Interviews Are Very Useful, but You Have to Be a Good Interviewer

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I find it remarkable, first of all, how few people lie. The people who just want to publish papers and get tenure will tell you that they don't have the mental vocabulary or frameworks to even concoct a good lie. And typically people who are making it up will collapse pretty quickly. So i think interviews are very useful, but you have to be a good interviewer. Ea, hard to do a so abot cracy, which you allude to a little bit in the book,. It's not out of fashion for emergent ventures or tyler cowan or daniel gross. But a lot of people to day are things about how aristocracy is a mistake, it's it

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