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Published · transcript-backedReid Hoffman: belief
15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“I would say that probably the way that I tend to have grown thinking in networks and thinking of evolution, of incentives and cultures, probably didn’t come from Putney.”
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- Reid Hoffman
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- 15 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So if I think of your subsequent work and ideas of civil society, plurality, democracy — does it all come from your time in high school? Probably it is well informed by that, but not foundational. I would say that probably the way that I tend to have grown thinking in networks and thinking of evolution, of incentives and cultures, probably didn’t come from Putney. But the diversity of human experience, of thinking of human beings as complicated entities that have lots of different kinds of expression and lots of different motives, probably did come from childhood and most especially boarding school at Putney. And where did it come from in childhood, then, if not from Putney?…
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