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#30 - Antonio García Martínez, The Pull Request
#30 - Antonio García Martínez, The Pull Request
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Oct 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
BioAntonio García Martínez is a writer at and the publisher of The Pull Request, a publication about technology by technologists for technologists. He also hosts the The Pull Request podcast on Callin. He is best known for writing the best selling book: Chaos Monkeys, Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. The book details his journey from the PhD physics program at Cal Berkley, to trading credit derivatives at Goldman, to founding a YC company - AdGrok, to working as Facebook's first ads targeting product manager. Times1:00 - Intro to Antonio, who is the smartest person Antonio has ever met, and intro Qs4:30 - We are no longer a serious people; Afghanistan & democracy11:15 - Elites solving problems for twitter not reality & hot button issues13:00 - Accountability in democracy15:45 - The Pull Request & tech journalism21:45 - Antonio pushes back on The Narrative Monopoly!29:45 - Thinking about what to focus on33:45 - 30 Years War analogy to where we are with the internet38:45 - Federalism41:15 - Austin and people leaving CA43:15 - Decoupling how information flows from matter moves and the implications51:30 - Historical counter point to problems of internet information distribution58:00 - The advent of frictionless and ubiquitous information1:02:45 - Where to find Antonio LinksThe Pull RequestAntonio's twitterNarrativemonopoly.com
Released:
Oct 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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