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Balaji Srinivasan on the Tribal Lens, America’s Blunder, and His Plan to Save San Francisco Sep 08, 2023

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Balaji Srinivasan joins Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero on the Moment of Zen podcast to share his new theory of the Tribal Lens, why cognitive territories will gain increasingly more power than land-defined territories, why the US is no longer a beacon in the world, and Balaji strategy to fix San Francisco. Make sure you're subscribed to https://link.chtbl.com/moz to get notified when we release Part 2.

Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co

We're hiring across the board at Turpentine and for Erik's personal team on other projects he's incubating. He's hiring a Chief of Staff, EA, Head of Special Projects, Investment Associate, and more. For a list of JDs, check out: eriktorenberg.com.

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(07:50) Cloud Cartography: If you don't control the cognitive territory. you don't control the lands

(13:30) Sponsors: Vanta, NetSuite

(17:30) Why people don't take the internet seriously?

(22:30) The US is not a nation state

(23:45) A civilization state

(25:17) Why Americans should learn about India's history / India and the US are converging

(30:50) Why a civil war doesn't seem realistic to people now

(38:55) Where else should a talented person move?

(41:35) Asia is the new global center,

(47:10) Internet first, not America first

(01:01:45) Software vs. Hardware

(01:05:45) Elon and the Grey Strategy

(01:16:40) Israel is looking away from the US for partners

(01:19:00) The Tribal lens integrates both domestic and foreign politics

(01:21:00) Will blue always win?

(01:23:43) Making sense of the China meltdown story

(01:34:55) How to fix San Francisco

(01:50:30) Irrationality is an advantage

(01:57:00) Building gray turf

(02:03:00) Mapping the blues, reds, and grays in San Francisco

(02:05:20) Dan and Erik debrief

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Bull/Bear Case for Vivek and Erik’s interview with Vivek Ramaswamy Sep 02, 2023

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On this episode, Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero analyze what Vivek Ramaswamy’s rise in the polls really means, where he goes from here, and we air Erik’s full interview with Vivek from this spring. Vivek discusses his transformation from founder to candidate, his views on Silicon Valley, his concept of meritocracy, depoliticizing corporations, and lays out his policy proposals. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(02:23) What is the excitement about Vivek really about?

(05:00) Why don’t democrats nominate business people?

(06:28) Who is Vivek’s constituency?

(08:18) What happens in a world where Trump doesn’t exist?

(10:20) Immigration stance differences between Trump and Vivek

(14:57) Vivek’s anti woke platform vs DeSantis’ anti woke legislations

(16:50) Vivek as a right wing Elizabeth Warren Civility

(19:15) Is there a way for a republican to be cool?

(22:45) Republicans want an attack dog

(24:00) 2028 and beyond

(29:55) Interview: When Vivek set his sights on running for president

(36:20) Vivek’s presidential platform: Affirmative action, Climate, Fed, Drug crisis

(44:11) Where Vivek overlaps/differs with Silicon Valley: free speech, DEI, SVB

(51:20) How Vivek conceptualizes a meritocracy

(58:00) How to remove politics from corporations

(01:05:32) Silicon Valley should empathize more with the rest of the country?

(01:16:35) Defining “woke”

(01:22:40) What’s it like to run a presidential campaign

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Crypto Hour and IQ, the Next Great Culture War Issue Aug 26, 2023

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Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg discuss what is exciting in Crypto right now, covering friend.tech, Farcaster’s updates, PWAs, superchain 2a, and infrastructure improvements for more use cases. If you’re building a business and need compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR or HIPAA, head to www.vanta.com/zen for $1000 off.

Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

(00:01:36) How Dan is building Farcaster

(00:02:39) Using Ethereum is expensive

(00:04:14) Crypto and climate change

(00:07:49) Dan's take on the buzzy new friend.tech

(00:12:27) Friend.tech's smart use of a PWA + impressive growth

(00:17:11) Coinbase has its own blockchain now

(00:21:47) Are SPACs worse than Crypto's scammy retail stuff

(00:24:21) Chamath and accountability

(00:30:24) How will crypto get to a billion users?

(00:39:11) The case for Farcaster and the future of social media

(00:52:25) How much value can be captured by subscaled social networks?

(00:56:51) Why we'll see startups move away from venture-backed business models

(00:59:26) Most successful media company of the past decade

(01:03:59) Crypto's regulations are a gray cloud over financial innovation

(01:08:08) Opportunities to expand upside for people, from businesses to UBI

(01:09:12) Crypto is not politicized

(01:14:40) Genetics and IQ

(01:24:04) The Sam Harris + Ezra Klein Charles Murray debate

(01:32:48) Why this is the next major culture war issue

RELATED EPISODES:

Upstream w/ Erik Torenberg ft/ Sam Harris

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DeR2VZOjpnE9pQ9b3Om9S?si=u662cEDUTt6D27D09Jnk0w

Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e10-sam-harris-on-populism-polarization-and-his-beef/id1678893467?i=1000614749192

Upstream with Erik Torenberg ft/ Ezra Klein

Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/episode/36vTPPcpisMVXSgq9bnj1w?si=WEysQWc4RouTxd1hzNl1iw

Apple:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e3-ezra-klein-on-supply-side-progressivism-polarization/id1678893467?i=1000607892890

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Mike Solana on Peter Thiel, the Ideal Presidential Candidate, and Culture War Losers Aug 21, 2023

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Mike Solana joins Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, and Antonio Garcia Martinez to track the rise and ‘vibe shift’ away from the woke industrial complex, from social media algorithms and anon accounts, to media disruptions like Substack and Gawker. They discuss Peter Thiel's economic, political, and religious ideas and discuss his legacy. They also debate if the left really has lost control of culture or whether we’re just more siloed in 2023, and which GOP candidates draw on upstream intellectual ideas. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(05:25) Behind the scenes of Mike’s Peter Thiel interview

(13:00) Mike’s hypothesis behind the waves of woke culture dominance since 1995 until today

(15:36) Sponsors: Vanta, NetSuite

(17:41) What explains the vibe shift away from identity politics today, if it is actually in decline.

(25:51) Substack materially changed the discourse, i.e. Richard Hanania

(29:32) The Feminist Critique of Snow White discourse on TikTok

(31:50) Anon accounts

(33:37) Has culture changed or are we just more siloed?

(36:00) Hunter Biden discredits mainstream culture on the left and the right

(39:27) The rise and (maybe?) fall of DEI in tech

(41:47) Thiel's stance on economics, science and technology, politics, and faith

(45:33) Is Thiel's religious argument based on a misread of the bible?

(52:43) Do the neo-Nietzscheans actually have a constituency?

(55:18) Which GOP nominees, if any, are influenced by intellectual movements?

(1:01:31) How do intellectual ideas actually drive political power in the US?

(1:03:31) What do people want in a political candidate

(1:05:13) Autoerotic self-pardoning

(1:08:00) Is Thiel backing away from the anti-woke cause

(1:14:35) World War meme

(1:15:30) Thiel's legacy

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Religion, Canceled Thinkers, LARPing Liberalism, and The End of History Aug 14, 2023

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Antonio Garcia Martinez is back from his travels, and joins Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg to dive into his current theory of ‘The End of History’. They also discuss the cancellation of intellectual figures like Richard Hanania, contrast the political situation in Israel with political polarization in the states, and discuss liberalism vs. religion. Towards the end, they talk about social media, crypto, Elon vs Zuck, and Sam Bankman-Fried. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: www.turpentine.co

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(02:13) Elon Musk vs. Dustin Moskovitz

(05:00) Decarceration in SF

(07:53) What problems should we focus on for the biggest impact?

(12:05) Waiting for Antonio and reflecting on his conversion

(15:30) Moment of Zen: Who’s listening and why?

(18:00) Behind the scenes at Turpentine network

(19:43) Updates: Spindl and Antonio’s travels to France and Israel

(21:27) Sponsors: Vanta | NetSuite

(26:04) Mapping the left and the right in Israel vs in the US

(34:15) End of history

(37:10) Is Richard Hanania canceled?

(39:50) The new Right

(41:35) Liberalism LARPing

(43:20) LindyMan

(44:50) The movies

(46:40) Why hasn’t there been new religions?

(52:20) Christian vs Jewish narrative

(56:08) Is Modernity a death cult?

(57:10) How do we fix the birth rate?

(01:04:40) Updates: Farcaster and Dan’s take on how we usher in a new era for social media

(01:08:00) Crypto infrastructure companies

(01:13:00) The underrated impact of Apple’s app store

(01:15:10) What our interest in Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg at the Coliseum reveals about us

(01:18:10) The story about SBF

(01:20:00) Shkreli season (check out In The Arena)

LINKS:

Bruno Maçães, History Has Begun: https://www.amazon.com.au/History-Has-Begun-Bruno-Macaes/dp/1787383016

Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Liberalism-Failed-Politics-Culture/dp/0300223447

Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: https://www.amazon.com/People-Love-Dead-Jews-Reports/dp/B09CFYVY3F/

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Alex Kaplan on the LK-99 Superconductor: the Drama, Democratization of Science, and Future Implications Aug 06, 2023

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Alex Kaplan shot to fame on Twitter last week for his thread on the LK-99 superconductor, and why it has the potential to be the most important physics discovery of our lifetime. Today he joins Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg to dig deeper into the LK-99 saga and its broader implications: why the material is so hard to replicate, the citizen journalist aspect and the democratization of science, condensed matter physics, a call for scientific ambition, and more. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:13) Introduction to Alex Kaplan, and how his superconductor tweet took over the internet

(03:32) Why is the LK-99 compound so difficult to replicate?

(06:52) The breakdown of superconductor properties (diamagnetism vs. superconductivity)

(10:44) How does one even go and invent a new material?

(13:53) Tracing the drama of how Lee, Kim, and Kwon published their papers

(15:06) Sponsor: NetSuite

(16:15) Cont. story of Lee, Kim, and Kwon

(19:25) Andrew and Iris live-tweeting their replication efforts

(22:08) The citizen journalist aspect

(24:21) The democratization of science

(25:41) Condensed matter physics

(29:38) What’s most exciting about the LK-99 discovery

(32:08) Observing the tangible impacts of virality on Twitter

(34:23) The (im)precise process of creating the LK-99 compound

(35:57) What are the implications, if LK-99 is a real superconductor?

(42:06) What if superconductors made more efficient quantum computers?

(44:03) A potential Kardashev scale civilization

(45:23) The most interesting thing about the LK-99 saga for Alex

(46:49) Comparable physics discoveries to the LK-99

(49:18) Alex's request for scientific ambition: where should we be looking?

LINKS:

Alex’s viral X / Twitter Thread: https://twitter.com/alexkaplan0/status/1684044616528453633

LK-99 Paper (submitted by Kwon): https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

LK-99 Paper (submitted by Lee and Kim): https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037

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Noah Smith on YIMBYism, California Land Use, and the Best-Run City Jul 29, 2023

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Economist and writer Noah Smith returns to the podcast to talk to Dan Romero and Erik Torenberg about housing, politics, land use, and policing in California and beyond. Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more at www.turpentine.co or email Erik@turpentine.co

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:07) Antonio is the Dennis Rodman

(01:42) Noah’s new podcast with Turpentine: Econ 102

(02:05) The left and right version of “it’s time to build” i.e. Ezra Klein vs Marc Andreessen

(04:50) California skewed political identities

(07:00) California vs Texas GOP stance on immigration

(09:30) Should Gary Tan strategize from the left or the right, structurally

(11:11) Can the Asian block become a machine in SF? In California?

(12:50) Is LA better run than SF?

(17:40) What’s the best-run city in the US

(20:58) Sponsor: NetSuite

(22:15) Best format for affordable housing in cities

(26:30) California is a class society based on land

(28:40) House-rich progressives in California

(31:00) Prop 13, property tax, and SALT debates

(39:30) The tide of YIMBYism

(51:10) Effective building in Japan

(58:00) YIMBY movement in SF lost because of crime

(59:00) The future of San Francisco

(01:09:00) Policing

(01:16:00) WWII and the atom bomb

(01:22:00) Will patriotism come back?

(01:25:00) Biggest misconception about Japan?

LINKS:

Noah's Substack https://www.noahpinion.blog/

Book Recommendation on Prop 13: Golden Gates https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America/dp/0525560211

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@dwr (Dan)

@eriktorenberg (Erik)

@moz_podcast

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News News Yum Yum with Marc Andreessen Jul 23, 2023

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Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz returns to discuss his recent essays on AI, violence, and much more including: San Francisco, mandatory military service, Voegelin, and life extension. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

Check out our other interviews with Marc:

Moment of Zen E1: on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0smJY3xJXFhVsL0cX2BtVf?si=89cfd3ddc0434eb0

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-zen/id1661672738?i=1000591411124

Moment of Zen E2: on Elon Musk, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qzUqkt0rCIfVsbUw7eZ77?si=1f7eec7bc1954380

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-zen/id1661672738?i=1000591713971

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode preview

(01:26) The evolution of human entertainment from epic poetry to NPC Tiktoks

(06:50) Violence is a choice

(11:00) True democracy mandates military service as a virtue

(20:00) Can San Francisco be fixed?

(31:00) Marc's empirical argument for AI

(34:45) Sponsor: NetSuite

(35:45) Where Sam Harris gets it wrong

(39:37) Eric Voegelin's concept of Immanetizing the EschatonWhat happens to religion after AI?

(52:50) What would Nietzsche say?

(54:00) LLMs are already the subject of a religious war

(01:03:30) What comes after liberalism

(01:11:20) Men’s tailoring and the stripping of masculinity

(01:13:50) Is Twitter’s influence the real world?

(01:17:20) Is Left vs Right the central conflict of our time?

(01:22:28) Life extension

TWITTER:

@pmarca (Marc)

@dwr (Dan)

@antoniogm (Antonio)

@eriktorenberg (Erik)

LINKS:

Marc Andreessen, Fighting https://pmarca.substack.com/p/fighting

Marc Andreessen, Why AI Will Save The World. https://pmarca.substack.com/p/why-ai-will-save-the-world

Eric Voegelin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Voegelin

Book: Regime Change by Patrick J. Deneen https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902

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Twitter, Threads, and Remote Work with Eugene Wei Jul 18, 2023

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Writer and technologist Eugene Wei joins Dan, Erik and Antonio to talk about Twitter, Threads, and his views on remote work. We reference Eugene's writing a lot on the podcast and mentioned his recent piece, How to Blow Up a Timeline in last week's MoZ episode with Mike Solana (see links below). Listeners, if you're looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: netsuite.com/zen

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LINKS REFERENCED:

Eugene Wei, How to Blow Up a Timeline https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline

American Prometheus https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode preview

(01:03) Algorithm switch at Twitter

(07:10) What Eugene would do as Twitter’s CEO

(11:30) Signal to noise ratio in social media

(22:00) Threads

(37:35) Sponsor: NetSuite

(38:50) LinkedIn

(47:00) Improving Twitter: Ranked follower feed, restoring aristocracy, reversing war on Substack

(1:10:00) Incumbents vs upstarts in social media

(01:14:40) Graph portability

(01:20:00) Centralization vs Decentralization of the space

(01:25:00) UI analysis of Twitter vs. Discord vs. Slack vs Threads

(01:30:00) Impact of Slack and minimizing meetings on the workplace

(01:35:00) The downstream costs of remote work

(01:49:30) Why tech is the worst industry to model out the effects of remote work

(01:51:00) Office layout and productivity

TWITTER:

@eugenewei (Eugene)

@dwr (Dan)

@eriktorenberg (Erik)

@antoniogm (Antonio)

@moz_podcast

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Threads vs Twitter, Zuck vs Elon, and Silicon Valley’s Civil War with Mike Solana Jul 10, 2023

Show notes

Fan favorite Mike Solana, Editor in Chief of Pirate Wires, joins Erik, Dan, and Antonio this week to discuss Meta’s Threads, status, and the future of social media. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen

Moment of Zen is a part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more about talent and partnerships: www.turpentine.co

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode preview

(01:20) Threads vs Twitter

(08:30) Who’s using Threads?

(14:40) Threads evolving into something else

(21:13) Threads’ growth

(23:30) Elon and Substack

(29:45) Ads on Twitter/Facebook

(33:45) Fragmentation

(36:05) Journalists

(37:10) Telepath

(38:00) Twitter since 2016

(39:00) What the next election will feel like online

(42:00) Future of social media

(45:00) Whose status was affected

(50:50) Distribution on Twitter vs Threads

(53:22) Politics on social media

(57:45) “Thetaverse”

(01:00:03) What Elon should do now?

(01:04:34) How Zuckerberg’s image has changed

(01:07:20) Final predictions

LINKS:

Zuckerberg Wages War https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss (https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss)

How to Blow Up A Timeline by Eugene Wei https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline (https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline)

TWITTER:

@micsolana (Mike)

@MOZ_Podcast

@eriktorenberg (Erik)

@antoniogm (Antonio)

@dwr (Dan)

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