Convinced @tylercowen is one of the best talent spotters on the internet.

You see several remarkable people and Tyler is in there early helping th

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2024-06-09 19:30:04

Convinced @tylercowen is one of the best talent spotters on the internet. You see several remarkable people and Tyler is in there early helping them at a key point in their early life. I’m filled with admiration and jealousy.

I take a few life lessons from Tyler, who I consider a mentor even though we’ve spent, at most, dozens of minutes together in the past several decades. (Don’t constrain your mentors by their availability, engage with their work!)

His advice to me was simple but true: Write every morning. Be more ambitious. Because it was coming from him I took it seriously. It’s all very open source. (I’m very curious to see how economic theory and open source intersect in the coming years, I think there’s a lot in the open source world that is novel and useful.)

I’m inconsistent compared to him in those three things but I look up and aspire to the example he sets, especially within the WordPress community where I keep myself easy to reach on the community Slack or talking to people at WordCamps. (Like WordCamp Europe in Turin next week!)