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SELECT LINKS:
Article: Balaji Srinivasan on San Francisco:https://balajis.com/p/only-newsom-can-go-to-china
Article: Eugene Wei’s How To Blow Up A Timeline: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline
Article: After Years of Secretive Land Buys, Billionaires Plan For a New City is Revealed https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2023-08-30/solano-county-land-billionaires-essential-california
Free State Project New Hampshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project#:~:text=The%20Free%20State%20Project%20
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(00:02:23) SF is back 
(00:05:08) SF can be cleaned up pretty fast
(00:08:47) Who runs for office?
(00:16:07) Sponsor: Shopify
(00:17:43) You can buy a city
(00:25:11) Elites don’t move
(00:28:57) Analyzing the success of charter city state movements
(00:34:34) Sponsor: MasterClass | NetSuite
(00:36:13): Can we get people to move to SF and change the city?
(00:44:30) Tech is politically absent at the local level
(00:50:45) Talent wants to agglomerate
(00:57:00) Educational challenges