A conversation with Erik Torenberg on all things narrative and the The Narrative Monopoly

Bio

Erik Torenberg is co-Founder and co-CEO of OnDeck, which is on a mission to organize the world's ambition. Co-Founder and Partner of Village Global, an early stage venture fund. Erik was the first employee and on the founding team of Product Hunt. He's also a writer and podcast host. 

Times

• 0:15 - Intro to Erik & breaking into tech
• 6:00 - Status Theory of Narratives
• 9:45 - Meta Narratives & Identity
• 16:00 - Martin Gurri’s Crisis of Authority
• 18:45 - Authenticity & Elon
• 24:30 - The Narrative Monopoly
• 43:15 - Truth & Narratives
• 54:30 - The Current Thing
• 1:00:30 - Lack of meaning
• 1:05:15 - LARPs
• 1:07:30 - Rethinking Higher-Ed

Links

Erik's blog

Erik's twitter

beondeck.com

villageglobal.vc

narrativemonopoly.com

A conversation about free speech with UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh

Topics 

• Computer engineering vs law
• SCOTUS Leak
• Background of free speech
• Twitter and free speech
• Are platforms utilities?
• The Ministry of Truth Disinformation Board
• And more!

Bio (from UCLA Law)

Eugene Volokh teaches First Amendment law and a First Amendment amicus brief clinic at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.

Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Volokh is the author of the textbooks The First Amendment and Related Statutes (6th ed. 2016), and Academic Legal Writing (5th ed. 2013), as well as over 90 law review articles. He is a member of The American Law Institute, a member of the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, and the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a leading legal blog. His law review articles have been cited by opinions in eight Supreme Court cases and several hundred court opinions in total, as well as several thousand scholarly articles.

Volokh worked for 12 years as a computer programmer. He graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in math-computer science at age 15, and has written many articles on computer software. Volokh was born in the USSR; his family emigrated to the U.S. when he was seven years old.

Links

The Volokh Conspiracy,

Free speech videos

narrativemonopoly.com

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A conversation with Michael S. Malone, author of The Big Score, on the history of the semiconductor industry and silicon valley

Topics include (but not limited to): Fred Terman, Hewlett-Packard, Stanford, Vacuum Tubes, Varian Brothers, Fairchild, Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, Arthur Rock, Andy Grove, Jerry Sanders, Charlie Sporck, Bob Widlar, Transistor, Microprocessor, Ted Hoff, Planar Manufacturing Process, Venture Capital, Eugene Kleiner, Nolan Bushnell, and More!

Bio (from Big Score)

Michael S. Malone has covered Silicon Valley and tech for over 30 years. His articles and editorials have appeared in the San Jose Mercury-News, Wall Street Journal, Economist, Fortune, and New York Times. He has written or co-authored more than 25 award-winning books, including Bill and Dave and The Intel Trinity, and co-produced The New Heroes, an Emmy-nominated miniseries on social entrepreneurs. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Links

Buy The Big Score

Michael's podcast  — Silicon Insider

narrativemonopoly.com

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