#24 - Samo Burja - How to Prevent Civilizational Collapse
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Why did Rome fall? What can we learn from past civilization collapses to protect our own? How do we fix our Institutions? In this Win-Win episode I speak to Samo Burja - a leading geopolitical analyst and founder of the intelligence brief Bismarck Analysis.
Samo is a prolific writer on nature of power, leadership, bureaucracy and governance. If you're worried about the health of our institutions and sense-making, this is the episode for you.
Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:40 - Common Themes of Historical Civilizations
00:05:13 - Loss of Knowledge
00:13:38 - Impact of Demographic Collapse
00:17:06 - Indigenous Knowledge Loss
00:21:13 - Role of Institutions
00:24:01 - The Succession Problem & Knowledge Loss
00:38:34 - Bureaucracy and Goodhart's Law
00:45:52 - Democracy and Monarchy
00:50:44 - Sensemaking & AI
01:07:13 - Building New Civilizational Games
01:23:27 - Great Founder Theory
01:33:34 - What Makes a Great Founder?
01:38:53 - How to Avoid Getting Drunk on Power
01:44:50 - Democratization of Technology & Vulnerable Worlds
01:53:52 - Geopolitical Predictions
Links
♾️ Bismarck Brief https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/
♾️ Samo's Website https://samoburja.com/
♾️ Samo's Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@UC4QYBbgLkGaULStiC5yc_1Q
Credits
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced by Raymond Wei
♾️ Edit and Audio Mix by Ryan Kessler
The Win-Win Podcast:
Poker champion Liv Boeree takes to the interview chair to tease apart the complexities of one of the most fundamental parts of human nature: competition. Liv is joined by top philosophers, gamers, artists, technologists, CEOs, scientists, athletes and more to understand how competition manifests in their world, and how to change seemingly win-lose games into Win-Wins.
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