The inventor of email on how to save our freedoms: decentralize!

Shiva Ayyadurai, who invented email at just age 14, discovered something even more powerful than email.

After 4 earning degrees from M.I.T., including his PhD, he developed a revolutionary model in systems thinking for enabling freedom and innovation in society. As he explains, America is losing both quickly.

He teaches M.I.T.’s most popular elective on this exact model of Systems Thinking.
Here, he shares highlights.

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How email came to be invented by a kid just 14 years old

What paradigm enables innovation?

What are key ingredients of innovation?

How can we self-organize?

Why does credit and recognition matter?

A system of freedom requires transport, conversion & storage

The U.S. is becoming centralized in the most important areas

Why running for political office fits with a bottoms-up approach

The myth that there’s government and something outside of government

How can you transcend the right/left paradigm?

How each of us can enable a bottoms up movement?

Gandhi, MLK, Clinton, Trump: wings that keep the big bird alive. NOT bottoms up.

STOP waiting for others to see the truth

The limited hangout: how the establishment holds its grip

A movement requires truth AND action

Mask Mandates: a case study on truth AND action

Why people don’t take action: learned helplessness

To stop brainwashing, go offline

Are you relying on false gods or do you have dignity for yourself?

You are god yet you are not god