Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions! Ariel Helwani's The MMA Hour podcast sounds very interesting, will def have to check that out. I have always believed that there is a lot we can learn from the journies of others. It's amazing how a sport can help people persevere through this thing we call life. I really like what you said there in the end:
We are all fighters one way or another, fighting for we believe in, fighting for who we love, fighting for ourselves, our hopes and our dreams.
With The Infinite Monkey Cage you had me at "black holes and quantam mechanics" 😂 im also fascinated about these topics so will be adding that to my list for sure. Lex Fridman podcast is also one of my favs, I recently enjoyed his episodes featuring Mark Zuck, Tim Urban, and Elon Musk. I appreciate you sharing a bunch of your fav podcasts, I find that asking for recommendations from others is the best way to grow my own list.
I also think a lot about the stuff you said regarding Web3 + Forem. We should discuss some of those topics in more detail sometime. And you got me inspired to go down the rabbit hole and learn some Ruby on Rails on Dev + GoRails.
Im also a big fan of Reddit communities, I like their new Discover Tab, the other day I joined some new ones like r/ImaginaryArchitecture, r/deepdream, r/stormchasing, r/240sx. I also get super excited thinking about the awesome communities that will be created using Forem and all the amazing people that will connect because of them.
No problem mate. I just tidied up all my spelling mistakes 😂. Yeah let's chat on the next Forem creator meet-up, Rails can be a steep learning curve in terms of understanding the stack but worth it if you can just allow your brain the space and time to pick it up, i'll be joining deepdream and stormchasing for sure!
There is something more special around a Forem community though, knowing the effort that goes into crafting the experience, the fact that you aren't feeding the Twitter/FB/Reddit machine (a key to house that could be confiscated at anytime, with no reason).
I like to think of a Forem as beautifully crafted independent vessel drifting effortless through the raging ocean of social media (rather that a pimple on the skin of an out of control, continuously growing organism, that can't take care of itself, never mind you and all your likeminded connections).
I like to think of a Forem as beautifully crafted independent vessel drifting effortless through the raging ocean of social media
Couldn’t agree more. A lot of this stuff rings true in the music industry as well. Creators often do not own/control the value they spend so much time creating. As much as I love Reddit + Twitter, it doesn’t sit well with me that such valuable platforms are super centralized.
Totally, and yes - didn't Kanye do something innovate with his latest album release? That's another thing.. hip hop/rap and combat sports, very closely related, seeded from the streets into todays modern mainstream culture.
I can’t say I know everything Kanye is up to these days, since he pivots and changes his mind like every other day, but I do respect him for experimenting and trying new ideas. For his latest album he decided not to put it up on streaming platforms and only make it exclusively available to fans who buy his $200 Stem Player.
If you’re gonna have listen to the infinite monkey cage, the quantum episode has Sean Carroll as a guest, I have read his book ‘Something deeply hidden’ which discusses the ‘many worlds’ theory. Essentially it means the universe is branching and forking every time a the wave function collapses as a particle is ‘observed’ (have a look at the double slit experiment online).
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions! Ariel Helwani's The MMA Hour podcast sounds very interesting, will def have to check that out. I have always believed that there is a lot we can learn from the journies of others. It's amazing how a sport can help people persevere through this thing we call life. I really like what you said there in the end:
With The Infinite Monkey Cage you had me at "black holes and quantam mechanics" 😂 im also fascinated about these topics so will be adding that to my list for sure. Lex Fridman podcast is also one of my favs, I recently enjoyed his episodes featuring Mark Zuck, Tim Urban, and Elon Musk. I appreciate you sharing a bunch of your fav podcasts, I find that asking for recommendations from others is the best way to grow my own list.
I also think a lot about the stuff you said regarding Web3 + Forem. We should discuss some of those topics in more detail sometime. And you got me inspired to go down the rabbit hole and learn some Ruby on Rails on Dev + GoRails.
Im also a big fan of Reddit communities, I like their new Discover Tab, the other day I joined some new ones like r/ImaginaryArchitecture, r/deepdream, r/stormchasing, r/240sx. I also get super excited thinking about the awesome communities that will be created using Forem and all the amazing people that will connect because of them.
No problem mate. I just tidied up all my spelling mistakes 😂. Yeah let's chat on the next Forem creator meet-up, Rails can be a steep learning curve in terms of understanding the stack but worth it if you can just allow your brain the space and time to pick it up, i'll be joining deepdream and stormchasing for sure!
There is something more special around a Forem community though, knowing the effort that goes into crafting the experience, the fact that you aren't feeding the Twitter/FB/Reddit machine (a key to house that could be confiscated at anytime, with no reason).
I like to think of a Forem as beautifully crafted independent vessel drifting effortless through the raging ocean of social media (rather that a pimple on the skin of an out of control, continuously growing organism, that can't take care of itself, never mind you and all your likeminded connections).
Couldn’t agree more. A lot of this stuff rings true in the music industry as well. Creators often do not own/control the value they spend so much time creating. As much as I love Reddit + Twitter, it doesn’t sit well with me that such valuable platforms are super centralized.
Totally, and yes - didn't Kanye do something innovate with his latest album release? That's another thing.. hip hop/rap and combat sports, very closely related, seeded from the streets into todays modern mainstream culture.
I can’t say I know everything Kanye is up to these days, since he pivots and changes his mind like every other day, but I do respect him for experimenting and trying new ideas. For his latest album he decided not to put it up on streaming platforms and only make it exclusively available to fans who buy his $200 Stem Player.
In Kanye’s own words:
“We make my own systems We set our own value aaaand yesterdays price is not todays price baaaaabeeeee!!!!!”
If you’re gonna have listen to the infinite monkey cage, the quantum episode has Sean Carroll as a guest, I have read his book ‘Something deeply hidden’ which discusses the ‘many worlds’ theory. Essentially it means the universe is branching and forking every time a the wave function collapses as a particle is ‘observed’ (have a look at the double slit experiment online).
Massively thought provoking.
Music to my ears 😇 thanks for the recommendations!
Was awesome meeting you first the first time yesterday 😎 lots of really interesting feedback and ideas man. Amazing energy.
It was very nice to meet you as well! We should exchange Discord ID’s so we can chat more often. I’ll DM you on Twitter with my profile info.