Ingenuism

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Connection: Local and Express - Silicon Valley Examined 4 Jul 22, 2021

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On the Silicon Valley Examined podcast, Robert Hendershott and Don Watkins discuss the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of physical and remote connection.

Can money buy progress? - Silicon Valley Examined 3 Jul 14, 2021

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On the Silicon Valley Examined podcast, Robert Hendershott and Don Watkins discuss China’s failure to buy its way to semiconductor dominance, the new space race, and the value of in-person connection.

The Science of Progress - Tyler Cowen and Yaron Brook Jul 08, 2021

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If progress is so important, why do we know so little about it? Tyler Cowen and Yaron Brook discuss why we need a science of progress studies, and some of the most important questions that science needs to answer. Tyler Cowen is a blogger, author, podcaster, and economist at George Mason University. His article "We Need a New Science of Progress" (co-authored with Patrick Collison) helped launch the progress studies movement.

"We Need a New Science of Progress" - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/

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The Opportunity of Ingenuism - Silicon Valley Examined 2 Jul 07, 2021

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On the Silicon Valley Examined podcast, Robert Hendershott and Don Watkins discuss how the Silicon Valley mindset can be exported around the globe—and the challenges that make this incredibly difficult.

Risk-Taking in Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley Examined 1 Jun 30, 2021

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In "Silicon Valley Examined," Don Watkins and Robert Hendershott delve into how the tech industry is helping to create progress at the speed of thought. This week, Don and Robert discuss how Silicon Valley's attitude toward risk-taking and failure play a foundational role in promoting innovation.

How the World Got Rich - Deirdre McCloskey and Yaron Brook Jun 29, 2021

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Starting in 19th century, the Great Enrichment sparked unprecedented prosperity around the world. Yaron Brook talks to Deirdre McCloskey about what caused it--and why those lessons remain important to the future of progress.

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Trained at Harvard in the 1960s as an economist, she has written twenty-four books, including the Bourgeois Trilogy.

Discover Ingenuism: https://ingenuism.substack.com

What Is Ingenuism? - Robert Hendershott and Yaron Brook Jun 15, 2021

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We believe that the basic source of innovation is human ingenuity—the process of using creative thinking to solve productive challenges. But to benefit from ingenuity, we need to understand the conditions that allow it to function, generate new ideas, and solve challenging problems.

Robert Hendershott is a retired associate professor of finance at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, and founder of BH Equity Research, an alternative investments consulting firm. Through his work on Ingenuism, he seeks to explain and expand human progress.

Discover Ingenuism: https://ingenuism.substack.com

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