Naval's Twitter Profile Analysis @naval on Twitter

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All tyranny begins with the desire to coerce others for the greater good.

“[They say] these are all private companies. They should be able to do whatever they want. But here’s the problem with that: our free speech rights have... become digitized, privatized, and centralized in the hands of a small number of players, a handful of oligarchs.” https://t.co/u3zZKr9tMG

The mind gives up before the body.

The source of wisdom is pain.

The truest way to decline is just to say, “it doesn’t feel right to me.” No explanation is necessary.

Ultimately, there will only be one Social Protocol.

Future generations will read history books about primitive societies in which the global supply of money was set at bi-weekly committee meetings.

The first generation of the Internet was partially decentralized and built upon stateless open web protocols (HTTP, SMTP...) The second generation of the Internet will be fully decentralized and built upon stateful open web protocols, aka public blockchains.

The real AGI is the Internet, bootstrapping itself into existence. If you want to be wealthy, help it.

We’re transitioning through a temporary bug in the Internet’s history before we knew how to build open social protocols. At first, the Internet transferred data. Then, it transferred scarcity (Bitcoin). Then, computation (Ethereum). Coming up - identity and social graphs.

Not your platform, not your followers. https://t.co/TMf1tmFR7m

Bitcoin cannot be coerced. That’s why it’s the most important experiment in the world.

Use Signal. Learn about privacy coins. Insist on working remotely. Embrace open source. Practice online anonymity. Decentralize your life. https://t.co/RPVeCZ5tDx

Fasting focuses the mind - it replaces all desires with a single desire.

First they ban accounts. Then, they ban apps. Finally, they will block websites.

working at faang is cringe now

Incredible, and horrible, that the campaign for the creation of a Ministry of Truth is being led by the press, of all institutions. Very few errors are as harmful to a free society as the forcible imposition of Truth. https://t.co/Hg5DKyHy9y

@Naval back in 2018... 👀 https://t.co/HJ3AHVwXbs

Early inflationary cycle: everyone benefits, no one pays. Late inflationary cycle: everyone pays, no one benefits. Has happened many times in the last century. Unlikely to be different this time.

.@naval: Decentralized social media is what I want to spend the next significant years of my professional career working on. Don't want to be a serf on Jack's or Zuck's farm.

.@naval: The future decentralized social protocol will create trillions of dollars in value, but it won't all go to a few companies in the Bay Area. It'll be distributed across all the users of the platform.

.@naval: Decentralized social media will also be programmable. No more being limited by the one client made by the single company. In the future, there will be 100s of clients all competing with each other, all using the same underlying decentralized social protocol.

.@naval: The other advantage of decentralized social networks is payments built-in. Right now, YouTube takes much more of the value created by users of the platform then they deserve.

.@naval: Instead of following me on Twitter, you'll follow a pointer to me on the blockchain. If Twitter deplatforms me, I'll update the pointer to my new location on the blockchain.

.@naval: I want to be totally platform-independent. If Twitter goes away, if Twitter deplatforms me, or if someone else deplatforms Twitter, I don't want to lose my followers or profile.

.@naval explains this tweet: https://t.co/bE83SBo5gN In the future, there will be one canonical social protocol with all the social data. The future YouTubes, Clubhouses, and Twitters will all be built on the winning social protocol. (We don't know yet which one will win.)

.@naval: The original internet protocols (e.g. HTTP) were stateless. So then private companies like Facebook started to store state and identity. But now they own and have data lock-in. Bitcoin is now the first *stateful* protocol. The data is all public and open to anyone.

Dollar printing is how the empire (USA) extracts tribute from the world. - @naval 🤯👏

ever since I learned about the concept of "specific knowledge" by - @naval , I have been so motivated to be me and dive deeper into my curiosities.

"anything social is about Groupthink, and individuals can search for truth, but groups search for consensus. Because if the group doesn't have consensus it can't get along, and if it can't get along it falls apart." (@naval on Tim Ferris podcast)