On a Lack of Ambition

Or "Why We Don't Try to Do Nice Things"

Tyler Cowen and Paul Graham were talking recently as part of Cowen’s ongoing Conversations with Tyler series. Graham and especially Cowen are diverse men, who could hold forth with interest on a number of subjects; but both by vocation and apart from it the thing that seems to wind their respective clocks the most is thinking about, identifying, and hel…