Deborah Simpier Co-founder & CEO of Althea Network and Gravity Bridge What does Althea network do? What is interoperability? What is the payment experience like right now? Why do telcos get monopolized? When did we start referring to people as users? Why do 29% of New York City not have access to the internet? How do you create frictionless payments? What is the relationship between stable coins and frictionless payments? What do you mean by machine to machine? Have people tried to game the ...
Jan 02, 2023•46 min•Season 13Ep. 1
Dr. Jonathan Paprocki Jonathan is a specialist in topological quantum compiling, a Tlon engineer, you can find him on Urbit @ ~Datnut-Pollen Blog can be found at Discordia (http://datnut-pollen.discordja.net/discordja) What is a Kundalini awakening? What do old dusty books say about Kundalini? What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers? Can everything be explained by science? How do you deal with the skepticism that other people give you that you used to give th...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 12Ep. 11
Today we have Casey Rodarmor, a bitcoin developer who is working on building non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be exchanged for other assets. They have become popular on Ethereum, but have not yet been implemented on the Bitcoin blockchain. Casey is working on a protocol that will allow NFTs to be natively held in a Bitcoin wallet and transferred using Bitcoin transactions. He believes that NFTs have the potential to...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Season 12Ep. 10
Kenny Rowe is the founder of the Dalten Collective (~sicdev-pilnup), in a previous life he was on the founding team of MakerDAO What is the dalten collective? Collectively own an urbit start together What is a node? What is peer discovery? What is governance when it comes to Urbit? What can you do with a star on Urbit? What is the relationship between Urbit and DAOs? How do groups do sense-making? What is better for sense-making: an individual or the collective? What are the three values for the...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 12Ep. 9
Aaron Lowry ( https://twitter.com/Aaron_Lowry ) Why are you interested in Cardano? Why didn’t you switch to ETH and stay with Classic? What are the main challenges to build decentralized systems? With functional governance? How does verifiability contribute to more challenging programming issues? What was the Ethereum schism between classic and ETH? With the unilateral move to create a new ETH chain we see the first centralization Cardano is centralized in explicit ways through the initial token...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Noah Kumin Editor In Chief of the Mars Review of Books, publish at machinewar.substack.com ~librex-dozryc on Urbit What is the mars review of books? What is the relationship between collapse and urbit? How did you get involved with Urbit? What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible? Do you think that Urbit will take all the good parts of the old web but keep the beauty of decentralization? What are the data storage aspects of urbit? Why is it confusing when people say Ur...
Nov 28, 2022•54 min•Season 12Ep. 7
This episode was meant to fulfill a personal curiosity of mine about CNC routers for wood working and how they are changing a very old skill. I wanted to see how it fit into my thesis of decentralized manufacturing and how it relates to additive manufacturing. It gets a little technical so you will like this episode if you already have some knowledge about building physical things. Here are some questions we cover: What is CNC? What is a CNC router? WHat is the difference between making and desi...
Nov 22, 2022•45 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Nicholas Faulkner chemistry and physics teacher, former nuclear engineer, author of the upcoming book “Angelic Physics” How do you ascend to the next level of consciousness? What does it feel like to have an out of body experience? What are your thoughts on the future of nuclear power? What are the physics of nuclear power? How long will it take to feel the benefits of nuclear power if we start building massively? What is the waste of solar versus the waste of nuclear? What is the deal with gett...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 12Ep. 5
What type of additive manufacturing machines does the company you work for have? What is the role of proprietary legal stuff when it comes to additive manufacturing? What is an EOS machine? Has Germany always been an additive manufacturer superpower? Is China taking over from them? What is a service bureau? Contract manufacturing How many interactions with a client on a particular part do you usually do? 2-3 generally between when the customer needs to test it 10 builds total over 1-2 years What...
Nov 07, 2022•49 min•Season 12Ep. 4
What is it like to compete against square? What is it like to charge people to come on a podcast to interview them? Is podcasting like a press organization? When did they invent paper? What is the fundamental process behind decentralization? Is it good nor bad? Is bitcoin a money revolution or a technological innovation? What is the thesis, synthesis and anti synthesis cycle? Is the BTC volatility based on price discovery? What was the significance of the luna and celsius collapse? In 2021, ever...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Michael Tauberg Hardware and software engineer with over 10 years of experience in firmware, systems validation and test automation What happened in China with sanctions on microchips, particularly on Oct 7th 2022? What is the goal of the US government with these moves? What hasn’t been allowed for awhile? What is new restrictions? What is a microchip? What is ASML? A dutch company that makes the equipment that makes chips Extreme ultraviolet is a new technology What has been done on the AI fron...
Oct 24, 2022•50 min•Season 12Ep. 2
Justin is the Principal Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Ursa Major Technologies and used to run materials at SpaceX Questions we cover on the show: Is it possible to 3D print engines or motors using additive manufacturing with metal? Do those engines/motors have different design constraints? What time frame would it be until a consumer/tinkerer could get their hands on something affordable that could help them build motors/engines at their house? What is the impact of AI on the design pr...
Oct 17, 2022•56 min•Season 12Ep. 1
What is a Maker Space? What is a Skill Share? Are cars more plastic than metal? How can you create more intimate realtionships with everything in your life? What is Upcycling? What is Cooperative Community Development? Is local always better? Is efficiency the bottom line? What is a Fila-bot?
Oct 10, 2022•58 min•Season 10Ep. 16
My pseudoanonymous guest here today is ~Pilwyc-Fastec, you can find him on Urbit by that name spelled out Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home. What is a smart home? What does it mean to shift around time? How did the mainframe build the modern smart home infrastructure? How can we share time on devices with others in a home in an intelligent way? What was the grant process like for Urbit? What is identity? Peer to peer versus server to client What does it mean to codify r...
Oct 03, 2022•45 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Follow @losMapMaker on Twitter He is a Metaphysical spice¹ trader. Cyclical time cartographer. Exotic information imports What happened between Socrates and now? What is cyclical time versus linear time? What have you learned from the fourth turning? Why is it that somethings outside the realm of science that are also predictive? Why does science think that it is predictive when it isnt always (rona)? Does the 4th turning have any connection with vedic astrology? Who are some famous mathemeticia...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Wade Townsend When did you get into playing poker? What is negotiation when it comes to draft for baseball? What is Tommy John surgery? What pitcher surgeries are common? What is your degree in? What countries did you play poker tournaments in? What is the bureaucracy involved with baseball? Was it the coaches or the employees in professional baseball? What is the difference between traveling for fun vs. traveling for a goal? Why is the difference between being sincere and being serious? Why is ...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 13
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
