"We need the eggs": Nicholas Gruen on Public Policy, Jokes and Loss

Nicholas is a prominent Australian economist, and has chaired various Australian government groups and initiatives as well as Kaggle, where he was an early investor. Lindsay Tanner has described him as "Australia's foremost public intellectual". We cover:

• Toyota, Tech and Isegoria

• Problems with technological scale vs human-centred design

• Our inability to solve child abuse and indigenous disadvantage

• Corporate value phoniness

• The surreal waste of government programs

• Mentorship

• Interesting people

• Investment philosophy

• The Australian Dream and Australian identity

• The meaning of life and what Nicholas would do with a billion dollars

• New banking initiatives

• Plain packaging cigarettes

• Regrets and the long shadow of the Holocaust

• A Poem

• Advice he’d give his younger self

• “We need the eggs”, a joke that gets better with age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-M3Q2zhGd4