Author and thinker Virginia Postrel joins me to talk about California’s past, present, and future, from anti-growth politics to the rise of AI. We get into what dynamism really means, why creative destruction is inevitable, and how housing and regulation shape everything.

00:00 Intro  

03:58 California's Changing Landscape: A Historical Perspective  

07:43 Political Shifts: The Republican Party's Decline in California  

10:27 Change in the California Ideology  

16:24 CA vs. TX  

22:45 The Impact of AI  

27:22 AI Displacing White Collar Jobs  

30:50 We've Seen This Before  

37:30 Lessons for California's Future 

Keywords: California, Virginia Postrel, AI, housing crisis, innovation, future of work, white collar unemployment, creative destruction, economic resilience, California politics, The Future and Its Enemies, Silicon Valley, zoning laws, startup culture, bits vs atoms, California regulation, elite overproduction, laissez-faire, local knowledge