Check out wealthfront.com/tim, take their risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and they’ll show you—for free–exactly the portfolio they’d put you in. The definition of half numbers is as follows: X½ for a country means that between 45% and 55% (i.e. Peter Thiel: You know, when I was an undergraduate, you still had some older professors who were polymaths, who knew a lot about a lot of different things. And that's sort of my starting bias. Maybe you still let the same percentage of people become partner, but the partners don't make quite as much money as before, or something like that. Keep on doing what you do!… so we don’t have to. Yeh. Another great podcast! But with Montana it is love. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”. And I think when I was talking about this in 2008, 2009, 2010 this was still a fringy view. Interesting that he interpreted Pinky as “P” especially since the little finger isn’t even used in traditional classical guitar. That ‘mental model’ I think neither describes the world very well nor is a useful guide for action. In fact, some of my good investor friends in Silicon Valley have millions of their own money in Wealthfront. All for self-marketing. Doesn’t seem to have made it past the concept though. I've been talking about this, the tech stagnation problem for the better part of a decade. I believe to be a true innovator, a scientist, an inventor and a fast learner you got to have only one quality, the rest is kind of optional – a truly open mind that is not attached to any theory, even (and to more extent so) your own theories, ideas, believes… That’s why I always have problems with authorities and any communities really that fall in love with “the right way”. Peter Thiel: Yeah, there are all sorts of things one can point to. Suggestion “he said, in effect, blah blah blah”. Peter Thiel: We had Great Expectations. I live in Seattle – we just walk in the rain, keep rain-friendly hairstyles & bring a change of shoes. Maybe you'd make the PhD programs much shorter. So there seems to be this generational thing. Somebody had to come up with a word for the thought police. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk. The terms Rom, meaning ‘man, husband’ (plural Roma), and Romany are believed to have derived from the Sanskrit doma-. While browsing the Annex of the survey, I noticed there was also interesting information about the percentages of people who speak a certain number of second languages. we all as kids told there are ways of doing thing in a right and wrong way, things we should and shouldn’t do, things we should think and say and things we shouldn’t…because of some “important” reason. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). He is a monster player and composer. But I think there were a lot of reasons to question this and reassess this for some time. Peter Thiel: But I would still be very hopeful that our account is really going to break through in the next few years. Her interest in foreign languages doesn’t stop there, however. Do you believe that if we assume that there was this early 1970s structural change in the economy, that it was largely a sort of manmade problem? As a minority female person, I have welcomed the current PC environment because shitty things are rarely being said anymore. Here’s some great stuff from the Goat Rodeo days with Edgar Meyer and Yo Yo Ma ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EcT5YzKhQ, I loved the podcast and was inspired by the umbrella quest, while doing some research to do this exercise duringa design thinking workshop I found out that the guy who fixed the umbrella problem is already up and running: http://kazbrella.com/pages/video , The problem is not the umbrella. He is bullied by bigoteers constantly. She also learned Spanish, French and Italian later in life. Raincoats are hands-free as well. Do come to Montana, Bozeman is the new ‘place’ (where everything has become sort of a ‘scene’) -everything is a trade off- but beautiful landscape, great skiing- don’t leave out taking in Missoula- very different vibe -great town. And I think that the universities were probably the most aggressive of these things I've called embedded growth obligations. She speaks English and Hebrew as native languages, and can also speak German, Spanish and even Japanese! Also, be sure to check this out. And somehow it's been very hard to have the sort of honest reset. (Actually, they overestimate their ability to evaluate people from inside their culture.) There's probably a way the universities could function if they did not grow. Peter Thiel: We had an offsite when I was running PayPal in spring of 2001. I have listened to all of your podcasts and love them, all but this was absolutely the best. While by his own admission not completely fluent in Italian, he speaks German, English and French fluently, and dubs his own movies into French. Playing multiple/uncommon musical instruments, learning interesting languages, Weinstein is a true example of a worldly person, as he also reflects it in his opinions. Quarks don't matter for chemistry, and chemistry's what matters on a human level. He expects you to follow his logical leaps. Well worth a few minutes: wealthfront.com/tim. We've had very talented people go into physics. Angela Merkel speaks at least 3 languages. And the strange thing is that in terms of sort of the macro economic indicators, the stock markets, the valuations of the larger companies, it's way beyond the .com peaks of 2000, in all in all sorts of ways. I think it's very complicated. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Using this method we collectively raise the quality of discourse on social media and the boundaries of Overton’s Window (or however you define societies many “windows”) can be pushed, challenged, widened, or completely removed. And then you can try to be honest and say the expectations are dialed down, or you can continue to say everything's great and it just happens not to be working out for you, but it's working out for people in general. What is really required to transcend this problematique is to teach people how to assume responsibility for their projections. I’ve always been a person asking “wrong” questions. (Thanks to Brian Oberkirch for the inspiration.). Eric is a bigoteer when he describes the Republican Convention is homophobic. So if the growth in 1970, things had just flat-lined, and you had 40 years of no growth, that would have been problematic. On that note, Tim it would be great if you had Ricky Gervais in the podcast. Eric Weinstein: Now, one of the things that's interesting to me is, is that when we talk like this, a lot of people are gonna say, "Wow, that's a lot of gloom and doom. the 2 for Germany indicates that if you ordered all Germans according to the number of languages spoken and asked the one in the middle, he or she would speak exactly two languages (so it is reasonable to say that a typical German speaks two languages). We don’t have Jarvis-tech just yet, but the porn industry of old brought us velcro rip-off pants, so that’s totally solvable until then. Natalie isn’t only an Oscar-winning actress, she’s also academically very gifted. And then if you were to say that all these fields, not much is happening, people just don't have the authority for this. As for design, people are freaking ass lazy, so you have to make it fun to get in & out of it. These celebrity polyglots not only deserve a bit of recognition for the number of languages they speak, but also because many of them came late to language learning and have gone on to accomplish great things. Eric Weinstein: They were highly transgressive. He would love that word. In the end, we’ll have had the courage, as palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware revealed, to live a life true to yourself, and not the life others expect of us. The reassessments never quite happened, but I would say I think we're now at the point where this is really gonna happen in the next two years to five years to decade. With gratitude for this podcast and all the others. Give it a test run. I need High Agents & geniuses. You get original designs from designers around the world. It will teach you how to avoid mis­takes with com­mas, pre­pos­i­tions, ir­reg­u­lar verbs, and much more. Just need hot models, kick ass tunes, & a “you’re a freak and you suck” if you don’t wear one campaign. 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