This Week I sat down with Valentine Roland Ssebuyungo. This is Valentine's second appearance on the podcast, he is an ambidextrous, electrical engineer, currently working with a company called Form Athletica that creates goggles using augmented reality technology for swimming. Valentine is incredibly intelligent and introspective and we had a wonderful conversation. Our talk centered around optimism vs pessimism but we covered it all, the potential alien invasions to come in the future,  the roles of signs, omens, and superstitions on our behavior, the corruptive property of power and much much more. I hope you all enjoy!

0:0:00 Intro/Fun Fact

0:3:30 Big Question, A Case For Optimism?

0:10:45 The Difference Between Realism and Pessimism

0:18:00 The 3 Body Problem and Potential Alien Invasions

0:26:00 Does Absolute Power Corrupt Absolutely?

0:37:00 Fraternities and What They Say About Group Psychology

0:45:00 The Pessimism that comes out of Anxiety and Depression

0:51:00 The Initial Conditions for Optimism

0:58:00 Coming of Age Ceremonies

1:04:50 Signs, Omens, and Superstitions

1:10:00 What If You Are The Universe?

1:15:00 Closing Remarks