Car Rides with Tyler

Listened to Tyler and Steven Pinker discuss the liberal enlightenment's backsliding tendencies on the drive from Vegas to Phoenix last night. Aside from confirming the decline of Harvard, it gave me an interesting reference class and new lens in which to view &U. Grok very aggressively agrees!

Also heard George Selgin and Tyler discuss "What Really Ended the Great Depression". I never considered before that it was less than 100 years ago when the United States first seriously contemplated fiat money.

History is short. Sapiens was a timely book which is underrated as "duh" today.

Selgin makes some fascinating points about the idea that the FOMC could be replaced with a computer. It seems Milton Friedman first suggested this 13 years after we officially entered the government bubble in 1971. Then Bitcoin launched a mere 24 years later.

The more I learn about history, the more I see we have yet to learn our lessons from the last couple hundred years. Incentive structures and human nature hold us back from achieving rational greatness. We need more wise young leaders capable of harnessing the masses (and the experts) to better steer this ship called America.

Next up on my playlist is finishing Ray Dalio on DOAC.