I find it very interesting to study relatively recent development, such as mormonism. It feels funny to people that somehow when you have religious narratives that are recent, they sound weirder than ones that are old. Ah, possibly im more of a fan of monotheism than religion per se. I agree with hegel tat, with hegel's remarks on polytheism. That may not be conducive to political orter. And i think green so often's an ugly color. But i thought the notion that we would deliberately choose an ugly color was a good idea. Why does it look so strange? Does it look strange? Marginal revolutionyes. It looks old.
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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