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Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective

29 Dec 2021 38 published claims 2 attributable people
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Jeff HolmesTyler Cowen

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belief 24evaluation 4preference 4commitment 3uncertainty 1prediction 1recommendation 1

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38 published records

01 / 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.”
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Jeff Holmes
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05 / belief

If I go to events with people, which I do pretty often, even in COVID times, it used to be, I would go to hear new and daring ideas that I hadn’t heard before. That’s great, but I think, especially with Twitter, it’s very hard to hear new and daring ideas you haven’t heard before.

“If I go to events with people, which I do pretty often, even in COVID times, it used to be, I would go to hear new and daring ideas that I hadn’t heard before. That’s great, but I think, especially with Twitter, it’s very hard to hear new and daring ideas you haven’t heard before.”
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Tyler Cowen
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Conversations with Tyler

16 / belief

I suspect the main market failure you see with parents is their mode of interaction is driven by narcissism or their own problems within the family unit rather than concern for the kid, rather than, well, they can’t remember what they were like.

“I suspect the main market failure you see with parents is their mode of interaction is driven by narcissism or their own problems within the family unit rather than concern for the kid, rather than, well, they can’t remember what they were like.”
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Tyler Cowen
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Conversations with Tyler

17 / 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.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

18 / belief

I strongly expect I went to the movies as soon as I could, which would be two, three weeks after the second dose. I think my second dose was March 1, so probably sometime in March.

“I strongly expect I went to the movies as soon as I could, which would be two, three weeks after the second dose. I think my second dose was March 1, so probably sometime in March.”
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Tyler Cowen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

20 / commitment

Here are these seven books — which I’m not done reading yet, by the way, but I will finish the whole series — that just teach you the whole history of Africans building things.

“Here are these seven books — which I’m not done reading yet, by the way, but I will finish the whole series — that just teach you the whole history of Africans building things.”
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Tyler Cowen
Publisher
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26 / belief

I think what you are and how you are — that is more important than anything you tell them, and how you treat your spouse or partner is more important than how you treat them.

“I think what you are and how you are — that is more important than anything you tell them, and how you treat your spouse or partner is more important than how you treat them.”
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Tyler Cowen
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27 / 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.”
Speaker
Jeff Holmes
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

29 / 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

30 / 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.”
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Jeff Holmes
Publisher
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33 / evaluation

If it’s something where you need a lot of people behind you to get something done, like to get 90 percent vaccinated, that seems much harder than ever before. But if the mass of people — you simply need them to tolerate what you’re doing, and if the law is not hindering you, that may, in some ways, be easier than it used to be because the attention switching is so rapid, it’s harder for them to prove an obstacle.

“If it’s something where you need a lot of people behind you to get something done, like to get 90 percent vaccinated, that seems much harder than ever before. But if the mass of people — you simply need them to tolerate what you’re doing, and if the law is not hindering you, that may, in some ways, be easier than it used to be because the attention switching is so rapid, it’s harder for them to prove an obstacle.”
Speaker
Tyler Cowen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

37 / 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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Conversations with Tyler

38 / 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
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Conversations with Tyler
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