review leadership March 2025 Tyler Cowen (wikipedia) is a popular economist in silicon valley circles, administrator for Mercatus / Emergent Ventures, and has hosted a podcast from quite some time: Conversations with Tyler | Listen to Tyler Cowen’s Official Podcast. He covers a lot of ground in this engaging podcast with Dwarkesh Patel:
https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/tyler-cowen-4
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY2nbAVZB-k
Some takeaways
- Kids on either side of performance/aptitude benchmarks bell curves are improving but it appears that the middle is stuck, lowering the averages.
- Beatles versus Rolling Stones. While the Rolling Stones are still around, the Beatles are more successful from a sales perspective but definitely not from touring revenue.
- Write for AI. They will trawl all content and will shape how they (and others) will see us.
- There is a strong tendancy of the worst in society to rise to the top. https://fee.org/resources/the-road-to-serfdom-chapter-10-why-the-worst-get-on-top/
- Time versus money scarcity
- Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
- We Need a New Science of Progress