# Tyler Cowen - Deconstructing cultural codes (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/53912448) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Tyler Cowen]] **Full Title**:: Deconstructing cultural codes **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [marginalrevolution.com](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/12/deconstructing-cultural-codes.html) **Host**:: [[marginalrevolution.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-08-04]] **Created**:: [[2025-08-17]] ## 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