The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish, author of The Farnam Street blog, interviews key luminaries from across the globe to gain insights into how they think, live, and connect ideas. The core themes will seem familiar to Farnam Street readers: Decision Making, Leadership, Innovation. But we'll also touch on questions about what it means to live a good life.
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Philip Tetlock on The Art and Science of Prediction 0
Dec 8, 2015

On this episode, I'm happy to have Philip Tetlock, professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He's the co-leader of The Good Judgement Project, which is a multi-year forecasting study. He's also the author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction and Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? The subject of this interview is how we can get better at the art and science of prediction. We dive into what make some people better and what we can learn to improve our ability to guess the future. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

Chris Dixon on Why Companies Fail, The State of Venture Capital, Artificial Intelligence 0
Nov 13, 2015

On this episode, I have Chris Dixon.

Chris is a partner at perhaps the most famous venture capital firm in the world, Andreessen Horowitz or commonly known as a16z.

We talk about the history of venture capital, why companies fail, the future of artificial intelligence and the Idea Maze. I hope you like this interview as much as I did.

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