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# Hi Tyler
- URL: https://andys.blog/tyler-2/
- Published: 2025-11-23T09:59:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-23T16:00:34.000Z
- Author: Andy Trattner

We met once before, on Thursday October 29 2020 around 4pm PT over zoom. During the quick circle of [Interact](https://joininteract.com/?ref=andys.blog) intros, I was the odd one out, recently [funemployed](https://world.hey.com/tratt/funemployed-2bb8db34?ref=andys.blog) and Guayaquil-bound. You responded enthusiastically with some recommendations.

That book club and celebrity debrief of [*Stubborn Attachments*](https://press.stripe.com/stubborn-attachments?ref=andys.blog) changed how I [view the world](https://andytrattner.com/influences?ref=andys.blog). Somehow the book landed much more squarely for me than your (also amazing) [80,000 Hours interview](https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/tyler-cowen-stubborn-attachments/?ref=andys.blog) with Rob. Thank you.

I'm a huge [fan](https://andys.blog/tyler/) 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](https://world.hey.com/tratt/i-got-tatted-a630de36?ref=andys.blog). You do an exceptional job at making ideas [legible](https://andys.blog/legibility/) 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](https://andys.blog/altruism/) and [capitalism](https://andys.blog/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](https://x.com/andytrattner%5F/status/1991866171122200932?s=20&ref=andys.blog) 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:

- Original "white paper" essay: [Altruistic Alignment](https://andytrattner.com/alignment?ref=andys.blog) (8/24/25).
- Recent corollary conjecture: [The Future of Loving Grace](https://andys.blog/future/) (11/22/25).
- The starter program: [Ampersand U](https://ampersandu.com/deets?ref=andys.blog) (live, $100k+ already deployed).
- Youtube channel: [70 second intro trailer](https://youtu.be/ok%5FtO7yqfr4?si=HhlSbF8JgKAx%5Ff2C&ref=andys.blog)

Thanks for being you and producing all you do, in service of growing [the internet](https://andys.blog/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](https://www.ivoine.dev/?ref=andys.blog)!! bcc)

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