Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Conversations with Tyler. Today I’m honored to be talking with Patrick McKenzie. Here is Patrick’s own description of himself, and I quote: “The broad through line of my work is systems thinking applied to businesses. I think the social organization of the internet and its impact on the world are underestimated by almost everyone, including Silicon Valley. Everything important to you in the world sits atop several infrastructure layers. I am a storyteller for some of those layers and the people who build them.” An alternative description of Patrick that I might give you is, he’s a guy who moved to Japan for no legible reason at all and became famous by writing on the internet, and now everyone looks to him as a person who knows a lot about everything. His Substack is called Bits about Money, and on Twitter you can find him @patio11. Many people, in fact, call him Patio11. Patrick, welcome. Thanks very much for having me.…

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