186 w/ Balaji Srinivasan, Conor Friedersdorf - "Predicting Pandemics, Fixing Journalism"

<p><strong>Balaji Srinivasan</strong> (@balajis) </p><p>Investor + Entrepreneur, Former CTO @ Coinbase, Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz </p><br><p><strong>Conor Friedersdorf </strong>(@conor64)</p><p>Staff Writer at The Atlantic, Founding Editor of The Best of Journalism</p><br><p>- How Startups Think About Failure + Survival </p><p>- Pandemics, Panics, and Journalistic Incentives</p><p>- Forging Societal Truth </p><p>- Why the US Failed to Take COVID Seriously</p><p>- Why Journalist Hate The Valley</p><p>- Believing Half of What You Read</p><p>- Epistemology Algorithms&#160;</p><p>- A Feature Set for Fixing Journalism </p><p>- Looser Arguments</p><br><p>Recorded: May 14th 2020</p><p>Published: May 25th 2020</p><br><hr><p style="color:grey; font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you&#8217;d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">wethefifth.substack.com/subscribe</a>