Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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28 published records
01 / recommendation
“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.”
02 / recommendation
“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.”
03 / recommendation
“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.”
04 / belief
“Mark Zuckerberg. But I think … If it’s younger people and you don’t know how to evaluate them, but obviously it takes on greater weight in your impression.”
05 / belief
“To the extent that we’re competing with mobile games, which I think is one of the things you’re going to do with your idle time for an average person.”
06 / 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.”
07 / belief
“I mean I think most people would say no, you’re a sponge and you keep it all in.”
08 / belief
“I’ve learned how to work on the road much better. I think I was always pretty good at it.”
09 / belief
“I try to have a sense of the temperature of the air, the flavor of the conversation. That’s where social networks used strategically I think, are extremely useful.”
10 / belief
“I think Knausgård under performed relative to the quality of the conversation and how well he is known within literary circles.”
11 / belief
““I played a lot of poker in college and I think I learned more about life and business from that than I learned in college.”
12 / belief
“I think the big insight was that people were wasting their time a lot more than we thought and mobile and social media and podcasting all filled that space.”
13 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you would agree with this but, when I email with you, you’re very responsive generally.”
14 / belief
“I needed to go running with the bulls, be an alcoholic. Now I think just the opposite.”
15 / belief
“I don’t think it’s untrue. But I think on average they’re too modest and they’re not quite willing to express their sheer ruthlessness at being successful in a way.”
16 / belief
“I suppose I think that’s going to be Knausgård, who was brilliant but highly literary and very much into things Norwegian.”
17 / 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.”
18 / uncertainty
“For nonfiction you said, “the new Gabriel García Márquez biography”, which I don’t know what the title of that was.”
19 / 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.”
20 / 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.”
21 / preference
“I love Goya small white beans. I cook them with chili and I love Goya small red beans.”
22 / commitment
“I will fail all of the memory tests. I’m very focused on the next podcast, just to be clear.”
23 / evaluation
“I think you can get away more with eating cereal when you’re younger. But I had a favorite cereal which then was Product 19, and it was very hard to get in Germany.”
24 / evaluation
“I think I can. I felt it was an incredible year. Our best guests, maybe the most diverse group, very few weak episodes.”
25 / preference
“So first person. “I would say I read widely. I play with a lot of ideas, most of which don’t come to fruition.”
26 / evaluation
“Long books. And you can’t just breeze through them because like you’ve absorbed the material in some other capacity.”
27 / commitment
“Starting last year we started releasing every other week and then we usually have a few bonus episodes.”
28 / preference
“It’s easier to exceed a lesser product. But nonetheless, philosophically, that’s what I prefer in people, is for the person to be better than the product.”