Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.
00:00:00​ - Episode Trailer
00:01:06​ - Swan Bitcoin
00:03:22​ - Robert’s Intro
Economics
00:06:46​ Science of Infectious Disease, Sterilization, & Antibiotics
00:08:33​ Economics with Dirty Money
Defective Money is Toxic
00:09:33​ Meditations on Toxicity as a threat to life
00:11:33​ Inflation Myths & Misconceptions
00:12:33​ Jedi Mind Tricks in Economics –“No Inflation Here”
00:13:33​ Early Retirement in your Consumer Basket
00:15:06​ Questioning Basic Premises of Economics
00:15:23​ “We can’t tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about”
00:15:33​ 30 year Bond calc – Mistake
Inflation & Interest Rates
00:17:09​ Inflation Coefficients & Drivers
00:18:49​ Scarcity in Real Estate & Goods
00:19:59​ Agreement on bleeding George Washington to death
00:20:33​ Energy content in products, services, & assets
00:23:33​ Cherry Picking the Inflation Bucket for CPI
00:25:02​ Obscene Asset Inflation
00:26:33​ Scarce= High Energy Value
00:27:07​ Inflation is Theft, but most don’t realize this
00:28:26​ Inflation is Freezing to Death
00:31:00​ Real Yields vs. Asset Inflation Rates
00:31:52​ Storing Value in Equity & Debt
00:34:47​ Why do Stocks always go up?
00:37:27​ Big Tech vs. the entire Equity market
00:38:14​ Darwinian Competition
00:40:04​ Humility & Stoicism
00:41:54​ Challenges of Competing & Commercializing Acquisitions
00:43:52​ The Law of Decimation & Murphy’s Law
00:45:14​ Underestimating the cost of maintenance on assets
00:45:47​ Dangers of Youthful Ambition & Empire Building
00:47:33​ 10% tithe as a continuing theme
00:49:11​ Words don’t matter – Actions matter
00:49:31​ Paradox of Marcus Aurelius & Imperial Virtue
00:52:03​ Marcus Aurelius & the Crypto Keys to Empire
00:53:53​ There is always time to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
Natural Competition
00:54:50​ Darwinian Vitality & Antifragilty
00:55:29​ Terrifying Natural Beauty
00:56:11​ Everything is at its finest when tomorrow is uncertain.
00:56:23​ Ants at War on a Sunny Day
00:57:52​ Lions & Antelope on Television
00:59:18​ Dynamic Equilibrium & Ecosystem Health
01:00:53​ Paradox of the Engineer vs. Zookeeper
01:01:30​ Easter Island Ecosystem Collapse
01:02:10​ Free Market is Economic Expression of Darwinian Equilibrium
01:03:33​ - Robert's Outro
01:42:27​ - End
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