Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.

00:00:00 - Episode Trailer
00:01:09 - Robert's Intro
00:05:20 - Humanity’s missteps – 1000 years wasted
00:07:20 - Struggles inventing the Printing Press
00:08:36 - Trajan’s Column & forgetting that the world is round
00:11:04 - Native Americans & Failure to Grasp the Wheel
00:13:20 - Starting a Fire in Cyberspace with the Bitcoin Network
00:14:40 - Guns, Germs & Steel – Stressors makes us Harder & Stronger
00:16:20 - Formation of Great Cities at the Center of Empires
00:18:20 - The Logic of Empire – Economics, Customs, Taxation
00:20:04 - Carthago Delenda Est
00:20:51 - The Battle of Lepanto
00:21:37 - Venetian Catholics
00:22:41 - Channeling & capturing energy via Religion
00:23:41 - Manhattan – Nexus of the Bond Market
00:25:06 - Amsterdam – Nautical Distribution Center
00:25:49 - Martin Luther & the Economic Impetus for the Reformation
“It’s useful to have God on your side”
00:27:56 - Failed Cities are at the center of Failed Empires
00:28:11 - Paris & Cathedral of Notre Dame
Living Off the Vestiges of an Empire Long Passed
00:29:11 - The Steel Age. “Technology reshapes business, politics, life, & the human condition”
00:29:42 - Constructing an energy efficient shipping network
00:31:50 - Empires produce security Mongolian Security
00:33:06 - Bitcoin primary value proposition is security in the virtual domain
00:34:21 - Money is power, control of virtual money can provide physical security
00:34:31 - Plight of the German Jews in the 30s – Economic Refugees
00:36:31 - Rail Networks – Impact on Economics, Politics, & War
00:37:41 - The River War – Winston Churchill
00:39:41 - Railroads in the United States (Manifest Destiny)
Railroads are 1000x faster, stronger
00:40:38 - Standard Oil (Storing & Channeling Energy via Petroleum)
00:42:15 - Importance of creating scarcity in oil & standardizing components & quality
00:43:50 - 1000x more energy. “Some people can’t do a nickel worth of work”
00:45:23 - Food Energy Networks
00:45:54 - Stabilizing Food Energy at Room Temperature
00:46:46 - Origin of CPG Branding
00:47:18 - Marjorie Merriweather Post
00:48:21 - Challenges of moving energy thru time & space
00:49:11 - Manufacturing Food Products as a Store of Value
00:49:31 - Hershey PA Factory as Clean Room Facility
00:51:55 - Bitcoin as “The best branded asset in the history of the world”
00:52:13 - Great growth companies are powered by technology
00:54:01 - Non-technology strategies to grow a business
00:55:19 - John D. Rockefeller success
00:55:52 - Steel & Aluminum – Elemental Forces
00:56:21 - Steel – Elemental to all Civil Engineering & Modern Architecture
00:57:26 - Challenges of refining steel
00:58:34 - Challenges of explosives
00:59:11 - Attributes of Steel that make it ideal for Civil Engineering
01:00:07 - Aluminum – Elemental to the Aerospace Industry
01:02:21 - Energy Networks – Rail, Air, Food, Oil
01:03:09 - Impact of Technology on Life Expectancy (1900 to 1950)
01:04:14 - Antibiotics & Conquest of Infectious Disease
01:07:31 - Innovation thru trial and error
01:08:01 - “The future is already with us, it’s just not evenly distributed”
01:08:08 - Robert's Outro
01:43:41 - The End

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