Our recurring guest Alex Danco of Spotify, err.. Shopify returns to Infinite Loops for his fifth appearance to discuss all things Web 3! Follow Alex on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco and read his essays at https://alexdanco.com/ Show Notes:

• Was it un-Canadian for Canada to pass the Emergency Act?
• Was the MAGA movement monarchist?
• Social meaning of NFTs
• What NFTs are not
• Catholicism — The original blockchain
• Code that can make commitments
• Wallets are the new web browsers
• What really is censorship
• Blockchains tell you what to ignore
• Porting from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
• NFTs as human readable format of a smart contract
• Why gamers end up as good decision makers
• How to identify an extremely online person

Rohit Krishnan is a VC and essayist who writes the 'Strange Loop Canon' newsletter in which he tries to understand the ever increasing complexity of our world. You can follow Rohit on Twitter at https://twitter.com/krishnanrohit and subscribe to his newsletter at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ Show Notes:

• Douglas Hofstadter's Strange Loop
• Memory as an unreliable narrator
• Are we seeing a decline in eccentricity?
• The Great Reshuffle
• We need more Thiel-style patrons
• Why do big companies suck at innovation?
• Importance of failure
• Reducing the cost of failure
• Universal Basic Income/Dividend
• Maximizing EV vs. Maximizing hit rate
• Are governments inefficient?
• Fragility of jobs
• World in 2050

Books Recommended:

• Gödel, Escher, Bach; by Douglas Hofstadter
• I Am a Strange Loop; by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Misbehavior of Markets; by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson

Title: Description:Sam McRoberts is the CEO of VUDU Marketing, an SEO agency and author of the book 'Screw the Zoo', a book that helps you "escape from your cage, free your mind, and take over the world." You can contact Sam on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Sams_Antics and get his book at https://screwthezoo.com/ Show Notes:

• Life as a digital nomad
• Role of video games in children' education
• The Great Unwashed
• Running an SEO consultancy
• Jed McKenna — A fictional character?
• Being kind to everyone
• Importance of curation in social media
• Bot infestation in Twitter
• Free will vs. Nature of reality
• Surrender comes after enlightenment, not before
• Memory as a latticework
• Shannon Limit
• Love as detachment
• Perseverance and survivorship bias
• The Original Sin
• Another dark age?
• To mute, or to block?
• Virtual Reality and Robots
• Psychedelics

Books Recommended:

• The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch
• Cloud Atlas; by David Mitchell
• Screw the Zoo; by Sam McRoberts

Rick Doblin in the Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). MAPS is a leading organization in the USA supporting psychedelic and marijuana research since 1986. You can follow Rick on his Twitter at https://twitter.com/RickDoblin. Amy Emerson is the CEO of the MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MAPS. You can learn more about MAPS and donate at https://maps.org/ Show Notes:

• Rick's journey from Construction to Psychedelics
• How Amy met Rick and started working together
• How psychedelic research was hampered for decades
• MDMA therapy for police officers and Navy Seals
• Cultural shift in the perception of psychedelics
• Has internet made it easier or difficult to spread propaganda?
• Legitimate concerns agains advancements in psychedelic research
• MDMA: A euphoric, or psychedelic?
• Man-made vs. Natural psychedelics
• Psychedelics are NOT magic cure-all pills
• MDMA treatment for childhood trauma?
• Alternative forms of treatment like sound therapy, VR, hypnotism
• Why donate to MAPS

Books Mentioned:

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; by Ken Kesey
• Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge; by Jeremy Narby
• How to Change Your Mind; by Michael Pollan
• The Immortality Key; by Brian Muraresku
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; by Robert M. Pirsig
• The Body Keeps the Score; by Bessel van der Kolk
• Happy; by Derren Brown
• The Beginning of Infinity; by David Deutsch

Lily Francus is a risk theorist and a quantitative researcher at Moody's. She is also the author of the 'Midnight on the Market Momentum' newsletter. Find Lily on her Twitter at https://twitter.com/nope_its_lily and read her newsletter at https://nopeitslily.substack.com Jesse Livermore is an OSAM research partner and a recurring guest at Infinite Loops. You can connect with him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jesse_Livermore and read more about his work at http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/ Show notes:

• Why all the recent focus on bubbles?
• How the era you grow up in shapes your investment philosophy
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic value
• How leverage impacts pricing
• What is a bubble? And how to identify if you're in one
• Role of uncertainty in arbitraging
• What makes a bubble pop
• How bubbles set a new floor price
• Do we have enough short sellers?
• Time arbitrage
• Information arbitrage in a hyper-connected world
• Are we currently in a financial bubble?
• Implications of pseudonymity
• Is there a free will?

Zachary Resnick is the Managing Partner and co-founder at Unbounded Capital, a trumpet player and composer, and a poker enthusiast. We speak with Zach about:

• Scaling issues with BTC
• Why isn't Bitcoin SV the prominent Bitcoin?
• The best use-cases for Bitcoin SV
• Can Bitcoin SV survive a govt. attack?
• Jazz music, Poker, and much more!

Follow Zachary on his Twitter at https://twitter.com/TrumpetisAwesom and know more about Unbounded Capital at https://unboundedcapital.com/

Dave Nadig is the CIO & Director of Research for ETF Trends and ETF Database. However, our conversation with Dave takes a curious turn and instead of ETFs, we end up discussing about:

• Tokenizing everything

• Left vs. Right brain thinking

• Working on the limitations of Web 3.0

• Role of psychology in asset valuation

• And MUCH more!

Follow Dave on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DaveNadig and know more about ETF Trends at https://www.etftrends.com

Louisa is a Neuroscientist & Neurophysiologist, and a performance advisor to pro athletes, teams & portfolio managers. Our discussion with Louisa includes:

• The origin of Neuro Athletics
• Goal setting done right
• How light and melatonin affects sleep
• Impact of sleep on your cognitive abilities
• Ice baths, sauna, performance myths
• And MUCH more!

Know more about Louisa's firm "Neuro Athletics" at www.neuroathletics.com.au and read her newsletter at https://neuroathletics.substack.com

In this episode of Infinite Loops we have Sahil Lavingia with us. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and author of the book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur".

• The rise, and fall, and rise of Gumroad
• Physical vs. Digital Communities
• Befriending 'volatility'
• Applications of Web 3
• And MUCH more!

Follow Sahil on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shl and buy his book from Amazon at amzn.to/2ZnIGOl

Tren Griffin returns to what is his third appearance on Infinite Loops — with a series of stories on business, investing, and life!

• Why Gates didn't write an autobiography
• How "rude" QnAs can be helpful
• Having a purpose in life
• Keeping business separate from the personal
• And MUCH more!

Follow Tren on Twitter (https://twitter.com/trengriffin) and read his blog at: https://25iq.com/