# Tyler Cowen - Deconstructing cultural codes (Highlights)  ## Highlights - For instance, once I spent three days on a boat (as keynote speaker), exclusively with people from a particular segment of the shipping trade. It was like entering a whole new world and every moment of it was fascinating. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k1sgvffjgqjdnvyt2aykgge5)) ^922129713 - And travel was the most potent form of this challenge, every new place a new culture to be unraveled and partially understood, and how much time was there to do that anyway? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k1sgvqzg4k5ha8n4r7a6ntbk)) ^922129853