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First 2 episodes of the People Talking podcast are LIVE 🎉🍾 You can find them on Spotify and soon on Apple podcasts. https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVhAV7MItkdkQ50f9lrql What is People Talking? The problem I see with a lot of web3 podcasts right now is they seem to bring on the same people to the same shows and talk about the same things. While I love a lot of these shows, I found myself getting exhausted by the highly tactical, intense, adderall-induced vibe that a lot of these shows emanate and feeling like I have to have my notes out and finger over the pause button to consume everything. Vibe-wise, what I feel is missing is some middle ground between something that's informative and educational and something that's fun and rejuvenating to listen to. At this starting point, I also noticed that a lot of the coolest people I talked to in web3 were interested in a lot of other topics. My favorite people in the space weren't just technologists or finance bros like the dominating narrative about crypto. These were people voraciously curious about economics, ecology, collective identity, probability and gambling, physics, native american history, music, skiing, charity, ego on the internet, and so much more. While some of these topics come up, web3 is always the dominating subject for all written and audio content created right now in the space. This is where People Talking comes in. This podcast is meant to create a chill, relaxed and intellectually curious space for the voraciously curious in web3 to talk about these other topics and explore the hidden connections that hugely influence their approach to web3. To follow the journey, consider following me and collecting this post (it's free). I hope you enjoy the first season of People Talking and have as much fun as I am learning about a range of topics from the coolest people in web3.
Snippet #2 for the People Talking Podcast ❤️‍🔥 with @cryptohun3y (Steph), Head of Media at Seed Club. For those who missed the first post, People Talking is a new web3 podcast I'm launching that doesn't cover a whole lot of web3. ???? The goal is to bring on heavy hitters in the web3 space and dive deep into their pre-web3 life and topics that are adjacent to web3. By covering an eclectic range of topics that seemingly have no relation to web3, we can can start to build projects and communities that are more complete than if we only approached them from a finance or technology angle. Full length episodes will be published soon.
Final icon art for the People Talking Podcast! Super happy with how this turned out. First 2 episodes publishing Monday.
Some days — not all, but some — I think video games must certainly be the 21st-century incarnation of Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk, the “total work of art” that draws upon and integrates all other forms. For Wagner, ca. 1849, opera was the Gesamtkunstwerk. Robin Sloan
all of my closest friendships are friendships of vision adrienne marie brown
that moment in the AlphaGo doc where lee sedol executes a move so unexpected, so elegant, so stunning, that the AI becomes unhinged.
CANNOT wait to jam with you on your topic 😁
**How I Am Getting My Shit Together aka current workflow:** *Matter:* https://hq.getmatter.com/ - add stuff to Queue to read later; - occasional highlights which are automatically (sometimes) exported to my Roam. - There's a really cool text-to-speech feature so that you can burn through more of your Reading Queue by having content read aloud to you at 2.5X normal speed. (I don't use this often.) _____ *Napkin:* https://www.napkin.one/ - imagine running through a field of wildflowers dotted w/ colorful Easter eggs in plain sight, inside of which are gems of ideas, while toting a XXXL basket for carrying the bounty home. footloose and fancy free is what I am. - I use the browser extension and iPhone text scanner to joyfully collect sentences & snippets that strike my fancy when reading. - the magic happens when I log onto the web app: the AI/NLP connects all the rainbow bits of my collected content & shows me delightful swarms of thought that are constantly remixed and re-contextualized. [see attached video for UI] - ***CREATIVE BOOST 🚀 -** not revisiting my old notes is too common, I'm afraid. Napkin not only solves this in a spaced repetition way but keeps the flow fresh by generating connections between my nodes-notes that transcend field/format/genre/source/time/mood.* (I do wish for a higher degree of surprise and sophistication to the AI's connections but I'm more than willing to be patient. Like, I want to be deeply surprised by the thought constellations that are surfaced. I want metaphoric perception - the connection of what-appears-to-be dissimilar things. I feel like the AI is highly reliant on looking for the same words across notes or on my tags.) - when inspiration strikes and new connections alight, I use the web app to synthesize & compose my own thoughts, adding them to the swarm. (I don't do this enough.) - i'm also creating a practice or framework for applying provocations or creative prompts while immersed in the swarms of thought. - There is also a web-app feature called "Stacks" which allows you to manually group specific nodes-notes together and linearly order them, creating proto-writing outlines that you can then export to Roam.... _______ *Roam:* https://roamresearch.com/ - if it's stuff i'm too excited to read, I skip Matter Queue and copy paste straight into Roam to process. - 3+ years into using Roam, and I feel like i've recently (re)discovered the power of block references and "replace with" menu. always a late bloomer. - i'm experimenting with incremental writing after reading this: https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2020-06-09-incremental-writing-no-more-writer-block/ - i thought "oooh incremental writing aligns with how I already read and process things - jumping from book to book to essay to pod to tweet ad infinitum. seems akin to andy matuschak's speculative outlines too." so rather than fighting my nature, i'm leaning into my hummingbird tendencies. Blocked on writing on a certain idea? Awesome - let's move on to the next one, then the next one ... - i'm playing with an incremental writing set-up by using Roam's Delta (∆) function for Spaced Repetition and also the Memo plug-in. I'm NOT using this for memory work per se, but rather to automate spaced presentations of specific blocks or writing projects I want to keep top of mind as creative 🔥 - I wish both were more robust & user-friendly, ie, easier to schedule, but they're sufficient for the experiment. - Each incremental writing project has a "Resources / Napkin notes" block. I import all of my related Napkin stacks here and revisit them whenever it's time for me to work on the project.
cool "web3 moment" that wasn't technically web3: game designer Jonathan Blow did livestreams of level design and gave design co-credits to ppl on the stream who contributed helpful ideas.
could be my utter lack of discipline in condensing my thoughts down to proper atom-size, but i'm loving the ability to write and write without hitting up against *the* word count... @lenster.lens would love to know how the related design discussions went - was it a controversial decision to have no word limit on posts? (or maybe there is a word limit, but it certainly isn't 280 characters)
hello lenster fam! ❤️ 2023 is the year I branch out and experiment with other social platforms: lens, farcaster, poaster, are.na, urbit... What other forms can web communities take? What's possible? What feels like it can grow with me into a future whose shape is uncertain? **The good about Twitter** off the top of my head, i'm thinking about the amazing thinkers i've found (and continue to find) on twitter. i'm thinking about how being active on Twitter really **DID** lead me to incredible, life-changing opportunities and connections. i'm thinking about nerding out on Twitter threads and how this vibe motivated ppl to rummage through old tweets and reconnect with the past. feeling visakanv's exhilaration rub off on me when he's describing Twitter as a "multiplayer real-time virtual world, [combining] elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat." or conaw saying "memex Twitter is like the new Bell Labs." there was, is, something incredible about the collective intelligence manifesting through Twitter and the depth of life and thought that can be found on that platform. Twitter Files. **The bad about Twitter** thank goodness elon appears to be generally *for* freedom of speech and inquiry and all the good things in an open society, but no matter which way you slice dice it, Twitter is of the old world. It's even more centralized now. witness the announcement that Twitter would ban any link outs to other social media platforms. tho Twitter appeared to walk back this decision, the writing is on the wall. it's hard to justify sinking more investment into a centralized platform. I know i'll continue to write and research on Twitter for some time, but i'm ready to see what else is possible. **
Hey all! Piggy-backing off a year of cohosting the Forefront podcast, I've been going through the Lens Creator Program to jump start my own podcast called People Talking. The goal of the show is to interview web3 heavy hitters to get to know the person behind the handle and discuss topics that are close to their heart outside of web3. A lot of web3 podcasts seem to be offering the same thing: the same speakers talking about the same topics and shilling the same projects. They're tactical, high octane, adderall-induced episodes that offer a lot, but are exhausting to listen to. People Talking is meant to offer a more chill environment to shill the people vs the projects and pull inspiration from unexpected places to help build a better decentralized future. Topics we’ll cover include collective identity, physics, conflict resolution, storytelling, economics, ecology, and more to come. If that sounds interesting, check out this 3 minute snippet on economics I recorded with my buddy Stefen (@stefdelev.lens and @stefdelev on Twitter) that gives a good taste of what to expect on the show. I’ll be exclusively marketing season 0 of People Talking on Lens and will eventually offer a season 0 free NFT. If you want to support the show, follow me and @peopletalking.lens to get notified for each episode and the NFT drop. Please leave comments and feedback below!