Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan

Why does socialism keep arising over and over again? One way of answering that question is, it is the easiest way to become a leader of men. Why? Because in any functional society, socialism is like the lowest skill way to put yourself at the head of a mob. (wind blows)

Marc Andreessen said that you're the person with the highest output per minute of new ideas of anybody I've ever met in my life. That seem accurate?

Well, I, I think he said new good ideas. New ideas alone, but I, I think he qualified with good or, or useful or something like that. But yeah, no, it's a high compliment from Marc who's a, is a friend and colleague going way back. Um...

What's going on there? Is there some formal system that you're following? Are you spaced repetitioning or semantic networks or something exotic? How are you resurfacing all of these ideas and holding onto them?

Uh, no, it's good. I probably should do some formal system, um, and that might be like a force multiplier or something. I'm, I'm definitely interested in, uh, you know, like quantum.country has a good implementation of so-called mnemonic media, um, and whatnot. Uh, I think what it is, is that I have a single... A, a few, let's call it a single threaded worldview, right? I have a certain vision of the future, and then everything that I see, I sort of attach to that in some way. And so, "Oh, that's a little subroutine of this piece, and this is a little subroutine of that piece." So if you've got like a, a clothesline of worldview, you can attach pieces to it and, um, and that helps you remember things. And then, you know, if you have that worldview, you're like, "Okay, this is gonna be a piece of the future because I have this projection of this macro concept. Here's a micro concept." For example, let's say you believe the future is the apocalypse but with internet, okay? Which is kind of what I think a big piece of the future is, all right? Um, and so the apocalypse but with internet, you're pro-Soylent, you're pro-Coinbase, you're pro-cryptocurrency, you're pro-remote work, you're pro, uh, like digital nomads. You have this vision of the future. You're bearish on Fortune 500, you're bearish on suits and ties. You're bearish on, um, legacy commercial office space, you're bearish on the West and you're bullish on Asia, and so on and so forth, right? Like, just that thing alone kind of gives you a certain set of plus on these, minus on these, that that right there kind of summarizes big pieces of worldview, right? And then of course there's exceptions to that because I'm, I'm bullish on Estonia even though that's part of the West, and I'm bullish on, you know, Miami even though that's part of the West. So you have second order corrections to those first sort of things. And I'm bearish on aspects of China even though that's part of the East, and, and so on, right? So, um, so that's kind of what I do and uh, you know, it's very hard actually to do more than one thing. You can do one big thing and you can attach lots of subroutines to that. But if you're doing more than one thing, then you have to decide for every single moment of the day, "Am I spending it on A or B?" Which is why like Elon's life must be very difficult, 'cause he has to constantly choose between SpaceX and Tesla because they're not really the same thing. And so when push comes to shove, Tesla probably gets second, you know, uh... If he must be at some meeting for one of the two, he'll probably be at the SpaceX meeting 'cause getting to Mars is more important and it's on a shorter time scale than the cars. Anyway, go ahead.