i'm not sure there's an eternal solution, but i think there are policy semi solutions that at least are good for 20 or 30 years. If we're trying to figure out what makes sillican valley work, actually, by studying how they did what they did in the florentine renaissance is highly iportant. You'll learn what are the missing inputs that make for other kinds of miracles. Ireland and writing would be another example. There's something about the input to some kinds of production we don't understand.
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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