Infinite Loops

Rohit Krishnan — Ideas for the Future (EP.94)

Mar 3, 2022

01:13:52

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Rohit Krishnan

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The Importance of Attempting Things

02:27

The Future of Jobs

03:01

I'm Not Worried About the Right Tale

05:33

You Only Get Better by Failing

04:21

Introduction

2min

I Am a Strange Loop

3min

My Dinner With Andrea

3min

I Love Your Essay on Eccentricity

2min

Are We Just Not Seeing as Many Eccentrics?

6min

What Did Physicists Think About the Internet?

6min

Supporting Living Artists

3min

I Love the Idea of Human Ingenuity

3min

I Think We Need to Be a Little Bit Crazy, So to Speak

4min

10.

Is There Any Evidence That Mobile Phones Will Be a Thing?

3min

11.

What I Wanted to Do With That Folio

2min

12.

Global Clearing Is Not Rocket Sins Redy, It Really Is

3min

13.

Is There a Future in Finance?

2min

14.

You Only Get Better by Failing

4min

15.

The Universal Trait Is That You're Going to Fall Down

2min

16.

I'm Not Worried About the Right Tale

6min

17.

Do You Think We Need One, Claud Shannon?

4min

18.

I've Never Seen This Many Leverage Points in My Life

6min

19.

The Future Is the Old Joke, the Gold Watch

3min

20.

Is There a Dark Period?

6min

21.

What's Your I Am in Substack?

4min

Rohit Krishnan is a VC and essayist who writes the ‘Strange Loop Canon’ newsletter in which he tries to understand the ever increasing complexity of our world. You can follow Rohit on Twitter at https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ Show Notes:

Douglas Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
Memory as an unreliable narrator
Are we seeing a decline in eccentricity?
The Great Reshuffle
We need more Thiel-style patrons
Why do big companies suck at innovation?
Importance of failure
Reducing the cost of failure
Universal Basic Income/Dividend
Maximizing EV vs. Maximizing hit rate
Are governments inefficient?
Fragility of jobs
World in 2050

Books Recommended:

Gödel, Escher, Bach; by Douglas Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop; by Douglas Hofstadter
The Misbehavior of Markets; by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson

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Infinite Loops

Rohit Krishnan — Ideas for the Future (EP.94)

Episode guests

The Importance of Attempting Things

The Future of Jobs

I'm Not Worried About the Right Tale

You Only Get Better by Failing

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