Other academic fields, especially economics, has a common language. And sociology doesn't have the common framework. If an argument takes ten pages, it's almost certainly too complicated,. Right? So think many of us are here, so we can ask the question, and how do you read so much? By reading a lot. It took me 52 years to read that book. I'm a very, very slow reader. You're just miss suring the unit. If you think i read something quickly, i iemver. People don’t get that. 50.years is my average time for reading fiction. Maybe a little faster than most people. But within the normal bounds.
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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