Here are some of the most interesting books, ideas, and thinkers I explored, went deep on — and that, as a result, changed my mind — in 2019:
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"The Accidental Superpower"
TLDR: The U.S., post WWII, set up a global order that sacrificed $ for security in order to fight the USSR.
Post-cold war, that global order no longer makes sense, so The U.S. is retreating—which means the order falls apart.
TLDR: The U.S., post WWII, set up a global order that sacrificed $ for security in order to fight the USSR.
Post-cold war, that global order no longer makes sense, so The U.S. is retreating—which means the order falls apart.
"The Sovereign Individual" which predicted technological shifts like cell phones & crypto but also social ones like increased social equality
Corollary Investment thesis:
Summary of the book:
Corollary Investment thesis:
Summary of the book:
Nonzero
TLDR: history can be characterized by increasing social complexity, increasing our inter-dependence & our need to play play nonzero-sum games with each other: "win-win" (or "lose-lose") instead of "win-lose"
Implication: Collaborate—or collapse
TLDR: history can be characterized by increasing social complexity, increasing our inter-dependence & our need to play play nonzero-sum games with each other: "win-win" (or "lose-lose") instead of "win-lose"
Implication: Collaborate—or collapse
"Specialization" by Kling & "Knowledge & Power" by Gilder.
TLDR: Increasingly complexity demands increasing decentralization of decision making—align knowledge & power!
The "closest to the data but furthest from decision making" syndrome is disastrous.
TLDR: Increasingly complexity demands increasing decentralization of decision making—align knowledge & power!
The "closest to the data but furthest from decision making" syndrome is disastrous.
"Dominion" by Tom Holland.
TLDR: Today's politics is far more inspired by the roots of Christianity than we appreciate, even as it tries to disavow those roots but keep the fruits (humanism)--the question is whether that'll work.
TLDR: Today's politics is far more inspired by the roots of Christianity than we appreciate, even as it tries to disavow those roots but keep the fruits (humanism)--the question is whether that'll work.
Girard, who identified our patterns of mimesis and scapegoating, and helped bring to light the idea of Jesus trying to redirect those natural human tendencies.
Like Holland, explains the influence Jesus has today in places we least expect it.
Like Holland, explains the influence Jesus has today in places we least expect it.
David Chapman's book-in-a-blog "Meaningness" which explores how we think about meaning today, and details the history of how it's evolved overtime.
Pairs well with John Vervaeke's Meaning Crisis.
youtube.com/channel/UCpqDU…
Pairs well with John Vervaeke's Meaning Crisis.
youtube.com/channel/UCpqDU…
Why we're richer than ever before but also seem to feel more disconnected, or more specifically, the evolving relationship between markets and communities:
Markets are eating the world:
Egalitarianism is eating the world:
Tribalism is eating the world
Egalitarianism is eating the world:
Tribalism is eating the world
Glen Weyl on the problems of modern economics & modern political science--and his call for a re-imagined combination of the two.
Also Glen on the intertwining relationships between individuals & communities.
player.fm/series/venture…
Also Glen on the intertwining relationships between individuals & communities.
player.fm/series/venture…
Emerging movement Game B:
Associated thinkers: Daniel Schmactenberger, Jordan Hall, Jim Rutt, Bret Weinstein, Forrest Landry
How our economic system is built on untenably zero sum dynamics (Counter: "More from Less" by McAfee
Associated thinkers: Daniel Schmactenberger, Jordan Hall, Jim Rutt, Bret Weinstein, Forrest Landry
How our economic system is built on untenably zero sum dynamics (Counter: "More from Less" by McAfee
A deep dive into polarization:
Conflict vs Mistake Theory:
In-group vs out-group social dynamics:
Conflict vs Mistake Theory:
In-group vs out-group social dynamics:
Carlota Perez on the technological revolutions:
Martin Gurri on the information revolutions:
TLDR: Each revolution brings chaos before bringing prosperity & moral progress (see Nonzero). We're currently in the chaos phase
Martin Gurri on the information revolutions:
TLDR: Each revolution brings chaos before bringing prosperity & moral progress (see Nonzero). We're currently in the chaos phase
Making sense of evolving business models within the current information revolution:
Other places I went deep this yr:
ISAs: medium.com/@eriktorenberg…
Prediction/Idea Markets: tokendaily.co/blog/a-primer-…
Evaluating Markets:
Social Capital (stay tuned)
Excited for 2020 learnings. Feel free to recommend an idea or thinker I should check out.
ISAs: medium.com/@eriktorenberg…
Prediction/Idea Markets: tokendaily.co/blog/a-primer-…
Evaluating Markets:
Social Capital (stay tuned)
Excited for 2020 learnings. Feel free to recommend an idea or thinker I should check out.
ah- meant this thread!
