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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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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