Conversations with Tyler

What Conversations with Tyler Says About Reading

8 episodes about reading

Economist and polymath Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the worl...

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Synchron's BCI device avoids skull surgery by threading through blood vessels, modeled after cardiac stents

  • Meta's mind-reading project achieved high accuracy using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to decode brain activity while participants typed sentences
  • John advises founders to 'pick one thing and go deep on it personally' rather than spreading focus across multiple growth paths
  • Reading Too Big to Fail reminded John that 'despite the headlines, life goes on' during economic uncertainty
  • Churchill's 'wilderness years' of painting and reading poetry weren't torture but essential preparation for the marathon ahead, similar to pandemic forced breaks
  • Day 80 concludes the desert wanderings period and the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy
  • Day 99 begins the first messianic checkpoint with seven days reading through the Gospel of John
  • Father Mike Schmitz leads day 70 of The Bible in a Year podcast, reading Numbers 22, Deuteronomy 23, and Psalm 105

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