Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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39 published records
01 / commitment
“He is now, I would say, obsessed in the good sense with a new project, which is walking both walkable and non-walkable cities throughout the world.”
02 / commitment
“I’m going back again because I find it so fascinating, because I don’t understand it to the degree I feel like I understand other places.”
03 / belief
“Someone asked me about the best food, and I think if you measure the best food by the median food, I actually think Japan is still higher than Korea that way.”
04 / commitment
“I’ve never needed a second one, much less the first one, but I always like to know I won’t run out of power.”
05 / belief
“To me, if I had one hack to people for traveling, what I would say is, when you get home and look at what you brought and see how much you didn’t use, you’ll find that you didn’t use a third of what you brought.”
06 / belief
“I think in Latin America, that would be interesting. I don’t want to go to South Africa either.”
07 / belief
“I had two pieces down before I realized what it was, and I’m like, “Okay, if I’m going to die, I’m going to die.”
08 / belief
“I was in an outdoor bar right next to a memorial to a Christmas day bombing we did in, I think, whenever.”
09 / uncertainty
“I’m going to do this for another few years, and then, I don’t know. I didn’t know I was going to do this.”
10 / belief
“I think Latin America and Africa are some of the few places where there are real problems, and you do have to have a little bit of common sense.”
11 / belief
“I spent so much time there during my banking career. I think Peru, Lima, is quietly some of the best food in the world.”
12 / uncertainty
“For whatever reason, the Caribbean just doesn’t interest me. I don’t know what it is.”
13 / belief
“The optimism. It’s the American dream, and so I think the American dream is very much alive in the working-class Mexican American community, and you see that in El Paso.”
14 / belief
“I actually put together a metric on walkability. I had, I think, eight categories.”
15 / belief
“I think you have a reputation of being something of a libertarian kind of materialist.”
16 / belief
“I was surprised how much I liked it. I’m afraid to go elsewhere in the country perhaps, but I would say consider it.”
17 / belief
“I think the interesting thing about Georgetown is they have the oil, so you have the economics side.”
18 / belief
“I’m not a relativist. I think there are some cultures that are just better than others.”
19 / belief
“I agree with that. That’s my whole strategy in many ways. Although it spectacularly failed with Phoenix.”
20 / belief
“I think five days. I’m not sure. Less than a week, but more than just a day or two.”
21 / belief
“I find it really fascinating that these two creatures, one of which is probably 40 years old, will live underneath the ice — my pond’s frozen right now — will be underneath the ice for six, seven months, and then they know when to come and where to come to get hot dogs [laughs] at the same time every year, which I think is a pretty amazing instinctive skill.”
22 / uncertainty
“Small towns of — I don’t know — 40,000 people with fully walkable city squares, perfect weather, amazing food, and prices were maybe one-third of US prices with a much higher standard of living.”
23 / belief
“I’m glad people wrote books in the past, but I think in many cases, a weekly essay or biweekly essay, at least for me, is a perfect way to communicate.”
24 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if understand is the word. I enjoyed it. I felt inspired. I shared it with other people who were there.”
25 / belief
“In that sense, I think what academics do, or what elites do, what politicians do is immensely important and shapes how societies are built and how they evolve.”
26 / uncertainty
“In that sense, I could probably do more reading outside of the conversations about politics because I go to a lot of these countries, I don’t know what’s going on politically because people don’t talk about it.”
27 / uncertainty
“I was going to go to Mumbai. I don’t know, because I do a lot of Google Street Views before trips.”
28 / belief
“I think parts of Beijing are designed to discourage protests and demonstrations, and that correlates with being hard to walk.”
29 / belief
“I think I would much prefer Beijing. It feels more intellectual, and there’s a greater variety of Chinese foods there.”
30 / preference
“I think for five years, I never turned on my air conditioner because I felt I should get used to it, and I did.”
31 / preference
“I don’t like to be conspiratorial because I think that’s often wrong, but I did notice my VPN clunked out at very odd moments.”
32 / preference
“I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but one of my favorite walkable cities was Alexandria, Egypt.”
33 / preference
“Dehydration and heat are my big problems because, again, places I find really interesting tend to be near the equator.”
34 / preference
“I think the reason I liked Shanghai more initially was just because of my location.”
35 / evaluation
“What struck me and one of the things I wrote about on both the pieces, was I kept thinking of them as a guardian class incorporating Plato’s Republic.”
36 / evaluation
“Scott who writes a lot about the idea of regulation as control, or top-down regulation as control. That’s certainly the case in Beijing, where gone are the small winding dens of small neighborhoods because those are hard to control.”
37 / preference
“Asia has very rambunctious cities, and what I like about Asian cities is they have an organic street life, a low regulatory, organic street life.”
38 / preference
“I famously have become, online, the McDonald’s guy because I read a lot about McDonald’s in the US and the role of McDonald’s in the US.”
39 / evaluation
“. Six years ago or seven years, I would say, “What elites say doesn’t matter. Who cares what people are fighting about on Twitter?”