#162 Nathan Myhrvold

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Visionary technology and business leader Nathan Myhrvold just might be the most interesting person in the world, and in this episode of The Knowledge Project he dives deep into some of the most pressing questions facing our world today. Where will technology take us in the future? Should we trust artificial intelligence? Where have we gone wrong in protecting our planet? How do we reverse the effects of what we’ve already done? Myhrvold answers all these and much, much more.

Myhrvold is a prominent scientist, technologist, inventor, author, and food photographer, and the former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. He’s also the co-founder of patent portfolio developer Intellectual Ventures, the principal author of the culinary book Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, part of a team that won first place at the World Barbecue Championships, and he completed his postdoctoral fellowship under legendary theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

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0:00.0	Humans are not great at long-term things, okay?
0:05.5	We all know that we should eat right and work out.
0:09.8	Lots of us don't.
0:11.8	That's because the immediate gratification of,
0:15.0	oh, I'm late for an interview this morning.
0:18.0	I got a leave.
0:19.3	I don't have time to work out.
0:21.0	That was me this morning.
0:22.3	There was a society.
0:23.8	We tried to plan ahead a little more
0:25.8	and for some things, we're able to do that.
0:28.0	But if you take a problem like climate change,
0:31.0	it's like the worst case situation.
0:35.0	And we also were just not serious about climate change.
0:39.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project.
0:41.0	I'm your host, Shane Parish.
0:43.0	This podcast is about mastering the best
0:45.0	of what other people have already figured out.
0:47.0	So you can apply their insights to your life.
0:50.0	If you're listening to this, you're missing out.
0:52.0	If you'd like access to the podcast,
0:54.0	you can find out what you're doing.
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