Episode 174: Venkatesh Rao
b'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'