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“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met, and The Network State may be his best.” — Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz
"We've started new currencies. Now The Network State shows us how to start new cities and new…
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This book gave me hundreds of story ideas and probably boosted my IQ by at least 3 points.
Social media and Blockchain clasp hands together to create a third leviathan alongside God and the State: Network. Balaji dragged me through a buffet of interesting ideas that shape my world and its future, including the idea that countries may be much easier to start than what I first thought.
Very dangerous. Awesome. Read it.
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