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Taylor Pearson: "The End of Jobs," History, and Navigating Uncertainty
Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
Please welcome my friend Taylor Pearson to the show. Taylor is a fellow father and entrepreneur, the author of The End of Jobs, an essayist with his Interesting Times newsletter, a fellow Tennessean, one of the founders of a long-volatility and tail-risk hedge fund, and a former college football player, where he played offensive line. He's spent the last decade researching and writing about how you can better invest your time and money in an uncertain world, i.e., how to be more antifragile. Welcome, Taylor. Taylor Pearson Quotes From the Episode "Reality has a surprising amount of detail." "You don't have 100% agency over everything, but you almost might as well act as if you do. The things you don't have control over... You just have to chalk those up to trade-offs. Like you can't do this, you can't do that, fine, fair enough. Within the possibility space, 'What can you do?' And I still catch myself, not infrequently, saying that, 'Oh, I could do this actually.' " "My basic thesis was that we're going through this transitional period where entrepreneurialism, not necessarily starting a business, but thinking more entrepreneurially about your career life, was going to become increasingly important." Additional Resources Taylor Pearson Taylor Pearson on X Taylor Pearson on LinkedIn The End of Jobs by Taylor Pearson Systemantics: The Systems Bible by John Gall Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder Show Notes 02:45 – Taylor on Discovering Agency While Teaching in Brazil 05:10 – Embracing Responsibility and Trade-Offs 09:24 – The Core Message Behind The End of Jobs 10:38 – The Rise of Internet Careers from a 2011 Perspective 14:30 – Golf as a Meditative Recharging Tool 15:20 – Why Biographies Are the Best Way to Learn History 18:07 – How AI and Museums Are Changing How We Learn History 22:00 – What College Taught Taylor About Interpreting History 28:51 – Taylor’s Bias: Technology as the Driver of History 35:27 – “Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail” 36:25 – Tolstoy, War, and the Myth of the Great Man 47:08 – Why Systems Fail: Lessons from Systemantics 53:38 – Unintended Consequences: Lessons from Vietnam and Beyond 55:30 – How to Get in Touch With Taylor via His Interesting Times Newsletter Great ideas. Bold conversations. Be part of it, connect with us on X, Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
