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The leading DePIN podcast, brought to you by Connor Lovely and Escape Velocity Ventures. DePIN = Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks.
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Get your weekly dose of all that's new in space and astronomy with Escape Velocity Space News. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you the latest scientific discoveries and rocket launches. EVSN is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute, and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Erik Madaus with special guest interviews by Beth Johnson and audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.
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Join Max Thilén as he sets out to learn from leaders and innovators around the globe across a range of disciplines. In each episode, guests share the tactics and insights that helped them reach escape velocity and the experiences they’ve had along the way.
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A new full-cast science fiction audio adventure, inspired by the upcoming game Elite: Dangerous and drawing on the legacy of Elite 2: Frontier.
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When you Escape Velocity, the perfect exit is just around the corner. Learn how to scale, grow and exit with Dan Martell and some of the top SaaS Founders in the business.
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Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He ...
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"Why do we do something instead of nothing?" That's the question at the heart of "What's Your Escape Velocity?". Each bi-monthly episode features a lively conversation with a career changer, as they tell their story of breaking through the inertia of the everyday—the comforts, the routines, the false truths we tell ourselves. Some are glorious successes. Others are epic failures. None of them is a straight line. Looking for inspiration to tackle a new career, pick up a new hobby, or just cho ...
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Trying to keep up as AI accelerates toward escape velocity? Let the Mission Control crew help. Tune in daily for a quick take on the last 24 hours in AI news.
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We follow the progress of software developers who are launching a side project and trying to reach escape velocity. We also interview founders who've nailed it. We alternate between those two show types.
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Reading the stories that didn't make it
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Novel Dialogue: where unlikely conversation partners come together to discuss the making of novels and what to make of them. What makes us special? Critics and novelists in conversation. Breaking down the boundaries between critical, creative, and just plain quirky, Novel Dialogue’s approach is wide-ranging and unconventional. Ever wondered what Jennifer Egan thinks of TikTok, how Ruth Ozeki honed her craft working on the movie Mutant Hunt, or if Colm Tóibín will ever write a novel about an ...
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You've got DeFi questions, the Meta Fam has answers. (Maybe.)
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The crew aboard the rogue Starship Icarus have a singular goal— survive. Now separated from the ISS Atlas and the deep space training program, the crew is forced to confront who they are and how much their freedom may be worth.
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Welcome to the Calvin Steele podcast, where amazing things happen.
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Building a community that aims to support each other in living longer, happier, healthier lives. We also aim to shed some light on the developments in anti-aging technology and research.
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HBO's Girls meets The Moth
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A new podcast challenging the current narrative in longevity. The field has a perception problem; it is usually framed negatively, and its potential is misunderstood. And, what does living the so-called 150-year life mean for society? In this podcast series, we explore the various objections to longevity for you to make your own decision. Let’sTalkLongevity.com
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Hi, I'm Taku Mbudzi and I love to tell stories — give me a pen, a microphone or a camera and I’ll have something to share. Two Words with Taku is a podcast and pit stop for writers and storytellers — a place for rest, encouragement, inspiration and fuel before you head back out to the work of writing. Join our community at https://twowordswithtaku.substack.com/, and follow the show on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TwoWordswithTaku/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/twowordswithtaku ...
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ABOUT: With over 13 years in Bangkok Thailand, Emanuel Skinner has become a household name and a house music icon locally and abroad. Originally from San Francisco and now a Phuket local sharing his vision and sound all across South East Asia . With over 20 years experience filling the best and biggest venues from Jakarta, Singapore, China, India, to South Korea, Bangladesh to Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and all over Thailand (Chang Mai, Koh Tao, Koh Samui, Phuket, Pat ...
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Let's take a fast-paced journey thru all that's new in space and astronomy, including Mars Perseverance Rover fords an ancient river, black holes sometimes form like baby stars, and this week's tales from the launch pad. We also look in detail at how JWST images reveal star formation in never-before-seen details.…
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7.6 Escape Velocity: Sarah Manguso in Conversation with Tess McNulty (EH)
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What’s the truth and what’s a lie? What’s a memoir, what’s a novel, and what if both are just a series of “prose blocks”? This conversation between Sarah Manguso and Tess McNulty takes up questions of writing and veracity, trauma and memory. Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, including three memoirs. Her first novel, Very Cold People, was n…
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Accelerating DePIN Adoption Through Restaking With Parasail
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In this episode, Sal is joined by ZX and Sylvan from Parasail - the leading restaking protocol for DePIN. Parasail is the first restaking protocol to provide onchain economic guarantees for DePIN services, helping drive DePIN adoption and onchain revenues. Discover how they’re connecting established crypto assets with emerging DePIN services to bac…
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Stop cryocrastinating! with Emil Kendziorra
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Our guest in this episode is Dr. Emil Kendziorra. Emil graduated summa cum laude, which means, with the highest honours, from the University of Göttingen in Germany, having previously studied at the University of Pécs in Hungary. For several years, he then devoted himself to cancer research with the hope of contributing to longevity science. After …
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Cartier Legacy to Lab Diamonds: Disrupting Designer Jewelry with Jean Dousset
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Jean Dousset, noted jewelry designer and descendant of Louis Cartier joins Max on the pod. Jean Dousset’s namesake brand creates custom pieces for high-profile clients, including Eva Longoria and Paris Hilton. Dousset also pioneered the use of lab-grown diamonds in fine jewelry, making stones of the best cut and clarity available to a wider range o…
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Reinventing Energy Markets With Srcful & Helium
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In this special episode, Connor is joined by Abhay Kumar and Joey Hiller from Helium, as well as Fredrik Ahlgren and Tobias Ohlsson from Srcful to discuss Srcful’s proposal to build a decentralized energy grid on top of Helium Network infrastructure. Helium is one of the oldest, largest DePIN projects, mostly focused on building out wireless networ…
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Book Tour 41: Aliette de Bodard – Navigational Entanglements
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This time around, it’s my delight to welcome to the show Aliette de Bodard! Aliette joins me to talk about her new novella, Navigational Entanglements, available July 30th, 2024, from TorDotCom Books! Things we mention in this episode: C dramas Heaven’s Official Blessing, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Xianxia Camp Damascus, by Chuck Tingle “The Tutelary, th…
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The Secret to Growth Marketing for Early Stage Startups with Matias Ketonen
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Matias has led growth at Typeform, Pitch, Cello and other successful startups. In this episode, Max and Matias talk about how to decide which marketing levers to pull when you’re in the early stages and discuss the art of scaling product-led growth and building out the ideal team for a PLG motion. They dive deep into an effective strategy for build…
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Houman Shadab and Wyatt Benno, Co-Founders at ICME Labs (NovaNet)
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Connor and Sal are joined by guests Houman Shadab and Wyatt Benno from NovaNet. NovaNet is building an incentive and coordination network for zero knowledge proofs that run locally and leverage the latest advances in ZK technology. The group discusses the zk yin to blockchain’s yang, how ZK proofs compare to other trustless verification methods lik…
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Introducing Conscium, with Daniel Hulme and Ted Lappas
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This episode is a bit different from the usual, because we are interviewing Calum's boss. Calum says that mainly to tease him, because he thinks the word “boss” is a dirty word. His name is Daniel Hulme, and this is his second appearance on the podcast. He was one of our earliest guests, long ago, in episode 8. Back then, Daniel had just sold his A…
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Scaling from $1M to $100M ARR: Lessons from a Marketing VP
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Max sits down with Charlie Liang, VP of Marketing at Kula and former Head of Demand Gen at Lattice. Charlie, a SaaS marketing expert with over a decade of experience, shares what he’s learned helping companies scale from 1 million dollars in annual recurring revenue to 100mm in ARR and beyond. Max and Charlie talked about poker math and how to appl…
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Amir Haleem (CEO) and Boris Renski (GM of Wireless) from Nova Labs (Helium)
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Connor and Sal are joined by guests Boris Renski & Amir Haleem from Helium. The Helium project is a DePIN building wireless networks. From tackling the intricacies of the token structure to discussing strategies for increasing data flow over Helium mobile hotspots, this episode promises to be an insightful exploration of the latest developments in …
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Episode 62: "Visibility" and Pride in Place 2020
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Hello, and welcome to Tales from the Trunk. Listeners, it’s June, and ya boi is tired. I was going to try to scramble to get an interview scheduled, but then I remembered the name of a Shavuot workshop that a dear friend of the show attended last year: “What if we Rested?” Life has been nonstop for me for more than half a year now, so what if I res…
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Landing HBO & Building a Global Tech Powerhouse from Finland with Reaktor's Mikael Kopteff
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Max sits down with Mikael Kopteff, CTO at Reaktor. Reaktor is a global technology consultancy that builds digital products for some of the worlds top companies. Their clients include HBO, Virgin Atlantic, Adidas, Metso, Rovio, the Finnish Defense Forces, and more. Since landing a contract with HBO in 2013, Reaktor has grown into a sector leader wit…
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Those who rush to leverage AI’s power without adequate preparation face difficult blowback, scandals, and could provoke harsh regulatory measures. However, those who have a balanced, informed view on the risks and benefits of AI, and who, with care and knowledge, avoid either complacent optimism or defeatist pessimism, can harness AI’s potential, a…
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Let's take a quick tour of the latest news, including updates on the Hubble Space Telescopes and single gyro operations, EUCLID's image release, an amazing new image of Io by LBT, and new calculations of Pluto's oceans. We also look in detail at plans to return humans to the moon using Starship by SpaceX and Blue Moon by Blue Origin.…
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eCommerce Conversion Secrets with Erik Christiansen, CEO of Justuno
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Max sits down with Erik Christiansen, CEO and co-founder of Justuno. Justuno was born from an idea Erik and his co-founder had while running the e-commerce store for Sierra Snowboards: users who left the site and Googled "Sierra Snowboard Coupon Code" would come back and have a sales conversion rate between 8% to 12%. That insight led them to ask t…
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AI Impacts Survey - The key implications, with Katja Grace
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Our guest in this episode grew up in an abandoned town in Tasmania, and is now a researcher and blogger in Berkeley, California. After taking a degree in human ecology and science communication, Katja Grace co-founded AI Impacts, a research organisation trying to answer questions about the future of artificial intelligence. Since 2016, Katja and he…
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$1,000 To Millions: The Salesflow Growth Story
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Max sits down with Besnik Vrellaku, CEO, and Chintan Maisuria, COO, of Salesflow. Salesflow is a business that helps B2B companies generate leads and automate quality outreach. By balancing research and testing in both acquisition and retention phases, Besnik and Chintan make prescient decisions. Their well-timed growth strategies turned a scrappy…
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Your Brand Narrative Is a Living Being: From Thesis to Execution with Warmly
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Max sits down with Derek Jackson, Head of Marketing at Warmly. Derek’s brand-building strategy combines a strong bias to action with careful attention to feedback. He walks Max through the process of cultivating a brand reputation. With a clear marketing thesis and an iterative approach to branding, Warmly keeps an eye to future growth in the B2B S…
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Idea to Launch: Nicholas Thorne on Starting Your Next Business and Audos
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Max sits down with Nicholas Thorne, General Partner at PreHype and co-founder of Audos. They dive deep into the world of entrepreneurship, exploring PreHype's unique approach to helping experienced founders find and validate their next big idea. Nicholas shares his insights on the importance of customer validation, rapid experimentation, and how AI…
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Book Tour 40: Jay Wolf – The Shepard in Shadow
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We’re kicking off Pride this year with none other than my good friend Jay Wolf! Jay reads a snippet about their best worst boys, Egan and Petrel before we get to talking about their newest book as M. Daniel McDowell, The Shepherd in Shadow, which releases June 28th! Things we mention in this episode: Valerie Valdes The Gormenghast series, by Mervyn…
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7.5 Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra (EH)
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Building parallels between technology and the human imagination, Masande Ntshanga’s conversation with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra explains how cities are like machines and how South African history resembles some of the most sinister versions of techno-futurism. Masande is the author of two novels: The Reactive, winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2018, a…
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Climate in Crisis (and stars in formation)
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In this episode, we bring you stories on how JWST - Not LIGO and Virgo - spotted the most distant Black Hole merge to date, why the search for life on other worlds gets more challenging the more we look, and we take a deep dive into the things we’re doing that cause and relieve climate change.
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Cryonics, cryocrastination, and the future: changing minds, with Max More
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Our guest in this episode is Max More. Max is a philosopher, a futurist, and a transhumanist - a term which he coined in 1990, the same year that he legally changed his name from O’Connor to More. One of the tenets of transhumanism is that technology will allow us to prevent and reverse the aging process, and in the meantime we can preserve our bra…
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Harrison Hines, CEO of Fleek and Co-Founder of Fleek Network
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Connor and Sal sit down with Harrison Hines of Fleek Network. Fleek is the lightning fast onchain cloud, powered by the Fleek Network, permissionless onchain cloud infrastructure, edge-optimized for performance. Harrison talks about what parts of Web2 infrastructure Fleek is solving, how they think about their GTM operations vs. technical operation…
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Stem cells, lab-grown meat, and potential new medical treatments, with Mark Kotter
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Our guest in this episode is Dr. Mark Kotter. Mark is a neurosurgeon, stem cell biologist, and founder or co-founder of three biotech start-up companies that have collectively raised hundreds of millions of pounds: bit.bio, clock.bio, and Meatable. In addition, Mark still conducts neurosurgeries on patients weekly at the University of Cambridge. We…
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7.4 Not Prophecy but Inversion: Omar El Akkad and Min Hyoung Song
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Omar El Akkad joins critic Min Hyoung Song for a gripping conversation that interrogates fiction’s relationship to the real. Before he became a novelist, Omar was a journalist, and his experiencing reporting on (among other subjects) the war on terror, the Arab Spring, and the Black Lives Matter movement profoundly shapes his fiction. His first nov…
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In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at Sunspot complex 3664 and the beautiful chaos that it’s been creating. And because we’re in a planetary science kind of mood, we’re also looking at stories related to observing weather on alien worlds, the history of Mars Climate, and even how solar storms might affect that particular Red Planet.…
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Anon Morpho, Neuratic, and DNB from ATOR Protocol
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This week, Sal is joined by Anon Morpho, Neuratic and DNB from the Ator team. Ator is building the largest global anonymous-routing ecosystem, leveraging a decentralized privacy protocol, on-chain incentives and signature hardware to rapidly scale its network. The team discusses why privacy is so important to them, how Ator is advancing decades-old…
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This time around, I’m thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist’s statement on spooky stuff.By Tales from the Trunk
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The economic case for a second longevity revolution, with Andrew Scott
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The public discussion in a number of countries around the world expresses worries about what is called an aging society. These countries anticipate a future with fewer younger people who are active members of the economy, and a growing number of older people who need to be supported by the people still in the workforce. It’s an inversion of the usu…
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7.3 What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)
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Brandon Taylor practices moral worldbuilding in his fiction—that means an essential piece of these worlds is the “real possibility that someone could get punched in the face.” Brandon, author of the novels Real Life and The Late Americans, joins Stephanie Insley Hershinow for a wide-ranging, engrossing, and often hilarious conversation about the st…
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In February, on the closest approach, NASA's Juno spacecraft was within 930 miles of the closest moon Io’s surface. Since then, Juno’s orbit has been shrinking, bringing the mission closer to Jupiter and away from the circling Galilean moons. Io and Juno have parted ways, and Juno is now snuggling down into tighter orbits around her Jupiter.…
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Can AI be conscious? with Nicholas Humphrey
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In this episode we return to the subject of whether AIs will become conscious, or, to use a word from the title of the latest book from our guest today, whether AIs will become sentient. Our guest is Nicholas Humphrey, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London School of Economics, and Bye Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. His latest book is “Se…
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Andrej Radonjic, Co-Founder and CEO of Grass Network
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Sami and Connor are joined by Andrej Radonjic, Founder of Grass Network. Grass is a network of over 2M+ people incentivized to assist AI developers in accessing data on the internet. Grass creates a more equitable and inclusive future for the development of AI. 00:00 Connor lives in a Resort 00:34 Grass merch coming soon 01:20 Catching up with Andr…
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Book Tour 39: Victor Manibo – Escape Velocity
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This time around, it’s my delight to welcome back to the show Victor Manibo! After a bit of catching up, we get into Victor’s new book, Escape Velocity, which releases later this month from Erewhon Books! Things we mention in this episode: The Sleepless, by Victor Manibo Victor’s first episode “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe The Fall …
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Join Max Thilén as he sets out to learn from leaders and innovators around the globe across a range of disciplines. In each episode, guests share the tactics and insights that helped them reach escape velocity and what they’ve learned along the way.By Opascope
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As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine it, it probably exists. In a new paper discussing the planet WASP-76b, researchers describe what appears to be a giant rainbow in the atmosphere of another world... a circular rainbow... and it's not…
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Alireza Ghods, Co-Founder and CEO of Natix
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Mahesh and Sal are joined by Alireza Ghods, CEO & Co-Founder of Natix. Natix is a global mapping network of smart cameras. Natix’s 100k drivers have mapped 30M km across 170 countries. Alireza takes on the great DePIN mapping hardware debate, making the case for smartphones over dedicated hardware, lays out the long-term vision for Natix as a camer…
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7.2 You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
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Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even at times from the limits of her own thinking—she is keenly aware of the unfreedoms her novels explore. Katie, author of the award-winning Intimacies (2021), talks with critic Alexander Manshel about th…
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Progress with ending aging, with Aubrey de Grey
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Our topic in this episode is progress with ending aging. Our guest is the person who literally wrote the book on that subject, namely the book, “Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime”. He is Aubrey de Grey, who describes himself in his Twitter biography as “spearheading the global crusade to def…
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In addition to the regular strong language, this episode carries content warnings for: reclaimed gay slurs; a non-graphic depiction and discussion of non-consensual sex; depictions of consensual violence; and discussions of attempted suicide, medical trauma, experiences of psyche wards, descriptions of psychosis, forcible medication, restraint, exp…
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Neil Chatterjee, CEO of Andrena and Ani Pai, Partner at Dragonfly Capital
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Mahesh, Connor, and Sami are joined by Neil Chatterjee, CEO of Andrena and Ani Pai, Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Andrena is working to deliver affordable broadband to buildings by partnering with real estate owners and property managers through a revenue-share arrangement. They currently have 10,000 customers across 10 US states. Neil and Ani talk…
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What’s it like to be an AI, with Anil Seth
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As artificial intelligence models become increasingly powerful, they both raise - and might help to answer - some very important questions about one of the most intriguing, fascinating aspects of our lives, namely consciousness. It is possible that in the coming years or decades, we will create conscious machines. If we do so without realising it, …
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