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Infinite Loops


Mar 3, 2022

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