Mere Mortals Conversations

If you don't own at least 1 billion $HOSKY can you even call yourself a serious investor?

In Episode #250 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why I became obsessed with the Cardano memecoin called HOSKY this last week, why it is a brilliant source of memes and fun, how the degenerates waste their money in the age of crypto, some actual reasons why memecoins have value, why Saitama Inu has some weird money grubbing characteristics, how children interact with blockchain tech, the always appreciated boostagrams from our favourite slav and why we need to start speaking like Elizabeth Holmes.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Dog noises and dogbombing
(1:30) - The origins of HOSKY
(5:33) - How to piss away your ADA
(7:00) - The Brown Paper
(8:14) - Start of the memes
(9:11) - I'm a multi millionaire (9 figures baby!!!!)
(9:37) - The eternal price of HOSKY
(10:05) - Degeneracy
(10:50) - Skin in the game & status
(13:32) - Billions and billions
(14:26) - It was never worth it
(15:05) - Discord behaviour
(18:49) - Low IQ people love HOSKY
(21:40) - Difference between a shitcoin and memecoin
(30:02) - Educating children
(31:35) - No value has value
(35:41) - Summing up the differences
(38:57) - Boostagram lounge (brought to you by Petar)
(41:02) - Send through some HOSKY
(42:05) - Elizabeth Holmes voice


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Watch out Brisbane, Juan is getting mad ....... you don't want to see Juan mad.

In Episode #249 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the rainy weather that is coming to Brissie, the last La Niña that caused flooding, Juan's frustrating traffic story followed by his aggravating car fine, how the wet weather will effect our workouts, age catching up and why you need to help support us.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Juan's bitching and basketball head
(0:45) - La Niña
(2:48) - Road creeping imbeciles
(6:27) - A diddly doodly car fine
(9:18) - Dirty/slippery workout areas
(12:56) - Niggling injuries & soreness
(19:56) - 200m sprints for reps
(24:40) - The crusty old baby of the group
(28:14) - V4V enabled


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Kieran Nolan is the cofounder of Rocketshoes, educational technologist, host of the IPFS podcast and a lover of all things blockchain. In Conversation #62 we chat about: teaching blockchain tech to primary school children, the difficulties of educating parents, real life use cases of IPFS with rocketshoes, an overview of the InterPlanetary File System, the limitations of blockchain technology and why he is so fascinated by it.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did, Kyrin out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Name clarification
(1:37) - Wooranna Park Primary School
(9:12) - Kids interacting with blockchain technology
(17:02) - A deep understanding of blockchain tech isn't necessary
(25:20) - Public vs Private schools: It's about leadership
(29:38) - Kids creativity
(35:13) - Challenges in a tech progressive school
(41:57) - Rocketshoes
(48:21) - What is IPFS?
(54:51) - Persistent not permanent
(1:00:13) - What can't IPFS do?
(1:05:17) - Why is naming important in IPFS
(1:10:48) - Combing tech & education
(1:18:50) - Constant learning mindset
(1:25:58) - Google photography & travel
(1:30:48) - Book talk
(1:32:35) - What gets Kieran excited?
(1:38:55) - Find out more about Kieran & blockchain tech


Connect with Kieran:
Website: https://kdnolan.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KieranDNolan

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Should I ditch Juan, is he giving me a bad reputation?

In Episode #248 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: responsibility for the type of people and groups you run in, whether we would care if a new acquaintance had a bad reputation, how much this topic plays out in our day to day life, the differences between your online keyboard warrior and IRL notoriety, why everybody absolutely loves us and wants us in all their cool groups (not!), times we have made the choice to push someone away or be wary of them and whether this it is ultimately useful/good to use reputation by association.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - How accountable are you for your associates?
(4:17) - Friends with a funny murderer
(7:05) - Does reflected reputation affect your decision making?
(12:58) - Real life vs online reputation
(17:52) - Is rep stronger when tied to groups?
(19:55) - Do the Mere Mortals improve your rep? (yes we do!)
(23:42) - Conscious decisions we've made
(29:06) - Should we use this tool?
(33:51) - Become flawless, join us


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What are the mental traps that you fall into and how do you try to combat them?

In Episode #247 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: my recent TikTok superstardom with my brothers random friends, essential survival tools, essential entertainment devices (to throw at noisy crows), the mind reading capabilities shown in 'The Portrait Of A Lady' by Henry James, areas where we stuff up all the time, misinterpretation of an NFL kiss cam, the superpower of Dave Chappelle and a recommendation to try out Oscar Merry's Fountain.fm.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - I'm a TikTok superstar
(4:36) - 3 things on a deserted island
(8:24) - 3 entertainment items on a deserted island
(13:18) - Non verbal deciphering and social cues
(20:37) - Mental traps & blind spots
(24:06) - Falling for BS & 30 second videos
(29:44) - Dave Chappelle & 100% wit
(33:49) - No boostagrams, check out Fountain


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In Conversation #61 I took some time to talk with Jeremy, aka OrigamicPenguin on twitter to talk all things Veefriends, taking risks, establishing his own northern star and creating his own NFT!

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Intro
(1:30) - meeting other VeeFriends
(2:45) - 60 seconds who is Jeremy
(4:45) - What is happening in California?
(7:30) - Moving away from corporate America
(16:30) - Pursuing passion
(31:45) - Ethereum going up
(40:00) - Airdrops and NFTs
(59:00) - Veecon

Connect with Jeremy:
https://twitter.com/OrigamicPenguin
https://opensea.io/collection/13enignwelcome?search[resultModel]=BUNDLES&search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=CREATED_DATE

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Get prepared for some numbers people, we're diving deep into the analytical, engineering minds of the Mere Mortals.

In Episode #246 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the reasoning behind talking about metrics & my general philosophy, realisations that it's possible to go overboard, sleep/financial/fitness/random data that we collect and analyse, qualitative metrics that are harder to measure, what happens when the process goes wrong, an example of unique podcasting metrics and a CTA to check out our Discord.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Why I chose this topic
(2:05) - What doesn't get measured, doesn't get managed
(3:39) - Measuring for optimality = too granular
(12:24) - Sleep metrics
(15:33) - Financial metrics
(23:21) - Fitness metrics
(29:30) - Random metrics
(33:14) - Qualitative metrics
(42:22) - An error: tracking things that don't matter
(47:42) - Podcasting metrics & learnings
(51:27) - Check out the discord


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As I write this a week on I'm still coughing up mysterious traveller germs, the fun of Airlie Beach comes with a price!

In Episode #245 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: our recent holiday to a vacation getaway in beautiful Queensland, similarities between my brother and I, Juan's recent experiments with photoshops and deep faking faces, getting lost inside a gaming world, some stats on how many podcast episodes are released per minute, favourite moments from our trip and some input from everyone's favourite Slav.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Airlie beach, drinking & sickness
(6:22) - Sibling comparison to Kyrin
(10:28) - Photoshop deep fakes & post production
(15:36) - Living in a virtual world
(20:15) - Podcast episodes per minute
(23:17) - Favourite Airlie Beach moment
(30:34) - Petar boostagrams
(33:50) - I'm dying ...... for more boostagrams


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We're talking about money, and then hopefully taking a break from it for a while. I feel gross when I talk about it for too long.

In Episode #244 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why you don't want to see your net worth decrease, our personal monthly expenses, how much extra it would cost for our dream lifestyle, why chasing the next promotion solely for money is very very silly, how gambling can cloud your judgement and whether there actually is easy money to be made.

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Earn less than you spend
(4:59) - How much do we spend a month?
(8:14) - How much would a dream lifestyle cost?
(13:08) - Money for money's sake
(23:48) - Gambling and deceiving yourself
(27:55) - Is there money just laying around?
(33:34) - Share with a friend


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Prerecording FTW, where would we be without you!

In Episode #243 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why we had to film earlier due to our upcoming/already completed Airlie Beach trip, why dubbing over anime and foreign language is unacceptable, bringing back the good times by revisiting old and fond memories, ways in which we succeeded without meaning to, some thoughtful input from our local Slav and who it is that can claim to be the #1 podcast in the universe (or in the simulation hmmmmm).

As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!

Timeline:
(0:00) - Dubs over video are feral pfftftft
(6:45) - Revisiting old memories whilst on vacation
(12:23) - Goal successes
(15:20) - Trust boostagrams
(21:54) - The Number One podcast


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