Good Ideas, Bad UI
The ideas from Balaji Srinivasan, Curtis Yarvin, and others that changed our minds.
Hey MOZarts,
Today’s episode of Moment of Zen has us tracing the thinkers and writers that challenged our beliefs on first principles and primary sources. We also discuss why San Francisco is back, why the media has less punch now, and why the next successful political campaign will use technology in an effective way. Bonus, Erik’s video setup is unusually crisp today.
Below are the links and shownotes for this episode.
Book & Article Referenced in Episode 43
- Dan references “the most interesting new city project in San Francisco” - he’s referring to: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html
-Delian Asparouhov is building a space factory in California. They are referring to Varda Space Industries: https://www.varda.com/
- Overton window , often mentioned on the show.
- Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool, went on the offensive this week against a Washington Post reporter writing a hit piece: https://deadline.com/2023/09/barstool-sports-owner-dave-portnoy-confronts-washington-post-reporter-1235554436/
- Scott Alexander’s https://slatestarcodex.com/, which is now
was “early to EA, a lot of the East Bay intellectual culture, and SF intellectual culture”"
- Tom Holland’s Dominion has been highly endorsed since the early episodes.
- Eric Weinstein on The Gated Institutional Narrative
- Jacob Siegel on ‘the borg’ in The Hoax of the Century (full pdf here)
- Curtis Yarvin’s writing under his pen name MENCIUS MOLDBUG https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/, and at his current substack
- The Clear Pill: https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/
- Balaji’s idea of the Social Supply Chain:
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1446513653964947460?lang=en
- One of Curtis’s influences: historian Thomas Carlyle: full wikipedia
- God and Gold, a seminal book by last week’s guest on Moment of Zen professor Walter Russell Mead
Moment of Zen episodes mentioned:
- Balaji part 1 here and part 2 here
- Mike Solana here
- Crypto Hour and IQ here
See you next week.
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