"Where did the future go" with David Graeber
Leaving big law firm: "on the outside everybody wanted in, on the inside everybody wanted to leave." People said it was "good to see someone could escape Alcatraz" when "all you had to do was go out the front door"
Leaving big law firm: "on the outside everybody wanted in, on the inside everybody wanted to leave." People said it was "good to see someone could escape Alcatraz" when "all you had to do was go out the front door"
"Developing the developed world" (2013)
Globalization vs. technology
"Most of the companies in the Nasdaq are described as technology but they are really bets against technology"
->Fundamental bet that there will be no technological disruption
Globalization vs. technology
"Most of the companies in the Nasdaq are described as technology but they are really bets against technology"
->Fundamental bet that there will be no technological disruption
"Financial markets and the singularity"
Japan as the first "hyperboom" and "what if the mathematicians at LTCM were right?"
Japan as the first "hyperboom" and "what if the mathematicians at LTCM were right?"
"Failures and self-hatred of big tech"
The pendulum of centralization vs. de-cententralization
Nature of progress: bits vs. atoms
"Technology is about people, human agency. Not inanimate forces, Marxist Historicism"
Also: reforming education and the Bitcoin origin story
The pendulum of centralization vs. de-cententralization
Nature of progress: bits vs. atoms
"Technology is about people, human agency. Not inanimate forces, Marxist Historicism"
Also: reforming education and the Bitcoin origin story
Meeting Rene Girard ("one of the last great generalists") and implementing mimetic theory: preemptively avoiding internal conflict in a business.
"People don't fight about differences but about wanting the same things."
"People don't fight about differences but about wanting the same things."
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