enjoyed recently - vol2

A great opinion piece by Ezra Klein on Twitter and Elon Musk. Some quotes:
- “So what is Twitter built to do? It’s built to gamify conversation.”
- “Attention is currency, and Twitter is the most important market for attention that there is.”
- “From 2017 to 2021, the White House was occupied by what was, in effect, a Twitter account with a cardiovascular system, and the whole world bore the consequences.”
Naval Ravikant podcast with Vitalik Buterin. Especially part 2 of the podcast just woke me up to how much of modern governance we take for granted, and how blockchain governance is just a great simulacrum of how we govern society. Specifically, how instead of a democracy we live in a vetocracy of the powerful