Introduction In this exciting episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, we are joined by Tim Wood Powell, an innovator, catalyst, author, and speaker whose motto is "Let's make our Knowledge work!" Tim is the founder of the Knowledge Agency and author of the book The Value of Knowledge . This episode is packed with insightful discussions around the realm of knowledge, its role and value in business, and the challenging aspects of measuring intangibles. Notes Understanding Knowledge The discussion kic...
Jul 17, 2023•56 min•Season 14Ep. 3
Episode Introduction: Welcome to another insightful episode of Crazy Wisdom, where we delve into fascinating discussions around philosophy, technology, and everything in between. Today, we are delighted to host Saman Farid, a visionary who is working on an ambitious project of supplying the world with a robot workforce through his company, Formic. In this episode, we navigate through a range of topics from the evolution of societies to robotics, AI, industrial revolutions, and the changing face ...
Jul 10, 2023•54 min•Season 14Ep. 2
Introduction Welcome to this deep dive into the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and vector databases for the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Our guest today is Eden Marco ( follow him on Twitter ), a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud and a best-selling Udemy instructor with a passion for General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). In this episode, we unpack the complexities and intricacies of LLMs, explore the role of vector databases, and discuss the future of autonomous agents and machine learning. K...
Jul 03, 2023•51 min•Season 14Ep. 1
Show Notes In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, we are joined by Tem Nugmanov, the founder of the first-ever Notion consultancy Optemization . This enlightening discussion covers a broad array of topics, from how our lives are defined by the tools we use to the changing landscape of knowledge management. Key Discussion Points Tem's journey from moving to NYC in 2015 to study at NYU to becoming an entrepreneur and starting his fitness technology business, focusing on data optimization for...
Jun 28, 2023•56 min•Season 13Ep. 21
Show Notes for the Crazy Wisdom Podcast Guest: Jared Zhao, CEO of AskEdith ( https://www.askedith.ai/ ) Conversation: Introduction to AskEdith: Explanation of the search-driven analytics tool that enables users to access data in plain language Targeted at non-technical users Background: Jared's previous work in creating a visual editor for a data warehouse and training non-technical users Evolution of AskEdith: The journey so far and how it's still in its early stages The influence of startup ci...
Jun 19, 2023•42 min•Season 13Ep. 20
Introduction Jae Yang, the founder of Tacen, a decentralized exchange, discusses his first hire as an archivist for the company and how this unique approach to knowledge management has helped them navigate the complex world of crypto startups. Tacen's commitment to thorough documentation and keeping a permanent record of every decision made is a testament to their belief in transparency and accessibility. Topics Covered Knowledge Management and the Role of an Archivist Jae shares how his experie...
Jun 12, 2023•49 min•Season 13Ep. 19
Robert DT on twitter: @DeeperThrill Doctorate on biomedical engineering with a focus on AI Entrepreneur building biomedical systems with AI specifically; medical imaging The conversation centers on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, with an emphasis on computer vision and the utilization of existing imaging algorithms. Transformers, a type of deep learning model, are discussed for their unique self-attention mechanism and applications in natural language processing and ...
Jun 06, 2023•53 min•Season 13Ep. 18
In this podcast episode, the host, Stewart, is talking with Zach and Matthew, co-founders of Clay, a relationship management platform. The conversation covers various topics including: The Journey to Clay: Zach and Matthew discuss their journey of conceptualizing and developing Clay. They reveal the thought process that went into creating a product that could help manage relationships without reducing them to transactional entities. Exploration of Clay: They delve into the workings of Clay, its ...
May 29, 2023•42 min•Season 13Ep. 17
Bart is the founding Guru at GuruScan | International Knowledge Management speaker | Makes Knowledge driven business decisions and helps enable the customers to do https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-guruscan/ Guruscan website https://guruscan.nl/ What is knowledge management? Knowledge is a lot more than information Information is content Knowledge is explicit and implicit knowledge Knowledge Management strategy Shell Connecting people to people, Connecting people to content Community of practice ...
May 08, 2023•45 min•Season 13Ep. 16
Matt Bunday works in crypto. He loves to rock climb, martial arts, and think about underground psychedelic therapy What is the biggest problem you’ve faced with knowledge management at your companies? Slack Dropped balls in communication LLMs might be the response Why do you think slack spread so fast even though its not the best product? It was a step up from email IRC was a component More friendly for non-engineering What do you think about the complexity of slack? Twist is an alternative Why ...
Apr 25, 2023•55 min•Season 13Ep. 15
Zohar Atkins He is a rabbi, philosopher, blogger and podcaster. His podcast is called Meditations With Zohar Show Notes Who is your favorite philosopher? What is non-aggressive socratic questioning? Why do you like Heidegger? How was he Nazi-ism How do you relate to the history of philosophy? How do you walk the line between tradition and being a revolutionary? What was your first experience learning for yourself instead of learning top-down? What does it feel like to have a hunger for learning?...
Apr 10, 2023•51 min•Season 13Ep. 14
AJ is a software engineer interested in Urbit and data composability. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajlamarc https://www.ajlamarc.com/ Keep an eye out on Holium, and making it easier to code in Javascript for Urbit Notes What is data composability? Multiple applications sharing data and make the interfaces work together OpenAIs that both Twitter and Facebook had and then were shut down Data is the main product that these applications have You can separate the data and the code Personal AI How did...
Apr 03, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 13
Dave Snowden is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cynefin. Head of Knowledge Management for 30 years. Author of Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World ( https://tinyurl.com/4958x362) When did knowledge management start in the 90s? The ultimate disciplinary field What is intellectual capital? Intellectual property What is the anarcha book? Knowledge management is information management What is relevant knowledge? What is messy coherence? What is exaptive innovation? How do you ...
Mar 27, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 12
Adam is the VP of engineering at Invisible Technologies and active angel investment If you have specific questions, send them on to [email protected] How do you organize information and data in order to spend most of your time on high-level work? How do you manage people who report to you to also do the same? What does knowledge management mean to you? What are the applications that will leverage LLMs? What is an intranet? Transition from card catalog to Google How do you take structured things ...
Mar 20, 2023•46 min•Season 13Ep. 11
Kirill Zubovsky Prompt Engineer and CEO of @ SmartyNames.com What is Smartynames.com? Does Godaddy front-run domain names by buying them as soon as you search for them? They are 12 billion $ company What have you learned about Machine Learning from doing this? Did you have to learn a lot to develop on openai’s algorithm? How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? Why do people like to hack individual AI systems instead of hacking the big ones? What are the companies that will start to build ...
Mar 13, 2023•48 min•Season 13Ep. 10
Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche https://vienna.earth/ What do Mexicans think about Central Americans? What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext? What is vienna hypertext? An information network Create different canvases with blocks Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit? Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? What is the relationsh...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 9
Ivan Vendrov is A I researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems Twitter: https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov Website: https://www.vendrov.ai/ Questions discussed or for further discussions What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today? What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general? How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that are harmful? What is your take on spirituality? What is the intersection between the Russian Orthod...
Feb 27, 2023•47 min•Season 13Ep. 8
Woody Wiegmann https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency? What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do? Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual Are there going to be business moats around AI? How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean? Wha...
Feb 20, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit https://twitter.com/SafePen ~dalten/new-aera https://twitter.com/_dalten Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither? What are the other options besides social dystopia? Resource constraint Wind from a dying star novel Technology stultification How does Urbit help to solve this? What does it mean to lose understanding of first principles as an individual and a society? How does technology influence us to dissociate from t...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 13Ep. 6
Adam Chavez is a Founder of Freeplay, & Mokriya. We make sense of where we’re headed as a society in a post-trust, post-2020 world. What’s up with Steve Jobs’ apparent belief in magic? Why does that matter? We also talk AI, holographic theory, the impact of ancient Abraham on America, & the Minecraft Generation. https://alkebulan.substack.com/ [email protected] https://twitter.com/anksolado What is the relation between the occult and steve jobs? What is a story of 0 to 1 in occult lang...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 13Ep. 5
Trent Gillham Founder of Holium ~lomder-librun on Urbit https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018? What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup? What is it like to develop on urbit? How does non-attachment help us to build products but also distract us from with the masses? What is Holium? Community operating system How is the cur...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 13Ep. 4
A full-stack web developer, speaker and adviser to a small number of blockchain startups Owenbarnes.com On urbit: ~locruc-fonmec What are the foundations of privacy? What is the next big thing? Was Facebook built in PHP? Where do you see Urbit converging with cryptocurrency values? What is composability? What happened with Tornado Cash? What is a personal AI? What is the transformer paradigm? What is the apocalyptic paradigm when it comes to AI? Why is there so much fear regarding AI? Will AI ev...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 13Ep. 3
Sam Frank, Writer, Investor, and Board member of the Urbit Foundation Substack: https://samfrank.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdoted Urbit ID: ~todset-partug How did you first get involved with Urbit? What is it like to be a writer in the descent of that profession brought on by the internet? What are the politics like in the new york writer's groups? What does it mean to be a rationalist? Did you see the Peter Theil takedown of the rationalist community? What was Vitalik like b...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 13Ep. 3
Stephen is working on AI dev on Near protocol and developing on Ethereum What is the NEAR blockchain? What is sharding? Increasing throughput of the transactions Breaking up the blockchain into shards so that you can get more parallelism When does ETH sharding begin? ETH sharding is based on blobs Why are you attracted to Rust? Can you use Rust on Ethereum? What is a virtual machine? Something that is interpreting bite code instead of binary Why would a blockchain need a virtual machine? Why are...
Jan 09, 2023•56 min•Season 13Ep. 2
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
