Episode 174: Venkatesh Rao
Venkatesh Rao is the founder of Ribbonfarm and the author of Breaking Smart.\n\n\u201cI would say I was blind and deaf and did not know anything about how the world worked until I was about 25. It took until almost 35 before I actually cut loose from the script. The script is a very, very powerful thing. The script wasn\u2019t working for me.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp and CreativeLive for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@vgr\nRibbonfarm\nRao on Longform\n[3:00] "Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater" (Ribbonfarm \u2022 Jan 2012)\n[5:00] "You Are Not an Artisan" (Ribbonfarm \u2022 July 2013)\n[6:00] Breaking Smart: Season 1\n[11:00] "Why Software Is Eating the World" (Marc Andreessen \u2022 Wall Street Journal \u2022 Aug 2011)\n[19:00] Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Philip E. Tetlock \u2022 Crown \u2022 2015)\n[31:00] "The End of History?" (Francis Fukuyama \u2022 The National Interest \u2022 1989) [pdf]\n[39:00] Quora\n[48:00] "Deep Play" (Aeon \u2022 Nov 2013)\n[48:00] "The American Cloud" (Aeon \u2022 July 2013)\n[48:00] "Why Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War" (The Atlantic \u2022 Oct 2015)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices