Podcast Notes Playlist: Business

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• The United States does not have a great history of exporting things to countries before conflicts happen 
• “The big defense primes are not in the position to build the right things, partly because the government has created the wrong incentives for them to do so.” – Palmer Luckey
• “The point of high-end defense technology is not to win a war that has already started; it’s to deter that war from happening, to make the cost of engaging in that war so high that it never happens.” – Palmer Luckey 
• “The real reason that these tech companies were not doing work with the United States military, or foreign allied militaries, was that they were afraid of upsetting China.” – Palmer Luckey 
• Until Anduril became the third unicorn in 2019, there were only two unicorns in the defense industry since the Cold War: Palantir and SpaceX
• It took billionaire-founders with previous success starting companies for venture capitalists to invest in the defense industry 
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced many venture capitalists to reconsider their assumptions about investing in defense tech 
• Some countries are willing to do irrational things that disrupt their economic relationships with other countries; irrational wars and conflicts are prevalent throughout history 
• “I think the odds of a direct, hot war between the U.S and China are very very low. I think the odds of a proxy conflict over minerals in South America, South Africa, or Southeast Asia are quite high.” – Palmer Luckey 
• Anduril is the answer to the question: “What would a next-generation Lockheed Martin look like?”
• Without giving away Anduril’s entire roadmap, the future of defense will have a lot of autonomous things across air, land, sea, subsea, and space all working together
• Palmer is more concerned about evil people using very basic AI than extremely advanced AI taking over the world in a Skynet scenario 
• The U.S. must be involved in the technology (nuclear, autonomous weapons, etc.) if it wants to lead and potentially regulate how those technologies are used in the rest of the world 
• “I want to save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year while we [Anduril] make tens of billions of dollars a year.” – Palmer Luckey 

In this live interview with Oculus and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey - joined by Anduril Chief Engineer Shane Arnott - we look at the future of defense, geopolitics, and Australia's future in a transformed Indo-Pacific region. Have we shifted toward a defense-driven future? For more information about this and all our other Next Billion Seconds content, please check out https://nextbillionseconds.com

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• Have a vector that orients your time, attention, and energy towards achieving your goal, and allow for subroutines to develop off of that vector that get you closer to your goal 
• Design an information diet like you would design your diet with food: this information is good, this information is bad, don’t consume this type of information, only consume this type of media during this specific time of day, etc. 
• Failing restaurants add sugar to their meals as a last-ditch effort to attract patrons back to their restaurant, and the legacy media does the same with information 
• Twitter is the public war zone; it is the new parliament where ideas are shared and challenged, and it’s actually upstream of governments 
  • You can learn a lot from Twitter by following interesting people and accounts, but it is easy to overdose on the serendipity of it 
• “What thesmartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in 10 years.” – Chris Dixon
• Technologies that Balaji is interested in today: digital nomadism, a “full crypto life”, AI content creation, and synthesis search engines
• Wars fought today will not look like wars fought in the past; they will include terrorism, social media memes, hacks, de-platforming, assassination, and more
  • The new form of war is better because it’s less destructive to property, but it’s worse because the battlefield is everywhere and nowhere 
• America’s conflict won’t be blue vs. red, it will be green vs. orange, or at a higher level: centralization vs. decentralization 
• “I am not very confident in America’s hard power in a serious fight with China in its own backyard because America is overconfident.” – Balaji Srinivasan 
• Russia cannot give up on Ukraine; China cannot give up on Taiwan; America can and probably will give up on Ukraine and Taiwan like it gave up on Afghanistan 
• The resolution of the government’s war with Big Tech is to effectively nationalize Big Tech, regardless of the justification, and it will justify its measures in the name of combatting Chinese Control
• Choosing betweenAmerican Anarchy and Chinese Control is not ideal for most countries or most people 
• The Cold War had a “third world” consisting of non-aligned countries with neither the U.S. nor the Soviets, but it was significantly behind the U.S. and Soviet blocs
  • Balaji thinks a third group could emerge in the America-China conflict, but perhaps this time, it comes in first because of the modern technologies that empower the individual 

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and essayist, he was co-founder of Counsyl, former chief technology officer of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Our information diets are making us mentally fat. Whether it's fake news, mis or disinformation, state propaganda or conspiracy theories, the world is very difficult to navigate. Balaji also wants to start a new type of country, he has views on how to optimise your working day and he generates more new ideas than almost anyone. Today we get an insight into his thought process behind all of this.

Expect to learn why socialism always continues to arise across the world, how Balaji tracks all of the ideas he has in his head, why Singapore is a powerhouse of a new country, how immigration will deal with remote VR workers in India, why everyone should use a dashboard to track what's going on in their life, the key trick that the legacy media uses to manipulate you and much more...

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• Globalization is ending; the year 2019 is as good as it is ever going to be
• After 70 years of people having fewer kids as a result of moving off the farm and into the city, the world is running out of mature adults, who are necessary for the consumption-based economic system to function 
• From an economic perspective, the U.S. is better positioned than most nations because its post-war generation actually continued to have kids at the onset of globalization + America has a much higher mortality rate once people age past 55
  • American wealth gets cycled back to the younger generation much faster than in nations where people live to be much older

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, author and a speaker.

The world is changing faster than ever, and a lot of the countries, dynamics, peace treaties and structures we're familiar with may be about to come to an end. Peter's job consists of him analysing data from geography, demographics, and global politics to understand economic trends and make predictions. And if his predictions are correct, the next 50 years are going to look incredibly different.

Expect to learn why China will lose half of it's population by 2050, why globalisation is coming to an end even though we're more connected than ever, why population demographics are one of the most important factors in determining the future, whether automation will help or hinder us, whether food shortages are actually something to panic about and much more...

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• Mimetic desire: whatever the people you surround yourself with want, you end up wanting as well, i.e. being subconsciously driven to achieve external validation rather than intrinsic validation 
• The constant desire to want to improve parts of your life or business turns your weaknesses into strengths
• “Most successful people are just an anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity” – Andrew Wilkinson 
• Andrew focuses on building businesses that do not compete with venture capital and whose success can be predicted with reasonable certainty 
• Andrew applies the “80/20 rule” to learning about health; spend an hour a month reading all of the scientific summaries and then don’t think about it again
• On raising kids with wealth: “At the end of the day, your kids just need to know that you’re there and you love them, and I hope that’s enough.” – Andrew Wilkinson
• The Concept of Self-Binding: create an environment where you can’t do the things you don’t want to do, such as eating ice cream, by removing the stimulus from your environment completely
• The unconscious mind is far more powerful than the conscious mind 

My guest is businessman and investor Andrew Wilkinson, who has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword.

We discuss the lessons learned acquiring 40 companies, why he struggled to find happiness and what changed, mimetic desire, competing with venture-backed companies, hiring and firing CEOs, getting back up after million dollar mistakes, and so much more.

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• Money and currency are two different things
  • Money is economic energy, while a currency is a method of moving economic energy across time and space that is typically designated by a government 
• Fiat currencies are a method of moving economic energy, but they dissipate energy over time
  • For example, the US dollar dissipates energy at a rate of about 15% per year, and the Turkish Lira dissipates about 70% of its energy per year
• Bitcoin could become a $250 trillion ecosystem without threatening any nation state by demonetizing gold, then real estate, then corporate bonds, equities, etc.
  • It doesn’t have to “replace” anything; it can partner with people, companies, and nations and improve them 
• “If you want to watch how Bitcoin Hyperization happens, watch how dollarization happens … and does it happen with bloodshot or without bloodshed.” –  Michael Saylor
  • He doesn’t think it’s practical for the world to collectively adopt a Bitcoin standard anytime in the next few decades
• As Bitcoin grows and becomes more understood, rational nations will embrace Bitcoin holders, miners, and companies, which will result in more favorable policies toward Bitcoin
• “Sound money in the 19th century was gold. Sound money in the 21st century is bitcoin.” – Michael Saylor
  • Bitcoin is just the introduction of a better technology; it is not “coming to get” anyone or anything
• There don’t have to be losers if Bitcoin adoption continues; everyone can win
  • Instead of “Bitcoin fixes this”, the more appropriate meme is “Bitcoin improves this”

Michael Saylor (@Saylor) and Aleks Svetski (@GhostofSvetski) have a long-form conversation about the implications of Bitcoin and its effects on the world we live in today.

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