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Beautiful Trouble

ISBN 9781771131599

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This book came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Balaji Srinivasan. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

What it is

"An invaluable activist resource, 'Beautiful Trouble' assembles the best ideas of 10 groundbreaking organizations and over 70 troublemakers into a set of interlocking design principles. Use it to instigate anything from a flash mob to a revolution"--Page 4 of cover.

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Balaji Srinivasan — Bitcoin and Ethereum, Lee Kuan Yew, US vs China, and More

“beautiful trouble is an awesome window into another world”
“beautiful trouble is an awesome window into another world which is it's sort of like you know it's a handbook for activists”— Balaji Srinivasan

The guest here is Balaji Srinivasan: Angel investor and entrepreneur, former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Holds multiple Stanford engineering degrees, co-founded Earn.com and Counsyl, and was considered for a senior FDA role. Balaji Srinivasan lays out a sweeping thesis on crypto, decentralized media, life extension, network states, and a declining US versus a rising China.

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