Noah wrote his first book on a laptop and developed repetitive stress injury (“mouse pain”). Since then, everything he writes comes from speech recognition software He uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking software

The Oversight Board (Supreme Court of Facebook) is something Noah is very excited about to see how it will develop in the future

It was created to answer difficult questions about freedom of expression online The idea is to give the decision making power to an independent group of people. Start with an identifiable set of decisions about what content Facebook allows. For it to work, Facebook needs to make decisions that Facebook doesn’t like

-To see if the board will make better decisions than Facebook

-Push Facebook to make its own decision in a more regularized rulebased way

-Show the public the benefits for private companies to do what governments have long done (real separation of power)

Because smart contracts are uneditable, you cannot evolve them, there is no flexibility. Traditional contracting relationships constantly evolve, this is lost in smart contracts

Learning Arabic radically changed Noah’s worldview because it gave him insight into the lives of other people

-They need to have genuine external independence