Other Life

By Justin MurphySociety & Culture Science Social Sciences Philosophy

Other Life episodes

June 29, 2022 Be Not Afraid with James Ellis from Hermitix
James Ellis hosts the podcast Hermitix. His latest book is Be Not Afraid, a fictionalized account of his recent conversion to Christianity. We discuss James' actual conversion story, Saint Teresa Benedicta and CS Lewis among others, and James' journey as a writer and podcaster.
✦ Be Not Afraid
✦ James' current writing
✦ The Hermitix podcast
✦ James on Twitter

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1 hr 5 min
June 22, 2022 Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis
Neal Davis is a professor of computer science and the director of Urbit's Hoon School. We discuss why solving nuclear fusion might be a disaster, why Urbit computers have souls, Shinto philosophy, why you should read old books, how to select books, and much more. This was really good!
Neal Davis
✦ Neal on Twitter
✦ Neal on Urbit: ~lagrev-nocfep
✦ Learn Hoon with Neal
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1 hr 14 min
June 16, 2022 The Bull Case for Milady: Evaluating NFTs and Debunking the Miya FUD with Vers la Lune
Vers la Lune is an NFT degen who hosts the podcast Version 4, which published the first interview with Miya the BPD God in 2020. As Crypto Twitter influencers try to cancel the Milady NFTs for association with Miya, this podcast provides a totally different narrative in the context of Vers' first-hand knowledge of the Miya/Milady nexus and his larger perspective on NFT valuation.
Vers la Lune
✦ Vers on Twitter
✦ The Version 4 podcast with Charlotte Fang representing Miya
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1 hr 16 min
June 09, 2022 Launching the Mars Review of Books with Noah Kumin
Noah Kumin is the founder and editor of the Mars Review of Books, a new magazine published from Urbit (in print and digital). Check out the Mars Review of Books at https://marsreview.org.
Mars Review of Books
✦ Order Vol. 1 in print
✦ Noah on Urbit: ~librex-dozryc
✦ Noah on Twitter
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41 min
May 29, 2022 The Metaphysical Desires of René Girard with Johnathan Bi
Johnathan Bi is a founder and independent scholar working on René Girard. Johnathan just published a professionally-produced YouTube series on Girard, in collaboration with David Perell. We discuss the concept of metaphysical desire, how to engineer social environments for productive mimesis, whether Girard can be separated from Christianity (Johnathan thinks he can), and the strategy behind Johnathan's new lecture series on YouTube.
To learn more about and watch/listen to the first episode, check out: https://twitter.com/JohnathanBi/status/1530297358432407553
Johnathan Bi
✦ Johnathan's website
✦ Johnathan on Twitter

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1 hr 19 min
May 27, 2022 What's Going on With Milady Maker? How to Think About Decentralized and Controversial Art
I'm joined by @lb_dobis, @yung_calibri, @SCHIZO_FREQ, @addytheyoung.
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1 hr 6 min
May 24, 2022 The Pathless Path with Indie Consultant Paul Millerd
Paul Millerd was a McKinsey consultant before quitting for an independent life on the internet. He's the author of The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life.
✦ The Pathless Path
✦ Paul's newsletter
✦ Paul on Twitter

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1 hr 31 min
May 19, 2022 Coffee With Hitler: Writing Poetry and Novels with Steff and Autumn
Steff is a poet and Autumn is a novelist. We talk about the writing economy, grad school for poetry, canceling yourself, how Autumn almost won the Passage Prize for right-wing fiction, how to stay free inside the institutions, how Autumn won Steff's heart with a meme about Hitler, how to think about success as a writer today, whether Curtis Yarvin's poetry is good, and Steff's call for suitors (DMs open).

Autumn Christian
✦ Teach Robots Love
✦ Autumn on Twitter
✦ Autumn's novels

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1 hr 22 min
May 13, 2022 10% More Psycho: On Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Christ with Mike Elias of IdeaMarket.io
We discuss the enneagram personality model, my decision to become 10% more psycho, why Mike loves Gandhi, Christian anarchism, and markets for truth.
✦ Mike is the founder of IdeaMarket.io
✦ Mike on Twitter

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1 hr 20 min
May 09, 2022 Building a Village DAO with Andrew Hitchcock of Montanoso
Andrew Hitchock bought 21 acres outside Austin to build a village DAO. We talk about the new urbanism, his vision for his village DAO called Montanoso, what he's learned from similar projects such as CabinDAO, and how he plans to make his vision happen.

✦ Andrew's village DAO, Montanoso
✦ Andrew on Twitter

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52 min