Bookshelves & Barstools is a series of unplanned conversations. The idea is to recapture the kind of talk we used to have after class or at a bar, where we follow our impulses when addressing a question, without necessarily agreeing with their content by nature of their being impulses. This allows for authentic thought, but also sometimes for radical statements with which the speaker probably wouldn't agree if pressed...we hope. 

In this episode, a former high school classmate of Damon's, Alex, joins the discussion. Alex currently works for Hainan Nanhai Cloud Co. Ltd. on research into blockchain technology. Tuning in from a quarantine hotel in Shanghai, we explore some of the ideas Alex has been thinking about lately.