Venkatesh Rao
5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 28, 2016 by Venkatesh Rao · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Jan 28, 2016 neutral
Rao: Citing influential books is mostly social signaling of desired identity
“Influence is a very hard thing to quantify, and I think what we end up doing when we Talk about influential books is almost a social signaling game where you're trying to, like, advertise the identity you most want to inhabit right now to others.”
Jan 28, 2016 positive
Rao: Partnering with Andreessen Horowitz shifted his views toward libertarianism
“One obvious effect that this work and project has had on me is it's made me a little bit more libertarian than I used to be. So previously I would say politically I was pretty nonpartisan. I would have described myself in 2013 as say a business conservative wh…”
Jan 28, 2016 negative
Rao: Tribal thinkers only ever make one decision: which tribe to join
“You have to understand sort of how their groups or tribes think and think of these individuals only in terms of which tribes they choose to join. So that's the only decision that ever matters in their life, which is which tribe should I join? Every other decis…”
Jan 28, 2016
Rao: Human decision-making divides into conceptual, ethical, and tribal archetypes
“So those are my three big buckets of types of human decision-making, and you and I think, represent the first kind, which is explored quite a lot in Tempo and your blog. The second is these people who start with good and evil, who I understand A little bit now…”
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Rao: Mental models are best understood as fictional world-building
“The best definition of a mental model is a world in the sense of science fiction or fantasy, right? So you've got, say, a universe like the Harry Potter universe or the Lord of the Ring universe, and so there's the world, and then there's the story that's told…”