Chapters
Not a wheelchair
00:00:00 - 00:01:12
JerryrigEverything built a wheelchair. Faster, cheaper, better. https://notawheelchair.com/
Logarithmic intuition
00:01:13 - 00:02:38
Grant Sanderson talking to Dwarkesh Patel about mathematical intuition (Dwarkesh podcast)
Content with being big and important
00:02:39 - 00:04:19
From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
Our colleagues, the economists
00:04:20 - 00:06:12
From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
Useful and competent technicians, like dentists
00:06:13 - 00:08:47
From Chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
Surrogate endpoints
00:08:48 - 00:11:20
Ruxandra Teslo discusses the challenge of identifying and developing new surrogate endpoints for clinical trials, with Saloni Dattani and Ben Southwood. (Works in Progress podcast)
Solving political problems
00:11:21 - 00:13:09
From chapter 2 of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
- 0:00: Not a wheelchair - JerryrigEverything built a wheelchair. Faster, cheaper, better. https://notawheelchair.com/
- 1:13: Logarithmic intuition - Grant Sanderson talking to Dwarkesh Patel about mathematical intuition (Dwarkesh podcast)
- 2:39: Content with being big and important - From chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
- 4:20: Our colleagues, the economists - From chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
- 6:13: Useful and competent technicians, like dentists - From chapter 17 of Dan Davies' The Unaccountability Machine.
- 8:48: Surrogate endpoints - Ruxandra Teslo discusses the challenge of identifying and developing new surrogate endpoints for clinical trials, with Saloni Dattani and Ben Southwood. (Works in Progress podcast)
- 11:21: Solving political problems - From chapter 2 of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.