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Herrman can be very insightful, but there’s a key aspect he is missing here.

The medium term trend in technology is decentralization. That stands against *all* concentrations of power, whether nation state, social media, or legacy media.

Read @mmasnick:
knightcolumbia.org/content/protoc…
There are a critical mass of people in tech who are completely willing to self-disrupt every major tech company and venture capital itself to go all in on encrypted decentralized protocols, especially now that they can be monetized with crypto yet controlled by no one.
Decentralization represents a sincere commitment to the reduction of both corporate and state power over the rights of free people.

It’s open source, it’s protocols, it’s crypto, it’s encryption, it’s data locality, it is what is next.
knightcolumbia.org/content/protoc…
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Prexit

With Sullivan & Weiss both leaving the New York establishment on the same day, there's now an obvious alternative for the smartest folks in media: leave now, on your own terms, to become a founder.

Exit the legacy press and do a Substack. Become a personal media brand.
Facilitating Prexit with ISAs

One idea is a fund that gives smart creatives one year of salary to quit the East Coast & go independent, and then gets back some capped return on that over N years.

The key is values-alignment, as distinct from employment.
There are many smart people who chafe at media corporation groupthink (COVID isn't important! Now it is! Now ignore it! Now it's important again!) but don't have the savings to quit and speak their mind.

But if we can fund them with a year of savings to exit and go independent…
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Ending death should be the highest priority of technology. We now know that reversing aging may actually be technically achievable.

It’s also important to make life extension tech widely accessible, like a vaccine, for ethical reasons and to build the largest possible coalition.
Folks to follow on this topic include @LauraDeming and @davidasinclair. Read all their work.

May be good to compile a video with the latest on life extension research, people to follow, and projects to support.
One link just for those folks who haven’t followed this area at all. We do need a monthly update on this.
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This can be interpreted two ways.

1) There is a market in Twitter likes for ironic, snarky commentary on tech.

2) There is an actual market in tech for sincere, technologically progressive media content on life extension, Mars, faster COVID testing, fusion energy, etc.
The issue is that Twitter now is a negative-sum game. Condescend to the person who built the web browser to gain a momentary feeling of superiority, without accomplishing anything.

What if we set a different objective function, played a different game?
An important concept is that it's really not about tech companies. Those are just one means to an end. If the goal is privacy, that might be a tech company (privacy.com), an open source project (Signal), a coin (Zcash), or a nonprofit (EFF). Vehicles for the values.
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