Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and essayist, he was co-founder of Counsyl, former chief technology officer of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Our information diets are making us mentally fat. Whether it's fake news, mis or disinformation, state propaganda or conspiracy theories, the world is very difficult to navigate. Balaji also wants to start a new type of country, he has views on how to optimise your working day and he generates more new ideas than almost anyone. Today we get an insight into his thought process behind all of this. Expect to learn why socialism always continues to arise across the world, how Balaji tracks all of the ideas he has in his head, why Singapore is a powerhouse of a new country, how immigration will deal with remote VR workers in India, why everyone should use a dashboard to track what's going on in their life, the key trick that the legacy media uses to manipulate you and much more... Sponsors: Get $100 off plus an extra 15% discount on Qualia Mind at https://bit.ly/mindwisdom (use code MW15) Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Read The Network State - https://thenetworkstate.com/ Check out Balaji's website - https://balajis.com/ Follow Balaji on Twitter - https://twitter.com/balajis Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #mainstreammedia #nationstate #technology - 00:00 Intro 00:17 Mental Information Management 11:43 How to Become More Discerning with Media 18:08 Men Are Losing Testosterone 19:43 The Death of Legacy Media 23:38 Maintaining a Healthy Information Diet 34:27 Balaji’s Social Media Habits 39:20 How does Balaji Predict the Future? 51:11 How will Immigration Deal with Remote Working? 1:00:50 Technology’s Impact on Conflict 1:09:24 Lessons from Living in Singapore 1:22:00 The Problem with American Politics 1:45:56 Where to Find Balaji - Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Listen to all episodes on audio: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Balaji SrinivasanguestChris Williamsonhost

Aug 29, 20221h 47mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 29, 2022
Duration: 1h 47m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and essayist, he was co-founder of Counsyl, former chief technology officer of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Our information diets are making us mentally fat. Whether it's fake news, mis or disinformation, state propaganda or conspiracy theories, the world is very difficult to navigate. Balaji also wants to start a new type of country, he has views on how to optimise your working day and he generates more new ideas than almost anyone. Today we get an insight into his thought process behind all of this. Expect to learn why socialism always continues to arise across the world, how Balaji tracks all of the ideas he has in his head, why Singapore is a powerhouse of a new country, how immigration will deal with remote VR workers in India, why everyone should use a dashboard to track what's going on in their life, the key trick that the legacy media uses to manipulate you and much more... Sponsors: Get $100 off plus an extra 15% discount on Qualia Mind at https://bit.ly/mindwisdom (use code MW15) Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Read The Network State - https://thenetworkstate.com/ Check out Balaji's website - https://balajis.com/ Follow Balaji on Twitter - https://twitter.com/balajis Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #mainstreammedia #nationstate #technology - 00:00 Intro 00:17 Mental Information Management 11:43 How to Become More Discerning with Media 18:08 Men Are Losing Testosterone 19:43 The Death of Legacy Media 23:38 Maintaining a Healthy Information Diet 34:27 Balaji’s Social Media Habits 39:20 How does Balaji Predict the Future? 51:11 How will Immigration Deal with Remote Working? 1:00:50 Technology’s Impact on Conflict 1:09:24 Lessons from Living in Singapore 1:22:00 The Problem with American Politics 1:45:56 Where to Find Balaji - Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Listen to all episodes on audio: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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Balaji Srinivasan
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Chris Williamson
host
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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Balaji Srinivasan and Chris Williamson, Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan explores balaji Srinivasan On Information Diets, Network States, And Power Shifts Balaji Srinivasan discusses how having a single, coherent worldview enables high idea output, purposeful learning, and better decision-making. He contrasts a focused, “information diet” and personal dashboards with the entropic, outrage-driven feeds of Web 2.0, arguing most people are over-consuming novelty and under-consuming purpose. The conversation ranges into global health and obesity, remote work and geopolitical shifts (especially India’s rise), and the changing nature of power from physical militaries to digital platforms and currencies. He closes by outlining his “network state” vision as a peaceful, crypto-enabled alternative to what he sees as looming American anarchy and Chinese digital authoritarianism.

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