Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-08-29
Books mentioned on Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan - #519
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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Purpose-Driven Life
The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren is a Christian devotional book that guides readers through a forty-day spiritual journey to discover God's purpose for their lives.
Discussed“and that's why I think the purpose-driven life is good you have a purpose and you think a lot about what that purpose is”
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The Jewish State
The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl is a historical pamphlet and foundational text proposing the establishment of a sovereign nation for the Jewish people.
Discussed“what it takes from Israel is the concept of a country founded by a book theater herzl wrote a book called The Jewish state in the late 1800s right around the turn of the century proposing um that the Jewish people have that they were they were a nation without a state a stateless nation proposing that they have their”
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The Kill Chain
The Kill Chain by Christian Brose is a sobering examination of modern military technology, arguing that the United States military has fallen behind competitors like China due to a failure to integrate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Silicon Valley innovations into its defense systems.
Discussed“anyway like I look I I'm certainly not um there's folks who know more about the military for sure than I do but everything I've dug into on this with like you know this book called uh the kill chain um it's not a book called 2034 we should talk about this and those are guys who have either seen”
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2034
Discussed“anyway like I look I I'm certainly not um there's folks who know more about the military for sure than I do but everything I've dug into on this with like you know this book called uh the kill chain um it's not a book called 2034 we should talk about this and those are guys who have either seen”
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“so part of takes from Singapore is the concept of a CEO founder of a country right where it takes from America is you know almost too many to enumerate but the concept of like our Constitution and of like an immigrant like people you know like a like a nation of immigrants but a nation of immigrants”
“and I won't be able to recapitulate the whole thing but go to the networkstate.com and if you're interested in what the alternative is to American Anarchy and Chinese control it might be startup societies and network States”