i worry if you have too many people move into this uniquely weird, divers monoculture, you could wreck it. i'm not sure that will stay on the right track, but i've seen four or five pretty encouraging signs. There's a 30 % chance we're on the verge of climbing out of the great stagnation. Am, are we still in the great stagnation? Probably. But the last year, i've seen a lot of signs, partial signs, we're getting out of it. And i feel that every time i come here. It's great. Contrarianism overrated. That's the strasian answer.
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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