Successful clustersa places have the right kind of diverse monoculture. But they also tend to be stimulated by some major outside influences, such as in the renaissance. Just like here, part of the prod is moor's law: My goodness, what can we do now? And we're gain to exhaust all those possibilities as quickly as we can. You need to be weird and have a theory of your own weirdness that's different from what you actually are. It's inspiring. So i i wanto actually to get back to the topic of weirdness a little bit later on. Many in silican valley are talking bout the idea of universal basic income - which makes logical sense
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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