Balaji Srinivasan — How to Start a New Country

Limitless

“this movie limitless that I really like and the reason I like it is it changes the normal hollywood formula at the end”— Balaji Srinivasan

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (inferred)

“I think there's a book also it's quite old but called game of shadows barry bonds balco and the steroid scandal that rocked professional sports which is also a quite a good read”— Tim Ferriss

Bigger Stronger Faster

“bigger stronger faster is a documentary that was made in 2008 and it is a fascinating exploration of performance enhancement”— Tim Ferriss

All Drug Olympics

Saturday Night Live (inferred)

“if people haven't seen the all drug olympics skit from saturday night live they should look it up it's actually pretty entertaining”— Tim Ferriss

DALL-E 2

OpenAI (inferred)

“there's actually this amazing app you know that people it came out recently dolly too okay what i'd love about have you ever heard about this”— Balaji Srinivasan

Snapchat Spectacles

Snap (inferred)

“they've definitely improved a lot i like them i have no snapchat stock by the way i'm just saying it whatever thing it's a good product”— Balaji Srinivasan

Icarus

“there's a film called icarus of all things a documentary which goes into the soviet state's use of doping”— Tim Ferriss

Oculus Quest

Facebook (inferred)

“facebook's oculus quest again something which zuck deserves i think a huge amount of credit for putting two billion into that ten years ago”— Balaji Srinivasan

Google Glass Enterprise

Google

“google glass enterprise which i think is doing like reasonably well ... they're using it for industrial applications”— Balaji Srinivasan

Apple ARKit

Apple

“apple's ar kit right so ar kit is like you can hold your phone up and you can see like a glowing orb or something like that”— Balaji Srinivasan

Pokemon Go

Niantic (inferred)

“apps like pokemon go right which are augmented reality apps and you put all of that together”— Balaji Srinivasan

Amazon Alexa

Amazon

“how much of the purpose of alexa as a device in the home do you think is just developing training data”— Tim Ferriss

Solana Saga Crypto Phone

Solana (inferred)

“if you look at like the solana crypto phone when you walked out of your house in the 80s or 90s you'd have your wallet and your keys”— Balaji Srinivasan

Tesla

Tesla

“you have tesla very close just phone tethered and then you have say apple wallet ... a tesla car can be basically open by your phone”— Balaji Srinivasan

Apple Wallet

Apple

“and then you have say apple wallet and then you have you know fill in the blank we're very close to that”— Balaji Srinivasan

How Civil Wars Start

Barbara F. Walter

“there's a book by barbara walter called how civil war start which you know there's a lot of things i disagree with her on”— Balaji Srinivasan

El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

Ioan Grillo

“ian grillo has this book called el narco where he talks about how mexico's democratic transition attended this huge burst in narco terrorism”— Balaji Srinivasan

Cash App

Block (inferred)

“jack dorsey who has square cash that's actually very popular among the african american community among other communities”— Balaji Srinivasan

Coup

Roger Garside

“there's this book by roger garside called coup and you know various guys george soros is kind of hinted at this”— Balaji Srinivasan

Notion

Notion (inferred)

“if you don't like you know some software company you didn't like google docs people could found notion right”— Balaji Srinivasan

Google Docs

Google

“you could found tesla you could found something that actually ... if you didn't like google docs people could found notion right”— Balaji Srinivasan

Political Theology

Carl Schmitt

“carl schmidt wrote this book called political theology right and he's like all these religions ... he himself was like a nazi jurist”— Balaji Srinivasan

The God That Failed

“there's this series of books or a series of essays when communism didn't work out and it was called the god that failed”— Balaji Srinivasan