Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, DAOs, and More | Noah Feldman on The Tim Ferriss Show

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

Giving the board too much power to make a decision that would destroy the company

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

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

-They need to have genuine external independence

-Potential common mistakes for the Oversight Board:

The company can’t have a say in the process of reappointment

DAO’s existed before (guilds, labor unions). They can do certain things very well but some decisions are hard to make, like competition with another entity, coordination of action beyond initial purposes of the organization

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