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E71: Risk Taking, Contrarianism, and Growth [Byrne on Interintellect]
In this episode, Byrne Hobart joined Matjaž Leonardis in Austin for an Interintellect salon — a platform for 21st-century intellectual discourse—to discuss his new book Boom: Bubbles at the End of Stagnation, exploring how technological advancements, market paradoxes, and historical and modern financial bubbles — from the Manhattan Project to cryptocurrencies — reveal the complex dynamics between innovation, ideology, ambition, and hyper-financialization in a nonpolitical, high-quality conversation among leading and emerging thinkers.
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Highlights from the Episode:
Two Types of Bubbles: Extrapolation bubbles predict transformative future changes unlike the past, while mean reversion bubbles project an intensified continuation of past trends.
Financial Markets and Risk-Taking: Financial markets can both encourage and inhibit innovation.
Talent Allocation: The sectors where talented individuals choose to work—shifting historically from government to the private sector to finance—profoundly shape the direction and nature of society’s major innovations and projects.
Different Investment Approaches: George Soros - Identifies momentum and rides bubbles up, then exits when sentiment changes.
Bubbles and Progress: Many transformative bubbles involve building multiple things in parallel that wouldn't make sense individually.
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LINKS:
Byrne’s writing: https://thediff.co
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By Byrne Hobart, Erik Torenberg
4.8
2020 ratings
In this episode, Byrne Hobart joined Matjaž Leonardis in Austin for an Interintellect salon — a platform for 21st-century intellectual discourse—to discuss his new book Boom: Bubbles at the End of Stagnation, exploring how technological advancements, market paradoxes, and historical and modern financial bubbles — from the Manhattan Project to cryptocurrencies — reveal the complex dynamics between innovation, ideology, ambition, and hyper-financialization in a nonpolitical, high-quality conversation among leading and emerging thinkers.
Interintellect is a creator platform for intellectual seekers to host salons for the 21st century.
Join the conversation at https://interintellect.com.
Attend or host salons. Connect with our community of intellectual seekers.
For a limited time, members go to all salons for free!
---
Highlights from the Episode:
Two Types of Bubbles: Extrapolation bubbles predict transformative future changes unlike the past, while mean reversion bubbles project an intensified continuation of past trends.
Financial Markets and Risk-Taking: Financial markets can both encourage and inhibit innovation.
Talent Allocation: The sectors where talented individuals choose to work—shifting historically from government to the private sector to finance—profoundly shape the direction and nature of society’s major innovations and projects.
Different Investment Approaches: George Soros - Identifies momentum and rides bubbles up, then exits when sentiment changes.
Bubbles and Progress: Many transformative bubbles involve building multiple things in parallel that wouldn't make sense individually.
--
SPONSORS:
NetSuite
More than 41,000 businesses have already upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle, the #1 cloud financial system bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, HR, into ONE proven platform. Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine learning: https://netsuite.com/102
---
LINKS:
Byrne’s writing: https://thediff.co
---
X / TWITTER:
https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart (Byrne)
https://twitter.com/TurpentineMedia (Turpentine)
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