Evidence receipt / belief
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1 Sept 2022 Conversations with Tyler Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent
“Talent issues, I think about all the time. I said before, I’m an obsessive person.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 1 Sept 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I’m asking you if you do the same. Like outside of EV, is it easy to bring insights like this to a university system the way we hire — not just in econ at George Mason or at Mercatus — because these are institutionally set in their ways. Talent issues, I think about all the time. I said before, I’m an obsessive person. If I’m waiting in line for my chocolate ice cream, whatever, I’m thinking about how’s the staff organized? Who’s doing a good job? Why, why not? It’s pointless in a way, but you can’t help but do it, and it’s some form of practicing just to always be on and processing and thinking through “how is this working and why?” I find that useful, but I know it’s weird. Does it make a person happy? I’m not unhappy doing it. It’s part of being obsessive. Fair. Daniel, how do you think this interview or conversation is going?…
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