#78 Balaji Srinivasan: Exploring COVID-19

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This special pop-up episode explores Covid-19, with Balaji Srinivasan. Balaji is one of the more thought-provoking, interesting, and multi-disciplinary thinkers I know and we do a deep dive, including possible second and third-order consequences.

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0:00.0	COVID-19 is the formal name of this disease. It was initial called the novel coronavirus
0:05.7	and NCOV-19, novel coronavirus 2019, denoted both the virus and the disease. And now they
0:12.8	have sort of factor those out into SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus, and COVID-19 the disease.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome. I'm Shane Parrish and you're listening to a special episode of the Knowledge Project,
0:32.4	a podcast dedicated to mastering the best of what other people have already figured out.
0:37.2	This episode is special because we're in a deep dive on COVID-19. I've really done an episode
0:43.2	of a timely issue affecting a lot of people before, so consider this a pop-up episode. We'll do
0:48.9	these from time to time when we feel like we can add something to the conversation. This episode
0:54.5	is also special because it has no sponsor other than us. If you like the podcast with no sponsors
1:00.2	and you want to support us, you can go to FS.blog slash podcast and click premium. You'll save time,
1:06.1	get transcripts, and a host of other goodies, and help support what we're doing.
1:11.3	Today I'm talking with Balaji Srinivasan. I've said that wrong and I'm sorry it's not easy to pronounce.
1:17.8	I want to preface this conversation by saying the opinions expressed in here are those of the
1:21.8	participants and not for an umstreet media. The participants are not medical professionals. I think
1:26.7	doctors are some of the most incredible people in the world, and if you're having symptoms, you need
1:31.8	to see your GP. Our guest is also not a pandemic expert. He is, however, one smart dude, and he
1:38.6	thinks in a very multi-disciplinary way. This episode is full of what ifs, what could be hypotheticals,
1:44.5	what's going on, and it borders on sci-fi at some point. As you'll quickly find out in this
1:51.7	interesting interview, I don't know anything but the subject, but I'm going to dive in and learn.
1:56.8	I'll tell you more about our guest in a moment. It's time to listen and learn.
2:08.0	This episode is brought to you by 8020. 8020 is a no-code digital studio and
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