Our universities are broken. The academy is a circlejerk. Our intellectuals have failed us. To nurture a Knowledge Society, we need to rethink how we make knowledge, how we diffuse it, and how we use it to make the world a better place.
Welcome to Episode 24 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Teaser and packaging
01:04 Introduction: Why Knowledge Matters
07:39 Chapter 1: The Production of Knowledge
21:13 Chapter 2: The Diffusion of Knowledge
28:33 Chapter 3: Using Knowledge to Improve the World
31:17 Chapter 4: The Academic Circlejerk
39:58 Chapter 5: Modern Sources of Knowledge
43:35 Chapter 6: Why This is a Golden Age for Creators
46:49 Chapter 7: The Long Game
1:01:14 Chapter 8: Amit's Recco
1:02:54 Chapter 9: Ajay's Recco
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
2. Ajay on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: [ Ссылка ]
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: [ Ссылка ])
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: [ Ссылка ]
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: [ Ссылка ]
7. Three Great Leaps by Firms -- Episode 22 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
8. Homeopathic Faith (2010) -- Amit Varma: [ Ссылка ]
9. Are You Just One Version of Yourself: Episode 3 of Everything is Everything, with Chapter 4 on Hydroponics: [ Ссылка ]
10. Do prestigious science journals attract bad science? -- Julia Belluz: [ Ссылка ]
11. DARPA: [ Ссылка ]
12. Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World -- Episode 321 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
13. A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia -- Episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah): [ Ссылка ]
14. Agnes Callard on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
15. Publish and Perish -- Agnes Callard: [ Ссылка ]
16. Marginal Revolution -- Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok's blog: [ Ссылка ]
17. Politics and the English Language -- George Orwell: [ Ссылка ]
18. How Cormac McCarthy Became a Copy-Editor for Scientific Books and One of the Most Influential Articles in Economics: [ Ссылка ]
19. Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness -- Paul Smaldino & Joshua Epstein: [ Ссылка ]
20. The Four Quadrants of Conformism -- Paul Graham: [ Ссылка ]
21. The Beauty of Finance -- Episode 21 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
22. The Incredible Insights of Timur Kuran -- Episode 349 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
23. If You Are a Creator, This Is Your Time -- Amit Varma: [ Ссылка ]
24. Sturgeon's Law: [ Ссылка ]
25. How to Think About Cricket (and Life) -- Episode 19 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
26. Manifold Destiny -- Sylvia Nasar & David Gruber: [ Ссылка ]
27. The Bastiat Prize: [ Ссылка ]
28. The Incredible Insights of Bastiat and Hayek -- Episode 6 of Everything is Everything: [ Ссылка ]
29. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice -- Christopher Hitchens: [ Ссылка ]
30. The Case Against Education -- Bryan Caplan: [ Ссылка ]
31. Unelected Power -- Paul Tucker: [ Ссылка ]
Produced by Amit Varma
Shot by Vaishnav Vyas and Jenil Joshi: [ Ссылка ] & [ Ссылка ]_
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: [ Ссылка ]
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: [ Ссылка ]
Chapter images & additional illustrations by Simahina: [ Ссылка ]
