The Biggest Change in the Shortest Period of Time

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I find so much of america dispiritingly ugly, but i've learned to prefer that. That it keeps our minds open other things. And the towns that are in a way picture perfect, like ghent or bruge, or bergin, norway, where i just was, ah, that's stultifying. To grow up in paris, maybe now, at this point is limiting. It somehow can't be good for a public intellectual. I'm not sure i can rank anything as the very most extreme, but i first went to china 30 years ago, and i've been there many times since. The idea that you can see things changing almost in

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For this special retrospective episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to discuss the past year in conversations and more, including who was most challenging guest to prep for, the most popular—and the most underrated—conversation, a test of Tyler’s knowledge called “Name That Production Function,” listener questions from Twitter, how Tyler has boosted his productivity in the past year, and whether his book and movie picks from 2009 still hold up. 

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