UnWired Episode 22: Authenticity
SHOWNOTES
UnWired, Episode 22 - for Tuesday May 27th, 2020:
Show Title: Authenticity
SubTitle: Lockdown Counter: Day 76
Shout out to our show music and musicians, 77 Bombay Street.
Album to try: Up In the Sky.
The song we play for the show is 47 Millionaires, a brilliant song about fame and fortune.
Overview
Today I highlighted several podcasts that are worth listening too on regular basis and are among my personal favorites.
Clip of the Day
// Stunning Covid Revelations from Africa
Polly St. George -- -- Amazing Polly -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz46M0k1dSo
Links to the highlighted shows, quotes, and podcasts for Naval & Jason
Naval Ravikant
Who is he: A very successful entrepreneur, Naval is know for tweet storm on how to get Rich.
@naval
The Naval Podcast ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TZqOsVCNM )
Wiki: Co-Founder of Angellist, prolific investor in Uber, Foursquare, Twitter, Yammer, Clearview AI, etc. Born in India - attended public school in New York - then he graduated from Dartmouth College. Today he is known as one of the great thinker / philosopher of our time. His appearances on long form podcasts (like Rogan) are epic. Venture Hacks of books.
// Naval Ravikant - How to get rich
// Mother of all podcasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-TZqOsVCNM
-- Clips each short podcast
Jason Calacanis
@jason
This Week in Startups
Angel (the book and the podcast)
Wiki: Jason McCabe Calacanis (born November 28, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster.[1][2] Jason is probably most famous, and most wealthy for this deal - as an EIA at Sequoia Captial - through this program, Calacanis invested $25K in Travis Kalanick's company, Uber. The deal is now worth about $100 million. Also an investor in Calm.
I have been listen to Jason since the early days of TWIST. His knoweldge and guest list on this show have been educational and inspirational. Jason appears from time to time on Business News show - and he is well know for a sharp wit and no fear in expressing his strong opinions.
// Stunning Covid Revelations from Africa
// In this clip
Polly St. George
-- Amazing Polly -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz46M0k1dSo
// **************** Naval Quotes & Wisdom ****************** //
"The increasing consumerization of everything"
"Every human is capable of every experience and every thought."
"Humans are multi-variant"
The Greeks and Romans had the good model: (“there is an arc to life")
Young, you learn and go to school
Then you go to war
They you start a business
Then you join the senate
Then you become a philosopher
"Try your hand at everything (specialization is for insects)."
"You have one life, do everything you want to do."
I would rather read the 100 best books until I understand them instead of 1000’s of books
"if you get enough advice it all cancels to zero"
"I want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous"
"We live in the age of infinite leverage … good decision making can impact thousands/millions of people … podcasts … social media …. blogs ….. investing capital … software ….. "
"Low stress is more important" …. (Buffet example)
"!! Used the corner grocer as example of hard worker ….. "
"What you do, who you do it with, how you do it …. way more important than how hard you work"
"Knowledge worker athlete …. train hard, sprint, rest ….. reassessment ……… linear output is for machines"
"You can’t get rich renting out your time ……"
"Own a business, equity, ….. to be succesful"
Artificial Intelligence
"People who talk about general AI have never coded ….. coding is thinking …. automating programming ….. structured thinking …. AI that can think …. this is end game … 100’s of years to get there …"
"No where near close to general AI ….. "
"AI hype is Overblown …. cassandra complex (end of world) and god complex (lost religion replacement)" …..
"Narrow AI …. effectively crude forms of pattern recognition ……. "
"We don’t know how the brain works …. never modeled an amoeba …. nature is parsamonioius, meaning uses everything at it's disposal …… "
"50 years to simulate a cell accurately …… "
"every intelligence is contextual ….. "
Brain is most amazing wetware object every created ... binary modeling is not feasible (or reliable) at this point
Family Analogy for Socialists / Communists / Capitalism
"Not a zero sum game - everyone can be wealthy"
"Capitalism ... is a Positive sum, ethical game"
"Looters have been the bankers - caused socialists to rise and want to burn down the system"
Socialism comes from heart, Capitalism comes from the head:
Nasem Talib
With my family I am a communist
With my close friends I am a socialist
With my locallevel politics I am a Democrat
At a higher levels (State) I am a Republican
With my federal level politics I am a Libertarian
i.e. the Larger the group, the more towards capitalism and the individual one must focus.
It's about TRUST. The larger the group, the less trust.
"Escape competition by authenticity" --- no one compete with you if you are you
"Compound Interest is an important source .... "
"Ultimate purpose of money is Freedom .... don't have to do what you don't want to do"
"Productize Your Self .... "
"Accountability ..... fail publicly"
Book to read: "Skin in the Game" ......
Leverage: Fortune required leverage
// UBI Naval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHim7CMOZ6U