Podcast Notes Playlist: Business

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• The long-term legacy of your contribution to society is bounded to the fate of the society you are in 
• Figuring out why societies fail will help humans take measures to mitigate such failures and allow human contributions to compound over generations
• Even though everyone wants their society to succeed, their individual incentives might encourage them to work against other members of the same society
• Human history is a stuttering arc of progress where civilizations rise, achieve some sort of peak, and ultimately fail, and then another civilization picks up the remnants and start again
• Providing a useful information inheritance is the best thing we can do for future generations
• An immortal society is a boundless society where almost all human effort can compound and accumulate over time 
• Societies that celebrate their most successful outliers will generate people who are capable of solving their hardest problems
• The collapse of civilization includes a massive decline in population, material wealth, and human knowledge  
• Societies that undergo stagnation and forgo growth have a compounding risk of collapse over time  
• The Great Founder Theory: a small, exceptional group of people are ultimately responsible for the creation of new institutions that drive growth and innovation across a society  
• A great founder must operate within a social reality so he is not disconnected from society, but also be differentiated enough so that is not just like everyone else
• On live versus dead players: A live player is a person or well-coordinated group of people that is able to do things they have not done before, whereas a dead player operates off of a script and is incapable of doing new things
• The ability to successfully jump career tracks is evidence of being a live player
  • Examples include Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk 
•  People are not paying enough attention to our aging population; an old population is less capable of dealing with the changes demanded by technology 

Samo Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. He’s also a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation where he studies how institutions can endure for centuries and millennia.

Samo is also Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute, where he advises how institutions can shape the future of technology.

He writes and speaks on history, institutions, and strategy with a focus on exceptional leaders that create new social and political forms. He’s systematized this approach as “Great Founder Theory.”

After the unexpected and untimely passing of Coolio, we have decided to re-air this early episode of the podcast.

From the original release notes:

"Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum artist Coolio joins The James Altucher Show to share his story of success. With more than 30 million records sold globally, Coolio gives a side to his story that most people don’t know. 

Teacher? Psychologist? Author? There are many surprising career paths that Coolio he had interests in pursuing.

You’ll hear how his love of music and his ability to understand and connect with people enabled him to create hip-hop poetry unlike anyone else. 

Something that most people don’t realize is that one of Coolio’s biggest hits, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” caused him some career conflicts, and here you get all the details.

What is truly inspiring is his passion for life and his ability to choose himself. From a rough childhood and being bullied to creating his career from scratch, you get the exclusive details from Coolio himself.

He is living proof that believing in yourself is a skill, one that everyone can master if they put their mind to it."

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