Moment of Zen

Low vs High Culture, legacy vs new institutions, WWE, & Lex Fridman w/ Aarthi and Sriram

Episode Summary

Our friends Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan join us this week as special guests (0:00) Intro (1:10) Sponsor (Secureframe) (3:10) Has Aarthi always been more based than Sriram? (6:40) Attribution (10:10) Legitimacy (14:30) Brokenism vs Institutionalism (19:40) Attention as influence (26:00) Should Twitter eliminate trending topics? (28:30) Antonio’s cultural elitism (32:00) Low vs High culture (41:50) Who are the elites? (51:10) WWE & Kayfabe (1:01:45) Lex Fridman (1:11:10) Andrew Huberman (1:19:00) Bryan Johnson (1:21:00) Lindy (1:24:00) Against a la carte beliefs

Episode Notes

(0:00) Intro

(1:10) Sponsor (Secureframe)

(3:10) Has Aarthi always been more based than Sriram?

(6:40) Attribution

(10:10) Legitimacy

(14:30) Brokenism vs Institutionalism

(19:40) Attention as influence

(26:00) Should Twitter eliminate trending topics?

(28:30) Antonio’s cultural elitism

(32:00) Low vs High culture

(41:50) Who are the elites?

(51:10) WWE & Kayfabe

(1:01:45) Lex Fridman

(1:11:10) Andrew Huberman

(1:19:00) Bryan Johnson

(1:21:00) Lindy

(1:24:00) Against a la carte beliefs

Thank you Secureframe for sponsoring (Use "Moment of Zen" for 20% discount) and Rob Perla, Natalie Toren, and Molly Mielke for production/art direction. 

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