Today, I share insights from watching Echo Gecko's videos about the Suburban Wasteland and what we can do to fix it. Car dependency has destroyed and actively harms nearly every aspect of our society, from children autonomy to safety to tax revenue to local businesses to health to ecological impact and more. But we can solve this by clawing back from single-family zoning and allowing for more multi-purpose zoning to build strong communities. Echo Gecko - https://youtu.be/RrsL2n9q6d0 and https://youtu.be/61yN_x2u_F0 Cheddar on modern day apartments - https://youtu.be/mrxZqPVFTag City Beautiful on great street design - https://youtu.be/xov7Ao_fPwQ Adam Something on how cars stole our streets - https://youtu.be/lrfsTNNCbP0

I got into an accident yesterday, no one was injured. But I'm very much frustrated about it. You may want to skip this one as it's pretty bleh. Just figured I'd document for the future.

Montero is out! Go listen to it!!! This entire episode is about Lil Nas X. His album roll out, his story, his talent, his genius... If you skip this you're homophobic and you're not my friend 😜😂. No but seriously, please go and listen to this album. Truly incredible work of art that I think everyone can take something from.

Why bias is good - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArVh3Cj9rw

Yesterday I talked about working through my traumas, a weird tapping exercise that got me talking about chakras, and stuff about the open metaverse interoperability group. Unfortunately, I was not able to publish this yesterday for some reason so here it is! Double upload!

Today, I talk about the importance of making XR interfaces intuitive. This involves the use of affordances, feedback, and accessibility. I go into a tweet that inspired this: https://twitter.com/playfulbacon/status/1437472482961739778?s=19 and the dynamic Interactions experimented by Leap Motion https://blog.leapmotion.com/design-playground-3d-user-interfaces/ and then share my own ideas.

Today I struggle through the growing realization that I may be in a narcissistic relationship with a parent... It was harder than I thought it would be to talk about it.. but I hope something in here will help someone else...

How can you be there for others who are going through a tough time? Emotional support through digital channels can only help so much... How can we build better communities to provide more consistent and tactile support?

In this episode I go on a bit of a diatribe about Intellectual Property again. I revisit my case against it and offer up a new system based on blockchain technology that could free us from the shackles of IP and unlock a whole new world of innovation, progress, and positive change. Here's the older episode I did on this: https://anchor.fm/trillionaire/episodes/A-case-for-banning-Intellectual-Property-e10k7pm

The first rule of Systems Thinking, is that systems don't exist. Luckily we can talk about them though 😜. Systems are how we perceive the world. But they are not the world itself. By understanding this, we can solve really complicated problems by dissolving them into its complex but simple components. Today, I share some of the principles that I could recall from learning about it yesterday.