book / uses
Project Hail Mary
“I am very excited. I read Project Hail Mary a year or two ago. I thought that book was excellent.”
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Jeff Holmes
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Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
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.”
book / recommends
The Revenge of Geography
“Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography.”
other / likes
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.”
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.”
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.”
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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.”
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.”
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.”
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What Jeff said.
12 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
He’s helped us on our new YouTube channel because, as it turns out, a popular YouTuber appearing on your YouTube channel is very good for you.
“He’s helped us on our new YouTube channel because, as it turns out, a popular YouTuber appearing on your YouTube channel is very good for you.”
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- Jeff Holmes
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02 / 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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03 / 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
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04 / 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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05 / 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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06 / 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
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07 / 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
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08 / evaluation
I think actually the female guests who were featured this year — Patricia Fara, Sarah Parcak — they all did pretty well.
“I think actually the female guests who were featured this year — Patricia Fara, Sarah Parcak — they all did pretty well.”
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- Jeff Holmes
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09 / 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 .”
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- Jeff Holmes
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10 / 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.”
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11 / evaluation
I think that relates back to COVID, too, because in any dramatization of a pandemic, it is so focal.
“I think that relates back to COVID, too, because in any dramatization of a pandemic, it is so focal.”
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12 / evaluation
“I think music critics need to have command of neighboring cultural areas because music is not just separate from the rest of culture, from the rest of our world.
““I think music critics need to have command of neighboring cultural areas because music is not just separate from the rest of culture, from the rest of our world.”
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- Jeff Holmes
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- Conversations with Tyler