## Invest like the best interview https://www.joincolossus.com/episodes/85214124/srinivasan-optimizing-your-inputs?tab=transcript Russel conjugation: I sweat, you perspire, she glows. I investigate, you harass. Org chart embedded in language. Government by gerund, power by participle. Who is allowed to use what words, what is salient in a particular situation. Media tribe should have power. Tech power should not. In general I feel like the most constructive criticism is the build the alternative. This process goes back in Western civilization a long time, when the establishment becomes ossified and incompetent you break glass and decentralise. Thats what Luther did, the Catholic church doesn't have legitimacy. That's what Bitcoin is. Military saying: amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. K armed bandit problem as lens for thinking about entropic inbound media Life advice Monetarily, I'd say buy Bitcoin. If you're more adventurous also buy ETH, like 50% BTC and 50% ETH. Put into it what you can afford to just never think about, literally if it goes to zero for years, drops 80%, you don't even care. You're not looking at the price. If you want to, like Coinbase has pretty good security, but there's cold storage services also. Do that, number one, because that alone, I think is the dumbest, but most obvious thing to do to prepare yourself for 5 or 10 years or more of significant financial and monetary disruption, number one. I think you need to achieve individual financial independence to achieve ideological independence, to achieve collective independence. Once you've got a bunch of people who are doing that, who are financially independent, who are healthy, who are mobile, who are conscious about their information diet, then they can work with someone like you or with an influencer more generally, or become an influencer or a founder by themselves. By the way, that's a new thing, founding influencer. Like a concept just like founding engineer, founding influencer, I think is on par with founding engineer where the influencer brings a community and their knowledge of the community, the engineer brings the technology that's a great co-founder pair.