Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2020-11-18
Books mentioned on Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
Jimmy Wales used to joke that choosing to build Wikipedia on a non-profit, non-advertising model was either the best or worst decision he ever made—but he doesn't joke about that anymore.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hamlet
Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a classic tragedy exploring themes of mortality, revenge, and human consciousness.
Discussed“even for a fairly fixed historical topic take shakespeare's play hamlet this year there have already been at least 35 edits to that entry”
Where to get it
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a sprawling philosophical novel that champions Objectivism, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism through a dystopian narrative about society grinding to a halt when its intellectual and economic innovators go on strike.
Discussed“people who just think oh she wrote these long ranting novels um about capitalism and i think there was more to her thinking than most people realized so underrated”
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