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Jeff Holmes

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Project Hail Mary

“I am very excited. I read Project Hail Mary a year or two ago. I thought that book was excellent.”

Conversations with Tyler · 25 Dec 2024

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app / likes

Cowenauts

“I would say — but just to name some of the ones that do include your names, I love Cowenauts; that just rolls off the tongue.”

Conversations with Tyler · 25 Dec 2024

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book / recommends

The Revenge of Geography

“Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography.”

Conversations with Tyler · 28 Dec 2022

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Man

“Tyson, I Love You, Man, District 9, Up, the Pixar film, Brüno, Let The Right One In, The Hurt Locker, and the documentary Man On Wire.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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other / likes

Up

“Tyson, I Love You, Man, District 9, Up, the Pixar film, Brüno, Let The Right One In, The Hurt Locker, and the documentary Man On Wire.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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other / uses

Marginal Revolution

“I mean it’s amazing now if you had asked me 10, 12 years ago, oh there’s new Tyler content out. And I still love it and I read Marginal Revolution every day, but I also do that filtering myself that I like, well I still have my canon or the core reading that I do.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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The Hurt Locker

“Tyson, I Love You, Man, District 9, Up, the Pixar film, Brüno, Let The Right One In, The Hurt Locker, and the documentary Man On Wire.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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other / likes

Brüno

“Tyson, I Love You, Man, District 9, Up, the Pixar film, Brüno, Let The Right One In, The Hurt Locker, and the documentary Man On Wire.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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other / likes

District 9

“Tyson, I Love You, Man, District 9, Up, the Pixar film, Brüno, Let The Right One In, The Hurt Locker, and the documentary Man On Wire.”

Conversations with Tyler · 23 Dec 2019

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What Jeff said.

108 transcript-backed records

03 / uncertainty

Now, we’ll review most popular episodes later when we actually have the numbers, but in terms of your perception of underrated episodes, we don’t know what’s popular yet.

“Now, we’ll review most popular episodes later when we actually have the numbers, but in terms of your perception of underrated episodes, we don’t know what’s popular yet.”
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Jeff Holmes
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Conversations with Tyler

08 / commitment

Now, I will say that ChatGPT immediately put the disclaimer on that it “can’t write as Tyler Cowen, but it will provide a crisp, economist-eye answer with a similar vibe.

“Now, I will say that ChatGPT immediately put the disclaimer on that it “can’t write as Tyler Cowen, but it will provide a crisp, economist-eye answer with a similar vibe.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

14 / belief

We’ve got Tooze and Kotkin on there. Tooze was on, I think, in 2020. Other books that you mentioned — there are probably maybe 30 books listed here, but we have Piketty.

“We’ve got Tooze and Kotkin on there. Tooze was on, I think, in 2020. Other books that you mentioned — there are probably maybe 30 books listed here, but we have Piketty.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

15 / belief

” You’ve had a number of posts where you say that the idea that people — I think, correct me if I’m wrong, but the way I would summarize you is, you think it’s without evidence, installing bike lanes and these things — that the ROI is not there to you.

“” You’ve had a number of posts where you say that the idea that people — I think, correct me if I’m wrong, but the way I would summarize you is, you think it’s without evidence, installing bike lanes and these things — that the ROI is not there to you.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

16 / belief

I sent out an email to our newsletter about this, and I think you have to say it’s a little predictable. It only gets maybe a little eclectic towards the end, but this was very much fan service, I think, these top five.

“I sent out an email to our newsletter about this, and I think you have to say it’s a little predictable. It only gets maybe a little eclectic towards the end, but this was very much fan service, I think, these top five.”
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Jeff Holmes
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Conversations with Tyler

22 / evaluation

Implicitly, it’s the people we don’t ask, because we don’t have an in with them or we don’t know how to reach them, that would raise that failure rate higher.

“Implicitly, it’s the people we don’t ask, because we don’t have an in with them or we don’t know how to reach them, that would raise that failure rate higher.”
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Jeff Holmes
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Conversations with Tyler

26 / uncertainty

I don’t know if you’ve invented a new genre there, but the reason this came up is, you spoke positively of a book called Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages.

“I don’t know if you’ve invented a new genre there, but the reason this came up is, you spoke positively of a book called Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

34 / uncertainty

Favorite music — you say these are favorites from a radically incomplete sampling, not a best-of list, which I don’t know that you usually put that qualification on there, but you did this time.

“Favorite music — you say these are favorites from a radically incomplete sampling, not a best-of list, which I don’t know that you usually put that qualification on there, but you did this time.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

38 / evaluation

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the special episode of Conversations with Tyler. This is the 2023 retrospective, where we take a look back at the previous year in conversations, look back at Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2013, and other topics besides.

“Hello, everyone, and welcome to the special episode of Conversations with Tyler. This is the 2023 retrospective, where we take a look back at the previous year in conversations, look back at Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2013, and other topics besides.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

39 / evaluation

At the end of the year, in resonance, maybe, with 2023, the movie Her came out, and you were a big fan of it. It came out after you released your best-of, but that movie, I think, has held up really well, and people are returning to it now because it feels like it got some things right.

“At the end of the year, in resonance, maybe, with 2023, the movie Her came out, and you were a big fan of it. It came out after you released your best-of, but that movie, I think, has held up really well, and people are returning to it now because it feels like it got some things right.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

41 / evaluation

For a lot of people, I think that’s why Tom Hanks is still a top contender for GOAT in terms of actors today — because just the skill of being able to go through this range of emotions and portray it so realistically, he gets all these little nuances of it exactly right.

“For a lot of people, I think that’s why Tom Hanks is still a top contender for GOAT in terms of actors today — because just the skill of being able to go through this range of emotions and portray it so realistically, he gets all these little nuances of it exactly right.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

45 / belief

I think I speak for Ben and Vitalik and myself, and all the readers, that we look forward to continue reading and hearing your ideas and seeing your influence in the world.

“I think I speak for Ben and Vitalik and myself, and all the readers, that we look forward to continue reading and hearing your ideas and seeing your influence in the world.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

53 / belief

Readers can correct me, listeners can correct me if I’m wrong here, but I believe one of the sources that people point to that format is actually the Siskel and Ebert show that started in the ’80s.

“Readers can correct me, listeners can correct me if I’m wrong here, but I believe one of the sources that people point to that format is actually the Siskel and Ebert show that started in the ’80s.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

57 / belief

I actually emailed you. This is before I worked at Mercatus, but when Michael Crichton died, I emailed you and asked you if you would write anything, and I think you said, “Nothing particular is occurring to me to say that would be of any value.

“I actually emailed you. This is before I worked at Mercatus, but when Michael Crichton died, I emailed you and asked you if you would write anything, and I think you said, “Nothing particular is occurring to me to say that would be of any value.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

59 / evaluation

They’re more like vignettes. That was much more of a deeper study, not just of the master chef but also his sons because that was a key part of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the sons who were, I think, in their 40s but were still in the shadow of their dad.

“They’re more like vignettes. That was much more of a deeper study, not just of the master chef but also his sons because that was a key part of Jiro Dreams of Sushi, the sons who were, I think, in their 40s but were still in the shadow of their dad.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

61 / belief

Speaking of founder energy, if we’re thinking about it in terms of starting a company or venture capital or whatever, I think one thing that worries me about it — maybe it’s too early in it, but I don’t see people dropping everything to join us, and they don’t have the skin in the game.

“Speaking of founder energy, if we’re thinking about it in terms of starting a company or venture capital or whatever, I think one thing that worries me about it — maybe it’s too early in it, but I don’t see people dropping everything to join us, and they don’t have the skin in the game.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

68 / belief

If you get what you’re doing, it’s very easy, but I know from talking to people, if you just pull up a random episode and listen to it, I think a lot of people do not have that context to understand.

“If you get what you’re doing, it’s very easy, but I know from talking to people, if you just pull up a random episode and listen to it, I think a lot of people do not have that context to understand.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

71 / commitment

Do you think it’s generally true in the sense that we, maybe conveniently, are just willing to tolerate a certain kind of — mistreatment is the wrong word — but we will humiliate our kids in ways that we would never humiliate another adult by, for instance, having a conversation about them in their presence, where you talk about some bad behavior or something.

“Do you think it’s generally true in the sense that we, maybe conveniently, are just willing to tolerate a certain kind of — mistreatment is the wrong word — but we will humiliate our kids in ways that we would never humiliate another adult by, for instance, having a conversation about them in their presence, where you talk about some bad behavior or something.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

72 / evaluation

I think you could say that your interview style is very masculine because it tends to be more abstract and about getting to the point, “what do you really think about this?

“I think you could say that your interview style is very masculine because it tends to be more abstract and about getting to the point, “what do you really think about this?”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

73 / preference

I think that if you’re doing something that’s never been done before, you have to be very humble, recognizing that you don’t know what the right thing to do is, but also nobody else does.

“I think that if you’re doing something that’s never been done before, you have to be very humble, recognizing that you don’t know what the right thing to do is, but also nobody else does.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

75 / evaluation

For me, the thing that unites some of the very good ones — I would count Ruth Scurr in this as well, but Prum, Gioia — they all had such passion and enthusiasm, and they so clearly still loved what they were doing, that it is just impossible not to pick up on that enthusiasm and decide, “I think I should .

“For me, the thing that unites some of the very good ones — I would count Ruth Scurr in this as well, but Prum, Gioia — they all had such passion and enthusiasm, and they so clearly still loved what they were doing, that it is just impossible not to pick up on that enthusiasm and decide, “I think I should .”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

76 / preference

Yes, same energy. This is my favorite from the year, I think, because actually, it describes an element of my own production function, that I talk to myself, and I often get very loud and obnoxious.

“Yes, same energy. This is my favorite from the year, I think, because actually, it describes an element of my own production function, that I talk to myself, and I often get very loud and obnoxious.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

77 / belief

I mean, I’m actually ashamed to think I haven’t thought about that when I’m ordering takeout, as I’m not really ordering what I think will actually travel well or hold up well.

“I mean, I’m actually ashamed to think I haven’t thought about that when I’m ordering takeout, as I’m not really ordering what I think will actually travel well or hold up well.”
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Jeff Holmes
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Conversations with Tyler

78 / belief

I think her answer was very in keeping with the fact that her papers can tell you a lot about a very specific thing, but she was very careful about saying that it only gives you part of the story, and you have to be really careful about what you don’t know.

“I think her answer was very in keeping with the fact that her papers can tell you a lot about a very specific thing, but she was very careful about saying that it only gives you part of the story, and you have to be really careful about what you don’t know.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

80 / belief

Then we have this major global issue that, at least in my mind, directly relates to some of the key points of tension in a broader libertarian ideology about the proper role of government and what restrictions we might take, short or long term, in order to let the government step in and handle certain problems.

“Then we have this major global issue that, at least in my mind, directly relates to some of the key points of tension in a broader libertarian ideology about the proper role of government and what restrictions we might take, short or long term, in order to let the government step in and handle certain problems.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

86 / evaluation

I think the pessimistic case would be, one reason we were able to act so quickly on COVID is because it became this clear focal point where that was the thing to do, to figure out this problem.

“I think the pessimistic case would be, one reason we were able to act so quickly on COVID is because it became this clear focal point where that was the thing to do, to figure out this problem.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

96 / belief

I know this is something that people talk about in academia some as well — that academics tend to get saddled with a lot of administrative work. But honestly, I think one of the underrated aspects of any person’s production function is the extent to which they can plug into an infrastructure and have certain things just not be a focus of worry for them.

“I know this is something that people talk about in academia some as well — that academics tend to get saddled with a lot of administrative work. But honestly, I think one of the underrated aspects of any person’s production function is the extent to which they can plug into an infrastructure and have certain things just not be a focus of worry for them.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

103 / belief

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

105 / preference

One of those pastries I brought all the way back to the states and my wife even enjoyed one of Knausgård’s pastries. But I also loved that conversation because he talked about fatherhood and writing in a way that I found very affecting as someone with a young child.

“One of those pastries I brought all the way back to the states and my wife even enjoyed one of Knausgård’s pastries. But I also loved that conversation because he talked about fatherhood and writing in a way that I found very affecting as someone with a young child.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

106 / recommendation

I thought his comments on fame and having to be careful, I thought he revealed something about himself that was very interesting. I encourage everyone, if you’re new, you should definitely check that out.

“I thought his comments on fame and having to be careful, I thought he revealed something about himself that was very interesting. I encourage everyone, if you’re new, you should definitely check that out.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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