Dove into politics over vodka with a good friend of mine- the economist Mason Pazhawk, and discussed: 

• How SpaceX could break China's great firewall, the philosophy of a Mars civilization
• Trump's unpredictability and the killing of general Qasem Soleimani
• How war could be fought in the future
• 2020 U.S. Election & Andrew Yang's Freedom Dividend (UBI)
• The raise and danger of micro-influencers
• My shift on Religion & GMO's over the last decade
• Escaping algorithmic determinism
• American suburb's lack of Third Places
• How the World runs on Narratives  

Books Mentioned: 

• 1984 by George Orwell - https://amzn.to/2vO4y6f
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman - https://amzn.to/2SiIVCq
• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman - https://amzn.to/2UlzJQD
• The End of History by Francis Fukuyama - https://amzn.to/3b8jmwQ