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Balaji Srinivasan joins Erik Torenberg and Moment of Zen co-host Dan Romero 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.
Balaji Srinivasan joins Erik Torenberg and Moment of Zen co-host Dan Romero 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. We're proudly sponsored by Vanta. Get $1000 off Vanta with https://www.vanta.com/zen
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:30) Episode Preview
(09:55) Cloud Cartography: If you don't control the cognitive territory. you don't control the lands
(14:44) Sponsors: Mercury, NetSuite
(18:30) Why people don't take the internet seriously?
(23:00) The US is not a nation state
(25:10) A civilization state
(26:00) Why Americans should learn about India's history / India and the US are converging
(33:25) Why a civil war doesn't seem realistic to people now
(40:00) Where else should a talented person move?
(41:20) Asia is the new global center,
(48:20) Internet first, not America first
(01:03:25) Software vs. Hardware
(01:05:25) Elon and the Grey Strategy
(01:17:15) Israel is looking away from the US for partners
(01:20:25) The Tribal lens integrates both domestic and foreign politics
(01:21:25) Will blue always win?
(01:24:25) Making sense of the China meltdown story
(01:36:15How to fix San Francisco
(01:51:25) Irrationality is an advantage
(02:06:25) Dan and Erik debrief
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