i agree with everything you've just said. I often make this case that i was born in 19 60 so on, kind of a cusp exer, or tail end of the baby boom. There is so much more that people can do that it's just like, i am like super, just incredibly chuffed that i am alive. And we need to continually remind ourselves, i think, of that, and not fall into that trap. We are living in a world we're doing a series called the great reshuffl - our thesis is time, space, geography have all collapsed. For the first time, individuals who would never have met each other, who would never has interacted
Rohit Krishnan is a VC and essayist who writes the ‘Strange Loop Canon’ newsletter in which he tries to understand the ever increasing complexity of our world. You can follow Rohit on Twitter at https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ Show Notes:
- Douglas Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
- Memory as an unreliable narrator
- Are we seeing a decline in eccentricity?
- The Great Reshuffle
- We need more Thiel-style patrons
- Why do big companies suck at innovation?
- Importance of failure
- Reducing the cost of failure
- Universal Basic Income/Dividend
- Maximizing EV vs. Maximizing hit rate
- Are governments inefficient?
- Fragility of jobs
- World in 2050
Books Recommended:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach; by Douglas Hofstadter
- I Am a Strange Loop; by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Misbehavior of Markets; by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson