If it a, if it turns out to have been a good thing. An in, let's say i's assessed from 20 years from now, right? Why will that have been the case? It could be there's something about the diverse monoculture of the american coasts that wasn't as good as we thought and was more resented than we thought. Quite possibly that was a bad idea. And again, i don't prefer the way. Maybe we're getting off that path. But if we were going to get off it anyway, this might be the least painful way, at least possibly. I worry a great deal about the associated risks, but again, iDon't
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is the conversation Patrick wanted to have with Tyler, not the one you wanted to have.
Happily Patrick stayed true to the spirit of Conversations with Tyler, and their dialogue covers a wide range of topics including the the benefits of diverse monocultures, the state of macroeconomics, Donald Trump, the amazing economics faculty at GMU, Peter Thiel, Brian Eno, Thomas Schelling, why Twitter is underrated, and — most pressing of all — why Marginal Revolution is so strange looking.
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Recorded January 25th, 2017 Other ways to connect
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