Book · recommended on 1 episode
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott ISBN 0300128789
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James C. Scott ISBN 0300128789
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This book by James C. Scott 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.
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian central planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.
“if you read read this book seeing like a state this is a great book by yale university press that essentially talks about how names were developed”— 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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