The Next Iteration Podcast

How did Elon Musk revolutionize the aerospace industry, launching the first private aircraft into space and eventually forcing a paradigm shift in how we've thought about space exploration?

First Principles Thinking.

What is first principles thinking? How can you apply it to your life too? Listen to the episode to find out.

We've been feeling kinda stuck the past couple weeks; like we haven't been progressing in our goals as much. Here's an episode on slumps, and how to get out of them (hopefully we take our own advice).

9:00: break out of your environment by talking to someone that excites you

11:00 Take it as an opportunity to reflect

12:40 Realize that now, more than ever, our lives have more in common than you might think.

18:20: Do future you a favor by splitting up your workload

19:50 Treat you like you’d treat a friend — forgive yourself

27:30 Do a Simon Sinek and reflect on your WHY

Back from a brief midterm-filled hiatus, we've got an interview episode for you guys! And boy, was it worth the wait.

Today's interview is of Cyrus Belsoi, an amazing human being who actually interviewed Fuad for his podcast a while back. Long story short, we ended up becoming online friends, and we've learned so much from him about how he looks at the world. Hopefully you guys do too!

You can find Cyrus and his podcast using the following links.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-belsoi%E2%98%80%EF%B8%8F-a6b552185/

https://linktr.ee/whoami.podcast

How do you make tough decisions?

When it really boils down to it, life is just a collection of decisions. On today's episode, Damien and I talk about some of the most important decisions we've made, and how we go about evaluating tradeoffs.

Hopefully it helps you to be more confident in your next decision!

Today’s episode is one of our most valuable interview episodes yet!



We brought on Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter, who oversees a team of 700+ working on Twitter’s main consumer product.



Nick has had a long and illustrious career in tech, starting his career at Microsoft, moving to help scale Reddit and Looker (now acquired by Google), and finally to Twitter. We talk about his story of how he went from a kid in DC to doing his undergrad at MIT and MBA at Berkeley, some advice he has for succeeding in tech, and how to make lasting change in the tech industry.

Timestamps:

5:00 how did you get to where you did, considering where you came from?

9:00 COVID and remote work, why the bay is still the best place to be for tech

12:58 advice for finding that work life balance, from a workaholic

19:00 How do we actually make silicon valley more inclusive?

You can learn more about Nick's non profit /dev/color here: https://www.devcolor.org/ and more about Nick here: https://www.nickcaldwell.com/

This one hit hard. On this episode, we welcomed Melanie Deziel, the founder of StoryFuel and lifelong storyteller that's worked on stories for some of the biggest brands; Time, Fortune, People, and Netflix's Orange is the New Black.

We get into a lot, but if you're interested at all in marketing, telling better stories, and making good decisions, this one's for you.

Follow along with Melanie's adventures on Twitter (@mdeziel) and Instagram (@meldeziel). Learn more about StoryFuel at www.storyfuel.co

Imposter Syndrome; we've all heard of it, but we hardly hear people talk about it. Why do we all feel the need to showcase our perfect selves all the time? How can we start identifying strategies to increase our self worth and feel like we're enough?

Tune in to find out :)

key resource: The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It by Valerie Young

In today’s fast paced world full of fickle attention spans, marketing and storytelling are more important than ever.



Someone that Damien and I look up to for being able to really capture attention quick is Linh Tran. 



Linh’s an editor at Product Buds, marketing genius, and honorary president of the Into the Adultverse podcast fan club. We’re super excited to be releasing our episode with her today!

Happiness might seem like an ambiguous, never ending journey, but what if the science says otherwise? What if there are concrete practices and systems you can put into place to make your life scientifically happier? 



Today’s episode of the Into the Adultverse podcast talks exactly about this. Damien and I delve into Positive Psychology, a very well researched field of psychology that deals with positive experiences, states, and traits.

Further reading:

https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/faculty-profile/profile-dr-martin-seligman

https://positivepsychology.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow

Would you hook up your brain directly to a computer?

 Before answering that question, think about the positives and negatives. On the one hand, you’d have instant access to all the knowledge that Google can reach. On the other hand, every thought and impulse you had would be trackable. 

Brain Computer Interfaces are still a nascent technology, but they hold immense implications for the future. 

On this episode, Damien and I talk about some of the core concepts behind BCIs, and then delve into some of the exciting tech that’s out there, including Musk’s Neuralink.



here are some resources we talk about:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/703801v4

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5409179/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115612/