Venkatesh Rao is the founder of Ribbonfarm and the author of Breaking Smart.

“I would say I was blind and deaf and did not know anything about how the world worked until I was about 25. It took until almost 35 before I actually cut loose from the script. The script is a very, very powerful thing. The script wasn’t working for me.”

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Show Notes:


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[3:00] "Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater" (Ribbonfarm • Jan 2012)
[5:00] "You Are Not an Artisan" (Ribbonfarm • July 2013)
[6:00] Breaking Smart: Season 1
[11:00] "Why Software Is Eating the World" (Marc Andreessen • Wall Street Journal • Aug 2011)
[19:00] Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Philip E. Tetlock • Crown • 2015)
[31:00] "The End of History?" (Francis Fukuyama • The National Interest • 1989) [pdf]
[39:00] Quora
[48:00] "Deep Play" (Aeon • Nov 2013)
[48:00] "The American Cloud" (Aeon • July 2013)
[48:00] "Why Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War" (The Atlantic • Oct 2015)