Episode description

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