Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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Evidence policy
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21 published records
01 / belief
“I think we should let Tyler monologue for a while. This is good stuff, and I don’t think I’m going to add a lot of value here.”
02 / belief
“At age 37, you were president of Midland University in Nebraska — I think at the time the youngest university president in this country.”
03 / uncertainty
“We don’t know, do we? [laughs] Might one argue that the more one thinks and writes about sex, the more you’re led to Rousseauian conclusions that a certain kind of constraint will prove impossible, and then one is pulled away further from Ben Sasse–like conclusions.”
04 / belief
“If you brought people from 300 years ago or 3,000 years ago to live among us now, if you dropped them out of a time machine, I think the first thing that would stun them is just simply our material abundance and our tools, and especially our digital tools.”
05 / commitment
“I’ll also take a few questions from the iPad. I will alternate the two mics. Feel free to introduce yourself if you wish.”
06 / belief
“You’re an opponent of what you call age segregation in education, and I think, more generally in life.”
07 / belief
“We believe that people are created with dignity and their rights don’t come to them from government.”
08 / belief
“I think the sine qua non of America is mass literacy, which led to competitive ideas, healthy challenges to authority, a plural marketplace after the printing press, that then creates a First Amendment culture of free speech, press, assembly, etc.”
09 / belief
“Abstractions about that don’t interest me very much, but I have lots of sympathy for why people thought forces well beyond their control were making decisions that affected the local. So I think the realignment that ultimately came to full fruit in 1980 has lots of variables that we have to understand against the backdrop of international understandings the Cold War brought home to local communities in the US.”
10 / prediction
“Let’s say I am 20 years old, not married, not a parent, but I expect someday I’ll be a parent.”
11 / commitment
“My children sometimes speak at other animals that are around. I refuse to repeat any of those names.”
12 / prediction
“What’s really happening is 65-, 70-, and 75-year-old farmers are moving to the town where they go out to dinner, or where they play golf, or where the assisted-living facilities are because they’re going to age and they’re going to retire in the community they’re from.”
13 / prediction
“We’d have to define both progressive and ornery, but I think your list, just the fact that they’re Missouri-dependent, and we’re not Iowa-dependent, means we win.”
14 / evaluation
“Right now in our superstar culture, we think you’re supposed to do what you’ve always done, which is put up the kind of numbers he put up, and he wanted his team to win, and he was a contributor.”
15 / preference
“I’m actually a fan of the older 19th-century British Lancasterian system, where when possible, you have these somewhat older children teach the younger children, and the older children also learn through teaching — not just by being students — and you mix roles that way because you have a natural way to mix ages where there’s some rationale for it.”
16 / preference
“And I don’t think you can think meaningfully about generations without thinking a little bit about procreation. So, even though I 100 percent wanted to avoid sex because I think we don’t have enough commonality, and I didn’t want to be drawn into culture wars anywhere in this book.”
17 / prediction
“The vast majority of transformation of industrial economy jobs is because of technology, and we’re pretending it’s because of trade because it’s easier to come up with a way to try to demonize somebody.”
18 / evaluation
“Because when you go into books, and you go to different kinds of stories, and obviously, you’ve just written a really important nonfiction book, and this this a nonfiction book, but one of the reasons why it’s critically important for our teens to read fiction is, they need to be transported to other times and places.”
19 / prediction
“Wisdom’s too big of a word, but at the level of analytics, we’re not thinking at all, or we’re not thinking nearly aggressively enough about what’s happening as we transition from what I think of as the third-stage economy — industrialization — to this fourth-stage economy, where you’ve gone from hunter-gatherers to agrarianism to industrialization, mass urbanization, mass immigration to this new thing, which we don’t even know how to talk about yet.”
20 / evaluation
“There are things that I don’t think we’ve thought nearly enough about ways that professional school models should diverge from traditional, theoretical, academic disciplines or humanities, for example. But I really can’t blame the policy schools for that, fundamentally, because I think the bigger problem is that we don’t know how to have a big agenda-setting conversation about what policies we should be fighting over.”
21 / preference
“You want people who really are not bashful about trying to lay out pros and cons of both their position and everybody else’s position in the room and fight really, really hard. But then finally, when you pull the trigger and make a decision, I want people on a team who don’t remember what side they fought for because this was the decision we made.”