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Bryce Ward

Economist and co-founder of ABMJ Consulting in Missoula, Montana; recurring guest on the A New Angle podcast.

Oct 22, 2026

3:02
my
3:02
favorite economist, he went on Plain English with Derek Thompson and they had a similar conversation.
3:07
And early on in that conversation, he talked about the three eras, which I kind of got a little bit, but he had much better terms for them, right? Sure.
3:17
You know, there was the kind of the library era where it's just like, oh, the university has a library.
3:22
You know, Harvard College was founded because John Harvard had 400 books.
3:26
Yeah.
3:26
And he gave them to the college.

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12:50
Bryce, how about you? What were key moments in you finding motivation?
12:04
Yeah, we don't have as much experience with that.
12:07
It's really just what college is, is no longer about, oh, this is where you go to get access to the frontier of knowledge.
12:16
It's where you go to...
12:17
There's still, I think...
12:19
As of so far, I mean, most of the evidence that I've seen suggests that humans still are better at guiding education than AIs.
12:27
You know, getting motivation so that, you know, because a lot of it has to do with motivation.
12:31
So you're coming here to find people who are, you know, that's what the professor's job in the future will be.

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25:06
A referee report would be like a review, a peer review.

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