The Joe Walker Podcast

Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen

Dec 31, 2022

48:21

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Introduction

2min

The Jolly Swagman Podcast - Tyler Cowan and Daniel Gross

2min

Interview Questions You Should Ask Daniel Gross - Talent Interview Questions

2min

Emergent Ventures - Who's the Most Undervalued Individual You've Invested In?

2min

How Do You Filter for Non Crazy?

2min

Do You Deserve to Succeed?

3min

The UFO Question Tyler, What Percent Are You Less Rational About?

2min

Oswald Johnson, Keynes's Essays and Biography

1min

Biography Is Not Formulaic and Successful Life

2min

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How to Spot Pathbreaking or Shattering Genius

2min

11.

Henry George and the Yimbee Movement

2min

12.

Is There a Potential False Positive?

2min

13.

What Should Obi-Wan Have Telled Anakin Skywalker?

2min

14.

Do You Back Keats? Or What Would You Ask Him?

2min

15.

Emergent Ventures Grants - What Have You Learned?

3min

16.

Why Context Is That Which Is Rare

3min

17.

The Tyranny of Distance

2min

18.

How Do You Prep the Gospels?

2min

19.

The Importance of Context in Talent Acquisition

2min

20.

The Trade-Off Between Collaborative Action and Individualism in Australia

3min

21.

What Makes Australian Talent Unique?

2min

22.

Australia Is a Wonderful Place to Live

3min

In the long run, talent allocation is almost everything. But as a society, we're not actually very good at it. The question of how to reliably match people with jobs they are well suited for is one of the big unsolved problems of our times.

Joe catches up with return guest Tyler Cowen to discuss the art of identifying talent. Tyler is a professor of economics at George Mason University and host of the podcast Conversations with Tyler. He is also the co-author of a new book, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World.

Full transcript available at: thejspod.com

Episode recorded: 18 May 2022.

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The Joe Walker Podcast

Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen

Do You Deserve to Succeed?

Emergent Ventures Grants - What Have You Learned?

What Should Obi-Wan Have Telled Anakin Skywalker?

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