Original link: https://www.camelliayang.com/blog/balaji-tim-ferriss-network-state
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The author, Balaji Srinivasan , is one of the Twitter giants that I often mention in my articles. He holds a BS/MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and was a former CTO of Coinbase and a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Balaji is now active on Twitter mainly as an investor and evangelist, expressing his views on the world situation and future life, while working on a multi-media project called 1729 (studying math or watching The Man Who Friends of the Knew Infinity movie should be familiar with this number).
At the beginning of this year, Balaji organized an 18-week VR online class in his 1729 community, and this new book is the essence of knowledge born from the feedback of the online class. Balaji repeatedly mentioned in the class the prototype of “Startup City” and “Network State” in which “cloud first, land second”. By using new technologies to first build a decentralized online community, and gradually iterate out the codes, customs, and governance models generally accepted by the community, and then establish a government restricted by social smart contracts, crowdfunding entity territories, and on-chain censuses , demonstrating sufficient population, income, and real estate to obtain a degree of diplomatic recognition. This new state form will feature a crowdsourcing narrative model combined with a digital currency incentive mechanism.
It’s also ironic that Balaji chose to release the book on July 4, as he said on the “What’s Money” podcast :
– The United States is an economic union maintained by the dollar, and is gradually losing its status as the world’s leader due to the deterioration of polarization, inflation, politicians fighting and other factors.
– The epidemic has caused Americans’ trust in government to drop to freezing point. The United States tried to learn from China’s blockade policy, but failed. Any country or society that cannot quickly popularize vaccines among the people in a short period of time will be vulnerable to biological warfare in the future.
– Politics is a declining business. In the past, when information was blocked, people tended to deify the government, blinding them to its failings.
– Transhumanists want to leave Earth, upload consciousness, and achieve immortality. Transhumanism is the “maximum embodiment of human rationality” because technology is the fundamental factor that distinguishes humans from apes. Human breakthroughs in mathematics will also promote the leap of civilization.
– The “Great Resignation” boom in the United States caused by the epidemic will lead to a large-scale automation revolution. In the future, repetitive labor will eventually be replaced by machines.
– Balaji predicts a split in the U.S. in the next 10-20 years. In 2030 we will see the rise of India as they have more information and technology as a strong foundation.
As of early 2021, only 50% of the world’s population has stable Internet access, and this number will grow significantly as satellite technology and infrastructure improve. At the same time, with the upgrading of technology, especially the emergence of “decentralized technology” and “no/low-code platforms”, our lives will also usher in great changes. For me, I’ve always seen myself as a somewhat rational optimist, so hopeful for the future and hands-on with the big wave of new technologies.
In the past few years wandering in Europe, it is found that more and more knowledge workers have chosen the digital nomadic lifestyle , breaking the boundaries of regions and can work and live anywhere in the world. In the long run, this will have a major impact on how countries and cities attract quality talent. The decline of Silicon Valley and the rise of Miami are examples of how tech-savvy powerhouses can build offline urban competitiveness.
At the same time, globalization has affected people’s perception of identity. We no longer simply belong to a country, an organization or a community. Human identities are complex and changeable, and with the power of the Internet, like-minded organizations and individuals can be found all over the world. More and more individuals will no longer be controlled by centralized institutions and become autonomous sovereign individuals , which will be a rising class.
A certain number of autonomous individuals come together for a common goal and vision to form a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). In a nutshell, DAO is a new collaborative approach that integrates project financing, community management, and value sharing. Instead of a top-down hierarchy, it runs on the blockchain using web3 technology and puts decision-making in the hands of stakeholders. Typically, members of the DAO receive tokens based on participation, contribution, and investment, and then submit proposals, vote, and share the proceeds based on a weighted percentage of tokens. Individuals can join multiple DAOs, and each DAO can also share members, which is a brand-new collaboration mechanism in the Internet era.
For individuals, cooperation is the magic weapon for success in the future. Sometimes a private message on social media can lead to cooperation on projects or meet like-minded friends. The online world is full of millions of opportunities, and the cost of communication and collaboration between individuals is far lower than between companies. Speed is now a competitive advantage, and trial and error is the cornerstone of success.
Human beings in the 21st century spend more and more time in the online world, and they make more netizens than friends in real life. When the boundaries between the digital and the real world are no longer clear, new business models emerge. The ability to make money in the digital age is no longer constrained by geographic and physical environments. We are rapidly moving towards the singularity of the metaverse , and traditional institutions and organizations can no longer meet the needs of the digital age. This will have far-reaching implications for future social interactions and governance. influences.
With any luck, we’re about to see humans become a multi-planetary species, and companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Varda Space, and others are privatizing space exploration operations, which will drastically reduce the cost of space travel. The birth of multiplanetary species will also affect the geopolitical landscape.
With the integration and development of the above trends, the times we live in will usher in earth-shaking changes. What ordinary people can do is iterate their knowledge systems as much as possible, adapt early to emerging business models and remote work, and understand and navigate the changing geopolitical landscape. As the saying goes, “Most people overestimate what they can achieve in one year, but underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.” These changes don’t happen overnight, and certainly not all in ten years , and no one can predict and guarantee, you need to actively think about the following questions:
– How to understand and adapt to these changes? How to educate your caring friends and family?
-How to join or invest in companies in these emerging fields?
– What are the necessary skills for the digital age? How can you stand out?
– Where is your next destination? How to prepare for the birth of a start-up city?
ps Log in to the website https://1729.com/ or read this book online. I’ve also shared a PDF of the book on my Discord community , so please join!
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By the way, The Tim Ferriss Show is now starting to try new ways of playing. It launches a monthly highlight podcast, which clips together the best parts of the month’s guest interviews. Here is a brief summary:
– As long as you keep looking, you will eventually find the sport that suits you best. Life is in movement and there is no excuse to stop moving. Once you get into the habit of exercising and master the basics of activity, it will open doors for you to enjoy other sports and make you aware of your body’s potential.
– Dreams are not random. Dreams are the brain’s solution to our anxieties and worries. Writing down your problems and concerns before bed can help you subconsciously generate solutions.
– Language gives words, sounds and sights a given meaning, constructing an artificial reality for us. Our reality is not what we see, and the brain filters out a large number of sensory details in order to give us a digestible version of reality. Psychedelics offer us the possibility of seeing an alternate reality by turning off the brain’s default filtering mode.
– Without the support of underlying life beliefs, your life will be full of confusion and problems. You are only at the mercy of society and others, and you live every day in the middle of solving problems that are completely uninteresting to you.
– Throughout history, markets have always been reliable. What you need to do is stand your ground, don’t be a scared rabbit, only buy when things are good and panic sell when things are bad, you always get the worst of both sides!
– The best thing a man can do is learn to think for himself.
Attached is “Seventeen Life-Changing Questions” by Tim Ferriss.
It is easy to have a retro complex in a chaotic world, but we may well be at the beginning of a “platinum era”!
2. Mike Singer’s “The Surrender Experiment” tells the story of his evolution from a lonely recluse to a mentor at a meditation center with 600 acres of land after letting his life take the helm, and developing advanced medical management software that changed the market landscape , and finally became the miraculous life of the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar public company.
After reading it, I reflect on my life. After choosing to surrender to the arrangement of the universe in the past two years, isn’t it also full of unexpected surprises and gains? At this moment last year, I definitely did not expect that I would be living in Portugal this year, much less that I would meet the great gods on Twitter, or even have a chance to collaborate.
This year, I learned to let go of my life completely. I suddenly received an invitation from a friend in Aveiro to shoot a promotional film. Just go. This time I met a young tattoo artist when I participated in an event on Madeira Island. He saw that my skin was very good and asked me if I was interested in being his tattoo model to help him participate in the international tattoo competition this September.
I looked at his work (IG: Ghost Crew), although it is not the simple type that I like, and I don’t know what he will tattoo for me, but I think it should be a special experience, then I agreed, and now I will wait for September Become a flower-armed ball girl!
3. Maybe later generations will see this year as 13 AS (After Satoshi) instead of 2022 AD (short for Anno Domini in Latin, year AD) as we are now using.
4. A good writer uses delicate brushstrokes to describe the emotions and thoughts that you want to express but cannot express by digging deep into your inner feelings.
Every time I read resonant poems and passages, it warms my heart, knowing that I am not alone in this world, and that the exchange of ideas between people can transcend the limitations of time and space.
I’ve recently started reading Charles Baudelaire, and I can relate to his book “Anywhere Outside the World.”
“Life is a hospital,
Every patient is haunted by the desire to change beds.
The one who would go to the fire and groan,
The one felt that the only way to be cured was by the window.
I think I’d better go where I’m not,
For this question of always wanting to move,
I’ve been talking to my own mind.
Tell me, mind, cold mind,
How about living in Lisbon?
It must be warm there,
You will wake up like a lizard;
The city is on the seashore,
They say it is built of marble;
The people there hate plants,
Pull up all the trees.
You see, this landscape is to your liking, made up of light and minerals, and water to reflect the landscape.
…”
I have seen a lot of psychologists and read a lot of related books, and now I gradually realize that my “commitment issues” is not really a problem, but the idea of trying to treat this problem.
When my heart is strong enough to resist the common sense that the world goes against my nature, I also realize the result of “If you want to change the world, first change yourself”. Everything is an infinite circle of mutual influence and a journey from self to selflessness and back to self.
Maybe you and I will be unknown in the end, but you should know that I was emotional because of you. Don’t fantasize about a stage well, and then fantasize about the result after waiting. That kind of life will only be full of dependence, and my mind is not for anyone. And stay, and the heart always beats for whom.
— Baudelaire
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