Balaji Srinivasan, a tech expert, discusses the Social Lens theory and tactics for the Gray tribe. They explore creating, identifying, growing, and scaling power. They discuss geopolitical mapping, Blue playbook, network effects, inequality, Japanese vs Chinese economic models, decline of the US, response of tech giants to Blue, market for revolutionaries, charity vs investment, and democracy definition.

Topics: (5:53) - Start of Balaji Interview(6:24) - How would you introduce yourself to a stranger?(8:19) - Do you think of your work as “whatever it takes” to advance your ideology?(10:05) - What would you like to see most achieved?(13:14) - What are the things you believe you are the best at?(20:52) - What are the ideas you are most confident telling others that you know for certain?(30:22) - Balaji’s upbringing & growing up in an age before the internet(1:03:35) - Have you always been like this? Was there an inflection point that made you who you are today?(1:11:41) - Are there any formative media, movie or books that really had an impact on you growing up?(1:19:15) - Doing math as a hobby & philosophical frameworks(1:29:19) - The Feynman Lectures & Magic the Gathering(1:51:29) - Were there any inspirations you looked to in your transition into entrepreneurship?(1:56:45) - What do you consider your career or body of work?(2:07:20) - Where have you seen some of the bigger obstacles in your career?(2:25:57) - Wealth, Burn Rate, and feeling “free to speak your mind”(2:38:40) - How are you spending time and resources to have an impact according to your mission?(2:50:56) - Are you trying to start your own network state or help people start theirs?(2:55:06) - What’s your process with getting up to speed on new technologies?(3:00:23) - What do you think about the trade-off between focusing on learning vs. when to start doing?(3:03:50) - Countries that impacted Balaji’s philosophy(3:08:33) - Balaji’s predictions on what Eric chose to have in the book(3:13:13) - What are the mental models or heuristics you use most often?(3:19:21) - Eric’s Themes of Balaji’s work(3:28:14) - What is your definition of technology?(3:36:09) - Do you believe a startup is synonymous with a great new technology?(3:37:20) - The co-evolution of technology and humanity & Youth-Extension(3:43:34) - The long-term battle for Network systems(3:45:50) - What do you envision transhumanism looking like?(3:53:05) - Wrap Up      Links: Balaji on TwitterThe Network StateFeynman Lectures on PhysicsFrom Third World to First by Lee Kuan YewThe Man Who Knew InfinityInnumeracy by John Allen PaulosHowl's Moving CastleIsaac AzmovElements of Mathematical ModelingPaul Tipler Physics booksVisual Complex Analysis by Tristan NeedhamOne Thousand Exercises in Probabilityfast.aiQuantum.countryClassical Electrodynamics by John JacksonThe PERL CookbookPLEACObey the Testing GoatNobody cares by Ben HorowitzThe Jewish State by Theodore HerzlHow ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains HumanityForce and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie JacksonCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard WranghamLimitless To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss talk with Balaji about how Washington, DC is losing crypto, while other countries like the UAE and Japan are winning web3. OUTLINE 0:00 - I'm 6'5", 220, and there's two of me! 0:58 - Crypto flippening from America to Asia 7:15 - Crypto-friendly jurisdictions in the US: Wyoming, Tennessee 8:10 - The SEC is a failed regulator 18:45 - Crypto-friendly jurisdictions worldwide: Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai, El Salvador 27:31 - Winklevosses expanding in India 33:25 - What comes out of crypto? 35:45 - Flashback to 2013 TechCrunch Disrupt 37:01 - Crypto and AI, without the buzzword bingo 44:14 - The Winklevoss city LINKS 1) Gemini: https://www.gemini.com/careers 2) Wyoming DAO law: https://legalnodes.com/article/wyoming-dao-llc 3) Tennessee DAO law: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/beyond-reasonable-daoubt-tennessee-s-limited-liability-statute-decentralized 4) UAE Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA): https://www.vara.ae/en 5) Japan Web3 support: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/04/06/japan-releases-web3-white-paper-to-promote-industry-growth-in-the-country 6) 2013 TechCrunch with Balaji, Naval, Winklevosses: https://techcrunch.com/2013/09/10/disrupt-sf-13-bitcoin-panel VIDEO YouTube: https://youtu.be/STbYujxjk1E SOCIAL https://twitter.com/cameron https://twitter.com/tyler https://twitter.com/balajis https://thenetworkstate.com

Shaan (@ShaanVP) and Sam (@TheSamParr) host Balaji (@balajis) this episode. This is an amazing dive into Balaji's mind. He talks about the current issues with the media and how he's hoping to fix it with crypto and the blockchain. We also get a look at how he views the world, what motivates him, what he's been wrong about as well as the massive shifts he sees happening.---------* Want to be featured in a future episode? Drop your question/comment/criticism/love here: https://www.mfmpod.com/p/hotline/* Support the pod by spreading the word, become a referrer here: https://refer.fm/million* Have you joined our private Facebook group yet? Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion and join thousands of other entrepreneurs and founders scheming up ideas.---------Show notes:* (0:00) Intro* (2:30) Balaji's background* (7:33) Why Balaji started a newsletter: 1729* (22:40) The media and its biases* (31:58) Balaji on memes and their importance* (37:45) What the future of media looks like and the role of crypto* (56:26) When did Balaji get into crypto?* (1:01:30) Sam asks Balaji what motivates him* (1:11:50) How the world is changing and becoming more Balaji-like* (1:19:39) What would 21 year-old Balaji work on?* (1:22:46) Why geographical proximity is no longer linked to cultural proximity* (1:26:25) How we can align incentives between tech and everyone else* (1:32:30) Balaji on crypto-social networks* (1:37:30) How Balaji operates day-to-day and "the idea maze"* (1:47:33) The importance of finding the right place to live* (1:57:30) What it's like to talk to Balaji* (2:02:08) What has Balaji been wrong about?* (2:11:00) Science vs. math: getting to the truth* (2:21:10) Balaji asks Sam for newsletter advice* (2:24:40) What are Balaji's guilty pleasures

Balaji, an expert on fixing San Francisco, discusses topics such as reforming the Democratic Party, building online communities, creating moral communities, and the potential political influence of the tech industry in San Francisco.