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Today we are joined by Rachel Cossar. Rachel is a leader in the field of nonverbal communication and leadership presence facilitation. As a former nationally ranked athlete and professional ballet dancer, Rachel has a knack of translating unique skills into relatable business skills and competencies.   Virtual Sapiens comes as an evolution of Rachel's combined work as founder of Choreography for Business, a nonverbal communication consulting firm as well as a faculty member with Mobius Executive Leadership and as a leadership presence facilitator with Ariel Group. Rachel has worked with leaders from GE, BCG, Pfizer, Accenture, McKinsey, HBS and more. [Sept 9, 2024]   00:00 - Intro 00:17 - Intro Links -          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/ -          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/ -          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/ -          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/ -          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb -          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/ -          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/ 02:42 - Rachel Cossar Intro 03:28 - From Ballet to AI 05:53 - Getting Camera Ready 08:42 - Getting the Message Across 10:53 - The Hybrid Theory 12:30 - Reflection 16:37 - It Takes Time 18:22 - Coaching in Real Time 20:28 - Whatcha Looking At? 22:29 - Learn The Why! 25:06 - Find Rachel Cossar online -          Website: www.virtualsapiens.co -          LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/virtual-sapiens 25:43 - Mentors -          Lori Massad -          Janet Macaluso 27:29 - Book Recommendations -          Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson -          Peoplewatching - Desmond Morris 30:25 - Guest Wrap Up & Outro -          www.social-engineer.com -          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE). He's also a multi-time founder and currently advises startups, VC firms, and larger companies on business and product strategy. In today's episode, we discuss:• The current state of the Lean Startup methodology• Common misconceptions about the Lean Startup methodology• Understanding how to actually think about MVPs (minimum viable products)• When to pivot and when to stay the course• Thoughts on AI and how to deal with uncertainty• How to structure your company around core values and create products that benefit humanity• The philosophy behind Eric's current big idea: the Long-Term Stock Exchange• Much more—Brought to you by Sanity—The most customizable content layer to power your growth engine | Jira Product Discovery—Atlassian's new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | LinkedIn Ads—Reach professionals and drive results for your business—Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/reflections-on-a-movement-eric-ries-creator-of-the-lean-startup-methodology/#transcript—Where to find Eric Ries:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eries/• X: https://twitter.com/ericries• Website: https://theleanstartup.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Eric's background(04:46) Eric's recent activities and projects(06:23) Eric's start in advising and first-principles thinking(10:56) Lessons from designing the Lean Startup process(14:04) The current state of lean startup methodology(22:33) Common misconceptions about the methodology(24:28) Changes Eric would make in an updated version of Lean Startup(27:52) An explanation of minimum viable product (MVP) and why Eric still stands by the process(37:36) An example of “Less is more”(41:24) More on MVPs and the importance of testing your hypotheses (41:24) How LTSE had to pivot after a partnership fell apart(48:37) Eric's take on the concept of craft(53:36) Why getting fired for standing by your conviction can be a career accelerator(55:17) Tech's mental health crisis(56:28) Advice for founders stuck in a “zombie company”(1:00:16) How continuous pivots shape a company's vision, with a real-life story(1:08:20) Challenges in assessing companies from an external perspective(1:13:17) Practical advice for businesses considering a pivot(1:18:42) The impact of artificial intelligence(1:26:59) The current capabilities of ChatGPT and its potential use as an equalizer in the marketplace(1:31:26) Eric's current work with founders on human flourishing(1:42:40) Advice for founders who want to build ethical companies (1:49:37) Examples of first-principles thinking(1:53:42) Why shareholder primacy theory is wrong(1:55:19) The “spiritual holding company” (1:58:12) Lightning round—Referenced:• The Long-Term Stock Exchange: https://ltse.com/• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898• Lean manufacturing: https://www.techtarget.com/searcherp/definition/lean-production• Six Sigma: https://www.6sigma.us/six-sigma.php• Clay Christensen: https://claytonchristensen.com/• Eric Ries on 4 Common Misconceptions About Lean Startup: https://www.entrepreneur.com/starting-a-business/eric-ries-on-4-common-misconceptions-about-lean-startup/286701• Anakin Skywalker meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right• Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO): https://www.lennyspodcast.com/inside-linear-building-with-taste-craft-and-focus-karri-saarinen-co-founder-designer-ceo/• Snow Crash: https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958• IMVU: https://about.imvu.com/• Ben Silbermann on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silbermann/• Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley: amazon.com/Wonder-Boy-Zappos-Happiness-Silicon/dp/1250829097• Understanding Steve Jobs's Reality Distortion Field: https://www.emexmag.com/understanding-steve-jobs-reality-distortion-field• Paul Graham's website:http://www.paulgraham.com/raham• Segment: https://segment.com/• Loom: https://www.loom.com/• The Slack story: https://www.paperflite.com/blogs/slack-story• The Social Network on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/70132721• Thomas Kuhn: Paradigm Shift: https://www.simplypsychology.org/kuhn-paradigm.html• Conway's Law: the little-known principle that influences your work more than you think: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/what-is-conways-law-acmi• Monty Python and the Holy Grail Guards Scene on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWH01E2weA• Toyota Production System: https://global.toyota/en/company/vision-and-philosophy/production-system/• Warren Buffett's Forbes bio: https://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett• The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good: amazon.com/Enlightened-Capitalists-Cautionary-Business-Pioneers/dp/0062880241• The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty): https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Kings-Dandelion-Dynasty/dp/148142428• All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries: https://www.amazon.com/All-Systems-Red-Murderbot-Diaries/dp/0765397536• Star Wars: Andor on Disney+: https://www.disneyplus.com/series/star-wars-andor/3xsQKWG00GL5• Tesla Powerwall: https://www.tesla.com/powerwall• Levoit Classic 300S ultrasonic smart humidifier: https://www.amazon.com/LEVOIT-Humidifiers-Ultrasonic-Essential-Customized/dp/B09C24TYGQ• The Law of Sustainable Growth: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20121015181612-2157554-the-law-of-sustainable-growth/—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

From Ganja Park in Kolkata to lock-ups in 13 countries, he has travelled the world and lived through mad times. Devangshu Datta joins Amit Varma in episode 348 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss Bengalis who make bombs, Gujaratis who make fetish costumes, his river pirate ancestors and how Only Fans has disrupted Pornhub. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Devangshu Datta on Twitter and Business Standard. 2. Previous (miniature) episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Devangshu Datta: 1, 2, 3. 3. The Life and Times of Nilanjana Roy — Episode 284 of The Seen and the Unseen. 4. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 5. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 6. Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran. 7. Godwin's Law. 8. The End of History? — Francis Fukuyama's essay. 9. The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama's book. 10. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 11. Our Unlucky Children (2008) — Amit Varma. 12. Aakash Singh Rathore, the Ironman Philosopher — Episode 340 of The Seen and the Unseen. 13. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama -- David Remnick. 14. VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India — Narayani Basu. 15. India's Greatest Civil Servant — Episode 167 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu, on VP Menon). 16. 'How big is your Madhya Pradesh?' -- Mamata Banerjee asks a party worker to lose weight. 17. Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947 -- Edited by Anikendra Sen, Devangshu Datta and Nilanjana S Roy. 18. The State of Indian Sport — Episode 238 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Joy Bhattacharjya & Nandan Kamath). 19. Early Indians -- Tony Joseph. 20. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph). 21. All Quiet on the Western Front -- Erich Maria Remarque. 22. The Dosadi Experiment (featuring Jorj X. McKie) -- Frank Herbert. 23. A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia -- Episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 24. Lost Victories -- Erich von Manstein. 25. Basic Chess Endings -- Reuben Fine. 26. The Tamilian Gentleman Who Took on the World — Amit Varma. 27. The New World Upon Us -- Amit Varma on Alpha Zero. 28. Alpha Zero -- Episode 51 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devangshu Datta). 29. Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match — Mike Klein (with Peter Heine Nielson's quote on a superior species playing chess). 30. Skynet (Terminator). 31. Neuromancer -- William Gibson. 32. Snow Crash --  Neal Stephenson. 33. Why Children Labour (2007) — Amit Varma. 34. The Poetic Feminism of Paromita Vohra — Episode 339 of The Seen and the Unseen. 35. Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm -- Kim Cattrall and Mark Levinson. 36. Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones. 37. The Matunga Racket (2007) -- Amit Varma. 38. Colleen Hoover on Amazon, Instagram, Wikipedia and her own website. 39. The Business of Books — Episode 150 of The Seen and the Unseen (w VK Karthika). 40. New in Chess. 41. Amartya Ghosh on Spotify. 42. The Universe of Chuck Gopal — Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen. 43. 'Wet Streets Cause Rain' -- Michael Crichton explains Gell-Mann Amnesia. 44. How to generate black money in India (2013) -- TEDx Talk by Devangshu Datta. 45. Poker and Stock Markets — Episode 47 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satyanand). 46. Once Upon a Prime -- Sarah Hart. 47. Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe on Amazon. 48. Professor Moriarty. 49. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon. 50. A Gentleman in Moscow -- Amor Towles. 51. NK Jemisin and Ursula K Le Guin on Amazon. 52. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 -- Antony Beevor. 53. The Spanish Civil War (playlist with all six parts of the docu-series). 54. The Sandman on Netflix. 55. The Sandman -- Neil Gaiman. 56. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal -- Mikhail Tal. 57. Dune and Blade Runner 2049 -- Denis Villeneuve. 58. India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia -- Srinath Raghavan. 59. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Srinath Raghavan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘Chess Board' by Simahina.

In this episode, we talk about marketing in the Web3 space with Amanda Cassatt from Seratonin and Mojito. Amanda is a marketing genius who helped start some of the most well-known projects in web3 she has helped grow Decentraland, PROOF, Moonbirds, gmoney, Ethereum and many more. As we all know, the marketing landscape is changing faster than ever before. Web2 and Web3 are both drastically different and it's hard to keep up! In this episode, we discuss the difference between the two eras, the importance of communities, and what questions you should ask yourself to improve your overall marketing strategy for your Web3 project. The 3 things you will learn:  Differences between Web2 and Web3 marketing How to avoid common pitfalls when launching a new Web3 project How to grow your first 1000 community members RESOURCES DISCUSSED: Seratonin | https://serotonin.co/ (Website) Mojito | https://mojito.xyz/ (Website) PROOF | https://www.proof.xyz/ (Website) Moonbirds | https://www.moonbirds.xyz/ (Website) gmoney | https://g.money/ (Website) Ender's Game | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enders-Game-Ender-Wiggin-Saga/dp/0812550706 (Amazon) Snow Crash | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0241953189/ref=asc_df_0241953189/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310817467131&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12139327398136247610&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046561&hvtargid=pla-524671764479&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 (Amazon) The Three-Body Problem | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/1784971553 (Amazon) Diaspora | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diaspora-Greg-Egan/dp/0575082097 (Amazon) Nexus by Ramez Naam | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nexus-Book-1/dp/B00E5LBKR2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Ramez+Naam&qid=1664882095&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjA1IiwicXNhIjoiMi43MCIsInFzcCI6IjIuNTcifQ%3D%3D&s=audible&sr=1-2 (Amazon) ConsenSys | https://consensys.net/ (Website) MetaMask | https://metamask.io/ (Website) Infura | https://infura.io/use-cases/nft (Website) Gitcoin | https://gitcoin.co/ (Website) Ujo | https://twitter.com/ujomusic?lang=en (Twitter) Audius | https://audius.co/ (Website) Ethereum | https://ethereum.org/en/ (Website) Truffle | https://trufflesuite.com/ (Website) Polygon | https://polygon.technology/ (Website) Decentraland | https://decentraland.org/ (Website) World of Women | https://www.worldofwomen.art/ (Website) 1,000 True Fans | https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ (Article) Franklin | https://www.hellofranklin.co/ (Website) Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker  | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-We-Sleep-Science-Dreams/dp/0141983760 (Amazon) PEOPLE: Howard Kingston | https://twitter.com/howardvk (Twitter) Amanda Cassatt | https://twitter.com/amandacassatt?lang=en (Twitter) P.S. Whenever you are ready, here are 3 ways we can help you become a Metaverse Expert Follow Howard on Twitter for daily tips: https://twitter.com/howardvk (https://twitter.com/howardvk) Be sure to subscribe so that you never miss an episode! https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen (https://frontierofthemetaverse.com/listen)  Subscribe to our Newsletter for weekly insights: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/howardvk)

Michael UgwuQuote- “I know a lot of people don't have the luxury of knowing their roots, but I know my roots and that was super important to me.” The Afropolitan Podcast spotlights Afropolitans who aren't afraid to step into the unknown and walk in purpose. With this podcast we hope to empower Africans in the Diaspora to harness their full potential and contribute to the development of a bold and progressive black community.Our guests will share their working formulas, the hard facts about leaving familiar terrain, embracing the unknown, and staying relevant afterwards. This episode features Michael Ugwu, MD of Freeme Digital, an online digital music distribution network in Africa. Michael is a crypto enthusiast who holds a degree in Economics. In 2019, he liquidated most of his real estate investments and other assets and threw it all into bitcoin. A risk that has paid off over the years. Micheal was instrumental in helping sony music launch in the west African market. He led several projects from licensing catalogs to MTN, Jidenna tour to Nigeria, signing deals of major artists in Nigeria to Sony.Listen and enjoy as Micheal talks about his journey running a distribution company in Nigeria and how NFT can revolutionize the music industry. Michael reading list Think And Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/0785833528De Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammoushttps://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standaard-Decentrale-Alternatief-Bankieren/dp/9916951357Snow Crash by Neal Stepheson https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/ref=sr_1_1?Show Notes2:09 Micheal's journey into crypto.7:40 Journey to freeme digital.14:30 Challenges of being a founder in the African ecosystem. 16:27 Impact of the covid-19 pandemic on business and operational challenges experienced. 19:24 Michael's first encounter with failure as an entrepreneur.23:50 Lessons learnt at Iroking. 28:37 Approach navigating challenges with signed artists.32:07 How NFT can revolutionize the music industry. 41:36 Michael's reading list 45:17 What does being Afropolitan mean to you The Afropolitan Podcast is hosted by Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan.Listen and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Jamit, or wherever you get your podcasts.Want to learn more about Afropolitan? Twitter - https://twitter.com/afropolitanWebsite - https://www.afropolitan.io/

I found a book I rated highly and also had some quotes that spoke to me, which is why this recap is so long!In February we covered 4 books on this channel. It was a mix of philosophy, dystopian sci-fi and emotional love stories. The standout for me was Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse. This is the type of philosophy that I can actually enjoy. It was written in the last couple of decades and whilst has some parts that are difficult to understand, as a whole I found it quite enlightening. Lots of fun books coming up for March so get keen.I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Ooooooh(0:27) - Finite & Infinite Games: James P. Carse(2:34) - Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson(6:03) - The Myth Of Sisyphus: Albert Camus(8:34) - Love Stories: Trent Dalton(9:43) - Quotes(27:41) - Boostagram Lounge Part 1(32:26) - Boostagram Lounge Part 2(37:52) - What's Coming Up For Mar 2022?Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

I found a book I rated highly and also had some quotes that spoke to me, which is why this recap is so long!In February we covered 4 books on this channel. It was a mix of philosophy, dystopian sci-fi and emotional love stories. The standout for me was Finite & Infinite Games by James Carse. This is the type of philosophy that I can actually enjoy. It was written in the last couple of decades and whilst has some parts that are difficult to understand, as a whole I found it quite enlightening. Lots of fun books coming up for March so get keen.I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Ooooooh(0:27) - Finite & Infinite Games: James P. Carse(2:34) - Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson(6:03) - The Myth Of Sisyphus: Albert Camus(8:34) - Love Stories: Trent Dalton(9:43) - Quotes(27:41) - Boostagram Lounge Part 1(32:26) - Boostagram Lounge Part 2(37:52) - What's Coming Up For Mar 2022?Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

A book that had a huge impact at its inception is still gaining cultural relevance 2 decades later.'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson depicts a dystopian USA where technology is way more advanced but life is significantly more dangerous. Hiro Protagonist and YT have to save the world from a biological-cum-digital virus that is enslaving people. Notable for it's futuristic ideas that are appearing in real life (such as VR and the Metaverse), the book also dives deeply into linguistics and the core characteristics of language.I summarised the book as follows. "If you like Sci-Fi & dystopian tales this is a solid read. I wanted to read it for its cultural relevance but was pleasantly surprised by the linguistics information and whether language is universalistic or relativistic. In many ways it's a rather simple story with one dimensional characters but I found this a great casing for the cooler futuristic technology and ideas about how language/communication operates.I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(0:40) - Synopsis(4:23) - The Metaverse: Better than reality?(10:46) - Language: The core of communication(18:04) - Observations/Takeaways(23:05) - SummaryConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

A book that had a huge impact at its inception is still gaining cultural relevance 2 decades later.'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson depicts a dystopian USA where technology is way more advanced but life is significantly more dangerous. Hiro Protagonist and YT have to save the world from a biological-cum-digital virus that is enslaving people. Notable for it's futuristic ideas that are appearing in real life (such as VR and the Metaverse), the book also dives deeply into linguistics and the core characteristics of language.I summarised the book as follows. "If you like Sci-Fi & dystopian tales this is a solid read. I wanted to read it for its cultural relevance but was pleasantly surprised by the linguistics information and whether language is universalistic or relativistic. In many ways it's a rather simple story with one dimensional characters but I found this a great casing for the cooler futuristic technology and ideas about how language/communication operates.I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!Timeline:(0:00) - Intro(0:40) - Synopsis(4:23) - The Metaverse: Better than reality?(10:46) - Language: The core of communication(18:04) - Observations/Takeaways(23:05) - SummaryConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

Freihändig-Podcast #057: Simon Dückert - lernOS für Organisationen und Teams (#057) Simon Dückert ist seit 2001 Scholarch der Cogneon Akademie und seit 2018 Geschäftsführer der Corporate Learning Community gUG. Vor Kurzem hat er mit der Cogneon Akademie den lernOS Canvas für Organisationen fertiggestellt und arbeitet aktuell an Leitfragen, um eine Kompatibilität zum Wissensmanagement-Standard ISO 30401 zu erreichen. Diese Episode ist vollgepackt mit Hintergründen zu lernenden Organisationen und der Selbststeuerung von Lernen - abseits vom Schulkontext. In unserem Gespräch sprechen wir über:

Nigel Dalton, a client of mine since 2008 when he underwent open heart surgery (getting a mechanical aortic valve) is a well-known kiwi social scientist. Having worked around the world in digital and technology roles (startups, scale-ups and enterprise), when we first met he was the Head of IT at Lonely Planet, the travel guide company with HQ in Melbourne, Australia.He subsequently moved to manage technology and research at REA Group, who operate property portals like realestate.com.au across multiple countries; and currently works at Thoughtworks, a global tech and business consulting firm. He has worked across the 3 generations of the world wide web - Web 1; Web 2; and now Web 3.You may ask... What's a 'social scientist'?They are people with the talent of making everyday things in our lives sound exciting and weird, and making the complex and extraordinary aspects of our lives sound boring and straightforward.In this weeks podcast, I asked Nigel his thoughts on what the 2020s will bring us in the realms of virtual reality like Facebook's metaverse, new currencies like Bitcoin and the new ways in which people will continue to interact in this highly technological world.I also posed questions like, is my Dad right, and should we get our kids off their screens and out onto the footie field like he was in the 1960s and what has the pandemic taught us about this new online world?During my discussion with Nigel, it was my hope to answer these questions or at the very least talk about how this will play out for my trade in health and fitness and how YOU will navigate the world and ensure you are healthy and READY for this new place we will call home in the coming years?I hope you enjoy the podcast and as always, please hit that SUBSCRIBE BUTTON to make sure you never miss any future episode and please consider leaving a 5 STAR RATING and POSITIVE REVIEW as it would meant the world to me.Join the tribe and become a NO BREAKFAST CLUB member today and receive a brand new workout each week, access to 3 LIVE Zoom sessions each week and access to the my VIMEO on demand workouts that you can do in your own time.Anyone can join and all you need to do is CLICK HERE to find out more and sign up today to join the team!Talking Points During Podcast:Ready Player One (Ernest Cline): great book and movie for understanding the coming virtual reality metaverse life.Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson): a serious science fiction book by the author who actually coined the term 'metaverse'. Highly likely how our world will turn out.Anthrovision (Gillian Tett): great book to learn to view our world like a social scientist, with a wonderful chapter on teenagers and the web.Tim Berners-Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-LeeBad Blood - the latest chapter in the Theranos scandal: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bad-blood-the-final-chapter/id1575738174Virtual reality fitness (using Facebook's Oculus Rift headset): https://youtu.be/qiL4HvldAecContact Nigel Dalton:Email: nigel.dalton@thoughtworks.comContact The No Breakfast Guy:Instagram: @the_no_breakfast_guyWebsite: www.thenobreakfastguy.comEmail: info@thenobreakfastguy.comYouTube: www.youtube.com/thenobreakfastguy

In dieser Folge sprechen Agnieszka und Alexander über Apples App Tracking Transparency und wie sich diese Funktion auf Geschäftsmodelle zahlreicher Unternehmen auswirkt – vor allem wenn man sich jüngste Daten ansieht, wie viele User kein Tracking zulassen. Zudem geht es um die überaus gelungene Guerilla-Marketing-Aktion von Signal, die Entscheidung des Facebook Oversight Board zur Sperre von Ex-Präsident Donald Trump, die Konsequenzen rund um Fake-Reviews auf Amazon, Elon Musk und sein Auftritt in der Sketch-Comedy-Show SNL, den Ransomware-Angriff auf eine US-Pipeline, welche Zukunft Wearables für das Gesundheitswesen bringen und warum sich Twitter mit seinem Nuzzel-Move absolut keinen Gefallen getan hat. --- Die Themen der Folge 118: --- • (02:31) Informed Consent bei Apple? Große Mehrheit gegen App Tracking https://t3n.de/news/katastrophe-werbetracking-ios-1377698/ https://www.flurry.com/blog/ios-14-5-opt-in-rate-att-restricted-app-tracking-transparency-worldwide-us-daily-latest-update/ • (10:56) Ein sehr gelungener Guerilla-Marketing-Stunt von Signal https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/ • (13:00) Das Urteil des Facebook-Oversight-Board zur Causa Trump https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56985583 • (14:33) Auswirkungen des Social-Media-Verbots von Trump, seine neue Plattform und die Situation in Florida https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-social-media-attention-d6829513-644d-4235-9090-20284862e009.html • (16:41) Nach Datenbank-Leak: Erster großer Schlag gegen Amazon-Fake-Reviews https://twitter.com/CameronWalkerSZ/status/1391181175750729728 https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/amazon-reviews-leak-report/ • (22:06) Twitter stellt Newsdienst Nuzzel ein https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/did-i-make-a-mistake-selling-del-icio-us-to-yahoo.html https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/4/22417852/twitter-buying-scroll-subscription-service-news-revue-newsletter https://twitter.com/almarrone/status/1390618733769641985 • (28:09) Elon „Dogefather“ Musk tritt bei SNL auf https://www.trendingtopics.at/dogecoin-hustle/ • (29:53) Hunderte US-Banken bald mit Bitcoin-Custody, Bridgewater-CFO geht zu Startup NYDIG https://t3n.de/news/bitcoin-goldman-sachs-krypto-1377707/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/05/bitcoin-is-coming-to-hundreds-of-us-banks-says-crypto-firm-nydig-.html https://twitter.com/BTC_Archive/status/1390718349320011776 https://twitter.com/azeem/status/1391144407869575172 https://twitter.com/cm_brown90/status/1390645145020911621 https://twitter.com/davecraige/status/1391273398551158784 • (33:54) Ransomware-Attacke auf US-Pipeline https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/05/08/ransomware-attack-shuts-down-massive-east-coast-gasoline-pipeline/?sh=2404df296625 • (36:59) Wie man gegen Gesichtserkennung vorgehen kann https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/04/tech/pimeyes-facial-recognition/index.html https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/social-media-widerstand-gesichtserkennung-1.5289258 • (39:56) Neue Finanzierungsrunde des Fitnessring-Hersteller Oura und die Zukunft von Wearables https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/fitness-ring-maker-oura-raises-100m/ http://www.gazettabyte.com/home/2021/4/12/timepieces-that-tell-you-how-you-are.html https://www.eetimes.com/rockley-photonics-to-deliver-glucose-monitoring-for-apple-smartwatches/# --- » (45:15) Die Buchempfehlung der Woche: Neal Stephenson: „Snowcrash“ https://www.amazon.de/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0241953189 --- » Die Filmempfehlung der Woche: Coded Bias (dt. Titel: „Vorprogrammierte Diskriminierung“), Regie: Shalini Kantayya https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11394170/ https://www.netflix.com/title/81328723 --- » Weitere Infos, Kontakt und alle Podcasts: https://zurueckzurzukunft.creativeconstruction.de/ --- » Feedback, Anregungen und Wünsche an: podcast@zurueckzurzukunft.de

In this episode, we sit down with Preethi Kasireddy - self-taught engineer turned entrepreneur and founder of TruStory - and Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack PBC. The two discuss Preethi’s journey of bringing TruStory to life, the regulatory challenges for crypto companies, Blockstack’s path to the SEC’s approval of its Stacks Token, and more. 0:02:13 Preethi: "I started to realize that my real passion was engineering, not finance." 0:02:48 Preethi: "I graduated college in 2012 and went to A16Z at the end of 2013." 0:02:54 Muneeb: "So this is like the early days of crypto, A16Z hadn't made the Coinbase investment yet." 0:03:10 Preethi: "It was through that investment [in Coinbase] that got me a little bit curious [in crypto]." 0:03:28 Muneeb: "How did you decide to leave Coinbase and start your own company?" 0:04:08 Preethi: "Coinbase - in the end - is a centralized company... so I wasn't really getting the kind of experience I really wanted." 0:04:55 Preethi: "I think one of the things that's missing - still, even to this day - in this space is lack of documentation and blog posts. Especially two years ago." 0:05:43 Muneeb: "It seems like you went into a deep dive on crypto... and then you ended up almost building a community around crypto. What was the thought process around that?" 0:05:58 Preethi: "I was just super passionate about this space. I also innately enjoy educating." 0:06:42 Muneeb: "[On Twitter] it seemed like a lot of these crypto communities are a little bit like religion." 0:06:57 Muneeb: "I noticed the conversation on TruStory was a lot more civil." 0:07:41 Preethi: "It bothers me a lot that people have a negative idea of what it means to debate." 0:08:18 Preethi: "We're trying to teach people the fact that debate doesn't have to be defeating... you don't need anxiety or to get angry..." 0:08:36 Muneeb: "Debates on Twitter - it's probably the worst medium for it." 0:09:23 Preethi: "You hit on two things: (1) Twitter was built for broadcast, not conversation (2) more importantly: the intent. People don't come on Twitter with the intent to seek to learn the other side." 0:10:45 Muneeb: "The kind of financial incentives that are at play here in crypto are not found anywhere else." 0:11:02 Muneeb: “But still, part of me wishes that there were those more structured, peer-review type processes in place in crypto. TruStory seems like a crypto-native take on something like that." 0:11:21 Preethi: "We can't expect crypto to be like these other industries, purely because there's money tied into it." 0:11:57 Muneeb: "You got caught up in an ICO scandal? Is that real?!" 0:12:07 Preethi: "When I was exploring early in the crypto space - just like everyone else - I had rose-colored glasses and everything looked shiny." 0:12:18 Preethi: "I ended up jumping into a project... and two months later I had to leave because the project wasn't going to work out." 0:12:39 Preethi: "It was a huge shocker for me because it was the first time I took on a role and it was catastrophic." 0:12:59 Muneeb: "Did that somehow play a role in TruStory as well?" 0:13:07 Preethi: "The way I got information in crypto in the early days is I had to crowdsource it from my friends." 0:13:23 Preethi: "And I realized this was how most people were starting to get their information in crypto, too." 0:13:43 Preethi: "[Initially,] we were trying to do claim validation." 0:14:00 Preethi: "People were not just focusing on objective claims that had a right and a wrong answer, but were using it more as a tool to get to answers that are somewhat more subjective as well." 0:14:15 Preethi: "We pivoted over to debate from verifying 'objective claims'." 0:14:56 Preethi: "You are still learning truths, but it's not like there's one objective truth for every claim. It's more that you're coming in to understand and hear the different sides." 0:15:12 Muneeb: "I think it's very interesting that you noticed similar things in crypto - that it's like the Wild West and there's a lot of misinformation." 0:15:31 Muneeb: "Our response [at Blockstack] was more like "Why don't we work with regulators and try to have the traditional checks and balances in place that pretty much exist in public markets." 0:16:15 Muneeb: "I was very curious how the industry would perceive our approach, but I've been very pleased with the response." 0:16:53 Preethi: "Basically, what we're trying to do is take the Wild, Wild West and add a little bit of rationality and rules to it - but one could argue that's antithetical to decentralization." 0:17:26 Muneeb: "A lot of people thought the regulators are never going to approve anything." 0:18:05 Preethi: "Are you hoping to be the poster child for setting the right way to do these token sales?" 0:18:40 Muneeb: "No serious company is ever going to keep an asset on their balance sheet that they think might be illegal." 0:18:49 Muneeb: "For us it was about opening up the network in a fully regulated manner to the US markets because the other option is just to block US nationals." 0:19:02 Muneeb: "Part of the intention is also that this can help other projects." 0:19:42 Muneeb: "We were doing the analysis for the first time with our securities lawyer. Other people don't have to do it again and again." 0:20:07 Muneeb: "If you're familiar with what the SEC did with Ethereum, they effectively did not comment on how Ethereum started or how it reached a stage where they think it's no longer a security." 0:21:06 Preethi: "Being a crypto entrepreneur in the US is hard. Regulations aren't friendly, nobody's set the right path for what the right way to do anything is." 0:21:33 Preethi: "One of the TruStory community members noticed that the Blockstack token almost had to reinvent accounting principles to account for what these token sales represent." 0:22:01 Muneeb: "Accounting is different for different purposes. Like for tax purposes, we could actually recognize it as one thing, for your financial statements the treatment might be different." 0:22:20 Muneeb: "We would always take the worst case scenario in every type of treatment. We're willing to pay the highest amount of taxes and we're willing to treat our crypto holdings as fully discounted." 0:23:45 Preethi: "When you were considering going the SEC route, did you consider any other routes?" 0:23:55 Muneeb: "The alternatives were: (1) ban US investors and developers and go abroad (2) do the offering and go to court with the SEC." 0:24:56 Muneeb: "The technology can adapt to regulations faster than regulations can adapt to technology." 0:25:18 Muneeb: "Another option was to just wait for a new law to be introduced." 0:25:38 Preethi: "What about all the crypto startups that may not have as much capital?" 0:26:04 Muneeb: "People should look at the framework we used for some company that is at least a Series B stage startup from a traditional VC perspective. It's not for doing your seed round." 0:26:27 Muneeb: "Imagine going back to the 80s or 90s, where people were coming up with the typical Series A and Series B round and - interestingly - some of the decisions we made back then, we still live with them. Like four year vesting." 0:27:10 Muneeb: "It's not just the legal framework. Think about employee retention. We had come up with frameworks around how to do token drafts." 0:28:04 Preethi: "Now that you've worked with the SEC, are you more optimistic about the regulatory scenario in the US?" 0:28:16 Muneeb: "I'm extremely optimistic. A big shout out to the staff at the SEC." 0:28:48 Muneeb: "I know that to the outside world, even 10 months might seem like a long time. But for the SEC, where the securities regulations have been around since 1933 and they're trying to get a new type of an asset out. Imagine how many different questions there are." 0:29:26 Preethi: "I mean, even ICOs spend a year marketing their projects!" 0:29:39 Preethi: "What I struggle with is how to get the SEC comfortable with the fact that, unlike public company stock where it's a lot more liquid... with crypto projects, the liquidity comes way later in the network's lifecycle." 0:30:18 Muneeb: "If you go and read our SEC offering circular, it's almost like a mini IPO filing. And the section that is most comprehensive is our risk factors." 0:30:46 Muneeb: "In terms of the liquidity... my opinion is that the next big step for the industry is going to be regulated securities exchanges that will come into play." 0:31:35 Muneeb: "I think it will reduce the noise in the space. ... Unsophisticated players or obvious scams just won't be able to get through the door." 0:31:54 Preethi: "So you mean a more regulated version of an IEO?" 0:32:26 Muneeb: "[We were told] given how compliant you guys are trying to be, you're not a good fit for an IEO." 0:33:18 Preethi: "If done right, these types of token offerings are opening up the door for retail investors who never had access to this type of investing." 0:33:44 Muneeb: "The first 100,000 users of Facebook just used a free product and told all their friends about it, but they never had any financial upside in the success of Facebook." 0:34:02 Muneeb: "With a decentralized system and a crypto asset like this, the early users can also have a potential financial upside." 0:34:35 Muneeb: "Speaking of Facebook, what do you think about the recent headlines about them potentially installing backdoors in Whatsapp?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#6644bdc55362 0:34:56 Preethi: "It's not new, right? [Facebook]'s been doing this for about a decade almost. But I think people started to get smarter only very recently." 0:35:19 Preethi: "I think it's going to take a long time before Facebook's culture internally changes to care about privacy because their whole business around user data. So to complete change that is not an overnight thing. It's a massive shift in how they do everything." 0:35:50 Muneeb: "I've been publicly supporting efforts like Facebook Libra." 0:36:40 Preethi: "I don't think culture can change overnight. Or even in one year. ... I struggle to understand how they'll meet the future, which I think is open and decentralized." 0:37:33 Muneeb: "I've been involved with some conversations with lawmakers where they want to have antitrust actions against Google and Facebook." 0:37:42 Muneeb: "I think Facebook has a worse image, generally, but internally in the US Government, I'm noticing more hostility towards Google than Facebook." 0:38:07 Muneeb: "When Facebook comes up and says 'We're completely going bypass a lot of these regulations that may apply and start anew global reserve currency, I think a lot of people are going to freak out." 0:38:26 Muneeb: "I never thought I would say this, but Microsoft is better positioned to deal with a lot of these things than Facebook or Google." 0:39:11 Muneeb: "Google and Facebook are two companies that are basically the native cloud computing companies. And their business model is 'let's just get as much user data as possible." 0:39:31 Muneeb: "Microsoft is actually not sitting on a lot of user data. And now, when the world is about to move away from this business model and there's a lot of heat around these big tech companies, Microsoft can come across as 'look we care about user privacy'." https://www.coindesk.com/microsoft-launches-decentralized-identity-tool-on-bitcoin-blockchain 0:40:43 Preethi: "They specifically said they didn't want [Facebook] to be a public utility, which is interesting because if that's not the case, you can't really claim it's going to be a global reserve currency." 0:41:22 Muneeb: "Speaking of decentralization, how decentralized is TruStory right now?" 0:41:35 Preethi: "We built the backend on Cosmos SDK - which gives you the tools to build decentralized applications." https://cosmos.network/ 0:41:54 Preethi: "Right now, we only have one node running, because everything is in beta." 0:42:26 Preethi: "The actual [TruStory] app has an in-app currency, and that same currency can be used for validating transactions on the backend." 0:42:41 Preethi: "It's a Tendermint blockchain and the consensus is the same thing as Tendermint." https://tendermint.com/ 0:42:48 Muneeb: "From what I can understand, they're helping people with the SDKs to start their own blockchains, and then they're working on interconnecting the different blockchains." 0:43:00 Muneeb: "Whereas, for [Blockstack] there's the stacks blockchain that gives developers the tools for basically building their apps apps on the stacks blockchain, for the most part." 0:43:10 Muneeb: "But if some app really needs the scalability of - let's say their transactions are becoming too much for the underlying main chain, then we have the concept of an app chain, where you're logically on top of the stacks blockchain." 0:43:33 Preethi: "They have many, many blockchains and then they connect these many blockchains using something called IBC, which is their interoperability protocol." 0:43:49 Muneeb: "I wanted to invite you live, so that you can't say no, to our conference in San Francisco." https://summit.blockstack.org/ 0:44:04 Muneeb: "Neil Stephenson is going to open up the conference with Naval Ravikant." 0:45:00 Muneeb: "My PHD thesis, Chapter 1, has a quote from Snowcrash." https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958 0:45:18 Goodbyes. 0:45:26 Credits. Preethi Kasireddy: twitter.com/iam_preethi Muneeb Ali: twitter.com/muneeb Zach Valenti: twitter.com/zachvalenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While the internet has been ground-breaking in terms of connecting people to information, it has done a poor job of connecting us to each other. Stories of fake news and harassment are widespread, and the anonymity of the platform allows individuals to curate a persona very different from who they are in real life. By contrast, virtual reality translates our mannerisms and voices, providing a shared experience in which we sound and act like ourselves. The unique property of VR is in its ability to unlock—accelerate, even—the intimacy between people that we rarely experience in real life anymore. Peter Rubin oversees WIRED's cultural coverage and serves as editorial lead on its digital platforms. In 2014, his cover story on Oculus introduced readers to the rebirth of virtual reality, and he has since written extensively about the evolution of VR and its applications. Peter has ten-plus years of experience as a journalist, writing for GQ, Details, and Good, among many other publications. His book, Future Presence: How Virtual Reality is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life, was published in April of 2018. Peter sits down with us to share his long-time interest in VR that began with watching films like The Lawnmower Man and reading Snow Crash as a teen. He discusses the theme of his book, Future Presence, describing VR's unique ability to facilitate connection among people. We cover the differences between the internet and virtual reality, why people feel more accountable in the VR space, and how regulation might work in virtual communities. Listen in for Peter's insight on the future of XR and learn how virtual experiences can change our lives in the world outside the headset. Connect with Peter Peter in WIRED https://www.wired.com/author/peter-rubin/ Peter on Twitter https://twitter.com/provenself Future Presence: How Virtual Reality is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life by Peter Rubin https://www.amazon.com/Future-Presence-Changing-Connection-Intimacy/dp/0062566695 Resources Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1491515058 ‘The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality' in WIRED https://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/ Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future by Vernor Vinge https://www.amazon.com/Rainbows-End-Novel-Foot-Future/dp/0812536363 Where Thoughts Go https://wherethoughtsgo.me/ Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Country-Novel-Matt-Ruff/dp/0062292072 Connect with Boost VC Boost VC Website https://www.boost.vc/ Boost VC on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/boostvc/ Boost VC on Twitter https://twitter.com/BoostVC

Prodigy, Blue and Kr0nus welcome Aaron Lemke to the podcast. Aaron is the creative developer of The Wave VR. The Wave VR is a a VR experience that lets the user DJ in virtual space with a virtual audience. We talk about how Aaron got into VR, what inspired him to create The Wave VR, VR ready laptops, favorite games, VR chat, Ready Player One, the Vive taking over the Rift, Old VR, AR, comics, Supergirl going to the CW, first penis transplant, Black Panther #1 sells over 250k comics, Blake Lively controversy, iOS vs. Android and why, DC and Hana Barbera, Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Sports Illustrated naked, gaming, over 600 subscribers on Youtube, Kr0nusDoes, and more! Aaron Lemke: Twitter: @AaronLemke @TheWaveVR http://thewavevr.com/ Stuff we talked about: Grimecraft: https://soundcloud.com/grimecraft Snowcrash: http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/1491515058 Manus VR: https://manus-vr.com/ Perception Neuron: https://neuronmocap.com/ Come follow us: http://www.beenhadproductions.com/bthanbti SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bthanbti Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BthanBTI/ Twitter: @BthanBTI iTunes: https://itun.es/i6SJ6Pw YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackerThanBlackTimesInfinity #BthanBTI #Podcast #Blerd #VR #HTCVive #Vive #Gaming #VRGaming #Nerd #Geek #VirtualReality #TheWave #Grimecraft #VRChat #AltSpace #ReadyPlayerOne #SnowCrash #PerceptionNeuron #BlackPanther #OculusRift #Gaming #Comics #Supergirl #TheFlash #ManusVR #AR #AugmentedReality #Meta2

This episode your favorite bosom buddies are conversing with developer, musician & writer Arturo Vergara about language, influential authors & thinkers, cyberpunk and the value of art criticism. We met Arturo on Cupcake.io. Interactive fiction games? Design your own using the awkward R.A.G.S. or the HTML-based Twine. Arturo encourages everyone to check out Rudy Mancuso. Learning about Mexico City. Where there hell does Halloween come from, anyway? Arturo’s pond project is for synchronizing RSS and Atom feeds. Soon to be renamed so it won’t be mistaken for the other Pond. His other project is a self-hosted email server, Postage. He was inspired to make Postage in part because of arkOS. We talk about the T.P.P. and jkillearn shot us a link in the chat channel. Here it is. Arturo suggests searching for David Lynch’s Daily Weather Report on Youtube. Paul suggests searching for George Carlin’s Hippy Dippy Weatherman. Chris chimes in with Kevin Nealon with News From 10 Feet Away. Of course, he and Arturo can’t watch that clip because of lame copyright laws. Austin Kleon presents at SXSW in 2014. What’s with that weird hinge on the Surface Book? Arturo digs the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Other cyberpunk movies discussed: The Matrix, Tron & Blade Runner. Some other books of note we discussed, cyberpunk & drama flavored: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Neuromancer Snowcrash The Catcher in the Rye The Perks of Being a Wallflower Ready Player One. Arturo suggests Android: Netrunner The Card Game. The bizarre history The Catcher in the Rye in pop culture. Arturo doesn’t like the notion of art critics as “nobody gets to decide what’s good and what’s bad in art.” Chris & Paul discuss ArtPrize. Arturo is a part of a reading group that discusses Heidegger and Sartre. Wine-tasting: it’s junk science. Arturo says Albert Camus was very influential to him. Thanks to Arturo for joining us at the last minute! It was a pleasure to chat with him. Be sure to check out his site, arturovm.me to find his work and where to stalk him online. Thank you for listening! For more information about the podcast & upcoming shows, check out our Patreon page. You can throw money at us there as well. Support Montreal Sauce on Patreon

As our communities mourn the passing of various icons of culture, Lee takes a moment to reflect on the concept that certain people, memories and moments leave thumbprints upon the clay of our sense of self. Looking back on his life he notes some of those moments (from TLC to moments of trauma), but asks us each to reflect on our own experiences that shaped us. From those seeds, however, we get to choose where they grow, and consider that each of us get to craft our clay, no matter how many thumbprints are in it.   .   Passion And Soul Podcast:iTunes Subscription: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-soul-podcast-by-lee/id840372122RSS Feed: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.com/rssPast MP3 files: http://passionandsoul.libsyn.comPassionAndSoul Audio Page: http://passionandsoul.com/audioStitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/erotic-awakening-podcast/passion-and-soulErotic Awakening Network: http://www.eroticawakening.com/podcast Links, Events, People and Movies Mentioned:Closetland (1991), starring Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closet_LandAlan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyo5T32LKkTraversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities by Lee Harrington http://www.amazon.com/Traversing-Gender-Understanding-Transgender-Realities/dp/194273381X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20Salt N' Peppa “Let's Talk About Sex”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfo4txaQJALisa Left-Eye Lopez Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74DWS-rVzCgSnow Crash by Neal Stephenson: http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0553380958/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT): https://www.aasect.org/Charles Guyette: http://www.spankingart.org/wiki/Charles_GuyetteGRUE Events: http://www.graydancer.com/ Lee's Upcoming Events/Appearances:http://passionandsoul.com/appearances/ Lee Harrington Contact Information:http://www.PassionAndSoul.comhttp://www.FetLife.com/passionandsoulhttp://twitter.com/#!/PassionAndSoulhttps://www.facebook.com/lee.harringonhttps://www.facebook.com/passionandsoul

Detta är året då virtuell verklighet ska bli verklig verklighet. Därför grottar Joakim Bennet, Ida Lindkvist, Jakob Nilsson och Geeks-nytillskottet Andreas Eklöv ner sig i fulkulturens nedslag i virtual reality mellan år 1935 och idag. Länklista Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Days_(film) Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson, 1993) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash Pygmalion’s Spectacles (Stanley G. Weinbaum, 1935)) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22893/22893-h/22893-h.htm Otherland (Tad Williams, 1996-2001): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherland Diplopiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ4AtzQaGiw VR-troopers (Haim Saban, 1994)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5wvWuGBLMAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhTX8_S_1M Demolition Man (Marco Brambilla, 1993) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/?ref_=nv_sr_1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80UQWWUIYs Star Trek Next Generation: Hollow Pursuits, S3E21 (Cliff Bole, 1990)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Pursuits Ready Player One (Ernest Cline, 2011)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One View-Master (leksak)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-Master Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084827/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Tron Legacy (Joseph Kosinsky, 2010)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4 Star Trek The Next Generation: Elementary, Dear Data, S2E3 (Rob Bowman, 1998) http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data_(episode) Ghost in the Shell (Mamoro Oshii, 1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/?ref_=nv_sr_2 Community, 6x02 - Lawnmower Maintenance & Postnatal Carehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt4242868/?ref_=ttep_ep2 Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer Gräsklipparmannen (Brett Leonard, 1992)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film) Welt am Draht (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfXtzBRX3sg Caprica (Ronald D. Moore m.fl, 2009-2010)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799862/

本期话题包括 YotaPhone、Voice-O-Graph、苹果的新广告「The Song」、音乐开源的可能、以及科幻小说家 Neal Stephenson 加盟 Magic Leap 任「首席未来学家」。欢迎参加《IT 公论》二〇一五新年特别活动，赢取《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝一份！ 每月三十元，支持李如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。 圣诞与新年假期马上就要开始了，不管您会在接下来的一个星期里继续努力工作，还是出外游玩充电，李如一和 Rio 都提前祝您节日快乐。为了感谢你们对《IT 公论》的支持，我们准备了特别抽奖活动。在 2015 年 1 月 1 日正午，我们会从参与活动的会员中随机抽选五位，向他们每人赠送一份《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝。《Indie Game: The Movie》系史上第一部关于游戏制作的纪录片。加拿大导演 Lisanne Pajot 与 James Swirsky 采访了《时空幻境》（ Braid ）、《FEZ》、《超级肉肉哥》（ Super Meat Boy ）等几个著名独立游戏的创作者，记录了他们背后的艰辛、快乐与荣耀。如果你是创业者、音乐家、漫画家、导演、小说家、或任何打算自己做点东西的人，《Indie Game: The Movie》都会让你产生巨大共鸣。 我们将把影片直接以链接形式发送到您的会员邮箱。您可以在线观看，亦可下载高清与标清版本永久收藏。影片为英语对白，繁体中文字幕。参与抽奖的方法请看这个页面。 本期的听众反馈（itgonglun@ipn.li）相当精彩。在 131 期里我们说过软件卖的是使用权，不是所有权。这让一位姓臧的听众想到了《哈利·波特》中妖精贩售的宝剑： 格兰芬多宝剑是戈德里克·格兰芬多在世时从妖精那里买的一把宝剑。这把剑一代代流传下去，人类天经地义地认为它的处置权属于自己，然而妖精认为当时是把这把剑的 「使用权」卖给了「那一个人」，那人死后，这把剑理应回到妖精手中（脑补妖精大喊「Your license has expired! 」）……听起来，人们对于软件应该有妖精对于所属物的觉悟。 听众 Max 指出，德州仪器出品的科学计算器和图形计算器在功能上还是远超 iOS 上的计算器 app: TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus 和 TI-89 等计算器不仅集成了数学和统计学等领域的常用公式/模型计算，可以数值求导、积分、解方程、画图，甚至还可以自己编写简易的程序……整个按键布局和设计也更符合复杂计算的需求。个人感觉对于专业学生/工作而言，iOS 上的计算 app 还是很难取代 TI 系列。目前见过唯一能接近 TI-8x 系列的计算应用就是 WolframAlpha，但它是一个基于网络的解决方案，所以也不能作为 TI-8x 系列的替代品。 我们发现德州仪器自己倒是有做一款名叫 TI-Nspire 的 iPad app，售价三十美元。不过如 Rio 在上期节目中所说，移动设备「不能带进考场」还是个硬伤。 法律工作者山葵酱告诉我们，App Store 的「执法模式」其实跟中国春秋时期的执法模式非常类似。 与 App Store 的「执法模式」最为相似的，可能是春秋时期郑国在「子产铸刑书)」之前的「执法模式」，即「议事以制，不为刑辟」，翻译过来是「衡量事情的轻重来断定罪行，不制定刑法」的意思。我们一般称之为「秘密法」时期。而子产将刑律铸刻在鼎上，是古代中国第一次「公开」发布成文法，开创了公布法律的历史。因此「子产铸刑书」也成了中国法制史上的重要里程碑。 法律居然可以是保密的、不公开的，这在今天看来也许非常荒谬。但是，当时的主流思想认为，法律不公开有以下好处： 一、平民会对法律和统治阶级怀有敬畏之心；不可知的法律更像一种信仰，而非规则。 二、平民不知道法律的具体内容，所以会尽量谨慎地说话和行动，以免因自己的言行触犯了法律而被惩罚。 三、平民如果知道了法律的具体内容，就可能会利用法律的空白或漏洞，做坏事却不受惩罚。 四、统治阶级可以灵活地解释和使用法律，在裁判案件时具体情况具体分析。 假如哪天苹果要出 App Store Review Guidelines 的中文版，这四条几乎可以直接拿来用了。（笑） 一台名叫 YotaPhone 的俄罗斯手机一直令 Rio 感到兴味盎然。它的卖点说来简单：除了正面的五寸 AMOLED 屏幕外，背面还有一块四点七寸的电子墨水（e-ink）屏幕，而且它可以跑完整的安卓系统。用过 Kindle 的人都知道，这样的手机让你不再担心电池续航力。不过虽然《The Verge》的测评认为 YotaPhone 的双屏不只是噱头，但 555 英镑（约 5396 人民币）的售价用来购买续航力和视力保护功能，恐怕还是要犹豫一下。Rio 那么心动不还是没有下手吗？ 说到电子墨水屏幕，我们推荐一中一英两篇关于 Kindle Voyage 的评论。龚民兄的在这里，Jeff Atwood（StackOverflow 创始人）的在这里。 你知道什么是 Voice-O-Graph 吗？Neil Young 今年的新专辑《A Letter Home》就是用它录的。那是一种流行于 1930 至 1970 年代的美国的类似电话亭的东西，走进去投个硬币，对着麦克风唱首歌或说两句话，它就能把你的声音刻录成一张黑胶唱片吐出来。在战争时期，Voice-O-Graph 成了人们互通音讯的热门工具。苹果为圣诞和新年假期准备的新广告「The Song」近日开播，在视频中他们聪明地把自家的音频软件 GarageBand 比之于当代的 Voice-O-Graph，表达了对美国优良传统价值的继承。不过 Voice-O-Graph 的使用难度可远远低于 GarageBand，它在今天的对应物难道不应该是语音 IM 吗？ 纽约 Betaworks 孵化的创业公司 Blend.io 立志要成为「音乐家的 GitHub」。你可以把自己的 Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, GarageBand 等工程文件上传，供其他音乐家下载。最近 Blend.io 更推出了 Blend Market，你可以把自己写出的旋律或节奏型直接卖给其他音乐家（通过 Stripe 支付）。李如一和 Rio 对于音乐究竟能否开源一事私下有过很多讨论。和很多人的想像相反，软件代码的每一次编译并不是完全相同的。虽然在很多情况下这种不同可以忽略不计，但古典音乐经典曲目的多个录音版本之间的区别又何尝不是如此？而一首爵士乐作品的两个版本的关系则可以比之于 GitHub 上的「原版」软件和「fork」出来的软件。 常识告诉我们，在音乐领域，人们对原创性的要求比软件界高。假唱和抄袭曲子的例子固然不少，但至少那是「丑闻」。而软件工程师不是总半开玩笑地说「能拷贝代码就不要自己写代码」吗？「复用」在软件工程领域不但不是丑闻，反而是被鼓励的「不重复制造轮子」的行为。另一方面，即便在人们不知开源为何物的时代，创造性地复用甚至挪用他人旋律也是作曲家们常干的事。前卫摇滚乐团 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 以及日本电子音乐先锋冨田勲重新演绎穆索尔斯基的《图画展览会》就是例子。在本期节目里我们播出了说唱组合 2 Live Crew 对库布里克电影《全金属外壳》（*Full Metal Jacket*）里越南妓女对白的采样。但采样、致敬和抄袭的界线在哪，对于法律界一直是个难题。和音乐家相比，软件工程师对于复用他人劳动成果的态度更加简单纯粹，这应该是软件开源能够获得认可的心理认知基础。 老牌程序员网站 Dr. Dobb 由于广告收入被迫关站，深度硬件测评站 AnandTech 被 Purch 收购。这两件事背后反映的共同现象是新媒体生态圈的变化。广告主对于传统的桌面网站广告兴趣渐缺已不是新闻，更有趣的是 AnandTech 主编 Ryan Smith 在博客中提到的现象：今年有越来越多经营严肃和深度内容的新媒体站获得了大笔投资，说明创业者和投资人对新媒体的想像都已经超越了那些走三俗路线的短平快产品。显然，Smith 指的是 Buzzfeed、Vox、Quartz 这些媒体，以及 a16z 这样的风投公司。 我们之前在节目中提过的超科幻虚拟现实创业公司 Magic Leap 最近把科幻小说家、《雪崩》（*Snow Crash*）的作者 Neal Stephenson 请去当「首席未来学家」。关于 Magic Leap 可以简单用两句话概括：一、他们要做的是消费者级别的全息影像生成技术，也就是「没有屏幕的屏幕」，如果需要直观的感受，可以随时去他们的网站首页看那个动画；二、这是一帮做内容、懂内容的人在做产品。打个比方，相当于一家发明了摄像技术，同时自己又拍电影的公司。 虚拟现实令人着迷的地方在于，它有潜力重新定义肉体和数字空间的关系。不用问 Ray Kurzweil 的奇点（Singularity）到来时身体怎么办，先问问牺牲身体健康、坐在电脑和游戏机前养线上 ID 的那些人是怎么想的好了。如果像 Oculus 和 Magic Leap 这样的公司成了虚拟现实 / 隐在电脑（Ubiquitous computing）时代的苹果，你是不是应该现在开始健身了？ 最近我们读的一些文章 专家犯错，通常是因为他们只是旧版世界的专家 在 Napster 之前，我们有 IUMA Ben Thompson 真是超级看好 Uber 和 Bitcoin 啊，而他的论点总是清晰有力

本期话题包括 YotaPhone、Voice-O-Graph、苹果的新广告「The Song」、音乐开源的可能、以及科幻小说家 Neal Stephenson 加盟 Magic Leap 任「首席未来学家」。欢迎参加《IT 公论》二〇一五新年特别活动，赢取《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝一份！ 每月三十元，支持李如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。 圣诞与新年假期马上就要开始了，不管您会在接下来的一个星期里继续努力工作，还是出外游玩充电，李如一和 Rio 都提前祝您节日快乐。为了感谢你们对《IT 公论》的支持，我们准备了特别抽奖活动。在 2015 年 1 月 1 日正午，我们会从参与活动的会员中随机抽选五位，向他们每人赠送一份《Indie Game: The Movie》特别版拷贝。《Indie Game: The Movie》系史上第一部关于游戏制作的纪录片。加拿大导演 Lisanne Pajot 与 James Swirsky 采访了《时空幻境》（ Braid ）、《FEZ》、《超级肉肉哥》（ Super Meat Boy ）等几个著名独立游戏的创作者，记录了他们背后的艰辛、快乐与荣耀。如果你是创业者、音乐家、漫画家、导演、小说家、或任何打算自己做点东西的人，《Indie Game: The Movie》都会让你产生巨大共鸣。 我们将把影片直接以链接形式发送到您的会员邮箱。您可以在线观看，亦可下载高清与标清版本永久收藏。影片为英语对白，繁体中文字幕。参与抽奖的方法请看这个页面。 本期的听众反馈（itgonglun@ipn.li）相当精彩。在 131 期里我们说过软件卖的是使用权，不是所有权。这让一位姓臧的听众想到了《哈利·波特》中妖精贩售的宝剑： 格兰芬多宝剑是戈德里克·格兰芬多在世时从妖精那里买的一把宝剑。这把剑一代代流传下去，人类天经地义地认为它的处置权属于自己，然而妖精认为当时是把这把剑的 「使用权」卖给了「那一个人」，那人死后，这把剑理应回到妖精手中（脑补妖精大喊「Your license has expired! 」）……听起来，人们对于软件应该有妖精对于所属物的觉悟。 听众 Max 指出，德州仪器出品的科学计算器和图形计算器在功能上还是远超 iOS 上的计算器 app: TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus 和 TI-89 等计算器不仅集成了数学和统计学等领域的常用公式/模型计算，可以数值求导、积分、解方程、画图，甚至还可以自己编写简易的程序……整个按键布局和设计也更符合复杂计算的需求。个人感觉对于专业学生/工作而言，iOS 上的计算 app 还是很难取代 TI 系列。目前见过唯一能接近 TI-8x 系列的计算应用就是 WolframAlpha，但它是一个基于网络的解决方案，所以也不能作为 TI-8x 系列的替代品。 我们发现德州仪器自己倒是有做一款名叫 TI-Nspire 的 iPad app，售价三十美元。不过如 Rio 在上期节目中所说，移动设备「不能带进考场」还是个硬伤。 法律工作者山葵酱告诉我们，App Store 的「执法模式」其实跟中国春秋时期的执法模式非常类似。 与 App Store 的「执法模式」最为相似的，可能是春秋时期郑国在「子产铸刑书)」之前的「执法模式」，即「议事以制，不为刑辟」，翻译过来是「衡量事情的轻重来断定罪行，不制定刑法」的意思。我们一般称之为「秘密法」时期。而子产将刑律铸刻在鼎上，是古代中国第一次「公开」发布成文法，开创了公布法律的历史。因此「子产铸刑书」也成了中国法制史上的重要里程碑。   法律居然可以是保密的、不公开的，这在今天看来也许非常荒谬。但是，当时的主流思想认为，法律不公开有以下好处： 一、平民会对法律和统治阶级怀有敬畏之心；不可知的法律更像一种信仰，而非规则。 二、平民不知道法律的具体内容，所以会尽量谨慎地说话和行动，以免因自己的言行触犯了法律而被惩罚。 三、平民如果知道了法律的具体内容，就可能会利用法律的空白或漏洞，做坏事却不受惩罚。 四、统治阶级可以灵活地解释和使用法律，在裁判案件时具体情况具体分析。 假如哪天苹果要出 App Store Review Guidelines 的中文版，这四条几乎可以直接拿来用了。（笑） 一台名叫 YotaPhone 的俄罗斯手机一直令 Rio 感到兴味盎然。它的卖点说来简单：除了正面的五寸 AMOLED 屏幕外，背面还有一块四点七寸的电子墨水（e-ink）屏幕，而且它可以跑完整的安卓系统。用过 Kindle 的人都知道，这样的手机让你不再担心电池续航力。不过虽然《The Verge》的测评认为 YotaPhone 的双屏不只是噱头，但 555 英镑（约 5396 人民币）的售价用来购买续航力和视力保护功能，恐怕还是要犹豫一下。Rio 那么心动不还是没有下手吗？ 说到电子墨水屏幕，我们推荐一中一英两篇关于 Kindle Voyage 的评论。龚民兄的在这里，Jeff Atwood（StackOverflow 创始人）的在这里。 你知道什么是 Voice-O-Graph 吗？Neil Young 今年的新专辑《A Letter Home》就是用它录的。那是一种流行于 1930 至 1970 年代的美国的类似电话亭的东西，走进去投个硬币，对着麦克风唱首歌或说两句话，它就能把你的声音刻录成一张黑胶唱片吐出来。在战争时期，Voice-O-Graph 成了人们互通音讯的热门工具。苹果为圣诞和新年假期准备的新广告「The Song」近日开播，在视频中他们聪明地把自家的音频软件 GarageBand 比之于当代的 Voice-O-Graph，表达了对美国优良传统价值的继承。不过 Voice-O-Graph 的使用难度可远远低于 GarageBand，它在今天的对应物难道不应该是语音 IM 吗？ 纽约 Betaworks 孵化的创业公司 Blend.io 立志要成为「音乐家的 GitHub」。你可以把自己的 Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, GarageBand 等工程文件上传，供其他音乐家下载。最近 Blend.io 更推出了 Blend Market，你可以把自己写出的旋律或节奏型直接卖给其他音乐家（通过 Stripe 支付）。李如一和 Rio 对于音乐究竟能否开源一事私下有过很多讨论。和很多人的想像相反，软件代码的每一次编译并不是完全相同的。虽然在很多情况下这种不同可以忽略不计，但古典音乐经典曲目的多个录音版本之间的区别又何尝不是如此？而一首爵士乐作品的两个版本的关系则可以比之于 GitHub 上的「原版」软件和「fork」出来的软件。 常识告诉我们，在音乐领域，人们对原创性的要求比软件界高。假唱和抄袭曲子的例子固然不少，但至少那是「丑闻」。而软件工程师不是总半开玩笑地说「能拷贝代码就不要自己写代码」吗？「复用」在软件工程领域不但不是丑闻，反而是被鼓励的「不重复制造轮子」的行为。另一方面，即便在人们不知开源为何物的时代，创造性地复用甚至挪用他人旋律也是作曲家们常干的事。前卫摇滚乐团 Emerson, Lake & Palmer 以及日本电子音乐先锋冨田勲重新演绎穆索尔斯基的《图画展览会》就是例子。在本期节目里我们播出了说唱组合 2 Live Crew 对库布里克电影《全金属外壳》（*Full Metal Jacket*）里越南妓女对白的采样。但采样、致敬和抄袭的界线在哪，对于法律界一直是个难题。和音乐家相比，软件工程师对于复用他人劳动成果的态度更加简单纯粹，这应该是软件开源能够获得认可的心理认知基础。 老牌程序员网站 Dr. Dobb 由于广告收入被迫关站，深度硬件测评站 AnandTech 被 Purch 收购。这两件事背后反映的共同现象是新媒体生态圈的变化。广告主对于传统的桌面网站广告兴趣渐缺已不是新闻，更有趣的是 AnandTech 主编 Ryan Smith 在博客中提到的现象：今年有越来越多经营严肃和深度内容的新媒体站获得了大笔投资，说明创业者和投资人对新媒体的想像都已经超越了那些走三俗路线的短平快产品。显然，Smith 指的是 Buzzfeed、Vox、Quartz 这些媒体，以及 a16z 这样的风投公司。 我们之前在节目中提过的超科幻虚拟现实创业公司 Magic Leap 最近把科幻小说家、《雪崩》（*Snow Crash*）的作者 Neal Stephenson 请去当「首席未来学家」。关于 Magic Leap 可以简单用两句话概括：一、他们要做的是消费者级别的全息影像生成技术，也就是「没有屏幕的屏幕」，如果需要直观的感受，可以随时去他们的网站首页看那个动画；二、这是一帮做内容、懂内容的人在做产品。打个比方，相当于一家发明了摄像技术，同时自己又拍电影的公司。 虚拟现实令人着迷的地方在于，它有潜力重新定义肉体和数字空间的关系。不用问 Ray Kurzweil 的奇点（Singularity）到来时身体怎么办，先问问牺牲身体健康、坐在电脑和游戏机前养线上 ID 的那些人是怎么想的好了。如果像 Oculus 和 Magic Leap 这样的公司成了虚拟现实 / 隐在电脑（Ubiquitous computing）时代的苹果，你是不是应该现在开始健身了？ 最近我们读的一些文章 专家犯错，通常是因为他们只是旧版世界的专家 在 Napster 之前，我们有 IUMA Ben Thompson 真是超级看好 Uber 和 Bitcoin 啊，而他的论点总是清晰有力