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Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers.

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Timestamps:

(0:00:00) - Byrne's one big idea: stagnation

(0:05:50) -Has regulation caused stagnation?

(0:14:00) - FDA retribution

(0:15:15) - Embryo selection

(0:17:32) - Patient longtermism

(0:21:02) - Are there secret societies?

(0:26:53) - College, optionality, and conformity

(0:34:40) - Differentiated credentiations underrated?

(0:39:15) - WIll contientiousness increase in value?

(0:44:26) - Why aren't rationalists more into finance?

(0:48:04) - Rationalists are bad at changing the world.

(0:52:20) - Why read more?

(0:57:10) - Does knowledge have increasing returns?

(1:01:30) - How to escape the middle career trap?

(1:04:48) - Advice for young people

(1:08:40) - How to learn about a subject?

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