Technology as a force for good, life extension, crypto, network states, and building the future — a distillation of Balaji’s boldest ideas 🌐

Part I — Technology

-The Value of Technology - Building What Money Can’t Buy - Faster, Better, and Cheaper - Value Creation Comes from Technology - Unlocking Unseen Value - More Technology; More Progress -The Impact of Technology - Technology Lowers Prices - Technology Is the Driving Force of History - Technology Determines Political Order - From Centralized to Decentralized -Our Digital Future - Physical, Then Digital, Then Native Digital - The Blockchain Disruption - Technology to Create Alignment - The Digital Frontier - All Value Becomes Digital -Our Physical Future - Automation Delivers Abundance - Self-Measure to Live Forever - Not Life Extension, Youth Extension - Transhumanism: Self-Improvement with Technology

Part II — Truth

-The Types of Truth - Scientific Truth - Technical Truth - Political Truth - Economic Truth - Cryptographic Truth -Protecting the Truth - Modern Media Is Misaligned with Truth - You Are What You See - The True Nature of Legacy Media - The NYT Said Rockets Could Never Work - Media Has Its Own Motives -How to Realign Media - Creating High-Value Media - Media Driven by the Reader’s Benefit - Aligning Incentives for Writers -Building a Fact-Based Media - How Media Gets Us to Mars - Building a Better Truth Machine - Social Media Is a Huge Vat of Brains - How New Technologies Shape Communication -The Future of Media is Decentralized - Creating Pre-Narrative News - Separating Facts from Narratives - Becoming Citizen Journalists - Joining a New Media Community

Part III — Building the Future

-Believing - Adopt a Mindset of Abundance - Creating Your Own Wealth - Your Simple Formula for Financial Independence - Starting Small - Finding a Frontier - Bad Leaders Divide. Great Leaders Create. - Don’t Argue. Build. -Founding - Researching - Ideating - Validating - Engineering - Launching - Hiring - Managing - Growing - Executing - Surviving -Evolving - The Productivity Playbook - Sustain a High Output Over the Long Term - Learning to Learn Well - Learn to Think in Multiple Ways - Build Broadly Applicable Skills - Invest in the Future You Want to See