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E26: Silicon Valley's Civil War with Nadia Asparouhova
From"Moment of Zen"
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Length:
82 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Nadia joins Erik, Dan and Antonio to debate the different movements in tech and determine what they should be doing to achieve the impact they want to have. Nadia is a tech researcher (nadia.xyz.) and the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.co
RECOMMENDED PODCAST:
Media Empires: https://link.chtbl.com/mediaempires
On the debut episode of Media Empires, Erik Torenberg sits down with Morning Brew's CEO Austin Rief to learn his perspective on the future of the media business and where he sees the single biggest opportunity to build a media empire.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:03) New Podcast recommendation: Media Empires
(01:28) Why it’s important to break down the elite camps and their worldviews
(02:51) Elite bracket breakdown
(10:00) Technooptimism, AI, and regulation
(12:08) Davos mindset versus revolutionaries
(13:00) Why doesn’t tech support the arts?
(15:00) Sponsor: Secureframe
(17:00) Tech needs to tell a better story
(21:42) Where does Elon fit into this framework?
(23:13) Institutionalists vs anti-institutionalists (Elon, Sachs, Sam Altman, Thiel, Vijaya)
(35:00) How does the tech worldview enter politics and public stewardship successfully?
(39:00) Is Twitter an institution?
(42:00) Antonio’s depressing statement
(48:30) How the desire for high status in a digital world has affected local philanthropy
(55:44) Who are the most high status people in the world? High status education?
(1:04:00) Building parallel institutions
(1:08:00) Nadia discusses her article about GitHub
(1:15:00) What do American intellectuals get? Experts? Substackers?
(1:17:00) Idea machines
LINKS:
Silicon Valley’s Civil War: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-valley-civil-war
GitHub article: https://www.wired.com/story/github-tech-values/
Idea Machines: https://nadia.xyz/idea-machines
TWITTER:
@nayafia (Nadia)
@MOZ_Podcast
@eriktorenberg (Erik)
@antoniogm (Antonio)
@dwr (Dan)
SPONSORS:
Secureframe ( https://secureframe.com/ )
Secureframe is the leading all-in-one platform for security and privacy compliance. Get SOC-2 audit ready in weeks, not months. I believe in Secureframe so much that I invested in it, and I recommend it to all my portfolio companies. Sign up for a free demo and mention MOZ during your demo to get 20% off your first year.
More shownotes released in our Substack: https://momentofzen.substack.com/
RECOMMENDED PODCAST:
Media Empires: https://link.chtbl.com/mediaempires
On the debut episode of Media Empires, Erik Torenberg sits down with Morning Brew's CEO Austin Rief to learn his perspective on the future of the media business and where he sees the single biggest opportunity to build a media empire.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:03) New Podcast recommendation: Media Empires
(01:28) Why it’s important to break down the elite camps and their worldviews
(02:51) Elite bracket breakdown
(10:00) Technooptimism, AI, and regulation
(12:08) Davos mindset versus revolutionaries
(13:00) Why doesn’t tech support the arts?
(15:00) Sponsor: Secureframe
(17:00) Tech needs to tell a better story
(21:42) Where does Elon fit into this framework?
(23:13) Institutionalists vs anti-institutionalists (Elon, Sachs, Sam Altman, Thiel, Vijaya)
(35:00) How does the tech worldview enter politics and public stewardship successfully?
(39:00) Is Twitter an institution?
(42:00) Antonio’s depressing statement
(48:30) How the desire for high status in a digital world has affected local philanthropy
(55:44) Who are the most high status people in the world? High status education?
(1:04:00) Building parallel institutions
(1:08:00) Nadia discusses her article about GitHub
(1:15:00) What do American intellectuals get? Experts? Substackers?
(1:17:00) Idea machines
LINKS:
Silicon Valley’s Civil War: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-valley-civil-war
GitHub article: https://www.wired.com/story/github-tech-values/
Idea Machines: https://nadia.xyz/idea-machines
TWITTER:
@nayafia (Nadia)
@MOZ_Podcast
@eriktorenberg (Erik)
@antoniogm (Antonio)
@dwr (Dan)
SPONSORS:
Secureframe ( https://secureframe.com/ )
Secureframe is the leading all-in-one platform for security and privacy compliance. Get SOC-2 audit ready in weeks, not months. I believe in Secureframe so much that I invested in it, and I recommend it to all my portfolio companies. Sign up for a free demo and mention MOZ during your demo to get 20% off your first year.
More shownotes released in our Substack: https://momentofzen.substack.com/
Released:
Jun 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (77)
E11: America as a culture exporter, Egalitarianism eats the world, and why wokeness isn't receding: "If you can't compete on history, compete on philosophy" We record our interviews with Riverside. Go to https://bit.ly/Riverside_MoZ + use code ZEN for 20%. Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MomentofZenPodcast. (13:00) Why knowing history makes you a better entrepreneur (20:00) Christianity’s moral innovations (29:00) America as culture exporter (37:00) Consumer culture and social progressivism (50:00) Egalitarianism eats the world (1:04:48) Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcome (1:12:00) Equality of Opportunity IS Equality of Outcome (1:17:00) Wokeness isn't receding More shownotes and reading material released in our Substack: https://momentofzen.substack.com/ Thank you Secureframe for sponsoring (Use "Moment of Zen" for 20% discount) and Graham Bessellieu for production. by "Moment of Zen"