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#1 Life Rules: Fascinating new post on Ribbon Farm from Venkatesh Rao on how to construct your life principles. Here are the first four he suggests everyone make:
#2 Bitcoin: Nassim Taleb on bitcoin: "But its mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future."
Bonus - Milton Friedman 2 minute clip predicting cryptocurrencies 25 years ago
#3 BigTech: Scott Galloway makes the compelling case for the breakup of Apple - Google - Amazon - Facebook: "The breakup of big tech should and will happen because we’re capitalists. It’s time." If you haven't read or seen anything from Scott on tech, you will find his perspective fun and refreshing.
#4 Washington: Michael Lewis's writing always reads like a fun adventure that makes you think in new ways and this piece is no different. What starts as a hunt for the president ends with him getting play-by-play from Steve Bannon on Trump's SOTU address. I wonder if we could program a robot to write all the news in the Michael Lewis style and if that would help calm people down...
#5 Culture & Networks: An argument that the future is female as we move away from hierarchies and traditional institutions towards networks. Also an interesting anecdote from when Tasmana and Australia became separated.
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