E40: Balaji Srinivasan on the Tribal Lens, America’s Blunder, and His Plan to Save San Francisco

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.

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Cloud Cartography: If you don't control the cognitive territory. you don't control the lands

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Why people don't take the internet seriously?

The US is not a nation state

A civilization state

Why Americans should learn about India's history / India and the US are converging

Why a civil war doesn't seem realistic to people now

Where else should a talented person move?

Asia is the new global center,

Internet first, not America first

Software vs. Hardware

Elon and the Grey Strategy

The Tribal lens integrates both domestic and foreign politics

Will blue always win?

Making sense of the China meltdown story

What actually happened in the Middle East in the last 20 years

Israel is looking away from the US for partners

How to fix San Francisco

Irrationality is an advantage

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• Not Too Long Ago Americans Didn't Care About Taiwan, https://x.com/balajis/status/1657852505425063936?s=46
• Jacob Siegel and Liel Leibovitz, End US Aid to Israel, Tablet Magazine - https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/end-american-aid-israel
• Louis-Vincent Gave, Making Sense of the China Meltdown Story , Gavekal - https://research.gavekal.com/article/making-sense-of-the-china-meltdown-story/
• Beautifultrouble.org - Balaji refers to this as the degrowth handbook

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