Gregory Washington: How can society get better at finding talent and why is it so difficult? Tyler Cowen: I think it’s so difficult because it’s… Read More »Tyler Cowen on Talent (1): Talent Spotting as Art, and Overrated / Underrated
Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison have a thing about the speed of scientific progress, and progress and innovation in general. They say the pace of… Read More »Action. Now. Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison’s FastGrants
When I first finished reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch in my early twenties, I resolved to live by her concluding insight that even unhistoric acts, small… Read More »Patricia Fara on cumulative unhistoric acts
These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.When… Read More »Generations: Tyler Cowen on faith in the future
More links below [Even since 1990] the U.S. standard of living has increased by a factor of five to seven, estimated conservatively, and possibly much… Read More »Not long ago; or, Little by little (5): Tyler Cowen on progress in living standards since 1900
Not really. But we did fly past six-thousand views in early June thanks to Tyler Cowen re-tweeting a link to this post about reading. The… Read More »DC goes exponential
There are network effects between books / knowledge gained from books; Not all network connections are created equal; New books within your areas of experience… Read More »Broker books
This is a great riff on how reading works and on the network effects of reading. Links below. Tyler says: … I go through five… Read More »Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and reading widely
The thing that I’m recommending for a lot of people now is to find a sphere of activity, no matter how small or how local,… Read More »A project
Our age right now – this might change – is obsessed with inequality. And it disturbs me deeply that inequality is conflated with poverty. They’re… Read More »Russ Roberts on inequality and poverty