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