The Rhys Show

The Rhys Show

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The Rhys Show episodes

  • #71 Yele Bademosi: #EndSARS and The Rise of Nigerian Tech
    Yele Bademosi is the CEO of Bundle Africa, a social payments app, and a founding partner of Microtraction, which funds African tech. He was previously a director at Binance. We chat about building tech infrastructure for Africa and the current #EndSARS protests in Nigeria.
    https://twitter.com/YeleBademosi
    Donate to https://twitter.com/feminist_co
    EndSARS List: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1315885436129218560
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    https://roote.co
    58 min
  • #70 Benjamin Bratton: Social Theories for Planetary-Scale Computation
    Benjamin Bratton is a multi-disciplinary researcher of Philosophy, Art, Design and Computer Science. He is a Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at UCSD. He is also a Program Director of The Terraforming think-tank at Strelka Institute in Moscow. He wrote, "The Stack". We chat about how our models of reality are behind our technological reality, and how to update them.
    Apply to his program, The Terraforming, by Nov 10: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/
    https://twitter.com/bratton
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    1 hr 10 min
  • #69 Rebecca Henderson: Reimagining Capitalism
    Rebecca Henderson is a professor at Harvard Business School and recently wrote a book called "Reimagining Capitalism." We chat about her 5-step plan to make businesses ethical, and especially concentrate on business metrics.
    https://twitter.com/RebeccaReCap
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44064568-reimagining-capitalism-in-a-world-on-fire
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    1 hr 2 min
  • #68 Yancey Strickler: Bentoism and Paradigm Change
    Yancey Strickler is the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, the author of an amazing book “This Could Be Our Future”, and the creator of Bentoism. Yancey is a Distinguished Fellow at the Drucker Institute exploring the future of capitalism. We chat about Bentoism and paradigm change.
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    https://twitter.com/ystrickler
    http://bentoism.org/
    50 min
  • #15 Marshall Ganz, Harvard: The Power of Narrative and How Tech Has Changed Organizing
    Marshall Ganz is an internationally known political organizer, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and the co-founder of the Leading Change Network. We chat about how his background in Germany led him into organizing, how technology has weakened our organizing capacity, and how crypto's economic scope keeps it from solving other values.
    https://twitter.com/LeadingChangeNt
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    https://twitter.com/mitDCI
    53 min
  • #14 Devon Zuegel: GitHub Sponsors and Open Source
    Devon Zuegel is an open-source product manager at GitHub who is helping build the GitHub Sponsors program. We chat about that program, her philosophical mindset towards open-source, the pros and cons for viewing cities from a top-down vs. bottom-up perspective, and the benefits she's gotten from Twitter.
    https://github.com/sponsors
    https://twitter.com/devonzuegel
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    https://twitter.com/mitDCI
    1 hr
  • #13 Kelsey Piper, Vox: Effective Altruist News,Memetic Immunity,Questions Social Justice Can Answer
    Kelsey Piper is a writer at Future Perfect, an Effective Altruist-inspired media publication from Vox. We chat about her mindset behind Effective Altruist media, the types of questions social justice is good at answering, and memetic immunity as cultural evolution.
    https://twitter.com/kelseytuoc
    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect
    https://twitter.com/mitDCI
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    55 min
  • Grey Mirror #12 Caitlin Long: Libra vs. Bitcoin vs. Fiat
    Caitlin Long is a 22-year Wall St. veteran and Forbes writer who leads Wyoming's blockchain coalition. We chat about how Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra, will co-evolve with Bitcoin and nation-state fiat.
    https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_
    https://twitter.com/mitDCI
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    http://libra.org
    36 min
  • #11 Larry Lessig, Harvard: #POTUS1 to "Fix Democracy First"
    Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of Creative Commons, and an advocate for "Fixing Democracy First". We chat about #POTUS1 (an anti-corruption initiative that Larry is leading), updates to his pathetic dot, and how he's thinking about crypto.
    https://twitter.com/lessig
    https://twitter.com/equalcitizensus
    https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
    https://twitter.com/mitDCI
    57 min

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