Table of Contents

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INTRODUCTION BY BALAJI

ERIC’S INTRODUCTION

TIMELINE OF BALAJI SRINIVASAN

BACKGROUND

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

BONUS

BALAJI’S RECOMMENDED READING

Books

Math and Science

For Founders

History

WANT MORE?

APPRECIATION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SOURCES

Eric Jorgenson

CEO of Scribe Media. Author of The Almanack of Naval and The Anthology of Balaji. Investing in technology startups as GP at Rolling Fun. Podcast: Smart Friends. Happy to be in touch through Twitter or email.

https://EJorgenson.com
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