Crazy Wisdom

We talk about two types of creativity:

1. Creativity that VC unlocks through the companies VC's invest in

2. Creativity of how to make investment decisions

We also talk about these questions:

How do you set up a relationship so that its good for the long term?

What is the difference between creativity that is exponential and creativity that is linear?

What will the search algorithm for Voice technology be once its more widespread?

What are the roadblocks to speech to text algorithms today? Computation?

Is imagination just a virtual game?

What have you learned about reality from programming computers?

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https://twitter.com/lpolovets

I talk with Doug about his plan to give people $10K to move out of San Francisco and how they are building a network of coworking places where people can work remotely yet still find personal connections. 

We investigate the question: Will big companies trust remote work at scale?

We also went into a tangent on what remote work looks like in China.

Follow Doug here on twitter:

https://twitter.com/dougludlow

Check out Mainstreet here:

https://www.mainstreet.org/home

This one was really fun because I got to talk to Brian about how humans are adapting to cities, one of my favorite things to talk about. Brian started a company that creates tiny rooms that people can use for meetings or podcasts escaping from open office floor plan hell. He was actually in one of the rooms while he recorded this podcast!

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https://twitter.com/_bchen

And check out Room:

https://room.com/

I reached out to James on Twitter because he posts a lot of interesting things about machine learning. He's building a stealth startup in the space and studies it at university so he has some relevant and recent knowledge. 

If you have an interest in AI check this one out.

Also follow James here:

https://twitter.com/rishmishra

This one is a personal interest one for me. I found the CoffeeZilla Youtube Channel through a friend of mine and I immediately wanted to interview the guy who does it. In this channel, he goes after internet-enabled fake gurus and picks apart their schemes and shows people how they create fake value and sell that value and take people's money. It is so elegant and I highly recommend this episode if you want to understand how not to be a fool.

Follow CoffeeZilla here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw

Chad and I both interviewed each other about how to learn effectively on the internet and not let it use you (and the companies behind the internet). This one was really fun!

Check out Random Baddassery here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/random-badassery/id1090700348

Jan teaches creativity and how to create inspiring change in entertainment, technology, and media through the use of content design and development.

We talk a lot about what creativity means and even how to use your dreams to be more creative.

Here are some free downloads from Jan's work. I highly recommend checking it out:

The Book Chapter from Thirty Days to Dream can be downloaded for free at www.Dreameroo.com.

We talk a lot about how to sell something in this episode including these questions about what to ask yourself when you have an idea for a product or service that you want to sell:

What’s the value?

What is the consumer receiving?

We also talk about how:

Most people aren’t successful because they build a system

Change is difficult for everyone.

Sales is trying to help

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-glod-8a329220/

This one is fire. As soon as he said that he named his firm after the famous Isaac Azimov book right of the beginning of the episode, I knew that this was going to be a great episode. We go deep here into the challenges we are going to face as a species moving forward and what to do about it at the family level and the society level.

Follow Ben's work here:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/

We also talk about the following questions:

In what ways is a university a tribe?

Are entrepreneurs lone wolves?

Do entrepreneurs start out questioning assumptions more than most people?

What are the best practices of turning a niche into a profitable and sustainable company?

When does a piece of Software become mission-critical?

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https://twitter.com/tylertringas