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TiB 121: The geopolitics of digital currencies; how to avoid a civil war; experiments in techno-populism; and more... #121 Jun 30, 2020
TiB 120: How to build a culture of building; 12,000 years of economic growth; coronavirus and inequality; and more... #120 Jun 23, 2020
TiB 119: Internet diplomacy in 2020; AI that writes poetry; startup ecosystems and art history; and more... #119 Jun 16, 2020
#118 Jun 9, 2020 TiB 118: How to predict the apocalypse; finding Hong Kong a new home; competition in science; and more... – This week: Refounding Hong Kong on the other side of the world; the damaging impact of competition in
#117 Jun 2, 2020 TiB 117: How progress happens; remote work and the end of Silicon Valley; how to allocate R&D spend; and more... – This week: how progress happens; remote work and the end (or reinforcement?) of Silicon Valley; how t
#116 May 26, 2020 TiB 116: The political consequences of remote work; communal genius; how markets obscure history; and more... – This week: the business model of communal genius; the political consequences of remote work; how mark
#115 May 19, 2020 TiB 115: "Too many entrepreneurs"; the geopolitics of the tech supply chain; "surprise" in science; and more... – This week: the geopolitics of the tech supply chain; surprise in science; "too many entrepreneurs"; a
#114 May 12, 2020 TiB 114: WTF happened in 1971; the power of machine learning in science; the court case that could destroy the EU; and more... – This week: what went wrong in 1971; the power of machine learning in science; the obscure court case
#113 May 5, 2020 TiB 113: When AI writes tax policy; a unified theory of innovation; can central banks learn to play politics; and more... – This week: what happens when an AI writes tax policy; a unified theory of innovation; why central ban
#112 Apr 28, 2020 TiB 112: Is Singapore too efficient? Network epistemology and VC. Where does the money of the rich end up? And more... – This week: does coronavirus suggest that Singapore is too efficient? Network epistemology and venture
#111 Apr 21, 2020 TiB 111: "Disrupting government"; Amazon's altruism; the moral foundations of capitalism; and more... – This week: A plan for disrupting government administration; the fragility of capitalism's moral found
#110 Apr 14, 2020 TiB 110: The new politics of central banking; existential risk; the upside of the Black Death (!); and more... – This week: the end of apolitical central banking; taking existential risk seriously; the upside(!) of
#109 Apr 7, 2020 TiB 109: China’s coronavirus dilemma; physical vs virtual economies; and a new moral framework for pandemic planning – This week: China, coronavirus and great power struggle; the changing value of physical and virtual ec
#108 Mar 31, 2020 TiB 108: All the money fit to print; the epistemology of coronavirus; pandemics in historical perspective; and more... – This week: Why we're all Modern Monetary Theorists now; the epistemology of coronavirus; pandemics in
#107 Mar 24, 2020 TiB 107: Will coronavirus lead to US-China conflict; debunking the Blitz spirit; and the limits of cost/benefit analysis – This week: coronavirus and the threat of US-China conflict; pandemics, cost/benefit analysis and mora
#106 Mar 17, 2020 TiB 106: Coronavirus and the clash of civilisations, the end of the the sovereign individual; and a glimpse of the brave new world of massive fiscal stimulus – Now all coronavirus, all the time: Coronavirus and the clash of civilisations; the end of the soverei
#105 Mar 10, 2020 TiB 105: What Bloomberg and Softbank have in common; why politicians got so old; how the decline of Rome made us rich; and more... – A coronavirus-free edition: the failure of "capital as a weapon" in politics and startups; why US pol
#104 Mar 3, 2020 TiB 104: How coronavirus will change politics; the Apollo Missions' lessons for government; the downsides of living forever; and more... – This week: Coronavirus and the end of an era in politics; what government can learn from the Apollo M
#103 Feb 25, 2020 TiB 103: Can machine learning save Communism; Coronavirus and authoritarianism; how to save science; and more... – This week: Coronavirus and authoritarianism's structural weakness; can machine learning save central
#102 Feb 18, 2020 TiB 102: Who's winning the war on cancer; Thiel on decadence and apocalypse; the future of community; and more... – This week: who's winning the war on cancer; Peter Thiel on decadence and apocalypse; the future of co
