Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I love birds, and I admire pigeons, and I guess I need a pet. I need a comfort animal, and hatbird or other hatbird aren’t enough, but I’ll hang out in front of the coffee shop, and then they’ll see me wave around my bag of bird seed, the good stuff, and then they’ll come and they’ll rest on my arm or this arm, and then they’ll eat right from there, and that makes me happy. The people walking by will look at me, and some find it entertaining, and I really should get a dog. I travel a bit much, but if I got a nice portable lap dog, maybe a doxie, or I’ve now read about Dachshund-Corgi hybrids called Dorgies, which sound like my speed, and I could call mine a dorky, and we would be happy. One big question I have about your career. You worked, I think, 17 years at IBM, which we all think of as the establishment in some way. This is a while back, of course. Then you become a highly successful entrepreneur. What is it that changed in you or snapped or something gave you more ambition, or it was all just accident? Seventeen years is a long time. How is it you’re such a late bloomer? What’s your account of that? It’s a combination of an accident and realizing that things were not right. I realized around age 40 that I really had problems with socialization.…

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