Author and thinker Virginia Postrel joins me to talk about California’s past, present, and future, from anti-growth politics to the rise of AI. We get into what dynamism really means, why creative destruction is inevitable, and how housing and regulation shape everything.
00:00 Intro
03:58 California's Changing Landscape: A Historical Perspective
07:43 Political Shifts: The Republican Party's Decline in California
10:27 Change in the California Ideology
16:24 CA vs. TX
22:45 The Impact of AI
27:22 AI Displacing White Collar Jobs
30:50 We've Seen This Before
37:30 Lessons for California's Future
Keywords: California, Virginia Postrel, AI, housing crisis, innovation, future of work, white collar unemployment, creative destruction, economic resilience, California politics, The Future and Its Enemies, Silicon Valley, zoning laws, startup culture, bits vs atoms, California regulation, elite overproduction, laissez-faire, local knowledge