• Why India should buy Bitcoin
    • Balaji
    • National security. Bitcoin with its decentralisation offers a hedge against large market failures. Like the ripple effects of the financial crisis.
    • India couldn’t be deplatformed by large tech companies
    • flow of bitcoin capital to India
    • Digital gold, to be backed in time of crisis
    • {{TODO}} Bitcoin revolutionising accounting, Deloitte
    • the invention of the Bitcoin blockchain is comparable to the advent of the internet itself. Because if the internet was about sending information, blockchains are about transferring value. Specifically, until blockchains, we didn’t have a digitally native representation of scarcity.” this is the blockchain in general, this is its power
    • ”India should prefer crypto APIs as the open source alternative to corporate APIs whenever possible”
    • {{TODO}} https://tigerfeathers.substack.com/p/the-internet-country
  • Software is eating the world
    • Balaji
    • The new frontier of exploration being the cloud. The creation of cities and communities of people based on finding each other in the cloud.
    • ”The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant"
    • "when goods themselves can’t be digitized, our interface to them will be
  • https://nintil.com/on-the-causal-powers-of-mormonism
    • Nintil
    • I might be missing something here. It seems like a waste of time to look at a causal factors for something so vague. I guess thats the point. The conclusions drawn might be interesting.
  • Ezra Kleinpodcast
    • Releasing tension in conversation by listening, even if you dont agree.
    • People relaying experience, whether you agree with it or not its important for them to feel validated
  • #thoughts 🤔 Automation could redefine incentive structures. What becomes the motivation for action when people dont need to be incentivised for tasks. Could we develop a philosophy of human prosperity and exploration to drive people? If money is like oxygen what happens when its in abundance?
  • {{DONE}}HFDP
  • {{TODO}} This behemoth might answer some questions May 15th, 2021 May 16th, 2021
    • When ‘talent’ isn’t code for ‘specialized training’ it means the role or industry has not been systematized
    • Program managers need to be able to recognise systematic bias in a discipline and be curious with a low ego.
  • philosophy is what makes it impossible for language to go on holiday.