Why Talent Comes in Clusters | Episode 8 | Everything is Everything

Описание: To make the most of your talent, you often need to be in the right place with the right people.

Welcome to Episode 8 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit talks about what the Challenger explosion of 1986 teaches us about Bollywood and Silicon Valley. Ajay talks about how a government is exile cannot learn to act like a state by mere play-acting. And there is Orwell, Gandhi and why development economists get so much wrong.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 Teaser and packaging
00:35 Introduction: Rolling cameras and skeumorphic design
03:43 Chapter 1: Clusters of Talent
38:12 Chapter 2: Training Wheels for State Power
1:00:06 Chapter 3: Amit Recommends
1:07:37 Chapter 4: Ajay Recommends

USEFUL RESOURCES:

1. Amit on Twitter:   / amitvarma  
2. Ajay on Twitter:   / ajay_shah  
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: https://seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTh...
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube:    / @xkdr  
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: https://amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: https://indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. Why Abhijit Banerjee Had to Go Abroad to Achieve Glory -- Amit Varma: https://indiauncut.com/why-abhijit-ba...
8. The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development -- Michael Kremer: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
9. The O-Ring model -- Marginal Revolution University: https://mru.org/courses/development-e...
10. My Hero, Oppenheimer -- Episode 5 of Everything is Everything:    • My Hero, OPPENHEIMER | Episode 5 | Everyth...  
11. The Rise of the Creative Class -- Richard Florida: https://amzn.eu/d/4ySOPDq
12. What is the New Chinese Currency Regime? -- Ajay Shah, Achim Zeileis and Ila Patnaik: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11007...
13. Srinivasa Ramanujan on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriniva...
14. The Tamilian gentleman who took on the world -- Amit Varma: https://www.espn.in/chess/story/_/id/...
15. The Adda at the End of the Universe — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas): https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2022/1...
16. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen: https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2022/8...
17. Stage.in: http://stage.in/
18. Sturgeon's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...
19. Newton the Alchemist. Gandhi the Black Swan -- Episode 7 of Everything is Everything:    • Newton the Alchemist. Gandhi the Black Swa...  
20. Marching For Salt -- Amit Varma on Mohandas Gandhi: https://indiauncut.com/marching-for-s...
21. The Tibet Museum: https://tibetmuseum.org/
22. Building the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India -- MS Sahoo and Ravi Narain: https://ibbi.gov.in/uploads/resources...
23. Essays -- George Orwell: https://amzn.eu/d/ifHsL5a
24. Politics and the English Language -- George Orwell: https://www.thinkpragati.com/history/...
25. Joan Didion on Amazon: https://www.amazon.in/Joan-Didion/e/B...
26. How Cormac McCarthy Became a Copy-Editor for Scientific Books and One of the Most Influential Articles in Economics -- Josh Jones: https://www.openculture.com/2017/03/h...
27. Economical Writing -- Deirdre McCloskey: https://amzn.eu/d/issiQs3
28. Why I Write -- George Orwell: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-...
29. Reflections on Gandhi -- George Orwell: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-...
30. The Elusive Quest for Growth -- William Easterly: https://amzn.eu/d/2srhDS4
31. The White Man's Burden -- William Easterly: https://amzn.eu/d/8Suln09

Produced and edited by Vartika Singh:    / @vartikasingh7  .
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with the sound:   / gaurav_chintamani  
Chapter images by Simahina:   / i_am_simahina