Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…It allowed you both to do your independent thing. You’re both on the blog, obviously covering this stuff, getting your ideas out there. Then, Alex, you’re much more giving policymakers a very specific idea of something to do, and Tyler goes for, “Let’s get grants out there as quickly as we can.” Fast Grants raised over $50 million, and most of the donors were MR readers. I think, in part, they felt they trusted me in the operation because they had known of MR for so long, and they knew Alex was doing Operation Warp Speed, and it felt very credible. I wonder if this is a good time to talk about the differences between the two of you, and the way that you write, and the way that you engage with the world, because you’re co-authors and obviously share so much, but the differences are sometimes amusing to see. I was telling Alex earlier, I always know when I’m in my RSS reader looking at MR posts that I have to click on the ones where the capitalization is proper in the title of the post. I know Alex will capitalize the words in a post, whereas Tyler will do lowercase words in the title. Then, obviously, Alex posts infrequently in longer form, usually; Tyler’s relentless daily output. Talk about some of the differences between the two of you in terms of how you think, how you write. And are these subtle differences that show up at MR revealing of any deeper difference in your approach to life, worldview, work style, et cetera?…

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