2021 Emergent Ventures winner "Kyle Schiller, to study possibilities for nuclear fusion". 2025 see below. Other than Peter Theil does anyone have a better track record in picking winners than @tylercowen?

See, @captgouda24, we can learn a lot from fiction

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In the first episode of Bluechip Dialogues, sponsored by @bluechip_org, @tylercowen talks with me about the promise of stablecoins, why some frothy financial innovation is a part of a good system, and where @paulkrugman errs in his stablecoin views. Also at @spotify and @YouTube under Bluechip Dialogues.

For example, it's not exactly a secret that Feynman's third marriage was open. Or that Oppenheimer seduced many of his colleagues' wives. But it wasn't their job to present to the world as steady handed business leaders, nor did they stake their authority on some kind of appeal to superior morality. Their reaction to being caught on the Jumbotron gave them away - mens rea.

He's a hired CEO, his main job is to not seem like an idiot. Integrity etc is important but further down the list. Plenty of people have <100% monogamous relationships, humans are lightly evolved monkeys, mostly with surprisingly little drama. But if you're a professional suit, your image is very important. If you cannot be discreet in your personal life, you cannot be trusted to be the face of a company that employees and customers depend on. The board firing these two also reveals a relatively obscure fact. Media will often depict CEOs as all powerful and high agency villains who, for example, destroy the world by making cheap gasoline. But in 99.99% of companies, the CEO is extremely disposable, as we have just been reminded. Their job is demanding and failure is not permitted. Note: It's much easier to avoid being caught having an extra-marital affair by simply not having an affair.

You can almostly perfectly predict a country's position on joint debt issuance in the Eurozone with one variable: their debt/gdp ratio. That's pretty telling.

My colleague @tylercowen on the importance of tolerating "froth" in an innovative financial system. From the first episode of Bluechip Dialogues hosted by us at @bluechip_org, the stablecoin rating agency. Full episode Monday at 8am here on X and wherever you get podcasts!

Three years on this boat and I’ve not once plugged into shore power, used the inverter, or any of the AC wiring. That’s a lot of 10 gauge tinned wire already optimally routed. Just thinking out loud here. Reasons to keep AC outlets?

July 20, 1969. “Contact light, engine stop.” The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon. A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by. An achievement resulting from years of incalculable effort, commitment, and team work. We all did our part to see President Kennedy’s words become reality: “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others too.” I couldn’t be prouder to have completed this mission with the hundreds of thousands of people that helped get us to the moon and back home. God bless the USA and all of humankind.