September 2025
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The Network State Summary – Balaji Srinivasan
Balaji Srinivasan’s The Network State argues that the internet has quietly become an alternative geography one capable of birthing entirely new, cloud native nations. The book’s core thesis is that a “network state” begins as an online community with a moral purpose, proves its legitimacy through real time metrics, crowdfunds parcels of land across the…
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AI Prompts For Stellar Developers
James On YouTube Watch On YouTube: https://youtu.be/E6Uz2oFo33Q | Subscribe Here are two prompts you can use as system messages when interacting with large language models for coding tasks. I use these directly on the OpenAI playground: https://platform.openai.com/playground Soroban Contract Dev Prompt System Message Scaffold Stellar Frontend Dev Prompt System Message
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Fooled by Randomness Summary – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled by Randomness” is an exploration of how humans chronically misinterpret luck as skill, patterns as laws, and anecdotes as evidence. Writing from the vantage point of a mathematical trader and probabilistic philosopher, Taleb argues that much of what we take to be causation is in fact the noisy outcome of probabilistic…
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Summary – Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a landmark work of political economy and social critique that introduces a powerful framework to understand how major tech firms have forged a new, unregulated form of capitalism. Zuboff argues that we are living through a historical turning point, where a handful of technology corporations most notably…
