Thoughts of a TechnoWizard

In this long-form podcast/journal I talk about some practical ideas for blockchain/NFT/crypto technology (ie for scientific rigor and communication) and then go deep into the delusion of scarcity. My research into hunter-gather cultures is uncovering the reality that for most of human history, humanity was *not* 'greedy', 'violent', 'selfish' or suffering from inequity. 

These pre-historic cultures in fact lived a life that we all are trying to get back to as we figure out how to solve inequality, xenophobia, disease, productivity, sustainability, loneliness, lack of purpose, etc...   

So I must ask... if these cultures got so much right... how can we learn from them? And how did we go so wrong?  

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Here is some of the research I am basing this on: 

https://medcraveonline.com/JHAAS/persistent-controversies-about-the-neolithic-revolution.html 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618206000334 

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/hunter-gatherer-inequality-namibia/ 

https://rewild.com/in-depth/leisure.html 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201105/how-hunter-gatherers-maintained-their-egalitarian-ways 

https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4602911?seq=1 

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ancient-maya-houses-wealth-inequality.html 

https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/arizanthro/article/download/21455/21025 

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/mdm93e/a_new_study_on_the_gutbrain_axis_found_that_lower/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share 

https://grow.acorns.com/how-taking-more-breaks-at-work-can-make-you-more-productive/  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D3ODZfNq0w&feature=youtu.be

In this audiojournal entry, I share some thoughts on the overuse of marketing, a cool technology from RCT.studio showcasing dynamic AI behavior, the cost of progress, productivity vs quality, and the true use cases of NFTs.

In this audiojournal entry, I share my initial thoughts and notes as I get started reading this wonderful book!! Information Architecture is an incredibly important part of what makes our data-driven, super convenient world actually convenient and usable. I am excited to learn more about what makes good IA and think about how we can tame the Niagara Falls-worth of information we all have access to so that each of us can more easily find, manipulate, and understand the world we live in today.

In this audiojournal entry, I talk about my struggles to revamp my portfolio case studies to reflect a more competent UCD story than the Design Thinking ass I've been sniffing since I learned design. :P

I hope to help humanity get past this era so that we can look back and realize this Dark Age of Ignorance that we live in... so that we can humble ourselves. We are not Gods... we are ants inches away from drowning ourselves in the lake of ignorance.

In this entry, I share my ambitious plan concentrate all of humanity's resources, knowledge, and technology towards solving the issues of individuals people and problems.  

I want to unlock the full extent of of your potential... of humanity's potential by creating personalized, curated systems to help each and every one of you live a more self-fulfilling life.  

"It's a one-stop shop for raising the global consciousness through self-fulfillment."  

If you want to help the cause, please reach out!!  

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Video version: https://youtu.be/BPAVwQ5y8YM

In this audiojournal entry, I talk about what I learned about the San  people, the oldest civilization on Earth. They have kept their way of  life as a hunter-gatherer culture for 150,000 years!! I put forth some  ideas as to why that is and how our current day society can stand to  learn a lot from their way of life.   Specifically, I challenge myself and others to consider the idea that  our modern-day technology is actually a more primitive form of  technology than could be had if we perhaps utilized our consciousness  more directly (perhaps through psychedelics or meditation and such). I  know this sounds absolutely crazy, but much of our science today is  actually showing that our physical reality is NOT fundamental. Meaning  everything we perceive with our physical senses is a kind of a  'simulation' our minds are putting together for us. So perhaps those  many other ancient cultures were on to something when they regularly  used these more organic methods to experience reality beyond our own.   Can we create a better life and experience more progress if we live more  like our ancestors? Idk... maybe I'm just crazy... maybe I am wrong...  but many of us know for a fact that our current way of life is  unsustainable, so we Have to consider alternatives.   What do you think?

In this audiojournal entry, I try to figure out what I want to build if given the funding to work on anything, without self limiting beliefs of what is 'practical' or 'realistic' or 'possible'. Just thinking about what I would be excited to work on every single day for the next 2, 5, 10 years or more. If Bill Gates or Elon Musk or some angel investors and VCs came to me and asked what I wanted to build with the full intent of giving me as much resources as I needed to build it... what would I say to them? What would be my elevator pitch? My answer so far: I want to build a tool that makes it easy for anyone, anywhere, to live a more fulfilling life. To link people to resources, knowledge, and people at the touch of a button. To make all of the technology and data in the world more transparent and accessible. I want to make it easier for people to make their life qualitatively and measurably better quickly and sustainably.

In this audiojournal entry, I share what I've been up to this weekend, some of my struggles with establishing and sticking with habits, as well as a realization that I may perhaps ADHD... From this I talk about neuro diversity and how our society disables neuro-atypical people through biased cultural values and norms. I thus end with some solutions to how we can better welcome other neurological architectures as well as make society a more robust and diverse civilization. 

In this audiojournal entry, I FINALLY get this thang uploaded. :/

Just wanted to do a quick mic test and document the acquisition of an awesome new mic! Hopefully it will help me make these podcasts sound better than ever!!