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Eric Topol

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Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

I see how that's a whole different way to interrogate a book.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And it's great.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And in fact...

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

That gets me to a topic I was going to get to later, but I'll do it now.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

I've already started writing for the Free Press.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

That's right.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Yeah.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

So that's interesting because I hadn't heard of it until I saw the announcement from Barry.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And, you know, I thought what was great about it is she introduced it.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

She said, Tyler Cowen has a mind unlike any I've ever encountered.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And a single conversation is not at all unusual for him to toggle between deep sea GLP-1s, Haitian art, sacred...

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Tibetan music, his favorite Thai spot in LA, and LeBron James.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Now, who could do that, right?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

So I thought, well, you know what?

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

I need independent confirmation of that as being a polymath.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And then I saw Patrick Collison, who I know at Stripe and ARC Institute.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

You can have a specific and detailed discussion with him about 17th century Irish economic thinkers

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

or trends in African music, or the history of nominal GDP targeting, I don't know anyone who can engage in so many domains at the depth he does.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

So you're an information acquirer.

Ground Truths
Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

And one of the books you wrote, I love the title, Infovore.