Other Life

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B just moved to Austin too—we talk about quirked up shawties and normie bug ontology so don't listen if you only like my serious podcasts.

This week was one of the craziest weeks in the history of American finance. Jacob explains the whole story of how the Reddit community Wallstreetbets is tanking a prestigious Wall Street hedge fund.

✦ Find Jacob on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAiIqyVMwIolQnlDQ2af4g
✦ Find Jacob on Twitter, @cryptochamomile
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I discuss my recent move to Austin TX, chaos at the Capitol, and the parallels between Bitcoin and Christianity with Jacob (@cryptochamomile).

➡️  Jacob's Youtube channel

John David Ebert is a cultural critic and the author of 26 books, including Art After Metaphysics, The New Media Invasion, The Age of Catastrophe and Dead Celebrities, Living Icons.

This is a warm-up for an 8-week course on Carl Jung, starting on February 20th.

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✦ John David Ebert on Twitter: @johndavidebert

Dryden Brown is building a new kind of city, from the cloud, in a style he calls hero-futurism.

✦ bluebookcities.com

✦ @drydenwtbrown

✦ https://www.drydenbrown.org/

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This is probably the single best podcast on the main ideas of Leo Strauss. A warmup for Michael's 8-week online course that starts on January 23. Signup to be notified when the full course opens: https://otherlife.co/strauss

Michael Millerman received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He's taught and published extensively on Leo Strauss.

Michael's website: michaelmillerman.ca

I discuss my theory of reality forking with two tech entrepreneurs who specialize in community business models.

✦ Greg Isenberg (@gregisenberg) is CEO of product studio Late Checkout
✦ Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) is co-founder of On Deck

We discuss:
- How society got to a place where it lost its collective sense-making abilities.
- Why calibrating what is real is harder than ever.
- Signs that your community is working and what makes it flourish. 

What percentage of my net worth is in crypto? Is the future of academia on Youtube, or where? Would I cut ties with Patreon? Do I consider myself uncensorable? What is the value of my brand? Where is it heading? Why am I launching a social token? Where do I locate myself in relation to other professionals becoming indie creators, like journalists going to Substack?

✦ Every week I send my best ideas & links to ~5k galaxy brains just like you: otherlife.co/newsletter
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Tom Kaczynski is a successful indie thinker in a most challenging niche: Philosophy comics. Over 10 years, Tom K. has built an impressive little empire as an independent illustrator, teacher, and publisher. In this podcast, he teaches us how he did it.

➡️  Tom's Cartoon Dialectics: https://uncivilizedbooks.com/shop/cartoon-dialectics/
➡️  Tom's Blog: http://www.transatlantis.net/blog/
➡️  Tom's column at The Comics Journal: http://www.tcj.com/category/columns/event-horizon/
➡️. Uncivilized Books: http://uncivilizedbooks.com

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