Aaron Lowry How to build? What does software do for helping us to customize our physical creations? Where is our awareness focused? Why does it focus there? How does it focus there? How does 3D engineering work? How do you find the most important constraints that are the obstacles in your way? How do you focus? What are the properties of thermal expansion? What should I understand about physics as a novice builder? What are geotelematics? (10 minutes in) What would be the best way to track all o...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 10Ep. 12
What is dialogue? What is monologue? How do you have dialgoue with your colleagues? And then engagement? How many corporate retreats have you done? What is a corporate retreat? How do you find perfect deals? What is a perfect deal? How do you deal with the stress from early deals? How do you deal with principal agent dilemma of investors? How do you deal with potential for embarassments? Is honor culture neccesary? Why does it show up in human relationships? What is the difference between true i...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation ~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit @sigilante on twitter What is a sigil? What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching? Driven by authoritarian high modernism Top down imposition Structural way of understanding context Industrial revolution Ten years ago there was online education MIT open course where Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from Humans are g...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 10
Bill Lawrence from ReStore What did Zaire used to be called? What is River Blindness? What is less effective than DDT? Why would you dissect a fly? How do you dissect a fly? Why will we mine our own garbage? What items require special recycling? What is a “transfer station”? What is “planned obsolescence”? Who is leading the way with a “cradle-to-grave” philosophy?
Aug 15, 2022•49 min•Season 10Ep. 9
Dashiell Bark Huss CEO, Wish Tender What is Wish Tender? Gifts from fans Gift registries It's a privacy company How do adult film stars know how to create boundaries? Is it hard for adult film stars to create boundaries? What is financial domination? A sub who likes to be submissive when it comes to money 90-Day Fiancee If someone comes to you and offers you gifts, what do you do? Why are you nervous about outsourcing? What is it like to do business with your life partner? Is Wish Tender a “no-c...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 10Ep. 8
An experiment I'm running to live tweet my interviews in the forms of questions: The first try is with ~timluc-miptev on Urbit He is constructing and coordinating a DAO that will be a Layer 1 that will start as a ZK roll-up in the Urbit ecosystem. What is a program running on the Urbit operating system? What does it mean to write to the ETH blockchain? What are the main constructs in building what you are building? What will it take to build a full layer 1 on Urbit? What is the deal with hype-fa...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 7
What is the current state of psychedelics? Is it legal to use psilocybin in a controlled treatment framework in Oregon? What state will be next? What does it mean to be a Schedule One Drug? What will the FDA do next year in terms of psychedelics? Why is Ibogaine illegal? What is Habitat for Humanity? What percentage of the population has P.T.S.D.? Who is on the cutting edge of research in this area?
Jul 25, 2022•48 min•Season 10Ep. 5
Jacob Rudolph Executive Director of Pride Network What does it mean to develop leadership? What does it mean to have a third-party mediator? What are the main challenges when it comes to communication? What does it mean to serve? Do you still feel like you have to learn lessons about humility? What does it mean to open your heart? What is the relationship between the nervous system and emotional growth? God is real, now what? I’m not alone, and the connection between being divergent and finding ...
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 10Ep. 5
Stuart Christoph Director of the Urbit Foundation Grant Program What is the grant program for Urbit? Is that for technical people? 2 years from now we will be able to build businesses. What small businesses have you started? What are the security problems?How does Urbit scale? How much is a Star? How can I set up a Star? How do you enable more people to run their small businesses? What is a system admin? Can we get the instructions of how to set up a star for my show notes? https://operators.urb...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 3
Theodore Blackman Urbit Core Dev & Manage projects at Tlon Arvo Kernel Find him on ~rovnys-ricfer on Urbit What are metapolitics? What is content distribution for Urbit? What is the networking protocol for Urbit? How is Urbiit different from other networking protocols? What is Subscription Reform? What is a Pub-Sub system? What is the Scriname Space?Are there already scalable networking systems? What is the limit on users right now on Urbit? How do analytics work on Urbit? How long have you ...
Jun 27, 2022•56 min•Season 10Ep. 2
Peter McEvoy Run Time Engineer at Tlon Will Urbit replace Linux? Urbit is so big and ambitious Urbit as an overlay operating system On top of an existing operating system e.g: Mac OS, Windows How far are we from hardware-enabled Urbit? How long will it take for Urbit to go big, like really big? How many developers are working on Urbit right now? 15 engineers at Tlon Tlon is the corporate lynchpin for the effort How many companies are building on Urbit? Who runs the Urbit non-profit? How does som...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Michael Hawaii Founder of Ocean Bit Are there a lot of Brazilians in Hawaii? Is Honolulu more beautiful than Rio? How about San Francisco? What is Ocean Energy Thermal (O-Tech)? What type of businesses are high kpax? Why aren’t you a fan of the word innovation? Are you going to build your business remotely? What is the difference between a moral opinion and data driven opinion? How are data packets different from digital money? What was your trip like to Venezuela?(25:00) What did you learn from...
Jun 13, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 9Ep. 29
Steven Morris Electrical engineer & High-Viber of Craziness @lifesmith - the mythology and the crafting of life. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world is what shapes our reality. Who is Richard Bach, author of “Illusions: the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”? Disappearing Clouds: thoughts create reality. Learning Discernment is ongoing. Neutral Learning. Some stories can be retold, some will always be there. Which app uses Spaced Repetition Memorization? Love is an ab...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 9Ep. 29
Galen Wolfe-Pauly CEO of Tlon Why do I need a personal server? Why is it that we all have access to centralized servers? Why does all our data need to be in the same place? What is the issue of large scale? How do we consume information? How can I control my software? How do you use a computer as a vehicle for everyday creativity? How should I build my jungle gym? Pitch my new massage table idea. How do you manage writing for your role as CEO? Does Hoon help you in the way it's written? When wil...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 9Ep. 28
Francis Pedraza CEO and Cofounder of Invisible How was 2021 NYC like 1929 NYC? Is your business prepared for this recession? How did you prepare for the recession? How does profitability change your business? How do you buy back shares from investors? Ownership pizza pie: how do you convince an investor to buy back shares? How does the Golden age apply to partying on the internet? What is the Xeno paradox? You buy back equity with debt, and fInance with profits. This gets around the “bootstrappi...
May 23, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 9Ep. 27
A distant cousin, a writer who lives in Maine, and a former political consultant. Why is 1957 a bad time to get stuck in a honey pot? 1962 is when the Cuban missile crisis occurred. What is Mr Jones? Is Russia a threat to the United States? What does a great policy towards Russia look like? What is the policy towards Russia? What is the policy towards China? What are the forms of leverage that China has on the US? How about Russia? Who is Peter Splitzer and his book? What is going to happen to E...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 26
His business is like Jack Mallers’ Strike, but in Brazil. What is the Bitcoin scene like in Brazil? What is Bitcoin Maximalism? Which cryptocurrency is the most reliable? Is there a better alternative to democracy? What is a hardware wallet? What is the Lightning Network? What is Bitcoin Beach? What is the effect of hyper-inflation on bitcoin? Who was the Bitcoin Jesus? What were the Block-Size Wars? What are your favorite psychedelic substances? @didimosats...
May 10, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 9Ep. 25
Christian Langalis is the co-founder and C.E.O. of Tirell Corporation What is Orbis Tertiary? What is the Orbis Ledger? Are there any cyberpunk references for Urbit business? What is the distinction of cyber-punk? Dystopia. What is cypher-punk? Who are Timothy May and Satoshi Nakamoto What is the overreach of instrumentalization? What is the atomization of the social? How did computers atomize humans even further? In what ways has studying culture informed your world view? What is the ultimate h...
May 02, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 9Ep. 24
Erik Newton is the C.O.O. of tlon.io which is the web development service for Urbit. Urbit is a place where you can speak your mind without worry of being censored. He used to be a lawyer, researching how humans can be removed from the execution and enforcement of contracts. He also had a podcast which attempted to pinpoint the causes of conflict in human relationships. Urbit is 3 pieces of technology: A virtual server built from the ground up; very secure, durable, and simple. A peer-to-peer en...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 9Ep. 23
If you are interested in the info on the podcast please make sure to verify yourself the information that is presented You are on your own now for determining what is true. No trusted groups are now responsible for it. You can't outsource it. The best way that I have found to find what is true is to ignore what the mind wants to be true and relentlessly attack your own notions of what is true. Ask is that true? Over and over again until you find out If you verify it yourself please find Steve Ki...
Apr 18, 2022•56 min•Season 9Ep. 22
Jonathan Harrison's work is in learning to become more realistic. The more we connect to what’s really happening as opposed to what we think, we realize that what we think is our creativity operating, but the real world is just happening (including our thinking which is part of the real world). Then from this more realistic viewpoint, what we think ceases to disturb us because we realize it has no particular validity or meaning whatsoever, other than expressing our state of mind at the point tha...
Apr 11, 2022•51 min•Season 9Ep. 21
Michael Batrano is the founder of Libertis Horizon, a private society event happening in San Diego that is focused on freeing individuals around the world from the control structures that keep us living scared, disconnected lives and restrict our personal agency. In this episode, we discuss control systems, how the elites have deceived us into giving away our agency, and much more. You can find him on his website www.libertishorizon.com and on the associated Telegram group. 1:16 - 15:46 -The two...
Mar 31, 2022•59 min•Season 9Ep. 20
Particularly what technologies will help us remove ourselves from systems of waste and hopefully inequality of opportunity. Many people think that we are in a dark age but what if in fact the last few years have been a civilizational level psych-out and we are on the cusp something truly great and transformational. Listen for more by Ben Magelsen (you can find him on Twitter at @benmagelsen
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 19
James O'Shaughnessy is the founder, chairman, and co-chief investment officer at OSAM (O'Shaughnessy Asset Management). In this episode, we discuss the changes that have come about in the world post-COVID, mainstream media, politics, navigating the future as a society, the law of attraction, and much more. You can catch Jim’s podcast, Infinite Loops, at www.infiniteloopspodcast.com . Enjoy. 1:58 - How covid accelerated the evolution of work meetings 6:47 - What is quantitative analysis? And how ...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 9Ep. 18
Steven is trying to discover the next culture that’s emerging to replace conventional western culture and is also trying to be part of its formation. In this episode, we talk about order, blockchain, decentralization, media, information, eastern spirituality, and much more. You can reach out to Steven on Twitter @_StevenFan 1:30 - What is the relationship between top-down and bottom-up influences when it comes to the formation of culture? 1:59 - Is the universe itself inherently bottom-up? Is or...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 9Ep. 17
Daliso Ngoma is the founder and Managing Director of African Technopreneurs which is focused on providing the best AR/VR/360 camera hardware in South Africa. In this episode we discuss NFTs, Crypto, blockchain, trust, thinking for yourself, avoiding self-deception, and much more. You can find Daliso on Twitter and Instagram at @djngoma. Enjoy. (5:24) What is the connection between VR and crypto? Is it possible that they’re going to merge into one? (7:41) What exactly is an NFT? What does it actu...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 9Ep. 16
Keia is a Medicine Woman who organizes ceremonies for ancestral medicine. Her aim is to help people transform their lives life into empowered and abundant experiences through facilitating awakenings and supporting healing. In this episode, we discuss plant medicines, what it means to heal, the relationship between fear and healing, the goal of healing, and much more. You can find Keia on Twitter at KLMedicinewoman, and on Instagram at keialavine. Enjoy! (3:29) What is healing? What does it mean ...
May 03, 2021•48 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Nikhil Verma is a medical doctor who specializes in treating and managing spinal health, mobility, chronic pain, and athletic health among others. In this episode, we discuss chronic pain, the various ways chronic pain is managed, transhumanism, muscular tension, and the possible future interventions in managing chronic pain. You can find Nikhil Verma on Twitter at VermaN21 and on Instagram at dr.nvsportandspine. Enjoy! (5:44) What is a notochord? (10:18) What portion of pain is subjective and w...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 9Ep. 14
Courtney is passionate about helping children with cancer and in this episode, we discuss the shortcomings of the medical industry, their misinformed directives, their indirect undermining of human endurance and adaptability, living off the grid, achieving independence from the system, and much more. Enjoy 2:07 The patient advocate: how Courtney helps children who have cancer and their families. 6:31 Why do kids get cancer? Do you know that in adults 90% of cancers have environmental causes? 8:4...
Apr 19, 2021•59 min•Season 9Ep. 13
A collaborative episode with Woody Wiegmann, host of Courage over Conviction podcast. In this episode, we discuss the existence of free will, and try to determine where choice ends and determinism begins. We discuss psychology, making the unconscious conscious, the pitfalls of human hubris, hedging against terrible fiscal policies and much more. Enjoy. (1:22) What is free will? How do we decide our actions? Do we really decide? Does free will actually exist or are we slaves to determinism? (10:1...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 9Ep. 12
