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Hi Tyler

We met once before, on Thursday October 29 2020 around 4pm PT over zoom. During the quick circle of Interact intros, I was the odd one out, recently funemployed and Guayaquil-bound. You responded enthusiastically with some recommendations.

That book club and celebrity debrief of Stubborn Attachments changed how I view the world. Somehow the book landed much more squarely for me than your (also amazing) 80,000 Hours interview with Rob. Thank you.

I'm a huge fan of yours. I appreciate your information density across a polymathic range, communicated at a wonderful scope and pace via questions that spur outsized audience curiosity. You do an exceptional job at making ideas legible and, as you say, bridging the gap between theory and practice.

I haven't yet read The Great Stagnation or Talent, but I'm familiar enough with you from afar, as well as certain key ideas, to suspect that I have an interesting theory to share. It might be worth a conversation on your or my podcast someday.

My theory reconciles altruism and capitalism. I propose a method which opens a door to Ayn Rand's ideal world without rupturing present-day society. Naturally, I expect us all to walk through this door, and potentially rather quickly. I am in the process of building it, and I think the frame is pretty much complete.

I see a lot of parallels in what you do with Emergent Ventures, but I hesitate to go into overmuch technical detail on this introductory email. My tag-lines also sound quite extreme and paradoxical, e.g. "by embodying capitalism's story I become homeless in theory but a billionaire in practice."

I trust you of all people might grok the source material as well or better than me:

Thanks for being you and producing all you do, in service of growing the internet and humanity's future cone of potential. I'm immensely grateful that you'd humor me. I sincerely look forward to engaging with you.

(thanks Ivoine!! bcc)