#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking

How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world. He started as employee #3, learned from Brad Jacobs (who built ei ...  Show more

Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for twe ...  Show more

Tyler Cowen is one of the top thinkers in the world: the thinkers’ thinker. A professor of economics at George Mason University, he has one of the most popular economics sites on the internet, Marginal Revolution, where he’s blogged every day for over 20 years. It also runs the o ...  Show more

Since the pandemic, the world has had to learn how to navigate change. Factors like political extremism, the Great Resignation, the market downturn, etc. have impacted everyone, especially young people. America has a problem with prioritizing the wealth of older generations and k ...  Show more

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Scott discusses how declining birth rates could impact Disney and other businesses that rely on younger consumers. He then reflects on his journey in academia and offers advice to a listener navigating a teaching career. Finally, he shares strategies for managing energy and overc ...  Show more