Evidence receipt / preference
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: preference
23 Dec 2019 Conversations with Tyler Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
“It’s easier to exceed a lesser product. But nonetheless, philosophically, that’s what I prefer in people, is for the person to be better than the product.”
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- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- preference
- Recorded
- 23 Dec 2019
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
- Episode
- Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
Transcript context
…Yeah. And I guess I feel that’s a worse way to be. That if the person is better than the product, maybe in some ways the product is worse. It’s easier to exceed a lesser product. But nonetheless, philosophically, that’s what I prefer in people, is for the person to be better than the product. You have your product as writings and your thoughts that are out in the web, but I don’t think most people would consider you overexposed still or they feel like they’ve gotten to the depths of Tyler. And I think that maybe that time can come. Maybe there is a limit but I don’t think we found it yet.…
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