The Stack Podcast

This is but a cozy new year chat between your best friends Josh and Andy. We talk beards, sartorialism, weird Chinese social stuff, and Anglo-Saxonry. And as ever: manly predictions for the New Year.

This week we speak with Tlon cofounder and CEO Galen Wolfe-Pauly. We discuss his design theory, how his Urbit vision has changed over the years, and running a company in the Age of Covid. Per community request, we stage an intervention over his frankly alarming level of tofu fanaticism.

This week we speak with ~finnem, finance maven from a secret haven in the land of guns, chocolate, and sausage respecting. The lady talks to us about the possible use cases of Urbit for making bank. No, for making a bank. A Swiss bank, which everyone knows is the best sort.

This week we speak with ~mallus-fabres, who is both an actual Young Person and a Real Live Woman on Urbit. We allow her nearly two full hours of cleverness and sass to make the case for the distaff sex. You can be the judge of whether we, as a society, will allow them to keep it up or if this mad experiment has gone on quite long enough, thank you.

We speak this week with Rob, known around Urbit as ~mocrux-nomdep, who is CTO of dcSpark, developer of blockchain, the Flint wallet, and Urbit Visor.

This week we speak with ~rabsef-bicrym, who has made the move, recently, from employed to self-employed: doing feasibility study in freelance Hoon development.

Rabsef is the creator of %gora, a POAP on Urbit that allows Martians to send tokens to one another as 'proof of attendance'. We discuss how Urbit's first POAP might further develop in the future.

We also talk about: Urbit's strongest hands, GameShark, being formerly fat, and how to buy a loosie.

This week we speak with Justin Murphy, who has brought his OtherLife community and work increasingly to Urbit. We discuss Assembly, arranging marriages, leaving academia, the future of the Life of the Mind, and, yes, about making that money.

This week we speak with Tlon COO Erik Newton about:

1. divorce lawyering which lead to a desire to be a better man which lead to

2. podcasting about being better at relationships, though then he discovered that:

3. tools of communication are actually somewhat broken, leading him to look for a project that fixed that on a grand scale and therefore to

Urbit, QED

This week we speak with Reid, known more commonly around Urbit as ~sitful-hatred, who runs a blog at subject.network dedicated to making communal knowledge more accessible. Whether you want to set up minio for sharing files, figure out your routing problems, or configure your bitcoin wallet, subject.network has you covered. We discuss how ~sitful-hatred got started with Urbit, the blog's genesis, what he thinks Urbit will look like in the future, and more (a discussion of the recent Gurgle episode with some consideration for community norms, for instance). LISTEN!

This week's offering is on literature of the Plague. We speak in particular about Camus' La Peste, with consideration also for Katherine Anne Porter, Boccaccio, and others throughout the canon. Of particular interest: how was disease in literature a vehicle to talk about other facets of the human condition? Finally, we go in the opposite direction, and ask how the collective unconscious developed in the last 20 years to produce zombie flicks in their particular form and how they, in turn, primed reactions to Covid-19.