From the New World Tyler Cowen: The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions
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Ontario Talent
- Tyler Cowen is excited by applications from Ontario, Canada due to a high concentration of talented children of immigrants.
- These individuals demonstrate ambition and intelligence early on.
Artisanal Selection
- Limit the scope of your talent search to cultivate a more artisanal selection process.
- Prioritize a smaller number of evaluators over formulaic committees.
Power Attractors
- Tyler Cowen believes attacking established power centers can be counterproductive.
- He suggests focusing on building alternatives instead of direct confrontation.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Is It a Clustering Effect?
02:26 • 3min
Toronto Is North America's Third City
05:14 • 2min
Do You Have a Small Number of Evaluators in Emergent Ventures?
06:54 • 2min
Building Alternative Institutions Is Not Effective Altruism, Right?
08:37 • 3min
I'm a Libertarian, I'd Like to Be a Democrat, but I Don't Know What You Mean
11:37 • 1min
Is Libertarianism Going to Win or Succeed?
13:05 • 3min
The Management Revolution - I've Never Loved Burnham
16:11 • 2min
I'm Not a Libertarian, but I Think They're Vedy Attracted
17:50 • 2min
I Don't Think I Have Any Kind of Effective Strategy Myself.
19:53 • 2min
Is There a Paradox Behind Localism?
21:47 • 3min
Events Will Change People's Minds
24:40 • 2min
The Na - I'm Not Sure if I'm Fooling Myself Here Either.
26:17 • 2min
Will the New Group Be Any Better?
28:12 • 2min
New Ideas Come From the Internet, Even Bad Ones
30:12 • 3min
Is There a Trend Among Among Generations?
33:31 • 3min
Is Millennials the Biggest Achievement?
36:32 • 2min
Is There a Relationship Between Innovation and Gay Individuals?
38:30 • 2min
Woke Activism Is a Waste of Resources and Pushing for Bad Ends
40:56 • 2min
I Think It's Too Early to Judge, Like Gobad.
42:48 • 3min
Do You Think the World Needs More Wokeness?
45:58 • 3min
Can They Do Anything Sustainable?
48:41 • 2min
Do You Suffer Under It?
50:46 • 3min
Is There a Wokism for Women's Rights in India?
53:21 • 2min
The Importance of Intent in Organizational Performance
55:44 • 2min
Those Are the Main Changes Being Made Because of Woke
57:21 • 2min
The Cultural Atmosphere of the United States Has Frozen
59:16 • 4min
Youthing
01:03:13 • 2min
I Think the Wrightwing Populists Aren't Quite Ready for I Go On
01:04:48 • 2min
Is It a Move of the Uncaring Elits?
01:06:34 • 2min
How to Detach From the Right Versus the Left Struggle
01:08:18 • 5min
Youway, I'm More Optimistic Than You
01:13:19 • 2min
Do You Give the FDA the Authority to Band Vaccines or Not?
01:15:45 • 2min
The Fda and the FTC in Testing, I'm Not Sure of Your Agreeing
01:17:46 • 2min
Vaccines - The Biggest Challenge
01:19:30 • 2min
Is There a Fda Process?
01:21:32 • 3min
Are You Looking for Confidence?
01:24:40 • 3min
Are You Seeing That Kind of Confidence Involving Cryptocurrency?
01:27:13 • 2min
The United States Is a Very High Variance Country, Right?
01:28:55 • 2min
Is There a Relationship Between Intelligence and Innovation?
01:30:33 • 2min
Do You See This as a Systematic Prollem of Incentives?
01:32:18 • 2min
How to Think About Your Own Talent
01:34:34 • 3min
The Mandate of Heaven Is Like This
01:37:30 • 3min
What Is Something That Has Too Much Chaos and Needs More Chaos?
01:40:15 • 2min
The Inevitability of Social Systems
01:42:06 • 4min
Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and writer of the legendary blog Marginal Revolution alongside Alex Tabarrok. We discuss talent, Ontario, immigrants, institutional trust, power attractors, the Intellectual Dark Web, public health, the internet, generation Z, the significance of social change versus technology, upsides of wokeness, populism, imposter syndrome, self-deception, and corporate hiring.
Marginal Revolution
https://marginalrevolution.com/
Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
https://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Identify-Energizers-Creatives-Winners/dp/1250275814
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/tylercowen
From the New World Episode with Zvi Mowshowitz:
https://cactus.substack.com/p/zvi-mowshowitz-how-the-worst-people
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