Rohit Krishnan is a VC and essayist who writes the ‘Strange Loop Canon’ newsletter in which he tries to understand the ever increasing complexity of our world. You can follow Rohit on Twitter at https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ Show Notes:

• Douglas Hofstadter’s Strange Loop
• Memory as an unreliable narrator
• Are we seeing a decline in eccentricity?
• The Great Reshuffle
• We need more Thiel-style patrons
• Why do big companies suck at innovation?
• Importance of failure
• Reducing the cost of failure
• Universal Basic Income/Dividend
• Maximizing EV vs. Maximizing hit rate
• Are governments inefficient?
• Fragility of jobs
• World in 2050

Books Recommended:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach; by Douglas Hofstadter
• I Am a Strange Loop; by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Misbehavior of Markets; by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson