They say that game developers know more about human nature than psychologists, but gamers themselves are a close second if we can look at why we enjoy certain games over others. My guest this week is Sam Simmons, Co-Founder at Mintpass: a collecting experience that makes your travels a part of your digital identity. Previously he spent 9 years risi…

Ever heard of social contract theory? If not, you have almost certainly heard the quote “...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” That’s from our favorite optimist Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern social contract theory. Followed by other prominent figures like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this trifecta formed a l…

Ever heard of GPT? Obviously. But this episode isn’t covering the basics. Francesco Bisardi has been in small web3 and AI circles since 2017 working for Vite Labs, Nonfiction, TechCrunch and most recently at Bitgo. He’s been coding since he was 9 and brings that background to his work in growth hacking and influences the way he approaches his inter…

Hey People Listening, did you get your first foray into social media learning CSS and HTML to personalize your Myspace page? Do you doom scroll Twitter? Do you wonder about the elements of social media and which are good and bad? This week I have Lou Kerner on the show, who is both a social media and web3 veteran, to dig into social networks and co…

Jim Chang (0xJim) is known on Twitter for his DeFi wizardry, incubating projects through Aave’s experimental arm, and hilarious but dense research on things like interoperability and rollups as a service. But in this episode we dive into 2 of his loves: Backpacking and Fashion. What relation do these things have to web3? What relation do they have …

David Goldberg is the co-founder of Macro which is a web3 security company that does smart contract audits with customers like Synthetix, MakerDAO, Frax, Connext and more. They also are building products for web3 security. Before he dove into web3, he was a software engineer at Salesforce for a few years and founded a few startups. He has synthesiz…

ChatGPT has sparked a lot of new debate over the future of AI and whether it will be a net benefit or net detriment, usually to the extremes that it will either free humanity from the burdens of work so we can focus on our true passions or will kill us all Terminator style. When it comes to web3, how can we direct ourselves towards the former futur…

Hey People Listening, have you ever collected Pokemon or Yugioh cards? Did you have as absurd of a Beenie Baby collection as I did? Did you try to justify all of this spending to your parents who reluctantly relinquished hundreds or thousands of dollars for this seemingly pointless stuff? This episode is for you. Humpty Calderon, founder and host o…

How the hell could music, aliens and native American history have any possible connection to web3? You'd be surprised. Okay actually the Alien conversation was unplanned and had no tie in, but it was still fun. Dougie DeLuca has been an analyst in the Cosmos ecosystem for 3 years now and has been at Figment capital for over a year. Enjoy this wide …

Tasafila (Shane) is most well known as the founder of Blockbuster DAO which aimed to buy the Blockbuster IP in late 2021. We talk about his background in filmmaking and investigative journalism (there’s a fun story in this conversation about that) and how that positioned him to harness the power of nostalgia with Blockbuster DAO. Enjoy! Tasafila’s …

In crypto years, Pietro is a long-time friend and former teammate of mine from our college track days. He’s doing amazing things in the space pushing web3 use cases to an area that can hugely benefit but doesn’t get enough coverage because of lack of degen opportunities: Donations in crypto. As the Director of Crypto Partnerships at The Giving Bloc…

Steph is a branding wizard and head of media at Seed Club, a DAO and creator accelerator. We cover her life in traditional branding before web3, geek out over the marketing genius of Ryan Reynolds, and dissect the elements of good storytelling to use for your own projects. Hint: Storytelling is a skill and can be learned and applied to more than ju…

If you don't know who Stefen is, now is a good time. Stefen Deleveaux is the Head of Growth at Govern and President of the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance and one of the first friends I made in web3. Somehow, when you talk to anyone who knows Stefen personally he always comes up as one of their favorite people in the space. It’s hard not to like this…

My buddy Christian joins me for the second episode of People Talking. This man is a true gigabrain, and you only need to browse his mirror page for a few seconds to see that. One of his many articles on mirror covers how to use physics to design more interesting metaverses and this coversation is an attempt to explain how to us lowly beings restric…

Welcome to the first episode of People Talking, a web3 podcast. Why make another web3 podcast, you ask? I asked myself the same thing after finishing up co-hosting the Forefront podcast over the last year. The problem I see with a lot of web3 podcasts right now is they seem to bring on the same people to the same shows and talk about the same thing…