19 Romeen Sheth - Rethinking Education & Work From First Principles
Pub date: 2021-06-30
This week’s guest is Romeen Sheth. Romeen is President of Metasys, which helps organizations with attracting, engaging, & retaining top talent.
Romeen & I talk about shifts towards flexible work, using first principles & incentive alignment to fix education, angel investing, and the future of learning & work in India.
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Podcast: Future of Learning & Work
Episode: #20 Brian Flynn - Learning & Earning in the Metaverse
Pub date: 2021-07-08
This week’s guest is Brian Flynn, co-founder & CEO of Rabbithole. Rabbithole helps people navigate the crypto Rabbithole and earn tokens & build reputation while doing it.
Brian and I talk about how crypto is redefining learning & work, how to sift through the noise, Rabbithole’s new Pathfinder program, & more.
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Podcast: Hope in Source (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Digital Disembodiment (Maggie Appleton)
Pub date: 2021-04-05
How does the digital life shape our perceptions of ourselves? Maggie Appleton starts us off on a discussion of school in pandemic times which lead to a discussion of the disembodiment that technology can create, somehow bringing us further towards our thoughts on time and space? (Recorded in November 2020) Transcript: https://hopeinsource.com/disembodiment
Previously: https://hopeinsource.com/embodied, https://hopeinsource.com/process
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- [00:00] Deschooling Society
- [09:42] Disembodied By Technology
- [20:11] Perceiving Time
- [21:43] Space And Silence
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Podcast: Metamuse (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 37 // Visual programming with Maggie Appleton
Pub date: 2021-08-19
Creating software is typically done in text-based environments—but would programming be more accessible with graphical programming tools? Maggie joins Mark and Adam to talk about the relative success of Scratch, Shortcuts, and Zapier; how to make the abstract visible; embodied metaphors; and the false duality of artistic versus logical thinkers. Plus: how to make blinking lights for your Burning Man art installation.
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Podcast: The TED Interview (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge
Pub date: 2018-10-23
It can be easy to believe that humans are insignificant. We’re specks of dust on a random planet in a vast universe. Less powerful than elephants. Fewer than ants. But David Deutsch believes that’s all beside the point, because humans possess one unique skill: attaining knowledge. David Deutsch – Oxford professor, father of quantum computing, recluse – convinced Chris years ago to take over leadership of TED with his ideas about knowledge. In this mind-bending conversation, the two dive into his theory that the potential reach of knowledge is infinite. They explore how knowledge first developed, why it sets us apart and what all of these heady concepts really mean for our present and future. To find out more about TED, please visit TED.com.
Find the transcript at:go.ted.com/interviewdeutsch
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Podcast: The New Schools (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Michael Strong - The Socratic Approach to Learning
Pub date: 2020-10-30
Michael Strong is most recently the founder ofexpanseonline.co, a virtual secondary school program. He is an experienced school creator whose projects include Moreno Valley High School, a charter school in New Mexico ranked the 36th best public school in the U.S. by Newsweek; Winston Academy, a school for highly gifted students in Florida who successfully completed AP exams; and The Academy of Thought and Industry, the high school model for the largest U.S. Montessori network. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.
Key Takeaways:
1:16 Michael Strong’s common and significant components among the schools he has built.
3:18 Describing Expanseonline program and its role in helping middle-schoolers.
5:40 The trend of online learning and how community building can still be present among kids.
9:09 Advice to conventional parents forced to do homeschooling in this time of pandemic.
13:40 Socratic approach to learning vs. Traditional schooling
17:57 Developing High Level Academic skills of kids and how it can help in lowering the suicide rate.
19:18 Learn the 3 Techniques towards Intellectual Dialogue
30:43 Incremental Progress and Expectation on maintaining kid's engagement.
35:41 Develop Critical Thinking in the Era of Disinformation.
41:23 Establishing trust and vulnerability in group dynamics through the lens of Socratic Discussion.
49:55 Identifying the type of student who thrives in the Socratic approach.
53:11 Understanding the balance among diverse human principles.
Quotes:
“Young people are finding lots of social options online. I think there is something about having your core learning community, be part of your social community.”
“Well, we can't get the physical, you know, we can't hug her, we can still have eye contact. it's imperfect eye contact, but it's eye contact.”
“ Our job is to create a deliberate learning community that also includes that community warrants. “
“I think the notions of love and curiosity take you a certain way of loving the workings of your child's mind.”
“We underestimate the value of active engagement elsewhere and overestimate the value of schooling.”
“I think instead of saying, Am I doing it right? Our goal is rich intellectual dialogue.”
“The school game is so much about following rules and it's doing what the teacher tells you.”
“But, you know, in Socratic, as soon as you (as a teacher) start hoping that they'll (children) come up with a certain answer. Totally. You've ruined it. You've just ruined it. “
“Personal identity is not just tattoos and piercings or what clothes you wear. The most important kind of personal identity consists of what kind of convictions do we have? What do we stand for?”
“I think love, curiosity, empathy, conquers all, and victim oppression is never a healthy dynamic.”
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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More
Pub date: 2021-03-25
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He was named to the MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35”, won a Wall Street Journal Innovation Award, and holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, all from Stanford University. Balaji also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013, which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Why Governments Fail
Pub date: 2021-04-24
The pandemic was supposed to prove the value of public health institutions like the CDC; instead, it exposed their inability to deal with a serious pandemic without serious errors. Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, worries that these failures have a deeper cause: as the citizens of countries like the United States come to trust each other less and less, they are increasingly incapable of meeting the big challenges that await them.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Tyler Cowen talk about populism, the failure of state institutions during the pandemic, and the value of economic growth.
A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community
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Podcast: The Convergence - An Army Mad Scientist Podcast (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 28. The Next Ten Years of Tech with Eli Dourado
Pub date: 2021-02-04
Eli Dourado is a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity (CGO) at Utah State University. He focuses on the hard technology and innovation needed to drive large increases in economic growth — speeding up infrastructure deployment, eliminating barriers to entrepreneurs operating in the physical world, and getting the most out of federal technology research programs. He has worked on a wide range of technology policy issues, including aviation, Internet governance, and cryptocurrency. His popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy**, among other outlets.
In today’s podcast, Mr. Dourado discusses technology opportunities in the next decade, the economic impact of shifting technology trends, and their impact on global security. The following bullet points highlight key insights from our interview with him:
- According to economic statistics, technological growth has stagnated since 2005. While some claim that the economy has fully matured and further growth will be limited, others argue that there is still room for growth, but U.S. culture and complacency has prevented further growth.
- In the next two decades, geothermal energy will have the biggest impact on economic development. Cheap, unlimited geothermal energy will enable the use of more expensive materials like silicon carbide by significantly reducing the cost to create them, produce energy without carbon emissions thus mitigating the effects of climate change, and reduce food security concerns via indoor growing models.
- The United States is now energy independent, which could incentivize a shift away from intervention in the Middle East. Conflict in the region could still significantly impact U.S. supply chains, given Asian reliance on Middle Eastern energy flows.
- While genetic enhancements are still decades away, brain computer interfaces (BCI) could allow soldiers to command technology at the speed of thought in the next ten years. Related bioethical concerns, while important, may also be limiting the growth of beneficial technologies.
- Decreasing launch costs are facilitating both commercial and governmental expansion in space. High resolution earth sensing technology could soon enable a “live Google Earth,” in which viewers could watch scenarios unfold in real time (e.g., Uyghur camps), impacting social movements.
- Augmented reality will be widely adopted by the middle of the decade. However, systems will still require the development of ‘contextual awareness’ to prevent overloading users with information. In a conflict situation, a balance will need to be found that does not distract soldiers, but provides critical information in real time.
- The U.S. military should use its procurement power to stimulate private investment in developing hard technologies. Currently, talent is pulled into app design and software development due to higher capacity financing.
Stay tuned to the Mad Scientist Laboratory for our next episode of “The Convergence,” featuring Mr. Shawn Steene (OSD Policy) and Mr. Michael Meier (HQDA OTJAG), discussing the ground truth on regulations and directives regarding lethal autonomy and what the future of autonomy for the force might mean in a complex threat environment on 18 February 2021!
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Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, Revisited
Pub date: 2021-04-05
Blogger, author, podcaster, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University discusses the lessons learned from the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appearing roughly one year after his first conversation on the pandemic, Cowen revisits the predictions he made then and what he has learned for the next time.
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Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #174 – Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth and the Fight Against Conformity and Mediocrity
Pub date: 2021-04-10
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Podcast: Village Global's Venture Stories (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The 2020s, Economic Growth, and Deep Tech with Eli Dourado
Pub date: 2021-03-23
Eli Dourado (@elidourado) of the Center for Growth and Opportunity, joins Erik on this episode to discuss:
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Why Eli wants to radically increase GDP per capita and the current bottlenecks to achieving that.
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Why he thinks the 2020s will be the decade of atoms.
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Why amazing scientific breakthroughs like CRISPR haven't translated into new products or treatments.
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Why he's excited about geothermal power and how it could change geopolitics if its potential is realized.
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His breakdown of his position as a technological optimist and cultural pessimist.
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Where he agrees or disagrees with Tyler Cowen, Bryan Caplan, Peter Thiel, and Samuel Hammond.
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Why entrepreneurs shouldn't shy away from areas with regulatory risk, since "that's where all the action happens."
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Podcast: Operators (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Operators Ep 14: Keith Rabois (Founders Fund)
Pub date: 2020-11-09
Keith Rabois is currently a general partner at Founders Fund. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Keith was an early executive at several successful companies including PayPayl, LinkedIn, and the COO of Square. He also spent six years at Khosla Ventures prior to joining Founders Fund.
In this episode we talk about Keith’s start as a lawyer and why he decided to leave law, the moment he knew PayPal was going to be a success, and his philosophy on goal alignment. He also shares his thoughts on the joy he has for team building and mentoring, why regulatory risk doesn’t scare him, and the days when he used to scan every LinkedIn profile.
I hope you enjoy the show.
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Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: #163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics
Pub date: 2021-02-23
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Podcast: Idea Machines (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Focusing on Research with Adam Marblestone [Idea Machines #33]
Pub date: 2020-10-26
A conversation with Adam Marblestone about his new project - Focused Research Organizations.
Focused Research Organizations (FROs) are a new initiative that Adam is working on to address gaps in current institutional structures. You can read more about them in this white paper that Adam released with Sam Rodriques.
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Transcript
[00:00:00]
In this conversation, I talked to Adam marble stone about focused research organizations. What are focused research organizations you may ask. It's a good question. Because as of this recording, they don't exist yet. There are new initiatives that Adam is working on to address gaps. In current institutional structures, you can read more about them in the white paper that Adam released recently with San Brad regens.
I'll put them in the show notes. Uh, [00:01:00] just a housekeeping note. We talk about F borrows a lot, and that's just the abbreviation for focus, research organizations.
just to start off, in case listeners have created a grave error and not yet read the white paper to explain what an fro is. Sure. so an fro is stands for focus research organization. the idea is, is really fundamentally, very simple and maybe we'll get into it. On this chat of why, why it sounds so trivial.
And yet isn't completely trivial in our current, system of research structures, but an fro is simply a special purpose organization to pursue a problem defined problem over us over a finite period of time. Irrespective of, any financial gain, like in a startup and, and separate from any existing, academic structure or existing national lab or things [00:02:00] like that.
It's just a special purpose organization to solve, a research and development problem. Got it. And so the, you go much more depth in the paper, so I encourage everybody to go read that. I'm actually also really interested in what's what's sort of the backstory that led to this initiative. Yeah. it's kind of, there's kind of a long story, I think for each of us.
And I would be curious your, a backstory of how, how you got involved in, in thinking about this as well. And, but I can tell you in my personal experience, I had been spending a number of years, working on neuroscience and technologies related to neuroscience. And the brain is sort of a particularly hard a technology problem in a number of ways.
where I think I ran up against our existing research structures. in addition to just my own abilities and [00:03:00] everything, but, but I think, I think I ran up against some structural issues too, in, in dealing with, the brain. So, so basically one thing we want to do, is to map is make a map of the brain.
and to do that in a, in a scalable high-speed. Way w what does it mean to have a map of the brain? Like what, what would, what would I see if I was looking at this map? Yeah, well, we could, we could take this example of a mouse brain, for example. just, just, just for instance, so that there's a few things you want to know.
You want to know how the individual neurons are connected to each other often through synopsis, but also through some other types of connections called gap junctions. And there are many different kinds of synopsis. and there are many different kinds of neurons and, There's also this incredibly multi-scale nature of this problem where a neuron, you know, it's, it's axon, it's wire that it sends out can shrink down to like a hundred nanometers in [00:04:00] thickness or less.
but it can also go over maybe centimeter long, or, you know, if you're talking about, you know, the neurons that go down your spinal cord could be meter long, neurons. so this incredibly multi-scale it poses. Even if irrespective of other problems like brain, computer interfacing or real time communication or so on, it just poses really severe technological challenges, to be able to make the neurons visible and distinguishable.
and to do it in a way where, you can use microscopy, two image at a high speed while still preserving all of that information that you need, like which molecules are aware in which neuron are we even looking at right now? So I think, there's a few different ways to approach that technologically one, one is with.
The more mature technology is called the electron microscope, electromicroscopy approach, where basically you look at just the membranes of the neurons at any given pixel sort of black or white [00:05:00] or gray scale, you know, is there a membrane present here or not? and then you have to stitch together images.
Across this very large volume. but you have to, because you're just able to see which, which, which pixels have membrane or not. you have to image it very fine resolution to be able to then stitch that together later into a three D reconstruction and you're potentially missing some information about where the molecules are.
And then there's some other more, less mature technologies that use optical microscopes and they use other technologies like DNA based barcoding or protein based barcoding to label the neurons. Lots of fancy, but no matter how you do this, This is not about the problem that I think can be addressed by a small group of students and postdocs, let's say working in an academic lab, we can go a little bit into why.
Yeah, why not? They can certainly make big contributions and have to, to being able to do this. But I think ultimately if we're talking about something like mapping a mouse brain, it's not [00:06:00] going to be, just a, a single investigator science, Well, so it depends on how you think about it. One, one, one way to think about it is if you're just talking about scaling up, quote, unquote, just talking about scaling up the existing, technologies, which in itself entails a lot of challenges.
there's a lot of work that isn't academically novel necessarily. It's things like, you know, making sure that, Improving the reliability with which you can make slices of the brain, into, into tiny slices are making sure that they can be loaded, onto, onto the microscope in an automated fast way.
those are sort of more engineering problems and technology or process optimization problems. That's one issue. And just like, so Y Y Can't like, why, why couldn't you just sort of have like, isn't that what grad students are for like, you know, it's like pipetting things and, doing, doing graduate work.
So like why, why couldn't that be done in the lab? That's not why [00:07:00] they're ultimately there. Although I, you know, I was, I was a grad student, did a lot of pipetting also, but, But ultimately they're grad student. So are there in order to distinguish themselves as, as scientists and publish their own papers and, and really generate a unique academic sort of brand really for their work.
Got it. So there's, there's both problems that are lower hanging fruit in order to. in order to generate that type of academic brand, but don't necessarily fit into a systems engineering problem of, of putting together a ConnectTo mapping, system. There's also the fact that grad students in, you know, in neuroscience, you know, may not be professional grade engineers, that, for example, know how to deal with the data handling or computation here, where you would need to be, be paying people much higher salaries, to actually do, you know, the kind of industrial grade, data, data piping, and, and, and many other [00:08:00] aspects.
But I think the fundamental thing that I sort of realized that I think San Rodriquez, my coauthor on this white paper also realized it through particularly working on problems that are as hard as, as clinic Comix and as multifaceted as a system building problem. I th I think that's, that's the key is that there's, there's certain classes of problems that are hard to address in academia because they're system building problems in the sense that maybe you need five or six different.
activities to be happening simultaneously. And if any, one of them. Doesn't follow through completely. you're sort of, you don't have something that's novel and exciting unless you have all the pieces putting, you know, put together. So I don't have something individually. That's that exciting on my own as a paper, Unless you, and also three other people, separately do very expert level, work, which is itself not academically that interesting.
Now having the connectome is academically [00:09:00] interesting to say the least. but yes, not only my incentives. but also everybody else's incentives are to, to maybe spend say 60% of their time doing some academically novel things for their thesis and only spend 40% of their time on, on building the connectome system.
Then it's sort of, the probability of the whole thing fitting together. And then. We see everyone can perceive that. And so, you know, they basically, the incentives don't align well, for, for what you would think of as sort of team science or team engineering or systems engineering. yeah. And so I'm like, I think, I think everybody knows that I'm actually like very much in favor of this thing.
So, I'm going to play devil's advocate to sort of like tease out. what I think are. Important things to think about. so, so one sort of counter argument would be like, well, what about projects? Like cert, right? Like that [00:10:00] is a government yeah. Led, you should, if you do requires a lot of systems engineering, there's probably a lot of work that is not academic interesting.
And yet, it, it, it happens. So like there's clearly like proof of concepts. So like what what's like. W why, why don't we just have more things like, like certain for, the brain. Yeah. And I think this gets very much into why we want to talk about a category of focused research organizations and also a certain scale, which we can get into.
So, so I think certain is actually in many ways, a great example of, of this, obviously this kind of team science and team engineering is incredible. And there are many others, like LIGO or, or CBO observatory or the human genome project. These are great examples. I think the, the problem there is simply that these, these are multibillion dollar initiatives that really take decades of sustained.
government involvement, to make it happen. And so once they get going, and [00:11:00] once that flywheel sort of start spinning, then you have you have it. And so, and so that, that is a nonacademic research project and also the physics and astronomy communities, I think have more of a track record and pipeline overall.
perhaps because it's easier, I think in physical sciences, then in some of these sort of emerging areas of, of, you know, biology or sort of next gen fabrication or other areas where it's, it's, there's less of a, a grounded set of principles. So, so for CERN, everybody in the physics basically can agree.
You need to get to a certain energy scale. Right. And so none of the theoretical physicists who work on higher energy systems are going to be able to really experimentally validate what they're doing without a particle accelerator of a certain level. None of the astronomers are gonna be able to really do deep space astronomy without a space telescope.
and so you can agree, you know, community-wide that, This is something that's worth doing. And I think there's a lot of incredible innovation that happens in those with focus, research organizations. We're thinking about a scale that, [00:12:00] that sort of medium science, as opposed to small science, which is like a, you know, academic or one or a few labs working together, Or big science, which is like the human genome project was $3 billion.
For example, a scope to be about $1 per base pair. I don't know what actually came out, but the human genome has 3 billion basis. So that was a good number. these are supposed to be medium scale. So maybe similar to the size of a DARPA project, which is like maybe between say 25 and. A hundred or $150 million for a project over a finite period of time.
And they're there. The idea is also that they can be catalytic. So there's a goal that you could deliver over a, some time period. It doesn't have to be five years. It could be seven years, but there's some, some definable goal over definable time period, which is then also catalytic. so in some ways it will be more equivalent to.
For the genome project example, what happened after the genome project where, the [00:13:00] cost of genome sequencing through, through new technologies was brought down, basically by a million fold or so is, is, is, how George Church likes to say it, inventing new technologies, bringing them to a level of, of readiness where they can then be, be used catalytically.
whereas CERN, you know, It's just a big experiment that really has to keep going. Right. And it's also sort of a research facility. there's also permanent institutes. I think there's a, is a, is a, certainly a model that can do team science and, and many of the best in the brain mapping space, many of the sort of largest scale.
connectomes in particular have come either from Janelia or from the Allen Institute for brain science, which are both sort of permanent institutes, that are, that are sort of, nonacademic or semi academic. but that's also a different thing in the sense that it's, it takes a lot of activation energy to create an Institute.
And then that becomes now, a permanent career path rather than sort of focusing solely on what's the shortest path to. To some [00:14:00] innovation, the, the, the permanence. So, so the, the flip side of the permanence is that, I guess, how are you going to convince people to do this, this, like this temporary thing, where.
I think, someone asked on Twitter about like, you know, if it's being run by the government, these people are probably going to get, government salaries. So you're, you're getting a government salary, without the like one upside of a government job, which is the security. so like what, what is the incentive for, for people to, to come do this?
Yeah. And I think, I think it depends on whether it's government or philanthropic, philanthropic fro Faros are also definitely. An option and maybe in many ways more flexible, because the, you know, the government sort of has to, has to contract in a certain way and compete out, you know, contracts in a certain way.
They can't just decide, the exact set of people to do something, for example. So, so the government side has. Both a huge [00:15:00] opportunity in the sense that I think this is a very good match for a number of things that the government really would care about. and the government has, has, has the money, and resources to do this, but philanthropic is also one we should consider.
but in any case, there are questions about who and who will do Froy and, and why. and I think the basic answer though, it, it comes down to, it's not a matter of, of cushiness of the career certainty. it's, it's really, these are for problems that are not doable any other way. this is actually in many ways, the definition is that you're only going to do this.
if this is the only way to do it, and if it's incredibly important. So it really is a, it's a medium scale moonshots. you would have to be extremely passionate about it. That being said, there are reasons I think in approximate sense why one might want to do it both in terms of initiating one and in terms of sort of B being part of them. [00:16:00]
so one is simply that you can do science. that is for a fundamental purpose or, or, or, pure, purely driven toward your passion to solve a problem. and yet can have potentially a number of the affordances of, of industry such as, industry competitive salaries, potentially. I think the government, we have to ask about what the government can do, but, but in a certain philanthropic setting, you could do it another aspect that I think a lot of scientists find.
Frustrating in the academic system is precisely that they have to. spend so much work to differentiate themselves and do something that's completely separate from what their friends are doing, in order to pay the bills basically. So, so if, if you don't eventually go and get your own appealing, you know, Tenure track job or, or so on and so forth.
the career paths available in academia are much, much fewer, and often not, not super well compensated. And, and [00:17:00] so there are a number of groups of people that I've seen in sort of, if you want critical mass labs or environments where they're working together, actually, despite perhaps the. Incentive to, to, differentiate where they're working, does a group of three or four together.
and they would like to stay that way, but they can't stay that way forever. And so it's also an opportunity if you, if you have a group of people that wants to solve a problem, to create something a little bit like, like a seal team. so like when, when I was, I'm not very generally militaristic person, but, when I was a kid, I was very obsessed with the Navy seals.
But, but anyway, I think the seal team was sort of very tight knit. kind of a special forces operation that works together on one project is something that a lot of scientists and engineers I think want. and the problem is just that they don't have a structure in which they can do that. Yeah.
So then finally, I think that, although in many cases maybe essentially built into the structure fro is make sense. We can [00:18:00] talk about this as, as nonprofit organizations. these are the kinds of projects where, you would be getting a relatively small team together to basically create a new industry.
and if you're in the right place at the right time, then after an fro is over, you would be in the ideal place to start. The next startup in an area where it previously, it's not been possible to do startups because the horizons for a venture investment would have been too long to make it happen from the beginning.
Well, that's actually a great transition to a place that I'm still not certain about, which is what happens. After it fro, cause you, you said that it, that it's a explicitly temporary organization. And then, how do you make sure that it sort of achieves its goal, right?
Like, because you can see so many of these, these projects that actually sound really great and they like go in and possibly could do good work and then somehow it all just sort of diffuses. [00:19:00] so, so have you thought about how to sort of make sure that that lives on. Well, this is a tricky thing as we've discussed, in a number of settings.
So, in a, like to maybe throw that question back to you after I answer it. Cause I think you have interesting thoughts about that too, but, but in short, it's, it's a tricky thing. So, so the fro. Is entirely legal focused there isn't, there's no expectation that it would continue, by default and simply because it's a great group of people, or because it's been doing interesting work, it's sort of, it is designed to fulfill a certain goal and it should be designed also from the beginning to have a, a plan of the transition.
Like it could be a nonprofit organization where it is explicitly intended that at the end, assuming success, One or more startups could be created. One or more datasets could be released and then a, you know, a much less expensive and intensive, nonprofits, structure could be be there to [00:20:00] host the data and provide it to the world.
it could be something where. the government would be using it as a sort of prototyping phase for something that could then become a larger project or be incorporated into a larger moonshot project. So I think you explicitly want a, a goal of a finite tune to it, and then also a explicit, upfront, deployment or transition plan, being central to it much more so than any publication or anything.
Of course. At the same time. there is the pitfall that when you have a milestone driven or goal focused organization, that the funder would try to micromanage that and say, well, actually, not only do I care about you meeting this goal, but also I really care that by month six, you've actually got exactly this with this instrument and this throughput, and I'm not going to let you buy this other piece of equipment.
Unless, you know, you show me that, you know, [00:21:00] and that's a problem that I think, we sometimes see with, externalized research models, like DARPA ARPA models, that try to. achieve more coordination and, and, and goal driven among otherwise, somewhat uncoordinated entities like contractors and, and universities that, that are working on programs, but then they, they, they, they achieve that coordination by then, managing the process and, with an fro, I think it will be closer to.
You know, if you have a series, a investment in the startup, you know, you are reporting back to your investors and, and they, they, at some level care, you know, about the process and maybe they're on your board. but ultimately the CEO gets to decide, how am I going to spend the money? And it's extremely flexible to get to the goal.
Yeah. Yeah. The, the micromanage, like [00:22:00] figuring out how to avoid, Micromanagement seems like it's going to be really tricky because it's sort of like once you get to that amount of money, I like, have you, have you thought about, like how, like, if you could do some kind of like actually, well, I'll, I'll give her the, the, the, the, the, the thing that the cruxy thing is like this, I think there's a huge amount of trust that needs to happen in it.
And what I'm. like I constantly wonder about is like, is there this like fundamental tension between the fact that, especially with like government money, we really do want it to be transparent and well-spent, but at the same time, in order to sort of do these like knowledge frontier projects, sometimes you need to do things that.
Are a little weird or like seem like a waste of money at the time, if you're not like intimately connected. and so there's, there's this sort of tension [00:23:00] between accountability and, Sort of like doing the things that need to get done. I agree with that and Efros, we're going to navigate that. Yeah.
I agree with that. And I think it relates to a number of themes that you've touched on and that we've discussed with, which has sort of, has to do with the changing overall research landscape of, in what situations can that trust actually occur, you know, in bell labs, I think there was a lot of trust. throughout, throughout that system.
And as you have more externalized research, conflicting incentives and so on it, it's, it's hard. It's hard to obtain that trust. startups of course, can align that financially, to a large degree. I think there are things that we want to avoid. so one of the reasons I think that these need to be scoped as.
Deliverables driven and roadmaps, systematic projects over finite periods of time, is to avoid, individual [00:24:00] personalities, interests, and sort of conflicting politics, ending up. Fragmenting that resource into a million pieces. So, so I think this is a problem that you see a lot with billion dollar scale projects, major international and national initiatives.
Everybody has a different, if you say, I want this to be, to solve neuroscience, you know, and here's $10 billion. Everybody has a different opinion about what solved neuroscience is. And there's also lots of different conflicting personalities and, and leadership there. So I think for an fro, there needs to be an initial phase, where there's a sort of objective process of technology roadmapping.
And people figure people understand and transparently understand what are the competing technologies? What are the approaches? What, what are the risks? And you understand it. and you also closely understand the people involved. but importantly, the people doing that roadmapping and sort of catalyzing the initial formation of that [00:25:00] fro need to have a somewhat objective perspective.
It's not just funding my lab. It's actually, you, you want to have vision, but you, you need to. Subjected to a relatively objective process, which, which is hard because you also don't want it to be a committee driven consensus process. You want it to be active, in, in a, in a systematic, analysis sense, but, but not in a, everyone agrees and likes it, you know, emotionally sense.
and so that, that's a hard thing. but you need to establish it's that trust upfront, with, with the funder, And that's a hard process and it gets a hard process to do as a large government program. I think DARPA does it pretty well with their program managers where a program manager will come in and they will pitch DARPA on the idea of the program.
there'll be a lot of analysis behind it and, but then once, once they're going, that program manager has tremendous discretion, and trust. To how they actually run that [00:26:00] project. And so I think you need something like a program manager driven process to initiate the fro and figure out is there appropriate leadership and goals and our livable as reasonable, Yeah, that seems the way, at least the way that it's presented in the paper, it, it feels a little bit chicken and egg in that.
so with DARPA, DARPA is a sort of permanent organization that brings in program managers. And then those programmers program managers then go, start programs, whereas, The look at fro it seems like there's this chicken and egg between like, you sort of, you need someone spearheading it. It seems like, but then it, you sort of like, it, it seems like it will be very hard to get someone who's qualified to, to spearhead it, to do that before you have funding, but then you need someone spearheading it in order to get that [00:27:00] funding.
yeah. Like, yeah. How, how are you thinking about. Cracking that that's, that's sort of the motivation for me behavior over the next year or two, is that I'm trying to go out and search for them. And, a little bit of it is from my own creativity, but a lot of it is going out and talking to people and try and understand what the best ideas.
Here would be, and who are the networks of, of human beings behind those ideas, and trying to make kind of a prioritized set of borrows. Now, this kind of thing would have to be done again, I think to some degree, if there was a, larger umbrella program that someone else wanted to do, but, I'm both trying to get a set of, of exemplary.
And representative ideas and people together, and try to help those people get funding. You know, I think there can be a stage process. I agree that, in the absence of a funder showing [00:28:00] really strong interest, people committing, to really be involved is difficult, because it is a big change to people's normal.
Progression through life to do something like that. but just like with startups, to the extent that you can identify, someone who's. We spiritually just really wants to do this and we'll kind of do anything to do it, the sort of founder type, and also teams that want to behave like that. that's obviously powerful, and also ideas where there's a kind of inevitability, where based on scientific roadmapping, it, it just has to happen.
There's no way, you know, for neuroscience to progress unless we get better. Connectomics and I think we can go through many other fields where, because of. The structures we've had available and just the difficulty of problems now, where arguably Faros are needed in order to make progress in fields that people really care about.
So, so I think you can get engagement at the level of, of discussion, and, and, and starting to nucleate [00:29:00] people. But, but there is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. In the sense that it's, it's not so much as here's an fro, would you please fund to me it's we need to go and figure out where there might be Faros to be had, and then who is interested in those problems as well to, to fund and support those things.
So, yeah. So I guess to recap what I see your process that is, is that you're going out, you're sort of really trying to. Identify possible people possible ideas, then go to funders and say, here, like sort of get some, some tentative interest of like, okay, what, which of these things might you be interested in if I could get it to go further and then you'll circle back to.
the, the people who might be interested in sort of say like, okay, I have someone, a funder who's potentially interested. Can we [00:30:00] sort of like refine the idea? and then sort of like, like you will drive that loop hopefully to, Getting a, an fro funded that's right. And there's, there's further chicken and egg to it.
that has to be solved in the sense that, when you go to funders and you say, why, you know, I have an idea for an fro. We also need to explain what an fro is, right? in a way that both, engages people in creating these futuristic models, which many people want to do, While also having some specificity of, of what we're looking for and what, what, what we think is as possible.
So, and then the same on, on the, on the side of, of scientists and engineers and entrepreneurs all over the world, who, you know, have the ideas certainly, but most of those ideas have been optimized to hit, the needs of existing structures. So, so we are, we are trying to, I think, broker between those, And [00:31:00] then start prototyping a few.
but the, you know, the immediate thing I think is to make, w Tom Coolio has referred to a catalog, a Sears catalog of moonshots. and so we're trying to make a catalog of, of moonshots that fit the fro category. but that sounds like the perfect name for this podcast, by the way. the cataloging mood child, like, you're kind of kind of cataloging moonshots and ways to get moonshots and yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. and so I guess another sort of, thing that I've seen, and I'm not sure, it's almost like for people like a lot of people who like really want. Who like sees something as inevitable and they really want to get it done. In sort of like the current environment we're recording in October, 2020.
there's. There's sort of this perception that capital is really cheap. [00:32:00] you know, there's a lot of venture capitalists there. They're pretty aggressive about funding and one could make an argument that, if it's, if it, it really is going to be inevitable and it really is going to start a new industry.
Then that is exactly where venture capital funding should come in. And I do see this a lot where people, you know, it's like they have this thing that they really want to see exist and they, you know, come out of the lab and it started a company that's sort of extremely common. so. I guess, like, what almost would you say to someone who you see doing this that you think maybe should do an fro instead?
Yeah, that's a great question. I mean, I think it's a complicated question and obviously, you know, we got to see VC also, you know, obviously VC backed, you know, innovation is, is, is one of, if not sort of the key, [00:33:00] Things that is driving technology right now. So, so I'm in no way saying that fro is, are somehow superior to two startups, in any generalized way.
So I think that things that can be startups and are good as startups should be startups and people, if you have an idea that could be good for a startup, I think you should go do it. Generally speaking. But, there, there are a few considerations, so yeah. So I think you can divide it into categories where VCs, no, it's not a good idea for startups.
And therefore won't talk to you, in cases where VCs don't always know whether or not it's good for a startup or whether there's a way that you could do it as a startup, but it would involve some compromise that is actually better not to make, even potentially for the longterm. economic prospects of, of an area.
So things that can happen, would be, if you have something that's basically meant to be a kind of platform technology or which you [00:34:00] need to develop a tool or a platform in order to explore a whole very wide space of potential applications. maybe you have something like a new method of microscopy or something, or a new way to measure proteins in the cell or things like that, that, you know, you could target it to a very particular, if you want product market fit application, where you would be able to make the most money on that and get the most traction, the soonest.
Yeah. Sometimes people call this, you know, the, the, the, the sort of Tesla Roadster, equivalent. You want to guys as quickly as you can to the Tesla Roadster. And I think generally, what people are doing with, with that kind of model, where you take people that have science, to offer, and you say what's the closest fastest you can get, to a Tesla Roadster that lets you it lets you build, get, get revenue and start, start being financially sustainable and start building a team, to go further.
generally that's really good. and generally we need more scientists to learn how to do that. it'd be supported to do that, but, [00:35:00] sometimes you have things that really are meant to be. either generalized platforms or public goods, public data, or knowledge to underlie an entire field. And if you work to try to take the path, the shortest path to the Roadster, you would end up not producing that platform.
You would end up, producing something that is specialized to compete in that lowest hanging fruit regime, but then in the, in, in doing so you would forego the more general larger. Larger thing. And, you know, Alan Kay has, has the set of quotes, that Brett Victor took is linked on his website. and I think Alan K meant something very different actually, when he said this, but he's, he refers to the dynamics of the trillions rather than the billions.
Right. and this is something where in, and we can talk about this more. I'd be curious about your thoughts on that, but something like the transistor. You know, you, you could try to do the transistor as a startup. and maybe at the time, you know, the best application for transistors would have been [00:36:00] radios.
I don't think like that. I think it was, it was guiding a rockets. Yeah. So you could have, you could have sort of had had a transistors for rockets company and then tried to branch out into, becoming Intel. You know, but really, given the structures we had, then the transistor was allowed to be more of a, a broadly, broadly explored platform.
yeah, that, that progressed in a way where we got the trillions version. And I worry sometimes that even some startups that have been funded at least for a seed round kind of stage, and that are claiming that they want to develop a general platform are going to actually struggle a little bit later.
when investors, you know, see that, see that they would need to spend way more money to build that thing. then the natural shortest path to a Roadster, or another words the Roadster is, is, somehow illusory. yeah. Yeah, this [00:37:00] is, this is a. Sort of like a regime that I'm really interested in and a, just on the transistor example, I've, I've looked at it.
So just the, the history is that it was developed at bell labs, in order to prevent a T and T from being broken up, bell labs had to, under strictly licensed a bunch of their innovations, including the transistor William Shockley went off and, Started, chocolate semiconductor, the traders eight then left and started, Fairchild and then Intel.
And, believe that that's roughly the right history. but the, the really interesting thing about that is to ask the question of like, one, what would have happened if, bell labs had exclusive license to the transistor and then to what would have happened if they had like exclusively licensed it to, Shockley semiconductor.
And I think I would argue in both of those situations, you don't [00:38:00] end up. Having the world we have today because I fell labs. It probably goes down this path where it's not part of the core product. and so they just sort of like do some vaguely interesting things with it, but are never incentivized to like, you know, invent, like the, the planner processing method or anything.
Interesting. yeah. Yeah. And so I guess where I'm. Go. And then like at the same time, the interesting thing is like, so Shockley is more, akin to like doing a startup. Right. And so it's like, what if they had exclusive license to it? And the, what I would argue is actually like that also would've killed it because, you have like, they had notoriously bad management.
And so if you have this, this company with. And like the only reason that, the trader could go and start a Fairchild was because they, that was, that was [00:39:00] an open license. So this is actually a very long way of asking the question of, if F borrows are going to have a huge impact, it seems like they should default to.
Really being open about what they create from like IP to data. but at the same time, that sort of raises this incentive problem where, people who think that they are working on something incredibly valuable, should want to do a startup. And then. And so there, and then similarly, even if they'd be like that sort of couldn't be a thing, they would want to privatize as much of the output of an fro.
and so which. Maybe necessary in order to, to get the funding to make it happen. So I guess like, how are you thinking about that tension? That was a very long winded. Yeah. [00:40:00] Yeah. Well, there's, there's a lot, a lot there, I think, to loop back to you. So, so I think, right, so, so this idea that we've talked a bit about as sort of default openness, so, so things that can be open for maximum impact should be open.
there are some exceptions to that. So, so if, And it's also has to do partly with how you're scoping the problem. Right? So, so rather than having an SRO that develops drugs, let's say, because drugs really need to be patentable, right. In order to get through clinical trials, we're talking about much more money than the fro funding, you know, to do the initial discovery of a target or something.
Right. So to actually bring that to humans, you know, you need to have the ability to get exclusive IP. for downstream investors and pharma companies that that would get involved in that. so there are some things that need to be patented in order to have to have their impact. but in general, you, you want, I think fro problems to steer themselves to things where indeed.
it can be maximally open and maybe, maybe you, you provide [00:41:00] a system that can be used to, to, or underlie the discovery of a whole new sets of classes of drugs and so on. But you're not so much focused on the drugs themselves. Now, that being said, right. if I invest in an SRO, and I've enabled this thing, right.
It kind of would make sense for the effort, you know, maybe three of the people of, of, of, of 15 in the fro will then go and start a company afterwards that then capitalizes on this and actually develops those drugs or what have you, or it takes it to the next stage. And gosh, it would really make sense if I had funded in fro.
that's, those people would like to take me as a sort of first, first, first refusal to get a good deal on, on investing in this startup, for example. Right. so I think there are indirect network-based, or potentially even legal based, structure, structure based ways to both incentivize the investors and, But it's, it's a weaker, admittedly weaker, incentive financially than, [00:42:00] than, than the full capture of, of, of something.
But then, but then there's, I think this gets back to the previous discussion. So which is sort of the trillions rather than the billions. So if you have something where maybe there are 10 different applications of it, Right in 10 different fields. you know, maybe, maybe we have a better way to measure proteins and based on this better way to measure proteins, we can do things in oncology and we can do things in Alzheimer's and we can do things in a bunch of different directions.
We can do things in diagnostics and pandemic surveillance, and so many fields that one startup, It would be hard even to design, to start, if that could capture all of that value just as it would have been hard to design sort of transistor incorporated. Right. Right. given that, I think there's, there's a lot of reason to.
To do an fro and then explore the space of applications. Use it as a means to explore a full space in which you'll then get [00:43:00] 10 startups. so if I'm the investor, I might like to be involved in all 10 of the new industry, right. And the way to do that would be to create a platform with which I can explore, but then I have a longer time horizon.
Cause I have to first build the thing. Then I have to explore the application space and only then. do I get to invest in a specific verticals, right? Yeah. I think the, the two sort of tricky questions that I, I wonder about what that is one. So you mentioned like, Oh, there's 15 people in an fro, three of them go off to start a startup.
What about those other 12 people? Like, I, I assume that they might be a little bit frustrated if, if that happens, Yeah, because like, like they, they did, they did help generate that value in it. It sort of gets into two questions of like capturing, like sort of kicking back, value generated by research in general, but like, yeah, it could, it could, it could be all 15 people, you know, we saw something [00:44:00] similar with open AI, you know, in a way, for example, converting, you know, into, into a, for profit or at least a big arm of it being, being the for-profit, and keeping all the people.
Right. So you, you, you, you can imagine, just blanket converting. but yeah, I think, I think it's sort of, In the nature of it, that these are supposed to be things that open up such wide spaces that there's, there's sort of enough for everyone, but no, no, no one person necessarily one startup would completely capture.
And I think that's true for clinic Comix too, for example. Right. So if you had really high throughput clinical, connectomics just, just to keep going on this example, that's a great example of perfect. It's a good thing as a good example. It's not. Depending on the details, whether this is exactly the first fro or not.
I think it's totally, totally other issue, but, but. Connectomics there's potentially applications for AI and you know, how, how the neurocircuits work, and sort of fundamental, funding. Mental is a brain architecture and intelligence. although there's a bunch of ranges of the sort of uncertainty of exactly what that's going to be.
So it's hard to sort of [00:45:00] know it until you see the data. There's also potentially applications for something like drug screening, where you could put a bunch of different, Kind of some CRISPR molecules or drug perturbations on, on a, on a brain and then look at what each one does to their, the synopsis or, and look at that in a, in a brain region specific way and sort of have ultra high, but connect to them based drug screening.
Neither of those are things you can start a start up until you have connected. Right. working. but so anyway, so maybe three people would start an AI company and maybe those would be the very risk tolerant ones. and then three would start at, you know, a crisper drug company and, and, and, three would just do, do fundamental neuroscience with it and, take those capabilities and, and, and go, go back into the university system or so on and yeah.
And start using that. Yeah. And the, the sort of the other related to. like creating value with it. there's, there's a little like uncut discomfort that like even I have [00:46:00] with, say like philanthropic or government funding, then going to fund a thing that proceeds to make a couple of people very wealthy.
Which like, and like, there's very much arguments on both sides, right. Where it's like, it'll generate a lot of good for the world. and, and all and, and such. so, so like, I guess what would you say? I guess like, as a, as a, like, if I were a very wealthy philanthropist and I'm like, do it, like, you know, it's like, I'm just giving away money so that these people can.
Yeah, the company is a complicated thing. Right? How much, how many further rich people, you know, did the Rockefeller foundation, you know, investing in the basics of molecular biology or things like that ended up generating? I mean, I think that, I think you, I think in some way the government does want to end up is they want the widely distributed benefit.
And I think everything that should be an SRO should have widely distributed benefits. It shouldn't just [00:47:00] be a kind of, A startup that just, just enhances one, one person. It should be something that really contributes very broadly to economic growth and understanding of the universe and all that. But it's almost inevitable.
I think that, if you create a new industry, you're gonna, you know, you're gonna, you're gonna feel it going to be some more written about rich successful people in that industry. And they're probably going to be some of the people that were involved. Early and thinking about it for the longest and waiting for the right time to really enter it.
And so, yeah, that's a really good point. I guess the, then the question would be like, how do you know, like, like what are, what are sort of a, the sniff test you use to think about whether something would have broadly distributed benefits? That's a great question. Cause it's like connect to them. It seems like fairly clear cut or, or generating sort of like a massive data set that you then open up. Feels very [00:48:00] clear. Cut. it's. We we've talked before about that, like fro is, could like scale up a process or build a proof of concept of, of a technology.
and it, it seems like that it's less clear cut how you can be sure that those are going to, like if they succeed. Yeah. I mean, there are a few different frames on it, but I mean, I think one is, FRS could develop technologies that allow you to really reduce the cost of having some. Downstream set of capabilities.
so, you know, if, just to give you an example, right? If, if we had, much lower costs, gene therapies available, right? So, so sometimes when drug prices are high, you know, this is basically it's recouping these very large R and D costs and then there's competition and, and, and profit and everything involved.
you know, there was the marching squarely situation and, you know, there's a bunch of, sort of. What was that? there was, remember the details, but there [00:49:00] was some instance within which, a financially controlling entity to sort of arbitrarily bumped drug prices way high, right. A particular drug. and then w was, you know, was regarded as an evil person then, and maybe that's right.
but anyway, there are some places I think, within the biomedical system where you can genuinely reduce costs for everyone. Right. and it's not simply that I, you know, I make this drug and I captured a bunch of value on this drug, but you know, it's really, it should be available to everyone and I'm just copying there.
There's genuine possibility to reduce costs. So if I could reduce the cost of, of the actual manufacturing of. The viruses that you use for gene therapy, that's a, that's a process innovation. that would be, you could order as a magnitude drop the cost of gene therapy. If you could figure out what's going on, in the aging process and what are the real levers on a single, you know, biological interventions that would prevent multiple age related diseases that [00:50:00] would massively drop the cost.
Right? So those, those are things where, Maybe even in some ways it would be threatening, to some of, some of the pharma companies, you know, that, that work on specific age related diseases, right? Because you're going to have something that, that replaced, but this is, this is what, you know, things that are broad productivity improvements.
And I think economists and people very broadly agree that, that the science and technology innovations, For the most part. although sometimes they can be used to in a way that sort of, only benefits, a very small number of people that generally speaking there's a lot you can do, with technology that will be extremely broadly shared in terms of benefit, right?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I, I do actually, like I agree with that. I'm, I'm just, I'm trying to represent as much skepticism as, as possible. Definitely. I know you agree with that.
And actually, another thing that I have no idea about which I'm really interested in is as you're going and sort of creating this, [00:51:00] this moonshot catalog. how do you tell the difference between people who have these really big ideas who are like hardcore legit? but like maybe a little bit crazy.
And then people who are just crackpots. Yeah, well, I don't claim to be able to do it in every field. and, and I think there's a reason why I've, I'm not trying to do a quantum gravity, fro you know, both, both, because I don't know that that's, you know, I think that's maybe better matched for just individual.
Totally. Open-ended Sunday, you know, fun, brilliant people for 30 or 40 year long period to just do whatever they want. Right. Yeah. For quantum gravity, rather than directed, you know, research, but, But also because there's a class of problem that I think requires a sort of Einsteinian type breakthrough in fr fro is, are not, not perfect for that in terms of finding people.
I mean, I, I find that, there's a lot of pent up need for, this is that's my preliminary feeling. and you can see there's a [00:52:00] question of prioritizing, which are the most important, but there's a huge number of. Process innovations or system building innovations that are needed across many, many fields.
And you don't need to necessarily have things that even sound that crazy. There are some that just kind of just make sense, you know, are, are very simple. You know, we here, here in our lab, we have this measurement technology, but we, you know, we can only have the throughput of one cell, you know, every, every few weeks.
And if we could build the system, we could get a throughput of, you know, A hundred thousand cells, you know, every month or something. Right. there are some, there's some sort of ones that are pretty obvious, or where there's an obvious inefficiency. In kind of, how things are structured. Like every, every company and lab that's that's modeling fusion reactors, and then also within the fusion reactor, each individual component of it, like the neutrons in the wall versus the Plaza and the core, those are basically modeled with different.
Codes many of which are many [00:53:00] decades old. So there's sort of an obvious opportunity to sort of make like a CAD software for fusion, for example, you know, that the, the, it doesn't, it's not actually crazy. It's actually just really basic stuff. In some cases, I think they're ones where we'll need more roadmapping and more bringing people together to really workshop the idea, to really have people that are more expert than me say, critique each other and see what's.
Really going on in the fields. and I also rely on a lot of outside experts. if I have someone comes with an idea, you know, for, for energy, you know, and I'm talking to people that are like former RPE program managers or things like that, that, that know more of the questions. so I think we can, we can, we can do a certain amount of, of due diligence on ideas and.
and then there are some that are, that are really far out. you know, we both have an interest in atomically precise manufacturing, and that that's when, where we don't know the path I think, forward. and so that's maybe a pre fro that's something where you [00:54:00] need a roadmapping approach, but it's maybe not quite ready to, to just immediately do an fro.
Yeah, no, that's, you sort of hit on a really interesting point, which is that. when we think of moonshots, it's generally like this big, exciting thing, but perhaps some of the most valuable is will actually sound incredibly boring, but the things that they'll unlock will be. Extremely exciting. yeah, I think that's true.
And, and you have to distinguish there's there's boring. Right? So, so I think there's, there's some decoupling of exactly how much innovation is required and exactly how important something is. And also just how much brute force is required. So I think in general, our system might under weight, the importance of brute force.
And somewhat overweight the importance of sort of creative, individual breakthrough thinking. at the same time, there are problems where I think we are bottlenecked by thinking I'm like really how to do something, not just to [00:55:00] connect them of brain, but how do you actually do activity map of entire brain?
You actually need to get a bunch of physicists together and stuff to really figure out what's, you know, there's a level of thinking that is not very non-obvious similarly for like truly next gen fabrication. You really, really, really need to do the technology roadmapping approach. And that's a little different than the fro.
And in some cases there may be a, as we discussed, I think in the past, there was sort of a, a continuum potentially between DARPA type programs or programs that would start within the existing systems and try to catalyze the emergence of ideas and discoveries. And then fro is, which are a bit, a bit more cut and dry.
And in some cases, even you could think of it as boring. but just very important. how do we prevent Faros from becoming a political football? because you see this all the time where, you know, a Senator will say, well, like I'll sponsor this bill, as long as we mandate that.
50% of the work has to happen in my particular state or [00:56:00] district. and, and I imagine that that would be counterproductive towards the goals of . so do you, do you have any sense of like how to, how to get around that
probably much easier in philanthropic setting than governments? Although I think I'm overall, I'm, I'm sort of optimistic that, if. If the goals are made very clear, the goal is disruptive, you know, multiplicative improvements in scientific fields. that's the primary goal. It needs to be managed well.
so it's not either about the individual peoples, if you want academic politics and also that it doesn't, doesn't become about sort of, you know, districts, congressional districts, or all sorts of other things. I think there's a certain amount of complexity, but the other, the other thing is. I think there's really amazing things to be done in all sorts of places and by all sorts of people that are not necessarily identified as, as the biggest egos or the largest cities also, although certainly there are hubs that [00:57:00] matter.
yeah. Cool. I think so. I think those are all like the actual questions I have. Is there anything you want to talk about that we have not touched on? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, how does this fit into two things that you're thinking about, in terms of your overall analysis of the research system, then, do you think this, what is this leave unsolved as well?
if, even if we can get some big philanthropic and government, donors. Yeah. So, so there are sort of two things that I. see it not covering. And so the, the first that you you've sort of touched on is that there are, some problems that still like don't fit into academia, but are not quite at the point where they're ready to be at fro.
And so, they need, the, the like mindset of the fro without. Having this sort of, cut and dryness [00:58:00] that you need to sort of plunk down, like have the confidence to plunk down $50 million. so, so we need sort of a, a, what I would see as a sustainable, way of. Getting to the point of fro type projects.
And as you know, I'm spending a lot of time with that. and then sort of a, the other thing that I've realized is that when, when people, we sort of have these discussions that are like research is broken, I think what we're actually talking about is, is sort of two really separate phenomenon. So, what we've been talking about, like Efros, Are really sort of sitting in like the Valley of death where it's like helping bridge that.
but I think that at the same time, there there's like what I would call like the, the Einstein wouldn't get in any funding problem, which is, as you alluded to there, there are some of these things, like some of the [00:59:00] problems with research that we talk about are just about, The sort of conformity and specialization of really idea based exploratory, like completely uncertain research.
And that's also really important, but I, I think it's what we don't do is, is, is sort of like separate those two things out and say like, these are both fall under the category of research, but are in fact. Extremely different processes. They require very different solutions. Yeah. Actually let me, let me, since you mentioned that, and since we are here together on the podcast, I agree with that and I, I have some things to say about that as well.
So, so I think that the fro is indeed only address, or are designed to address this issue of sort of system building. problems that have a sort of catalytic nature and are a particular kind of pre-commercial stage. Right? So in some ways, [01:00:00] even though I'm so excited about borrows and how much they can unlock, because I think that this is one of two or three categories that has been, you know, under emphasized by current systems or has systems currently have struggled with it.
there are these others. So, so I think that. The, the supporting the next Einstein and people that may have also have just be cognitively socially in any other number of ways, just different and weird and not good at writing grants. You know, not good at competing. Maybe not even good at graduating undergrad.
Yeah. You know, I'm running a lab who are, are brilliant and because the system now. Has proliferate in terms of the number of scientists. it's very competitive and, and there is a, there's a lot of need to sort of filter people based on credentials. So there's this sort of credential there's people that don't fit with perfectly with credentials or with a sort of monoculture of who is able to get NSF grants and go through the university system and [01:01:00] get the PhD and all those different Alexey goosey has this nice blog post is oriented toward biomedical, but saying basically that in order to get through the system, you need to do 10 or 15 things simultaneously.
Well, and also be lucky. And maybe we want to be looking for some people that are only able to do three of those things about, but are orders of magnitude better than others, then there's people even who have done well with those things, but still don't have the funding or sort of sustained ability, to, to pursue their own individual ideas over decades.
even if they do get tenure or something, because the grant system is based on peer review and is, is sort of filtering out really new ideas, for whatever reason, There's kind of the broader issue that Michael Nielsen has talked about, which is sort of the idea that too much funding is centralized in a single organizational model.
So particularly the NIH, the NIH grant is kind of hegemonic as, as, as a structure and as a peer review mechanism. then I think we need more [01:02:00] DARPA stuff. We probably need more darker agencies for other problems. Even though I've, I've sort of said that I think Rose can solve some problems that DARPA DARPA will struggle with.
Likewise, DARPA walls solve problems that fro may struggle with. particularly if there's a very widely distributed expertise across the world that you need to bring together in a, some transient, interesting way, for a little bit more discovery oriented, perhaps in Faros and less deliverable oriented or team oriented.
And then there's even bigger things we need, you know, like we need to be able to create, you know, a bell labs for energy, you know, or sort of something even bigger than fro. so yeah, I think the thing that you're, you're getting at that I is, is sort of simple, but under done is actually analyzing like what the activity is and what.
How to best support it. Yep. Which is instead of just saying [01:03:00] like, ah, there's some research let's give some money to the research and then magical things will happen actually saying like, okay, like, like how does this work? Like what, and then what can we do for these, these specific situation? Yes. I think as you've identified.
Like there's both on the one hand, there's the tendency to micromanage research and say, research has to do this, this with this equipment and this timescale it's entirely, this is sort of subject to milestone. And on the other hand is research is this magical thing. We have no idea. but just. Let other scientists, peer review each other, and just sort of give as much money to it as we can.
and then we see what happens. Right. And I think neither of those, is a, is a good design philosophy, right? Yeah. Yeah. And I think it involves people like thinking it's it's uncomfortable, but like, like thinking and learning about. How, how did you think then understanding how it could, how it could be different?
[01:04:00] How it's not a it's it's a system. Kevin has felt set, said it said it well. And so in some ways it's been designed, but really our scientific systems are something that has evolved into large degree. No one has designed it. It's not. Something that's designed to be optimal is it's a, it's a emergent property of many different people's incentives.
And, if we actually try to apply more design thinking, I think, I think that can be good as long as we're not over overconfident in saying that there's one model for everyone. Yeah. I think that the trick to, sort of fixing. Emergent systems is to like, basically like do little experiments, poking at them.
And that's, that's very much what I see getting fro is going okay. It's like, you're not saying, Oh, we should like dismantle the NSF and have it all be . Okay. Let's do a couple of these. See what happens. That's right. It's I think it's inherently a small perturbation and it it's. And I [01:05:00] think DARPA, by the way is a similar thing.
It's sort of dark. You wouldn't need DARPA. If everything else was already sort of efficient, right. Given that things are not perfectly efficient, Darko has all these, all these sort of this niche that it fills. I think similarly Faros, they can only exist. if you also have a huge university system and you also have companies that that doesn't make sense, otherwise it's, it's a perturbation, but as we, I think it's a perturbation in which you unlock a pretty big pressure stream sort of behind it when you open it up.
So. Excellent. Well, I think that's, that's actually a great place to close. I guess the last question would be, Like, if people are interested in, in Faros, especially like funding or running one, what is the best way for them to reach you? Well, they can, they can talk to me or they can talk to you.
my email has, is prominently listed on my website. Twitter is great. and that, yeah, I really interested in, people that have a kind of specificity [01:06:00] of, of, of what they want of, you know, here here's, here's what I would do, very specifically, but I'm also interested in talking to people that, See problems with the current systems and want to do something and want to learn about, other highly specific fro ideas that others might have, and how to enable those.
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The pandemic has closed schools and massively affected the way we think of traditional education. How will future generations be affected by the sudden change in how we learn? We asked the CEO of Primer, Ryan Delk about this and more.
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On this episode of the Knowledge Project Podcast, I chat with Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of the leading online payment processing company, Stripe. If you’ve purchased anything online recently, there’s a good chance that Stripe facilitated the transaction.
What is now an organization with over a thousand employees and handling tens of billions of dollars of online purchases every year, began as a small side experiment while Patrick and his brother John were going to college.
During our conversation, Patrick shares the details of their unlikely journey and some of the hard-earned wisdom he picked up along the way. I hope you have something handy to write with because the nuggets per minute in this episode are off the charts. Patrick was so open and generous with his responses that I’m really excited for you to hear what he has to say.
Here are just a few of the things we cover:
- The biggest (and most valuable) mistakes Patrick made in the early days of Stripe and how they helped him get better
- The characteristics that Patrick looks for in a new hire to fit and contribute to the Stripe company culture
- What compelled he and his brother to move forward with the early concept of Stripe, even though on paper it was doomed to fail from the start
- The gaps Patrick saw in the market that dozens of other processing companies were missing — and how he capitalized on them
- The lessons Patrick learned from scaling Stripe from two employees (he and his brother) to nearly 1,000 today
- How he evaluates the upsides and potential dangers of speculative positions within the company
- How his Irish upbringing influenced his ability to argue and disagree without taking offense (and how we can all be a little more “Irish”)
- The power of finding the right peer group in your social and professional circles and how impactful and influential it can be in determining where you end up.
- The 4 ways Patrick has modified his decision making process over the last 5 years and how it’s helped him develop as a person and as a business leader (this part alone is worth the listen)
- Patrick’s unique approach to books and how he chooses what he’s going to spend his time reading
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Podcast: The Tim Ferriss Show (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #353: Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe
Pub date: 2018-12-20
"If people around you don't think what you're doing is a bit strange, maybe it's not strange enough." — Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison (@patrickc) is chief executive officer and co-founder of Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet.
After experiencing firsthand how difficult it was to set up an online business, Patrick and his brother John started Stripe in 2010. Their goal was to make accepting payments on the internet simpler and more inclusive. Today, Stripe powers millions of online businesses around the world.
Prior to Stripe, Patrick co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media for $5 million in March 2008. In 2016, he was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship by President Obama. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, Patrick now lives in San Francisco where Stripe is headquartered.
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Podcast: Startup Grind (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: John Collison (Co-founder + President, Stripe) - The Case for Optimism.
Pub date: 2019-09-13
Startup Grind Global Conference 2019
About the speakers:
John, and his brother Patrick Collison, started Stripe, the global technology company building the economic infrastructure for the internet, in 2010 while John was studying physics at Harvard. Their goal was to make accepting payments online simpler and more inclusive, after learning firsthand how difficult it was. Today, the 1200-person (and growing) Stripe team powers online businesses around the world. Prior to Stripe, John co-founded Auctomatic, which was acquired by Live Current Media in March 2008. Originally from Limerick, Ireland, John lives in San Francisco, California, where Stripe is based.
Ashlee Vance is a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. He's written dozens of cover and feature stories and hosts the Emmy-nominated TV show "Hello World." Vance is also an author and wrote the recent best-selling biography on Elon Musk.
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Podcast: North Star Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Tyler Cowen: Production Function
Pub date: 2020-07-20
Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University. He runs the Mercatus Center, which bridges the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. He’s published a new post every day for the past 17 years on his blog called Marginal Revolution, where he writes about economics, arts, culture, food, and globalization. Beyond that, he also writes for Bloomberg and hosts his own podcast called Conversations with Tyler. Tyler ends every episode of his podcast asking about other people’s production function. How do you get so much done? What’s the secret sauce of all that you’ve accomplished? This episode is entirely devoted to that question. But this time, I’m asking Tyler. We started by talking about why there aren’t more Tyler Cowens in the world. Then, we moved to Tyler’s process for writing, such as choosing article topics and editing his work. Later in the podcast, we discussed Tyler’s process for choosing friends, why he would travel across the world to visit a new country for just ten hours, and what he’s learned from high-powered people like Peter Thiel and Patrick Collison.
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Show Notes
2:40 - What Tyler considers his compounding advantage and where he got it from
5:56 - Why being born as an intelligent person is not as important as developing knowledge
8:23 - How Tyler maximizes the value of his consumption and minimizes the drawbacks
9:19 - What draws Tyler to the people he likes spending time with, and what he likes best about their friendship
12:33 - Why Tyler feels that the way he has lived his life has meant has not given anything up
15:35 - How the fundamentals of productivity came intuitively to Tyler
17:41 - Why Tyler writes in his particular style not by choice, but by necessity
22:19 - Why the things in Tyler's life that bind his output aren't what you think
24:06 - How to develop new ideas while staying focused on the subject and not getting tangled
27:36 - Why Tyler sees art as one of the most important and beneficial things you can spend your time and money on
32:41 - What writers can learn about inspiration and consistency from musicians and visual artists
37:16 - Why Peter Thiel has impacted Tyler so deeply and why Tyler believes he's one of the greatest thinkers of our time
40:30 - How Tyler is able to extract more from his reading than other people do
45:44 - How understanding most other people's intelligence is higher than his in most fields gave Tyler an edge over other thinkers
49:00 - Why Tyler sees a new visibility of talent in people and how he is using this visibility
55:24 - How Tyler constructs his interviews to maximize the freedom of his guests to speak freely on what they love
1:00:03 - How to develop skills as a teacher and where Tyler believes the strengths of a good teacher lie
1:03:34 - Why the novelty and beauty of visiting other cultures excites Tyler so much
1:07:18 - How Tyler makes the most out of his travels
1:13:32 - Why sitting in a suboptimal seat at a concert may give you worse sound but a better understanding of the music
1:16:55 - Why knowledge workers are often not motivated to improve their skills
1:20:48 - Why Tyler still responds to every email and loves it
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Podcast: Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.178]
Pub date: 2020-06-16
My guest today is John Collison, the Co-Founder of the digital payments company Stripe. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, a lofty and deeply interesting pursuit. John is clearly a voracious learner across business and investing, which you’ll hear instantly. He started Stripe with his brother Patrick when he was just 19 years old, and has grown it to, at last valuation, a $36B business. In our conversation, we discuss conglomerates, the internet economy, the power of writing, and why board members are like Pokémon characters, each with different powers. It’s a lively and wide-ranging conversation with one of the entrepreneurs I’ve most enjoyed speaking with. Please enjoy.
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Show Notes
(1:30) – (First question) – Interest in industrial conglomerates
(9:10) – Their thinking on acquisitions vs starting new companies
(11:42) – How the payment landscape looked when Stripe was started
(15:55) – View on the internet economy
(20:09) – Exciting possibilities for the future of the internet economy
(22:11) – The forces of size vs speed among startups
(26:53) – Driving reasons why employees choose Stripe starting with clear communication
(28:55) – Tips for better internal communications
(30:09) – The importance of rigor in Stripe’s corporate culture
(32:15) – Investors and investing styles that are most intriguing to him
(36:02) – Teaching vs experiencing business lessons
(37:56) – Lessons from going to market with new ideas
(50:58) – Allowing teams to explore new ideas at Stripe
(44:11) – Best startup companies to study to understand the history of this space
(44:52) – Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle
(48:18) – Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business
(48:43) – Infrastructures of internet businesses that are missing
(52:03) – Does general accounting practices need to change to capture the true value of a company like Stripe
(1:01:53) – Shared playbooks in Silicon Valley
(1:02:02) – The transition to the no code movement
(1:08:22) – Other businesses that pique his interest outside of software
(1:10:21) – Future trends that excite him
(1:11:10) – First memory when he felt like he was participating in the tech economy
(1:12:46 – The role of board members
(1:15:48) – Kindest thing anyone has done for him
(1:18:49) – Advice for young people
Learn More
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Podcast: The Lunar Society (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 1: Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
Pub date: 2020-05-22
For the inaugural episode of the podcast, Bryan Caplan talks with me about open borders, the idea trap, UBI, appeasement, China, the education system, and his next two books on poverty and housing regulation.
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration.
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Podcast: The Lunar Society (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 4: Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset
Pub date: 2020-07-10
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ayUZreGysTo
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Director of the Mercatus Center.
0:00 The Great Reset
2:58 Growth and the cyclical view of history
4:00 Time horizons, growth, and sustainability
5:30 Space travel
8:11 WMDs and end of humanity
10:57 Common sense morality
12:20 China and authoritarianism
13:45 Are big businesses complacent?
17:15 Online education vs university
20:45 Aesthetic decline in West Virginia
23:20 Advice for young people
25:18 Mentors
27:15 Identifying talent
29:50 Can adults change?
31:45 Capacity to change men vs women
33:10 Are effeminate societies better?
35:15 Conservatives and progress
36:50 Biggest mistake in history
39:05 Nuke in my lifetime
40:35 Age and learning
42:45 Pessimistic future
43:50 Optimistic future
46:28 Closing
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Podcast: Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Charlie Songhurst – Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.181]
Pub date: 2020-07-07
My guest this week is Charlie Songhurst, the former head of strategy at Microsoft and a prolific investor, having personally invested in nearly 500 companies throughout his career. I met Charlie at an event hosted in New York and you can tell within one minute of meeting him that his mind is sparkling with ideas and curiosity. Its no wonder he’s been among the most commonly requested guests when I asked several top investors and CEOs who I should have on the show. We discuss the lessons he’s learned about business, investing, and people from such a large sample size of companies. I won’t reveal any more here, I highly recommend you just listen to Charlie and learn. Let’s dive in.
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Show Notes
(1:25) – (First question) – Stack ranking the vices of power, money and fame
(2:41) – Memorable response to the stack ranking question
(3:13) – Best scenario to explore this stack ranking concept
(3:55) – Other ways to rank founders
(4:44) – Quick look at this career
(5:16) – Time at Microsoft
(6:03) – Features he looks for in startups
(10:55) – Managing the declining curve of productivity
(14:55) – Why founders are often unique people
(14:57) – Jeff Gramm Podcast Episode
(15:04) – Aliens, Jedi & Cults
(19;43) – How early entrepreneurs need to make recruitment a serious part of their work
(23:06) – How successful founders win the best candidates
(25:27) – The East Coast vs. West Coast investment strategies
(30:40) – When it’s time to bring in quantitative factors into early stage investing
(34:36) – The markers that pop up in companies that hit
(37:22) – Boring but successful investments
(39:28) – Investor aesthetics
(41:29) – Characteristics of investors that he believes are important to success
(42:57) – Impacts of Covid and some of the permanent changes that have happened as a result
(47:49) – Investing opportunities in the local community
(49:13) – His take on cryptocurrencies
(53:47) – Most mis valued asset in the world
(55:16) – Investing opportunities in Europe
(57:34) – Make up of his 483 investments
(57:58) – Matt Clifford Podcast Episode
(59:17) – Curation as a skill
(1:01:54) – Timing and startup success
(1:05:11) – Kindest thing anyone has done for him
Learn More
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 06 - Alex Schultz - Growth
Pub date: 2016-01-06
Alex Schultz gives an overview of Growth for startups, speaking from a position of authority as the VP of Growth at Facebook.
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Alex-schultz-lecture-6-growth-annotated
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 04 - Adora Cheung - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Pub date: 2016-01-06
So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users?Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup.
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Adora-cheung-lecture-4-building-product-talking-to-users-and-growing-annotated
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 07 - Kevin Hale - How to Build Products Users Love
Pub date: 2016-01-06
Kevin Hale, Founder of Wufoo and Partner at Y Combinator, explains how to build products that create a passionate user base invested in your startup's success.
This is lecture 7 from startupclass.co
Links:
Transcript of this speech on genius.com
Slides and readings
TechCrunch: WuFoo Exits For $35 Million, After Raising Only $118,000
Kevin Hale on twitter: @ilikevests
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 09 - Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and Parker Conrad - How to Raise Money
Pub date: 2016-01-06
Sam leads a panel Q&A on fundraising in this lecture with Marc Andreessen, Founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits.
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Marc-andreessen-lecture-9-how-to-raise-money-annotated
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 12 - Aaron Levie - Building For The Enterprise
Pub date: 2016-01-06
Aaron Levie - founder of Box, enterprise master, Twitter comedic genius. In this lecture, he'll convince you to Build for the Enterprise.
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Aaron-levie-lecture-12-sales-and-marketing-annotated
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Podcast: How to Start a Startup
Episode: 14 - Keith Rabois - How to Operate
Pub date: 2016-01-06
What should the CEO be doing on a day to day basis? How do you make sure the company is moving in the right direction?
Keith Rabois, Partner at Khosla Ventures and former COO of Square, tackles the nitty gritty - How to Operate. Lots of actionable takeaways from this lecture!
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Keith-rabois-lecture-14-how-to-operate-annotated
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Podcast: North Star Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Keith Rabois: Accumulating Advantages
Pub date: 2019-01-14
My guest today is Keith Rabois, the Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. At Khosla, Keith focuses on the consumer internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health. Keith has had a front-seat to Silicon Valley history. He’s had five bosses in his career: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, Jack Dorsey, and Vinod Khosla. In this episode, we talk about the lessons of sports from the San Francisco 49ers to the Oakland A’s. Keith shares a story from his first week at PayPal, where he went on a run with Peter Thiel, which sparked his hiring philosophy. Then, we talk about the future of education, how to find undiscovered talent in society, the power of accumulating advantages, and how to raise the level of ambition in society. Keith has built more billion dollar companies than just about anybody on Planet Earth, and all that wisdom shines through in our conversation.
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LINKS:
Find Keith online:
- Khosla Ventures page
- Wiki page
People mentioned:
- Peter Thiel
- Max Levchin
- Reed Hoffman
- Jack Dorsey
- Vinod Khosla
- Bill Walsh
- Blake Masters
- Elon Musk
- Erik Torenberg
- Bill Thompson
- William Safire
- Pat Riley
- Jerry Garcia
Books mentioned:
- The Score Takes Care of Itself
- Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
- The Winner Within
Other mentions:
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Khosla Ventures
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Square
- Stripe
- Opendoor
- Zillow
- Stratechery
- Aggregation Theory
SHOW TOPICS
1:32 - Outlining the book, The Score Takes Care of Itself and its significance for entrepreneurs. “Rather than focusing on the score, focus on the process and the rest takes care of itself.” Also detailing Bill Walsh, the underlying infrastructure that he built, and the philosophy that successful companies like Square and Apple have used.
4:41 - Leadership lessons that can be learned from sports and the insights that Keith learned from Peter Thiel in the past on evaluating people and on building great companies. Pairing yourself with people that cover your blind spots and weaknesses.
9:20 - Emulating companies like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla rather than companies like Google or Facebook. The problem with people choosing the easier path in building companies and detailing building things from the ground up rather than inheriting other companies infrastructures.
12:28 - Thoughts on people who are naive about markets doing better than those who have more experience and know the markets. Hiring people who have expertise to jump the learning curve that comes with starting successful companies.
15:43 - Ways to accelerate learning and jump learning curves. Reading (primarily books and printed materials), find experts and constantly inquire, and using experts to find the right path to take. How Keith began venturing into real estate and him detailing his journey with it.
21:28 - Keith on using Twitter and his experience with finding a specific thread on China, then meeting the author of the thread. Examples of writing insightful things online and the potential in doing so. Finding people and breaking through to clutter with original content.
26:07 - Detailing accumulating advantages with companies and the effects of them. A few examples of what accumulating advantages may be within companies. A bit on accumulating advantage at the individual level, as well.
32:08 - What Keith has learned from being a bit of a Silicon Valley historian and why conference room names are predominantly Silicon Valley names. Also, a bit on why you would want to understand the history of Silicon Valley and the history of successful companies. Reading less short-form content and long-form content. Being a voracious reader.
36:35 - A musical example of being aware of things in the past and learning from tradition. Mixing original sparks with tradition. Learning more so you can better interpret information. For example, artists seeing ten-times more in a museum than an average person would.
42:47 - Keith describing the process of speech-writing and comparing it with coding. Also detailing what makes certain speeches stand out from others. William Safire’s book on great speeches, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History.
45:30 - Creating ambition and the fluctuation of ambition over time. Discussing ambition more, spending time with the five most ambitious people you know, and believing that things are possible. Keith’s experience with ambition while growing up and his experiences with moving into tech. Specializing in your strengths and surrounding yourself with complimentary people.
52:28 - Becoming the only person in the world that does what you do and detailing this concept. Where he learned the concept and how Keith describes this for himself.
56:22 - What Keith has learned about organization and productivity that scales down to an individual level. Allocation of time and under-valuing your time. Detailing how the number one predictor of success is knowing how to efficiently allocate your time and how to get the most output out of that time.
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Podcast: This Week in Startups (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: E1057: Founders Fund General Partner Keith Rabois on stock market bounce back, domain expertise being overrated, US/China issues, 2020 election, recipe for startups success, chaos making way for a new generation of entrepreneurs & much more!
Pub date: 2020-05-12
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Podcast: North Star Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Patrick McKenzie: Internet Famous
Pub date: 2020-07-06
My guest today is marketer and software engineer Patrick McKenzie, who writes mostly about software-as-a-service businesses. He currently works for Stripe as a writer and an overall software business expert. I remember when I signed up for Stripe's Atlas program to incorporate my LLC, almost all of the documentation that wasn't legal documentation was written by Patrick.
Patrick has also started multiple software businesses such as a bingo card creator for teachers, an automated appointment system that sent automated reminders to clients, a gaming company for teaching programming called Starfighter, and a software consultancy called Kalezumeus Software.
I have devoured Patrick's work. He is one of my favorite online writers. Before we begin, here's my attempt to summarize what I've learned from him in three sentences. First, charge more for your services and products. Second, the economy is much bigger than you thing. Three, create for unique people, not average ones.
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Show Notes
3:07- What surprised Patrick about writing online. Why writing online takes you from someone who is illegible to someone who is legible. Why blogging has a lower value for business people.
13:40- The benefits of owned platforms vs self-published. What people are missing about writing long-form. How to make the illegible structures legible in your online audience.
24:18- Where all the great bloggers went. Patrick's writing process. Why you should grow an email list.
36:43- How to identify which ideas are worth publishing. How care for the craft has influenced Stripe's culture.
46:55- What writing regularly does for a company. Why write the book before the software.
1:00:01 How "Patio11's law" explains the amount and wealth of niche software companies. How to develop a love for your craft.
1:12:36 How to increase your optimism and ambition. Why self-promotion is like cooking.
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Podcast: SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1706 The Early Days: How He Got His First 8 Customers
Pub date: 2020-03-26
Deepak has 20 years of experience in product and marketing roles at storage, application and networking companies. He has served in leadership positions at Druva, Riverbed, Sun, AOL and at Netscape where he launched several products. Deepak has an MBA from UC, Berkeley and an MS in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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Podcast: SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1738 How He Got First Enterprise Customers to Pay $120k ACV's
Pub date: 2020-04-27
Sonny Patel is the Founder & CEO at Insurmi, a white-labeled conversational A.I. platform that enables carriers to generate new business online, streamline claims, and provide excellent A.I. driven customer service. He is also a proud #YESPHX business leader who is passionate about helping other founders make their entrepreneurial dreams a reality!
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Podcast: Leveling Up with Eric Siu (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: How Buildium Struggled to Get Their First 50 Customers and Now Has 14K Customers in 40+ Countries
Pub date: 2019-06-16
Hey everyone! In today’s interview, I share the mic with Michael Monteiro, CEO and Co-Founder of Buildium, a property management software. Tune in to hear Michael explain how Buildium serves as a solution for so many property management companies, how it took them 2 whole years to get their first 50 customers and how they now have 14,000 customers in over 40 countries! Click here for show notes and transcript
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Podcast: UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 153: Your First 100 Customers with Asia Matos
Pub date: 2019-12-23
Getting your first SaaS customers is inevitably a grind; but it helps to be methodical about your process. Our guest today is the incredible Asia Matos, founder of DemandMaven. You'll learn what a typical funnel looks like for a SaaS business, how to recruit your early users, and what strategies can help you scale later.
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Podcast: Cold Call (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Controlling the Emotion of Negotiation
Pub date: 2020-03-31
Two siblings, Thomas and Sally Campbell, are faced with selling their childhood home. They need to make several difficult decisions, all the while navigating their contentious relationship. Harvard Business School professor Leslie John discusses the importance of asking (and answering) the right questions when negotiating, particularly under emotional stress, in her case, “The Campbell Home.”
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Podcast: The James Altucher Show (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 567 - Coronavirus Economy Update: What’s Happening Right Now with Economist Tyler Cowen
Pub date: 2020-03-30
People are starting to lose jobs. And gigs. And become uncertain. Uncertainty brings up fear. Which is a pandemic on its own. I keep saying, "Prepare. Don't Panic." And so do my guests. So today, I interview economist Tyler Cowen. I ask him about the stimulus package, the job market, inflation, deflation, supply and demand, what the world will look like if people keep losing work. How we can get back to work. When is it safe? Flattening the curve, and more.
And if you like this update, please let us know. So we can keep bringing you information that spreads peace. Over fear.
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Podcast: Science Talk (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
Pub date: 2020-03-27
Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities.
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Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Meehan Crist: Is it OK to have children?
Pub date: 2020-02-26
Given what we know about the future of the planet, is having children a matter of consumer choice, of political conviction, or something an authority will eventually decide for us? Meehan Crist explores the debate about the ethics of childbearing in the age of climate crisis. She addresses the relationship between BP and the British Museum, the implications of culture-washing, and the logic of cultural divestment initiatives.
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Podcast: Vox Conversations (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
Pub date: 2020-02-06
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on this show. But in this episode, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.
This is, easily, the toughest interview on my book so far. Lepore isn’t quibbling over my solutions or pointing out a contrary study — what she challenges are the premises, epistemology, and meta-structure that form the foundation of my book, and much of my work. Her question, in short, is: What if social science itself is too crude to be a useful way of understanding the political world?
But that’s what makes this conversation great. We discuss whether all political science research on polarization might be completely wrong, why (and whether) my book is devoid of individual or institutional “villains,” and whether I am morally obliged to delete my Twitter account, in addition to the missing party in American politics, why I mistrust historical narratives, media polarization, and much more.
This is, on one level, a conversation about Why We’re Polarized. But on a deeper level, it’s about different modes of knowledge and whether we can trust them.
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Producer - Jeff Geld
Researcher - Roge Karma
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Podcast: Ask The Nincompoops (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Term 2, Lesson 7: Were Cavemen Actually Real?
Pub date: 2019-12-13
Are you a very unintelligent child? Of COURSE you are. It's well known by clever adults that you kids know NOTHING.
But don't cry because you won't be unedumacated for much longer. Carrie Quinlan (a VERY clever grown-up) and Andy Stanton (who is also a VERY clever grown-up, thank you, actually) are here to educate the world's children and answer their soft, squashy brain questions using GROWN-UP KNOWLEDGE. It's time to....Ask The Nincompoops!
Today it's a return visit for straw-headed tots MICHAEL and KATHERINE to be informed and educated by two very clever adults.
This podcast is suitable for all the family!
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Podcast: Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: "Loomings"
Pub date: 2020-01-18
Talia Lavin and David Roth discuss Chapter 1 of Moby-Dick, "Loomings." We also discuss the weird life of Herman Melville, how we fell in love with this book, and introduce the podcast.
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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: S7, Ep6 How to Fail: Marian Keyes
Pub date: 2020-02-05
Marian Keyes is one of those people who you think can't POSSIBLY be as lovely and talented and nice as everyone says she is. She must have a hidden dark side, I thought. Maybe she's a terrible diva who will demand bowls of blue M&Ms and want my toilet freshly re-painted and scented with vanilla before she deigns to use it?
But then you meet her and - lo and behold - she is not only as lovely as everyone says she is, but in fact EVEN NICER than that. This is a woman who has sold millions of book, who is one of the most successful and lauded Irish authors of all time, and who could quite forgivably be an egomaniac, but she's utterly fabulous. Or 'fabliss' as Keyes herself would put it.
She joins me this week to talk about writing, feminism, low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, humour as a survival mechanism, her failure to get into journalism college, weight loss (why she knows it shouldn't be important but still can't help worrying about) and her self-perceived 'failure' to have children. We also talk about her great new novel, Grown Ups, where the characters all seem like members of your own family and you're bereft to turn the final page.
Thank you Marian. You really are fabliss.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Reader: Robert Cottrell
Pub date: 2020-01-15
First in a new series, Find Good Things, where we interview a certain type of person that there isn't an accepted name for yet: someone with excellent taste who finds good things in a particular area of life (art, wine, podcasts, potato peelers....) and recommends them to a broad audience. Today, Browser Publisher Uri Bram interviews Browser Editor Robert Cottrell about how he reads and recommends writing of lasting value.
Good Things mentioned in this episode:
Our newsletter: The Browser
Dance critic: Alastair Macaulay
Tyler Cowen's "Underrated or Overrated?" round
Underrated City: Poznań (and Riga, and Tallinn)
Underrated Book: The Just City, by Jo Walton
Audiobook: A History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell
Underrated Musician: violinist Gidon Kremer
Small Item: Valmiermuižas Tumšais Alus
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Podcast: Kosmos with a K
Episode: #4 Esteban Sosnik (Reach Capital) - Why is it hard to make educational games?
Pub date: 2019-04-05
I met with Esteban Sosnik of Reach Capital in his San Francisco office. We talked about his background in making games and why it is exteremly difficult to make successful educational games. Also, we touched on the future of the educational technology market and why Esteban believes that it will become more attractive for entrepreneurs and investors alike.
Esteban is a partner at Reach Capital a VC firm that invests in EdTech companies such as ClassDojo, Nearpod and Replit.
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Podcast: Kosmos with a K
Episode: #7 Tyler Cowen (GMU) on less homework, Swiss science culture, and low university completion rates
Pub date: 2019-10-09
In this episode with Tyler Cowen we talk about a broad range of topics. For example, why it's important that students have less homework, the Swiss science culture, and the low university completion rates.
Tyler is an economics professor at George Mason University, the director of the Mercatus Center, author of many economics books and runs the blog Marginal Revolution.
At Kosmos School, we make fun educational VR games.
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Podcast: Evolve - Social Impact Startup Stories (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Danielle Strachman on How To Self Liberate Through An Entrepreneur Education | Evolve 014
Pub date: 2019-10-08
This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is serial founder, educator, philanthropist, mentor, and venture capitalist, Danielle Strachman of the 1517 Fund. Her disruptive 20 million dollar venture fund in San Francisco offers 250 thousand dollar investments to teens and twenty something year old dropouts, makers, hackers, and scientists who embody conviction to go against the grain of societies one path for all through college. 1517 has proven this radical thesis with a portfolio of over 30 young founder startups, watching small 1k idea investments turn into Series B companies, and 17 year olds starting 5 person teams that scale to 400 employees and are making the best autonomous driving tech on the market.
In this episode she talks about her journey in entrepreneurship of starting a school, working with Peter Thiel on the Theil Fellowship, how young founders can follow their passion and express that authentically, and what she believes the future of education looks like.
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Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human
Pub date: 2019-04-30
In this fascinating conversation with the evolutionary anthropologist Michael Tomasello, the Max Planck Institute scientist presents his new theory of how humans became such a distinctive species. Other theories focus on evolution. Here, Tomasello proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. His data-driven model explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child’s life.
Tomasello assembles nearly three decades of experimental work with chimpanzees, bonobos, and human children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that starkly differentiate humans from their closest primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities. But then, Tomasello argues, the maturation of humans’ evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities—through the new forms of sociocultural interaction they enable—into uniquely human cognition and sociality. The first step occurs around nine months, with the emergence of joint intentionality, exercised mostly with caregiving adults. The second step occurs around three years, with the emergence of collective intentionality involving both authoritative adults, who convey cultural knowledge, and coequal peers, who elicit collaboration and communication. Finally, by age six or seven, children become responsible for self-regulating their beliefs and actions so that they comport with cultural norms.
Becoming Human places human sociocultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, and shows how biology creates the conditions under which culture does its work.
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Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People
Pub date: 2019-05-07
Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways. The Guardian said of Rooney’s debut novel, Conversations with Friends: ‘It’s rare that a novel elicits such ferocious and unmitigated awe from just about everyone you know, whether male, female, or millennial’. Rooney’s second novel, Normal People (published by Faber & Faber last September), was called ‘superb . . . a tremendous read, full of insight and sweetness’ by Anne Enright. Olivia Laing has stated that ‘Rooney is the best young novelist – indeed one of the best novelists – I’ve read in years.’ On the occasion of the paperback publication of Normal People, Rooney was in conversation with Kishani Widyaratna, editor at Picador Books and contributing editor at The White Review.
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Podcast: The Cut (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: A Normal Person Conversation with Sally Rooney
Pub date: 2019-03-26
We talked with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations With Friends and Normal People, about why she writes, how she’s smuggled socialism into page turners, the best way to keep her readers hooked, and much more.
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Podcast: North Star Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Matt Levine: Money Stuff
Pub date: 2018-02-01
LISTEN HERE: ITUNES | OVERCAST Today’s guest is Matt Levine, a columnist at Bloomberg covering finance, Wall Street and the broader business world. Before blogging, Matt spent four years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, structuring and marketing corporate equity derivatives. Before that, he worked as a mergers & acquisitions lawyer and a high school latin teacher. He’s also a graduate of both Harvard and Yale Law School. Matt’s newsletter, Money Stuff is always fresh and I admire Matt’s ability to discuss complex topics in fresh and engaging ways.
In this episode, we talk about Matt's career shift from banking to blogging — from Goldman Sachs, huge and famous, to DealBreaker, teeny and scrappy. Matt shares the ideas that have shaped his worldview and his process for writing. We talk about the books that have influenced him the most, both inside and outside the financial sphere. I particularly enjoyed learning about the Iliad.
“The tech startups are like the great laboratories for these questions now because what has happened weirdly is that the people with the best tech startup ideas have what seems to be enormous leverage over the people with the money.”
Links: Find Matt online:
- Bloomberg
- Matt’s newsletter
Mentioned in the show:
- DealBreaker [2:55]
- Bloomberg [3:17]
- Cravath [6:27]
- Gawker [30:17]
- BlackRock [37:52]
- Vanguard [37:55]
- State Street [37:56]
Books mentioned:
- The Iliad [6:08]
- Barbarians at the Gate [8:06]
- The Bramble Bush [18:38]
People mentioned:
- Carl Llewellyn [18:42]
- Bess Levin [30:36]
- Tyler Cowen [30:50] (episode with Tyler)
- Felix Salmon [32:54]
- Matt Yglesias [33:00]
Show Topics 1:00 - Introduction to the episode and a bit of background info on Matt. 2:32 - Matt detailing his financial background, his general background, and where he comes from.
4:19 - How Matt got into classics, a bit on his experiences in college, and his job out of college.
7:00 - The books that have shaped Matt’s perspective and worldview the most and bit on what took him into the world of finance, marketing, and accounting. Also, what some of his experiences were in that field.
11:21 - The aspect of puzzles in these fields of M&A and Matt detailing his journey from investment banking to blogging.
13:40 - How Matt’s day is structured to write, read, do deep work, and not be exhausted afterward. Also, a bit on Matt’s way of writing and learning.
15:55 - Matt detailing how he has learned to easily sift through a lot of the false information that’s commonly found and find true information. Discussion about the reality of financial investing that’s commonly mis-portrayed in the media.
20:14 - Which sorts ideas and life experiences beyond the bank that come up all the time that have been foundational for Matt’s way of approaching the world. Some discussion on law in general, lawyers, and contracts.
“You get a certain amount of legal realism baked into you in law school I think and a certain amount of skepticism about the magic functions and words in contracts.”
24:59 - Matt’s partial background in academic finance and how this has helped him understand more in the field of investing. Discussion on shareholders, share buy-backs, and running companies.
“The tech startups are like the great laboratories for these questions now because what has happened weirdly is that the people with the best tech startup ideas have what seems to be enormous leverage over the people with the money.”
31:44 - The people that have influenced Matt the most and some discussion on how blogging has changed over the years.
35:30 - What some of the main goals are that Matt tries to accomplish everyday and a bit on the writing that he does.
37:49 - Topics and things that Matt finds the most fascinating to write about and figure out. Discussion on shareholders, index funds, writing, and investing.
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To listen to other episodes or learn more about the North Star, you can connect with me directly at perell.com and you can always reach out on Twitter at david_perell. And if you enjoyed this episode, you’ll like the episode with Tyler Cowen, another columnist at Bloomberg who writes about economics and culture. In the podcast, Tyler shares counterintuitive insights on travel, the millennial generation, and how he thinks about the future. Thanks again for listening.
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Podcast: North Star Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Andrew D'Souza: Clearbanc, Capital, and Canada
Pub date: 2019-02-25
My guest this week is Andrew D'Souza, the Co-founder and CEO of Clearbanc, a fundraising alternative to traditional venture capital. The company is based in Toronto and helps businesses fuel their marketing spend – because right now 40% of venture capital invested in companies goes directly to funding Facebook and Google ads. Equity is an expensive way for founders to fund repeatable growth and Clearbanc exists to solve that problem. Here's how it works – Clearbanc gives startups anywhere between $5,000-$10 million and in exchange Clearbanc typically receives a 5% to 10% revenue share of that company's earnings until the funding is paid back plus a 6% fee. Now here's the secret, Clearbanc picks merchants by developing technology that scans the merchants' Stripe payments and Facebook ads and that way they can assess the financial health and momentum of the company. In 2018, Clearbanc poured more than 100 million dollars into 500 companies.
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- Clearbanc
People mentioned:
- Chamath Palihapitiya
- Chip Wilson
- Tobi Lütke
- Sam Altman
- Paul Graham
- Stewart Butterfield
- Drew Houston
- Mike Krieger
Other mentions:
- Clearbanc
- Social Capital
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Y Combinator
- Lululemon
- Little Black Stretchy Pants by Chip Wilson
- Groupon
- Dragon’s Den
- It’s always Day One letter
- Top Hat
SHOW TOPICS 1:55 How Systems Engineering helped Andrew helped think about the intersections of different disciplines like Neurobiology, Psychology, Marketing, and Macroeconomics
5:36 Why authenticity is key to building great marketing campaigns and why your job as the CEO is to create the necessary conditions for success
10:12 The origin story of Clearbanc and how 40% of all venture capital goes to Facebook, Google, and Amazon
20:05 How companies build a culture that allow people to fail and how Clearbanc started by funding Uber drivers which keeps them true to their origin story
25:14 How Andrew squares the dichotomy between funding growth through social media and the idea of a disproportionate portion of VC going to Facebook ads
29:42 Airbnb and the future of how cities will evolve around self-driving cars and subscription songs
35:00 Why Andrew thinks that the advent of self-driving cars is more a policy problem than a technological one
40:48 The independence of Canadian provinces and how Quebec has managed to preserve the European culture against huge pressures
47:31 How meeting YC partners showed Andrew that VCs are just one way to build your company
50:43 How Andrew builds and cultivates relationships while building Clearbanc
55:10 What Andrew thought about traveling to Israel and thinking about Jesus as a founder of a movement
58:29 How Andrew returned to his initial passion for selling a product that he believes in through hiring people in positions which were their passion
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Podcast: Reversing Climate Change (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 18: Chad Frischmann of Project Drawdown
Pub date: 2018-04-03
Reversing climate change goes beyond the math and science of reducing the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. It’s also about economic justice, social equity, and increasing the standard of living for all people across the planet. That’s the beauty of the approach presented in Drawdown. Not only does the suite of solutions tackle climate change, its co-benefits uncover a path forward that addresses human rights and ‘raises the boat’ for all people.
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Podcast: Reversing Climate Change (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 5: Jane Flegal of UC Berkeley, and Dr. Andrew Maynard of Arizona State University
Pub date: 2018-01-02
In a world where ideology informs decision-making and policy-makers have little understanding of what is plausible when it comes to negative emissions technology, challenging doesn’t even begin to describe the task of reversing climate change. In this top-down approach, a small number of academics, activists and politicians are making the decisions for 7.5 billion people—and spending a lot of time arguing hypotheticals rather than taking action.
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Episode: 23: Dr. Klaus Lackner of ASU’s Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
Pub date: 2018-05-08
Today, Klaus joins Ross, Christophe and Paul to offer his feedback on the Nori whitepaper. Klaus explains why he likes the idea of breaking the carbon offset model and offering compensation based on actual carbon removed. He also shares his concerns around Nori’s customers, the verification challenges they face, and the issue of permanency.
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Episode: 1: Paul Gambill, CEO of Nori
Pub date: 2017-12-06
On the inaugural podcast, Ross and Christophe are joined by Nori CEO Paul Gambill to discuss the concept of carbon removal and the scope of the problem presented by climate change. Paul addresses Nori's approach to reversing climate change, explaining the necessity of removing carbon from the atmosphere rather than simply reducing emissions. They also cover the basics of how Nori would use tokens to eliminate the problems presented by the current cap and trade system.
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Episode: 3: Jeremy Kaufman and Ethan Steinberg of Propagate Ventures
Pub date: 2017-12-12
Today Ross and Christophe are joined by Propagate Co-Founders Jeremy Kaufman and Ethan Steinberg to discuss the fundamentals of agroforestry and how the Propagate model works to provide farmers with capital for planting trees. They walk us through the process, explaining how an analysis of crops appropriate to the bioregion and the farmer’s goals work together to determine the specific tree crop appropriate to the project.
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Pub date: 2018-11-27
The business of the future is a good cooperator, working with other players in a particular space to drive progress. Collaboration is a core part of the ethos at Propagate Ventures as their team looks to leverage agroforestry to contribute to the growing pool of climate solutions and help build a world where people live in a symbiotic relationship with the ecosystem.
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Episode: 35: Ramez Naam—Author, Futurist, and Nori Advisor
Pub date: 2018-08-14
Knowledge is the only truly infinite resource, and its value multiplies by the number of people who put it to work. How can we put what we know about climate change to work and develop sustainable innovations that either reduce emissions or capture carbon from the atmosphere? And what role might Nori play in accelerating that innovation?
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Episode: 37: Ben Kessler, Holistic Grazing Specialist
Pub date: 2018-08-28
What if we could have our meat and eat it too? The current system of meat production in feed lots is devastating for the environment, but there is a better way. A way that would restore our grasslands and reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. This method is known as holistic grazing.
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Episode: Tyler Cowen on Big Business
Pub date: 2019-08-12
Tyler Cowen, professor of economics, blogger at marginalrevolution.com, columnist for Bloomberg, host of Conversations with Tyler and author of numerous books returns to the Not Unreasonable Podcast to talk about his latest book, Big Business: a Love Letter to An American Anti-Hero.
All too rarely do you get a tour of how incredibly strong the evidence is that everyday truths are what they are: big business actually exists for a reason because it mostly does exactly what we need: provide goods and services at affordable prices with reasonably good service. What's more is that big business is the source of all kinds of benefits to America and to human society generally. It's even better than you think! In the show we cover:
- where businesses fit into the social intuition of the human mind
- similarities between how we treat famous people and big business and what another of Tyler's books, What Price Fame can teach us about big business
- What is good management and what effects does management have on employees?
- How the book is an American book and how it is NOT a Chinese book
- Crony capitalism doesn't exist here, but where might it exist in the world?
- Wall Street and Financial Dark Matter
- How Tyler views the firm
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Episode: 161: Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments - A Vision for a Society of Free and Prosperous Individuals
Pub date: 2018-10-11
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
He is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University.
His latest book 'Stubborn Attachments' is part of our discussion in this episode.
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Episode: Tyler Cowen: Two Blundering Fools
Pub date: 2018-01-25
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Tyler Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University. He runs the Mercatus Center, which bridges the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. He blogs every day at Marginal Revolution, writes for Bloomberg, and hosts his own podcast called Conversations with Tyler. He writes about economics, arts, culture, food, and globalization.
As I prepared for this episode, I settled on three things that I wanted to focus on: how Tyler thinks about travel, the rise of China and India, and how he learns so much. Enjoy this exploration of knowledge and culture, and I hope you laugh with us along the way.
I particularly recommend Tyler’s most recent book, Stubborn Attachments.
Transcript David: Tyler Cowen, welcome to the North Star.
Tyler: Thank you for having me.
David: So tell me a little bit about where you grew up in northern New Jersey. What was growing up like for you and what were you into as a kid?
Tyler: I was born in Kearny, New Jersey, Hudson county, which was a blue collar town, and my father climbed some kind of career ladder from having been bankrupted at thirty, to being upper, upper middle class, so I caught different parts of that income stream. I went to a great high school where I had four or five close friends who were super smart and had a blast. We were like a nerd fest before nerds were cool and I learned something every day but not from the teachers. I loved it and I just knew New York City.
David: Well, let's dive into it. I think that one thing that's really interesting about the Internet is I like to say it rewards obsession in a way that the world didn't use to and I think a byproduct of that is nerd culture is, is cool now.
Tyler: You know, I specialized in the style of learning before there wasn't an internet and then when the Internet came along, I feel it made me like 20 times more productive. So I'm very lucky to have gotten this extreme productivity boost at about age 40, which is very rare in careers. There are people who might have some kind of productivity turning point when they're 29 or 22, but to get it at age 40, it's given my life a very different trajectory.
David: So I know you wrote a book about that, but talk about what was that productivity boost like, how do you think about productivity, and how did that boost manifest itself?
Tyler: Well, I worked very hard for years at trying to absorb more information and absorb it quickly and order it effectively and when the way you do that is driving around to used bookstores and carry used books home and read them, well, that's a wonderful thing to do, but when you can just go to your iPad or your laptop and whoosh, it's all there, you're going to do a lot better.
Tyler: Whereas people who say do research, they've been made more productive by the Internet in other ways, but they're less concerned with absorbing information. So I feel I've gotten a relative gain compared to many other people.
David: So does that mean that you're hopping around between different subjects? Like if I go on marginal revolution, I could go from traveled economics to then yesterday, right, about North Korea and America. So are you hopping around or how has that style of learning changed over the years?
Tyler: I have long-term study plans, like part of my long-term study plan is to understand India and China much better. So that's kind of a 10 year project that I'm always in the middle of, but of course using the Internet to help me makes it much easier. Plus travel, travel being a key to learning. We'll get back to that. Uh, and then during the day I just try to keep up with the flow, the flow of good articles and new ideas.
Tyler: And you know, the flow always beats me. But you wake up at seven, you go to bed at 11:00 PM, there's interruptions, you exercise, you eat, but the day is the flow, the flow is your day, like it or not.
David: Dodging bullets and trying to survive. So there was analogy I got a couple months ago of if, if you're learning is a ship, when you try to steer something for long-term, so say that you want to learn about India in the next 10 years. The advice that I got which I thought was quite good was just steer your ship. So change your twitter feed, change your social streams one or two degrees. How do you think about it?
Tyler: I view myself as a prisoner of my passions. So what helps me is to be very motivated to do what I do. So I don't sit down and strategize like what's my optimal career plan?
Tyler: I just think what'll keep me involved and I figure they kind of compound interest on that learning will just accumulate and as long as I'm having fun, I'll stay motivated like way past other people and that's going to go well for me. So it's almost a deliberate absence of strategy except for motivating me.
Compounding fuels success in almost anything. Albert Einstein once called it the 8th wonder of the world. pic.twitter.com/1QcE9Q1hsU
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) October 23, 2017 David: What are those core passions?
Tyler: Travel of course, food, just social science and generally walking through the world on a given day and you see things like you go to Barnes and Noble, they offer like a loyalty card, buy more books with us, we'll give you a discount and you think, well, why are they doing that? How does that make economic sense? And you want to try to figure it out so you just want to try to figure things out. It's almost a Sherlock Holmes like game and there's always more and more and more and more and more and it drives you crazy, but it's fun.
David: What is it about China and India in particular that appealed to you?
Tyler: Obviously they're two highly populous countries. The US could have a billion more people and we'd still be, you know, the third most populous country in the world. China now by at least one measure has the world's largest GDP and I'm an economist. India is probably headed to having the world's largest GDP. So it does go back and think, imagine you're a British person in 1910, like what should you study? Where should you travel? Well, the United States. To complain that you don't like the pollution or not all the food is what you expect. It's irrelevant, right? You go to the United States, if you don't, you're kind of a dummy. So for me right now, China, India, that's like the United States in 1910. I feel obliged to learn it more by obligation, but it's fun. It's also a passion.
David: So when you're going about learning something like China, India, of course you'd go to the Bloomberg New York Times, but I think that there is, to back to nerd culture, there are probably certain sections of the Internet of the world that will give you a very rich experience that the average person wouldn't get.
David: You seem to be very good at that. How have you been thinking about studying China in India in a way that most people wouldn't think about?
Tyler: China and India I consider hard to learn because when you read about their histories, things don't fall into intuitive categories that maybe they do for Chinese people for instance, but all the different dynasties, they tend to blur together. You could read the same Chinese history book a bunch of times in a row and at the end you're still confused and you don't really know how to place it all, so to pick some side areas, so for me, Chinese food or Indian classical music or certain features of Chinese geography or ethnic regional culture and to learn those well and just keep on attacking the elephant from all these different sides rather than just, "Oh, I'm going to sit down and read this book on Chinese history.".
Tyler: That tends not to work. It works really well for like Paris or the Florentine Renaissance, but for unfamiliar parts of the world and I look for these sideways in the door.
David: Well, let's dive into China first. Where in China have you been and what have the really striking experiences been for you during your travels set?
Tyler: My goal is to go to all the provinces in China in a significant way and not just putting a toe in. I'm past the halfway point. My favorite part of China is the west and the southwest, especially Yunnan province. It's highly exotic. It's about half regional minorities. That has some of China's best food. It's extremely reasonably priced that has remarkably little pollution by Chinese standards. People are very friendly, uh, there are actually quite pro-american because of the history of America. Helping them out in the war against Japan is just amazing fun.
Tyler: I think right now it's probably the best trip in the world is to go to western China.
David: Wow. So western China and eastern China, of course, because we're just talking about GDP, it seems like most of that would be concentrated in eastern China. So let's start with western China. What is it about it that makes it so interesting and is it authentic to what's happening in China because it is so different demographically.
Tyler: Authentic is a tricky word. So if you go to Oregon is not authentic America. Well yeah, but it's not typical either. Nor is New Jersey. So southwestern China, it's just accessible and it's fun. So Beijing I love. It's fantastic. Everyone should go multiple times, but in some ways it's a tough slog. A lot of the city is ugly. The pollution can be awful and it's so large. It's not really walkable for the most part, although it's walkable within neighborhoods.
Tyler: You can go to Beijing and think you don't really like China. That's the wrong impression. So I would say Udon, it's like this backdoor into China and it will open up ways of thinking about China and then when you go to Beijing you'll like Beijing a lot more. So you know, to get to Udon, you probably have to go through Beijing to fly there. So yeah, stop in Beijing for a day, but find the back doors that get your passions and that's going to be western China.
David: And now in terms of what I would consider, I don't know if this is totally true, but that's how I model China. There are four big mega cities. You know there's, there's the manufacturing center, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Can you talk about the differences between them?
Tyler: Well, Guangzhou and Chongqing are also mega cities. Some people believe Chongqing, which now has been made its own province is bigger than any other locality in China. We don't even know because there are so many people who are within China, in essence, illegal migrants. We're not sure how many people are are there. The different parts of China until recently have not been economically integrated, so they have cuisines that are quite unlike each other, maybe more unlike each other than different European cuisines. Visually, some parts will look the same because these mega cities have been built up recently using more or less common patterns so you can have the deceiving impression that you're going to the same place over and over again, even though you're traveling to many parts of China, but European say that about the US often like "Oh, the whole country feels the same." If you live here, you know, it's not true, right? There aren't really significant differences.
Tyler: So to go to Hunan Province or to go to Shenyang in the northeast, which is near North Korea, or go to, you know, Chengdu in Sichuan and forgive all my pronunciations which are not proper Chinese. Uh, you're seeing much more diversity than anything you're likely to do in either Europe or the US. You're seeing what's now the world's most important country. Again, I can't stress how favorable the prices are. You can stay in a five star luxury hotel in most parts of China other than Beijing or Shanghai for less than $100 a night and it will be, you know, a wonderful quality experience and the best food in the world, you know, a meal will never have to cost you more than $20 unless you order a highly unusual dish like shark fin soup. So if you're on any kind of budget, there was no reason not to go.
Tyler: Crime is close to zero for women overall it's quite safe. I mean everywhere it has some problems, but as the world goes, one of the best areas to travel in solo if you're a woman. The main reason not to go is air pollution. But again in the west that's a much smaller problem.
David: Right. I was reading that there have been 16,000,000 new bikes installed in China in the last year and a half and, and a lot of people are saying that the changes in transportation there may do something at least to help boost the air pollution, which I thought was interesting, but I want to dive into infrastructure. How has being in China, uh, changed the way that you think about infrastructure and sort of the way that you think about how development happens?
Tyler: Infrastructure is their specialty. They have, what is one of the world's two or three best train systems given how large the country is, that's important. A remarkable thing about traveling and mainland China is you can wake up in the morning and one city and be in almost any other part of China the same day just by taking a train trip and you'll see amazing things on the way. But in terms of planning your journey, everything is within a day without having to mess around with flights and with flights, you don't see what's in between. So you can go like Beijing to Shiyan see the terracotta warriors, that's maybe about six hours. So there's this remarkable sense of freedom you have because of the infrastructure. Along so many dimensions, now they are probably more innovative than we are. And to see that is impressive, we Americans are so complacent and smog. We think where the world's innovators, the Europeans lag behind true on average, but China does something like the payment system.
Tyler: There's this way quicker and much better and you'll come back here and curse, like having a, you know, stick your chip in the thing and it doesn't always work. They're rebuilding their world in some ways. They're outdoing us.
David: In terms of innovative. How do you define innovative and in what sense do they have an advantage by by not having had the PC and being able to jump straight to sort of a mobile first world?
Tyler: In some cases, they're just not locked into older systems as you mentioned. Also, this is more disturbing. We should be bothered by this by having less rule of law. They can just "do things and get them done" and that's not always a good thing. A privacy law. They don't have the concerns you would have in Europe or the United States, but a Chinese payment typically is you take out your smartphone, you scan a qr code, it can be done in a second and a half.
Tyler: The error rate seems to be very low. Uh, it's processed perfectly well. It's cheaper, better, quicker and more convenient than what we do and they beat us and we're not really catching up. And we need, uh, to absorb that lesson for the first time maybe ever. But at least for a long time, the US now has a peer country. Like Soviet Union was never that peer, only with weapons were they a peer. China in terms of creativity and GDP. Arguably right now is a peer. You ought to go and learn from your peer, right? How can you not do that?
David: Yeah. I couldn't agree more. I was talking to a friend last night. I think Hong Kong might be a good place or Shanghai might be a good place to spend a couple of years, but I want to talk about travel in terms of how do you think about travel?
David: So I'll be honest, I did a euro trip recently and I didn't get quite the experience that I wanted because before we had never really come to a consensus on what does travel mean and it's not something that a lot of younger people, at least in my, in terms of my friends really think about. So how do you think about travel and what are you looking to do when you do travel?
Tyler: I like to go weird places. So I did a European trip this summer. It was in August. I went to Macedonia. The country where people hardly ever go. Most of the tourist are either Russian or Serbian. Uh, but certainly not many Americans are there. Again, it's completely safe. Prices are very favorable. I had perfect weather, beautiful sights, tenth century monasteries, all kinds of sculpture. Remarkably good cheeses, breads and meats, wonderful food, wonderful lake fish. A lot of history. A lot of geopolitics you understand much better why the Balkans are messed up and just like how Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo fit together together.
Tyler: I've tried reading that in books. I can't grasp it. I go there, but the mix of going there and the books, somehow it all works and you see this country where the politics are so different from what we're used to in Europe. You just again have to reexamine everything. So I say to people like, go weird, like yes, at some point you should see Paris, but if all you do is see Paris, maybe you'll be a little bored. Where did you go?
David: In Europe?
Tyler: Yeah.
David: We went to Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.
Tyler: You should have seen Paris! Those are all the same, it's like an airport shopping mall.
David: I couldn't agree more and exactly. And then, so over the new year's I was in Chile.
Tyler: One of my favorites by the way.
David: So my dad is a total nut. And so what we did was, it was new year's day and we went to go see some hieroglyphics up in the Atacama desert in the northern part of the country. It's the driest place in the world.
Tyler: And one of the best trips you can take.
David: Yes, it was wonderful. So it's new year's day and we'd go to the person at the front of the hieroglyphics and we say at where's the closest place to get lunch? And he said, it's new years day, it's all closed. So he said, but I have a friend, she can cook you food. So we go into this little town, all adobe houses, just a gravel streets. And this woman, Sherry and her husband had left her. She was quite lonely unfortunately, but we spent the entire afternoon with her. She, you know, she had chickens in the backyard, llamas in the backyard and it was the richest experience I had in a long time traveling.
Tyler: And the food there is excellent, right? It's quite safe. Infrastructure is surprisingly good given how remote it is and there's some magic to Chile, some kind of warmth but also efficiency where it just hits that sweet spot and it's both familiar and exotic at the same time.
David: Yeah. All right, back to India. So, now we'll get into India. So how have you been thinking about learning about India? I know at least in India is much, it's very different in terms of there's a lot of different languages, lots of different cultures. I think a lot of westerners don't realize that.
Tyler: I've been quite a few times to India. I've never gotten sick. I'm very fortunate. Some people do. I'm not sure how to weigh this risk, but I've done all kinds of things. Eating what I've wanted and just been fine every day. Maybe it's just because I travel a lot. Indian classical music I think is one of mankind's greatest creations ever. I would say going to the classical music festival in Chennai in December, I took my daughter to that. We both loved it. For food, India and China. Clearly the two best countries in the way better than any Michelin Guide and way cheaper. Everything is new and fresh and undiscovered and diverse. India's tough in a way that China isn't. So, China is poorer than what we're used to, but there's some grinding poverty in the countryside, but for the most part going around is not depressing. In India it can be. The air pollution can be worse than in China. The population density, the cities are out of control in a way you would not say about China. Chinese cities are way less dense than outsiders expect.
Tyler: Hong Kong is much denser than most parts of the typical Chinese city would be. So being in a Chinese city is a lot more pleasant than people expect, especially, uh, if it's not a major city, but India, my goodness, traffic, monsoon, disease. But there's something about the notion of ideas there. The religion, spirituality kind of syncretic something that is just magic and creative and nowhere else in the world do you get it and you're just bombarded with it the whole time. And people fall in love with India and they should. And you will. It's tough. I could, you know, you gotta be ready.
David: Talk more about the spirituality aspect because it's almost become trendy to talk about the eastern thought and, and, and whatnot. And I'm not discrediting it, but I think it's miss misinterpreted by many westerners.
Tyler: Keep in mind, I'm not myself a religious person. I wouldn't even say I'm spiritual. I don't really believe in anything in particular. So when I say it's rich in religion and spirituality, that for me actually has mixed sides and it may be partly a reason why India is not richer or has problems with public health, but the old saying when it comes to religion, every Indian is a millionaire, maybe is true, but don't think it's an entirely positive thing. But the ways in which religious ways of thinking suffuse the entire culture, uh, there are few other countries where that runs so deep and so thick and also in a diverse way. You have multiple religions including Christianity. And to learn those by going to India is one of the things you get there. It's one of the world's largest countries with Muslims, right? Maybe it's number three and I think. Indonesia number one, Pakistan, number two.
Tyler: I'm not sure if India is ahead of Bangladeshi behind it for Muslims, but obviously it's significant for Muslim culture. Janes, different kinds of Hindus, Sikhs and every city, every state is so different in a way people will engage with you is so fresh and this kind of deep burning curiosity to somehow incorporate what you know into what they think. Uh, to me there is very strong and I find very attractive.
David: This is going to be sort of part of a broader question. Are you reading books, blogs and we'll start there and then we'll get to the distinction between books and blogs and different forms of media.
Tyler: If it's India and China, uh, I take very different approaches. India, I find reading books much more useful than for China. Maybe it's because of the history intersects with European history more. But reading books on India, a lot more sticks with me than with China. Uh, I haven't found that many good blogs on India. It may just be my defect, but if you just read plenty of books on India and go and in terms of cinema and music and cuisine, try to actually learn things about those before you go. Fashion, design, textiles, studying history of Indian textiles is one of the best ways to learn Indian history and it can structure your tourism and where you go and maybe even what you buy. So there were more entry points for India. Whereas for Chinese music, I mean I've tried, I liked Chinese opera, but I don't find it that useful. A lot of it to me, I just don't enjoy Chinese popular music. I enjoy much less than Indian popular music. So for China it's much more important that I be there and talk to Chinese people, which you can do here as well of course.
Tyler: So I approached those two countries in a very different way. And India also I find I have a kind of stamina problem. I'm in very good health. I walk a lot, travel a lot, but it's hard for me day after day to be outdoors in Indian cities all day long. Just like pollution, noise, different indignities. I can't do it. Uh, with China, unless it's a very smoggy day I can. In India I paced myself much more. I spent a lot more time indoors. It's a little bit inefficient.
David: So let's get back to different forms of media. How do you think about books versus blogs? It's something that I debate a lot with my friends. Um, how do you think about it and what advice would you give to younger people as media begins to shift like it is.
Tyler: I mean mostly books are still better. There's way more knowledge in books than blogs and it's easier to find out how good a book is by reading reviews. Not that reviews are perfect, but you get a sense, you know, maybe blogging peaked about 10 years ago and I'm happy that I'm still blogging. Like our readership actually is not down at all. It's maybe up a little, but I don't think in general, blogs are a good way to learn about countries. They're very good for a particular food scenes. Like where should I eat in Mumbai? There'll be a food blog about Mumbai that will be way better than any book and then use the blog. But history of India, you know, just read some good books and they're there, read Indian fiction. Find these other entry points, like history of Indian textiles.
David: That's interesting that you talk about entry points. Is that something that you apply in other domains?
Tyler's secret to learning: Don’t try to learn things head on. Look for entry points instead.💡 pic.twitter.com/kUbVRNSdKo
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) October 23, 2017 Tyler: Everything always has entry points. If you try to learn things head on, I just find I fail usually, entry points I succeed. More motivated pieces, start to fit together.
David: Recent example?
Tyler: Well, take Macedonia, so I've been learning more about Macedonia history by studying, reading about Macedonian woodcarving. So by woodcarving you learn something about the religion, you learn something about the monasteries, you're learning what were the errors, where they were most creative, where it's just rereading political history I don't get-.
David: Like reading the Wikipedia page.
Tyler: That's right. So uh, there are always other entry points for any place and you know, they need to be ones that interest you, but basic ones are going to be food, music, art, design. Architecture is a very good one. Right. Architecture in Macedonia is very interesting. I read quite a bit about that.
David: I'm curious to hear more about architecture and different from Macedonia to India to China.
Tyler: Take the main city in Macedonia, Skopje. it had a complete makeover within the last 10 years. And they put up a large number of statues in a kind of older style, almost eastern European brutalist style. Many people hate them, some people quite like them for the most part. I liked them, but if you imagine some parts of Las Vegas, which are a bit garish and they put up big things to impress the viewers. A lot of Skopje looks like that, but it's done not In the kitschy way, but with, you know, uh, no wink from the eye and with no smile on the face, they just did it. And the city has been transformed and it's this major political issue and it was a dispute should they have spent so much money. So one way to learn Macedonia is to learn about the statues dispute.
Tyler: And then so many of the statues are historically controversial. Like there's a statue of someone who would seem to be Alexander the great, but the Greeks can't claim Alexander the Great. So if it's explicitly Alexander, the Greeks get upset, will be more concerned with blocking their entry into the European Union. So it's Alexander, but it isn't Alexander and just by reading about the statute that both is and isn't Alexander the great at the same time is a great way to learn about Macedonian history, politics more generally, international relations. So I think architecture is one of the best entry points and it's something you always see, right? Like you can't avoid it anywhere you go. And if it's ugly, often so much the better.
David: Now to China, the balance or the almost to the juxtaposition of totally modern these grand structures. And then the old.
Tyler: It's hard to find good old things in many parts of China. There are the old neighborhoods which they're clearing out of Beijing, but there's still some left. Uh, those to me are very charming just to walk through them. I can do, you know, for hours that's fun and they'll have great places to eat. Chinese mega cities. Uh, they are an acquired taste. The last one I was in was Chongqing, which is in western China. It's, you know, maybe 20,000,000 people just in enormous number of skyscrapers and they're not that distinctive, but the rivers of the city and the way it's laid out, it nonetheless has a distinctive field and if you walk around it enough, you will get that. Uh, and the ugliness or at least the non attractiveness of the architecture I actually like it. It is something you need to learn, but it's, it's part of what being there means, you know, it's not all gonna look like Venice, nor do I want it to.
David: So when you go into these cities and you're meeting people and trying to learn as much as you can, is that similar to the way that you conduct your Conversations with Tyler series? What is your philosophy of interviewing so to speak?
Tyler: You know, I picked the people I want to talk to, so I'm very selfish. I'm not paid to do this, so I should have fun. On average, I spend maybe a month preparing for a guest. Maybe I'll have done that reading all right. But even then I'll reread it. So it's gotta be like, look, I want to spend a month doing this or like why, you know, I'm not, I don't care about you all listeners now and it's a way of focusing my reading. It's actually an entry point. So I'm going to interview Ross Douthat in December. I'm friends with Ross, he's a great thinker, awesome columnist.
Tyler: But Ross for me is also an entry point actually into understanding Catholicism. And if I just sat down and read about the Catholic Church, a lot of it would be boring. But if I read, well I'm going to try to figure out what does Ross Douthat think about this Catholic issue. I learned so much more about Catholicism because Ross is my entry point. So I picked guests to be entry points.
David: And then when you're actually doing the interview, what are you thinking about? What, what, how are you thinking tactically about that?
Tyler: I don't know if people should emulate each other because you know, we're all different, but I take everything that person has done and I hold it in my mind all at the same time right before and during the interview. And that's extremely strenuous, so for me to do one of these interviews is the most strenuous thing I do in life. Much harder than giving a talk and I'm quite exhausted when it's over, even though they do much more of the talking because having to hold all the information in my brain, it's like playing a very hard chess game.
Tyler: And then when the interview's over, I lose like 90 percent of it within half an hour. But maybe it's made my understanding of things deeper. Uh, but during the interview I feel I have access to kind of everything I've taken in, almost in a magical way. Uh, I'm not sure other people can or should emulate that, but that's how it is for me. It's very intimidating. I think people have realized now when they're interviewed by me, I kind of know some of their stuff better than they do and I'm not that slow, so I'm not trying to screw them over and make them look stupid at all. Quite the contrary. But when someone's trying to make you look really smart, it's actually harder than when someone's trying to refute you.
David: That's interesting. In your interview with Ben Sasse, it was really wonderful. I've listened to it three or four times. I've read his books since and what really struck me was the notion of a multi career life, the idea that it used to be perhaps that you worked for a corporation the rest of your life or be a tenured professional like yourself, but now that's beginning to change. How should young people be thinking about that?
Tyler: Yeah, teaching yourself how to learn and relearn. So there's all this talk, oh, I learn from my school, or you know, business will retrain me someday. No one retrains you, your business, your employer might help you, but you're retrain yourself. That's one reason why wage inequality is up. Not many people are good at this. So learning how to retrain yourself, I think getting mentors in any new area is very, very important. It's still underrated even though I think it's pretty highly rated. Uh, I mean, those are some basic tips I would give people.
David: In terms of mentors, I'll push back on you a little. Is it worth taking the time to actually get a mentor in real life? Like what would the benefit of that when I could listen to your Conversations with Tyler series and all these other incredible podcasts and in some ways that are a similar mentorship. It's just not so personal.
Tyler: It's great to do that, but a mentorship by being alive and physical makes so many things emotionally vivid for you. And I think for eighty percent of people, uh, that's extremely important. So the mentor is like another kind of entry point into something. And some click happens in your mind, like why something is important. You learn by meeting the person and interacting with them and it may just be two or three hours in your life. It doesn't have to be an ongoing thing. Right? Uh, and I think we still undervalue that, trying to meet those few right people who will open a few intellectual doors for you.
David: So who have the mentors has been for you? I know your, when you were getting your, uh, PhD in economics and then, uh, Mr. Shelling, right?
Tyler: At Harvard, he was an important mentor for me and also he gave me a vision of what it could mean to succeed that I hadn't quite had before, but my most important mentors, you know, I was a teenager. So there was a fellow named Walter Grinder. Probably my most important mentor. I met him, I'm guessing I was 14 and Walter at the time was not a, he's never had really worldly success, but he was the person I met who had read and understood more books than anyone else and he still would be one of the few like of anyone I've ever met who's read and understood more than anyone else.
Tyler: And I just saw that in him and I thought like, well I want to be some version of this. And that was one of the biggest events in my life was meeting and getting to know Walter Grinder.
David: Keep going on that. That's really interesting.
Tyler: And I think it wasn't easy for me to see Walter. I didn't drive, he was a friend of my father's like we had some meals together. I met him some number of times or take the bus into New York, see him there, but it wasn't an amazing amount of contact, but the contact we had, I got that vision and I would always ask Walter, well, Walter, what should I read? And I would read what he recommended, but what he recommended was actually not important. What was important was to kind of see the wheels turning in his head, like how he thought about what he was reading was way more important than any particular book he recommended.
David: Do you have rules for how you think about those things?
Tyler: I don't know if there are rules, but thinking strategically and philosophically about management is one of the most important things almost anyone can do because it's hard for me to think of anyone who is as productive solo is with other people and other people can multiply both your impact and your learning by many, many, many times. Right? Like if you had to go to a bookstore and read all the books on management, they're kind of a harbor right? There are kind of like self-help books. They're cliches. It's like building a team is important, they're boring, maybe they're even wrong. So the entry points for management are so hard and I think they are people and it goes back to mentors. Maybe you can only learn whatever it is you know about management from mentors and not management books. But that, too, is oddly under appreciated for something that's so oversold. It's nonetheless underappreciated.
David: In Stubborn Attachments. Your most recent, I don't know if I could call it a book, but it was something of that form. Yeah, output. You talked about the power of compounding and what is it? Of course it's important and finance and of course people have uh, many people have a elementary idea of it. But what do you made that sort of the, the core theme of that book? and why?
Tyler: Yeah, so much of what people write is autobiographical. So I could give you a kind of objective philosophical answer as to why I think compounding is important. But I prefer to give you a biographical answer. So right now I'm 55 and I started on all the assignments at actually 13 or 14, so that's over 40 years of stuff. So I'm not old. I'm, you know, in good health and very full of energy. But like, no more years of history. I've had more years of learning. So the idea, you should have a very long time horizon and be totally determined and persistent and like none of us are really that able or smart at all. We're all kinds of blundering fools. But if you just get some rate of improvement and just let it keep on compounding, I mean you can do pretty well. I'm a big believer in that as a form of biography. Same is true with travel. I think every year I traveled better and more wisely and it's more fun for me because I learned things from the last time I travel. So you always want to be on some kind of cycle. Our curve where you're compounding.
David: I'm glad I'm not the only blundering fool then. Um, so. So when did that become clearer and clearer to you? When did you begin to have an intuitive sense of that and then what were, as somebody who's 23 years old, somebody who's just beginning their career, what would I not understand about compounding that, you know.
Tyler: In my early forties, I actually realized what I was doing, so I was doing it for over 25 years and not even knowing what I was doing, which makes me really a blundering fool. But the things I had learned much earlier, like started to pay off in my research and my books, like ideas finally gelled after 25 years. And also the Internet gave me a platform for putting them out there. My abilities to sort of think about and evaluate projects became sharper and a lot of things came together for me, you know, in my early forties, which is probably later than average. And then I kind of thought back then, you know, I've been kind of working towards this for a long time and I didn't even know it.
David: The book, out of all the ideas that you've written about, the one that is truly fascinating to me is Average Is Over. Can you give a brief overview and how have your ideas from that book changed over time?
Tyler: Average Is Over. I think it came out four years ago now. I'm not sure, but it basically looks at the implications of a world where computers can do so much and artificial intelligence is here and on the way. So I think if people just falling into two categories there, they've either found a way that the computer augments their skill and then they can do very, very well in life or they're in some way competing against computers and software and then the chance they lose is actually pretty high. Like if you were to play an ordinary travel agent 25 years ago, right now you're probably doing something else. Maybe you can plan boutique holidays or wealthy people, but odds are, you know, Expedia and Orbitz have outcompeted you. So this is driving some of the income inequality, which is not a comfortable reality, but I think it's one we have to face. And what we want to do is get as many people as possible on the better side of that division.
Tyler: And part of the book is how to do that and how to think about this for your own career, your own skills.
David: You mentioned self learning. What else would be the big important things?
Tyler: Conscientiousness, persistence, determination, kind of very old school moral virtues I think matter much more now than they did 25 years ago. That's counter-intuitive. But if you just stick to some version of classical morality and keep a long time horizon, I think today opportunities have never been better. But of course it's not easy for most of us to do.
David: Has in terms of opportunities then, has the Internet changed how you think about planning? Like are you're thinking about planning on shorter time horizons more opportunistically?
Tyler: Yes, and I've never thought that much about planning anyway. That's one of the ways in which I'm a blundering fool.
David: Haha, we're going to call this episode "Tyler Cowen is a blundering fool."
Tyler: Haha. And again, everything I'm saying, I'm not recommending for other people. I would just stress how different people are, find your own way, but just to tell you how I've thought about it for myself, I said if I can find things that to me are fun, compounding will kick in in my favor and all the blunders I make in the meantime will come out in the wash. I really actively maybe recommend against that for most people. But that was my so-called planning, was to have fun.
David: Wonderful. Going to do a little pivot here. You seem to have a big love for basketball and the NBA, but besides basketball, what do you love about the NBA?
Tyler: It's drama, right? It's better than most theater, but it's actually happening. So what really matters to the people? You don't have to suspend belief. It's an entry point into understanding a lot about America.
Tyler: The NBA in particular is an entry point to understanding a lot about race. The NBA is far more international than before and it's a way of being in touch with parts of American life and commercialization and also media and television that otherwise I wouldn't necessarily intersect with that much and it's just plain outright fun. And last night I watched the Wizards play their first game of the year.
David: That John Wall dunk was crazy.
Tyler: It was, it was kind of an awful ugly game and I'm not going to watch again for a while. I got it out of my system and I'll follow every game. And as the playoffs approach, I'll watch it a bit more. I'm going to a game December fifteenth with Philip Wallach. That'll be great fun. And he and I will talk social science.
David: There we go. Well, I'm going to try to go tomorrow night, but I want to dive into the Wizards. I'm curious to hear about what you said about NBA in America, sports in America. I, uh, it was with some friends the other day and I argued that sports was actually the best way to learn about America and now I'm going to use your entry point theory. What do you have to say about that?
Tyler: I had breakfast with George Will a few weeks ago when I said to him, you know, today you probably understand the country better if you read the sports page than if you read the news page. It's more like what people are actually doing. There's something quite normal that sports but sports. It's also extremely bizarre. You care so much about like your team, which is arbitrary. Like these guys. They're not from Washington. I don't even identify with Washington. I don't know them that might be bigger jerks than the Boston Celtics and I root, you know, very hard for them to beat the Celtics and you realize how much of like human nature is expressive. How much some of it's like politics. Uh, you know, how much in some ways sports, like mirrors hunting and some very old pastimes of male competition and bonding. It's also a way of studying how statistics matter, what you can measure and not measure. Management, teamwork. Sports is a wonderful entry point for all these things.
David: Sports abroad in other countries. What have your experiences been? To go back to the beginning of this conversation.
Tyler: I once saw a professional basketball game in New Zealand, which is a much lower quality of play, but that too is interesting. I tried to see a game in Spain. I failed to. I'd love to see professional basketball game in China. Uh, I consider that an under-explored area where I'd like to do more.
David: Yeah.I find the relationship interesting, to go back to basketball. The relationship between China and America with the NBA.
Tyler: A great entry point into China, is to read all of that stuff in Marbury. His experiences in China and you will see sides of China much more clearly than you would get out of reading a book on Chinese history.
David: What is that story about again?
Tyler: Well, Stephon Marbury was sort of a top player here, but not actually that good. And he shot the ball too much and he was out of control and not a great teammate. And uh, he had some injury problems. He quit. He reinvents himself in China and he's a huge success in China. They've even erected statues to Stephon Marbury and China's, he's a major endorser. He's had his own movie, I think for awhile a TV show. And how Chinese treat celebrities and how they think about African Americans and how they reward athletic excellence in ways in which they're either more tolerant or more rewarding or more brutal. Like compare the story of Stephon Marbury with China's own Yao Ming who it seems was bred, eugenically bred to be a star basketball player. That too, is insight into China. Basketball, one of the best entry points into China.
David: Chinese celebrity. Let's go down that rabbit hole.
Tyler: So, China of course is a big country and the media are very important and they have Wechat, which is more powerful than our Facebook. It performs some similar functions, but more. Uh, China has become a celebrity culture in a very short period of time. And in some ways it's copied a somewhat earlier version of American celebrity culture than we have now. Now it's in some ways more Internet based, but Chinese celebrity is a sign of China being domesticated and less authoritarian than you might think reading the news pages and it's very aspirational and to see what celebrity looks like and a culture that is much more aspirational than ours. Ours is much more complacent. That to me is a very interesting contrast.
David: We gotta dive into the complacency. Compare the similarities and the differences in terms of complacency between China and America. Because when I see the data, I concur with your argument, but living in Manhattan, it's not what I feel whatsoever.
Tyler: Manhattan, of course, is an outlier and when you say Manhattan, there are many Manhattan's. But if you think about China, my first visit was 1989. There were hardly any cars. Everyone was on a bicycle. Maybe you'd be lucky to have a bicycle. It was a very, very poor place. And now, uh, it's about as.... Well, it has a higher total GDP than ours, but it's better off than most other emerging economies per capita. They've had a 35 or more year run, that's one of the two or three most impressive runs in human history ever, and this is the only one for a billion plus people. So it could be the most important event in human history ever. Or one of the top three or four. So just that alone is like, oh my goodness. But there's still high risk in China.
Tyler: If you don't get out there and like master something, that risk will come and get you and crush you. If you were born into an educated family in this country, that's typically not the case. Someone can take care of you or you can get a job or a degree where you get by. You can be a slacker. Um, China, people expect everything to change every 10 years. It has been for them. They're used to this, they consider it a norm. They're not complacent. Life there is much more stressful in most ways. It's much less pleasant in many ways. But it's also more real and at least in that one big way. And now they are determined to outdo us and they're making a real go with it. That's like, how can you not want to go and see that?
David: Also as a young person, I first of all feel compelled to make that change, but also not something that, of course the American media is covering very much.
Tyler: There's so many articles on millennials, right? Millennial this, millennial that. So in a sense, all ideas about millennials are covered whether they're true or false, but none of them seem to get any traction is I suppose how I view it.
David: So how do you view the millennial generation?
Tyler: They're the nicest, most tolerant generation we've had, but I don't think that's an entirely good thing. And so far they're slated to be a relatively complacent generation. Maybe somewhat less ambitious, taking fewer chances, wanting safe spaces, which makes sense given the constraints they had been faced. But I worry that they're not replenishing America's cultural capital for generations to follow.
Ah, the millennial question 😯😯😯 Millennials are the nicest, most tolerant generation we’ve ever had. But it’s not entirely a good thing... pic.twitter.com/ejXISxt5Mu
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) October 23, 2017 David: Talk about those constraints. But also, I'm interested in the dichotomy of millennials are both complacent and entitled.
Tyler: A lot of millennials grew up in families that had a lot of wealth, right, more than ever before. That leads to a sense of entitlement. There is way more helicopter parenting for these people than ever before, which I think is mostly a negative, but they also grow up in this slow job market. Sometimes very slow depending on their age, no fault of their own. They grow up in a much more globalizing world, so an investor is thinking like, should I hire this millennial or should I send my capital to Vietnam where someone will be just as smart, maybe harder working and do something for a tenth of the wage, and we see a lot of people choosing the ladder. I wouldn't say that it's anyone's fault, but it makes it a different world. You either decide, well, I'm going to be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and there's a class of people like that who've been phenomenal, or you just decide like, look, I can't really compete. It's gotten too hard, but these stocks have wealth or enough. I can protect myself. The Internet is fun. TV is great. Maybe people are into recreational drugs, whatever level or kind of sex nuanced way easier to get them before.
Tyler: It's like, well, why not do that? That's pretty good. Right?
David: Right. I mean it's funny because I see almost all so many of these ads in New York are surrounded around "It'd support you to just stay home and we will bring it all to you.".
Tyler: That's why the Amazon will deliver whatever or Netflix streaming, everything's delivered now and that to me is the cultural negative even though obviously it's super convenient.
David: So what is it about China and India? What is in the water there that is having things be different because of course they have the Internet.
Tyler: Well they're much poorer so that's something bad in the water and they're growing at much higher rates because they're doing catch-up growth and the background level of risk there is very high, which again makes living there extremely unpleasant, not for the billionaires, but for most ordinary people, their incomes can fluctuate much more. Trying to get good healthcare in China, much, much harder than here at any price you may have to pay. And then bribe your doctor again. Even then the, you know, the pharmaceuticals you get might just be fake. You'll never really know until you live or die. We don't face that kind of challenge and our healthcare system is pretty screwed up, right? So, uh, that makes them less complacent.
Tyler: So the idea that not all good things come together, I feel is very hard for America to grasp right now. And the fact that we've made our lives pleasant and safer, which on net, I favor that that's also very costly. Again, it's a point being made by myself, by others, but it's not appointed distraction.
David: Yeah, I thought what you said on a previous interview was just that mediocrity is underrated.
Tyler: That's right, mediocre life is a great life. Like if you can just keep it going live til 80, whatever your thing is, the Internet, the drugs, the sex, some nonlinear combination thereof. There were like, you have your three kids, uh, you know, it's going to be diverse, but like, that's really good. You cannot be starving, but you don't have to be Mark Zuckerberg. And if I think of myself, uh, you know, I'm not like really of wealth, but I think I have a better life than, you know, most really wealthy people. It's more fun, more challenging.
David: Well, the final question I'm asking you is then, what are the tenants that you've looked for in terms of building that life and in terms of what has given you that life? What are the things you know, the pillars of what makes it so enjoyable for you?
Tyler: You know, I think so much of what we are we're born with, um, so we admit that about yourself, like figure out what you're really good at, which is going to be something for almost everyone. Like try to build on that. Be pretty honest with yourself about what you're not good at. Like it has to be fun because you need to stay motivated and it's a more competitive world order. But the opportunities are there and uh, you know, do something different than what I did, but do something like I'm waiting for you to do something for me. Here I am impatient, wanting more fun. You do it, bring me stuff.
David: OK, well now I want to hear more.
Tyler: My main idea is not any idea at all. It's a method. It's a personal method and it's a method of learning. It's take wherever you're at and just try to push your understanding deeper. Don't spend time telling yourself that you're right and other people are wrong and try to talk about other people being wrong as little as possible. If someone bugs you in your twitter feed, don't let it bug you, either ignore them or stop following them because you'll start thinking how right you are and how wrong they are. That will screw up your learning path. Just like stay the compounding returns of learning more and more curious, better and deeper questions. Your current level of understanding is always that of a blundering fool in some way, but you want to be waltzing along that curve on the compounding returns and just always asking better questions and just obsess over that and so much getaway from like a fixed doctrine of, you know, whatever.
Incredible advice. “My main idea is not any idea at all… it’s a method of learning. Always ask better questions and obsess over that." pic.twitter.com/aWpryqWfb1
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) October 23, 2017 David: Yeah, because that's what's so hard about about university is it like tells you almost what I know, what I need to do or know what I need to learn it. It's like the antithesis of curiosity.
Tyler: Yes, and it's too homework geared, which is a crime. High school, all the more so and our education system is failing us and this thing called the Internet has come along and for actual learning has so out competed what we call education.
David: It's not even close.
Tyler: It's not even close and so much of the internet is free. It's not all free but free or fairly cheap and it works on principles that are so much better than what you're given in so many classes. So I think the time is right for some real revolution where what we call education in some ways becomes more like the Internet and we're going about it wrong.
Tyler: So what we're doing now is we're taking education as we knew it and we're adding on the Internet, which I'm all for by the way. So you assign a YouTube video in your class and students email you again? Fine. No reason not to be excited about that, but the real gain is to make the Internet the center and they add on the education at the fringes and we're very far from doing that.
David: So then as information becomes abundant, the scarce resources should then shift into something else. So what is becoming scarce?
Tyler: Motivation, and that's the theme in my book Average Is Over that you asked about. How can you motivate yourself, how can you motivate others? The real scarce input is the preacher, the moral leader, the inspirer, the mentor or the role model. That is what is scarce in our world and we don't even know it.
Tyler: And it's hard to produce, right? Actually we may get more of it through the Internet itself, but still it's hard to produce and for a lot of people, a lot of it has to be in person. Like you've read a lot of my stuff or heard me, but like now we meet the first time and I hope at least I'm something different to you. Maybe I'm worse?
David: You're a blundering fool, Mr. Cowen. Hahaha.
Tyler: Haha, well, I'm happy if I'm not different at all. So there's something about meeting the person where you reevaluate all the rest. That's just so fundamental.
David: I'll tell you, this is what I feel with almost every single person. So with people who I ask of course are generally the people I tend to respect the most. So they start off through social media. What I found really interesting is they are there, they're almost like godly and then you meet them and you realize that they're human and then on like the far side of their humanity is their exceptionalism of like, you can do it, but because you can do it and you know how much work goes into that, then you begin to have this really deep admiration for many of these people.
Tyler: Someone just emailed me a question. It was, what's your readers biggest misconception about you? And it's a brilliant question. Partly it's such a good question because I don't know the answer even though it's like about me. You think, oh, you know about yourself. But if people ask you a question about you, you don't know the answer to, it's a very good question.
David: What did you respond with?
Tyler: Uh, I asked the question back. (Both laugh)
Tyler: The answer I got was uh, I'm more serious in print and on the blog and more a kind of genial or enjoying things or playful in person.
David: You are very playful. You're very playful. But I knew that because because every interview, about five percent is funny. There's always humor and humor is just, it's very important to be able to humanize in that way.
Tyler: It's the emotionally vivid thing. It's the entry point. Like humor is an entry point for learning almost anything.
David: Huh, what do you mean by that?
Tyler: If you want to learn about like cheese, don't read a cheese book. Start with the Monty Python skit about going into the cheese shop where he recites all the cheeses that they don't have. You learn names of cheeses much better that way than if you try to learn about cheese.
David: So is humor like music in that sense?
Tyler: Exactly. Music's a great way to learn about cultures and travel, humor. So the Monty Python skit where they try to summarize, proves it. If you don't know of it, watch it online. There's a competition, summarize Proust. You've got to do it in 10 seconds. Of course it's a many volume work with not even all that much plot, so it's hard to summarize and you see people being blundering fools trying to summarize it. And this gets over in two and a half minutes. The best way to start understanding Proust is to view something funny on Proust.
David: There we go. Start a restaurant. So hopefully some ethnic food and podcast series. Well this was a great jumping point into Tyler Cowen. Thanks for coming on the North Star.
Tyler: My pleasure. Thank you.
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Tyler Cowen's Books:
Average is Over
The Great Stagnation
The Complacent Class
Stubborn Attachments
Other Links:
Proust on YouTube
Ben Sasse Podcast
Tyler's DC Food Guide
Tyler's Blog: Marginal Revolution
Tyler Cowen Twitter
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Episode: Daniel Gross: Dreams and Determination
Pub date: 2018-10-10
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My guest today is Daniel Gross, a partner at Y Combinator, the world’s best startup studio. Daniel focuses on artificial intelligence at Y Combinator and recently founded AI Grant, a distributed AI Research Lab.
Daniel was born in Jerusalem, Israel and was accepted into the Y Combinator Program in 2010. At the time, Daniel was the youngest founder ever accepted. In 2013, Cue was acquired by Apple. At 22, Daniel was leading several search and AI efforts across the company spanning iOS, OS X and Apple Watch.
In 2017, Daniel joined Y-Combinator as a Partner. He launched YC AI, Y-Combinator’s first vertical dedicated to investing in AI companies. In 2018, Daniel founded Pioneer. Pioneer is a search engine for the millions of “Lost Einstein’s” — extraordinarily creative people around the world who have the talent, but lack opportunity. Once identified, Pioneer and makes small investments to support whatever project they’re working on.
In this episode, Daniel talks about the experience of coming to America and starting a company with Y Combinator. He talks about the power of seeing life like a video game with levels, and fast, continuous feedback. Daniel also shares lessons from John D. Rockefeller on business, decision making, and company building. Finally, Daniel talks about Israel and shares his insights on why the country is so innovative.
Purchase the Transcript SUBSCRIBE TO MY “MONDAY MUSINGS” NEWSLETTER TO KEEP UP with THE PODCAST. Show Notes 5:40- Daniel talks about some of things he became fascinated with early on in life.
8:20 How Daniel took an early interest in coding through video games and reverse engineering.
8:50 The “gamifacation” strategy Daniel uses to set goals and motivate himself.
9:20 “Everything in life is some form of a video game” Daniel explains how life can be similar to a video game in terms of seeing stages of life as levels, and setting goals and strategies to progress one from level to the next.
11:22 Daniel delves into what motivates people and specifically how our need for approval is not necessarily something to be ashamed of.
14:00 Daniel talks about YC’s earlier years and his first encounter with Steve Jobs.
16:00 Daniel describes his initial vision to create a “personal” search engine capable of sorting through your own personal data.
17:10 Daniel explains a variety of features and functions that AI and his coding have on iOS and OS devices
18:15 How will we interact with artificial intelligence in the future?
21:00 The pitfalls of trying to superimpose the current futuristic thinking rather than expecting the unexpected.
22:56 New tech often seems like a toy or novelty at first, up until it becomes mainstream.
23:27- Daniels offers his perspective on the bottlenecks we have on scientific progress and the current lack of diversity in terms of ideas.
26:00 Entry barriers most start ups have to face and overcome when entering AI development.
27:32 Daniel speaks about Assembly A.I., a start up that YC worked with.
29:30 Daniel explains the benefits of reevaluating a strategy when stuck on a challenging “level.”
34:45 David suggests the first steps to perusing progress is surrounding yourself with great people or ideas.
35:09 Reverse engineering your vision, into a plan. How to set “levels” as goals when playing the game of life.
37:39 How vital of a role our environment plays in our development and pursuit of of progress.
38:15 Optimizing for a city versus a small group and the importance of one’s surroundings when pursuing a goal or idea.
39:38 Social/professional groups and their validity while shifting to a digital format. How strong are our online relationships when it comes to motivating us?
43:06 What makes Israel so different and innovative?
45:20 Daniel describes the first and second Intifada in Israel and the resulting send of community that was cultivated during the shared suffering.
47:46 “Scarcity creates greatness” How Israel innovates out of necessity rather than experimentally.
51:30 The “harsh” culture of Israel and its contribution to the deterrence of pursuing potentially good or risky ideas.
53:45 How optimism can be both a positive outlook for growth, but can also lead to false or unrealistic expectations
57:00 Daniel on how we can learn from history when looking at it from a cyclical point of view.
1:00.24 – How ‘stupid little ideas” can turn out to be some of the most innovative endeavors when pursued.
1:01.38 “Fitness as a ticket of admission to the world” and how it enables us to better experience more aspects of life.
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