Season 2 of People Talking has launched! 🎉
As a refresher, People Talking is the web3 podcast that's not about web3. Hear from heavy hitters in web3 talk about topics outside of the industry that influence how they approach the space.
My first guest this season is Francesco Bisardi of Bitgo. Francesco has been in small web3 and AI circles since 2017. In this episode we discuss a lot of similarities he sees between the early AI and web3 communities, alpha on how to practically use AI today for business and pleasure, alpha on high-signal people to follow in AI, and how AI is somehow even faster paced than the most recent web3 bull market.
Oh, and he is also an Italian National powerlifting champion. NBD. This is a well-rounded guy, the type of guest I love to have on the show.
Enjoy!
Episode 12, the final episode of Season 1, of the People Talking podcast is now live 🎥
Hey People Listening, did you get your first foray into social media learning CSS and HTML to personalize your Myspace page? Do you doom scroll Twitter? Do you wonder about the elements of social media and which are good and bad?
This week I have Lou Kerner on the show who is both a social media and web3 veteran to dig into social networks and community. Starting with his early days of helping run Bolt, an early social network started in 1996, he walks us through his love of community and how the new tools in web3 can help us create digital-native communities.
Enjoy, and thank you to the listeners of season 1! I'll be taking a short break while I plan out the release of season 2. We have some amazing guests coming up. Stay tuned.
Episode 11 of People Talking is now live 🎥
Jim Chang (0xJim) is known on Twitter for his DeFi wizardry, incubating projects through Aave’s experimental arm, and hilarious but dense research on things like interoperability and rollups as a service. But in this episode we dive into 2 of his loves: Backpacking and Fashion. What relation do these things have to web3? What relation do they have to each other (hint: convertible pants)?
A sneak peak at what we cover in this episode:
-How does backpacking prepare you for product launches? -Why should you backpack even though you’ll be exhausted and sleep like shit? -How is the Steve Jobs style of fashion like atheism? -What is Gorpcore and why do so many adopters of this fashion trend like tiny coffees?
We had a lot of good laughs in this one. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Episode 10 of People Talking is now live 🤙
David Goldberg is the co-founder of Macro which is a web3 security company that does smart contract audits with customers like Synthetix, MakerDAO, Frax, Connext and more. They also are building products for web3 security. Before he dove into web3, he was a software engineer at Salesforce for a few years and founded a few startups. He has synthesized his experience in startups down into guidelines for creating breakthrough ideas which we’ll dive into today.
For founders, identifying potential inflection points - major shifts in the world that open up new markets - is the holy grail problem to solve when generating new business ideas. Join us on this deep dive on identifying different types of inflection points and articulating ideas to take advantage of those shifts.
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Episode 9 of People Talking is now live 🤙
ChatGPT has sparked a lot of new debate over the future of AI and whether it will be a net benefit or net detriment, usually to the extremes that it will either free humanity from the burdens of work so we can focus on our true passions or will kill us all Terminator style. When it comes to web3, how can we direct ourselves towards the former future?
This is one of many things nintynick is working on at Hats Protocol. After reminiscing on the leadership skills and trust issues that gaming brought us both in our earlier years, we dive deep into what AI could look like for humanity if designed correctly and how Nick sees AI helping us more effectively delegating authority and responsibility in a meritocratic way. We both had a lot of fun on this one.
Enjoy!
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Hey People Listening, have you ever collected Pokemon or Yugioh cards? Did you have as absurd of a Beenie Baby collection as I did? Did you try to justify all of this spending to your parents who reluctantly relinquished hundreds or thousands of dollars for this seemingly pointless stuff? This episode is for you.
Episode 8 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Humpty Calderon, Host of the Crypto Sapiens podcast and co-founder of Mosaic.
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Humpty Calderon has always been an avid collector of many things: comic books and manga, action figures, whisky, watches, and of course digital collectibles. In this episode he shares his story of collecting, why he does it, and a glimpse into his factors for what makes something collectible. I don’t think I have to harp too much on why this is relevant to web3.
Episode 6 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Dougie DeLuca, analyst at Figment Capital and writer in the Cosmos ecosystem. In this episode we cover music, aliens, and Native American history.
How the hell could music, aliens and native American history have any possible connection to web3? You'd be surprised.
Okay actually the Alien conversation was unplanned and had no tie in, but it was still fun.
Enjoy this wide ranging conversation between making music and how it’s a nice break for your brain from the screen, a quick debate on whether or not aliens have visited earth, and the surprising lessons from distributed communities of Native Americans and what they can teach us about designing our own communities.
Episode 6 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Tasafila (Shane), creator of BlockbusterDAO (now R3WIND).
Tasafila (Shane) is most well known as the founder of BlockbusterDAO which aimed to buy the Blockbuster IP in late 2021. We talk about his background in filmmaking and investigative journalism (there’s a fun story in this conversation about that) and how that positioned him to harness the power of nostalgia with BlockbusterDAO.
Enjoy!