Decrypt Podcast
Here’s a podcast I did last year with Decrypt. It was a good conversation, and as with most things I write about and discuss it tends to be evergreen and systems focused. So everything we covered then is still relevant today if you didn’t catch it when it came out. I personally tend to listen to old podcasts just as much, if not more, as new ones, so I’m adding it to the blog (which also adds it to Spotify if I’m not mistaken).
Topics include: technology adoption cycles, industrial revolutions, crypto political frameworks, weight lifting routines, DeFi economics, and much more!
Upcoming Travels
I’ll be in Brussels, Belgium July 2nd - 11th for EthCC and will be mentoring at a Starknet hacker house.
I’ll be in Krakow, Poland from July 12 - 22nd. Working, living, seeing new sights, working, etc..
I’ll be in Bucharest, Romania July 23rd - August 13th. In a coliving place, working, seeing new stuff, wandering, etc..
I’ll be in El Salvador August 14th through…. unsure. Probably August 24th or so. I’ll be speaking at the Palestra Bureau event, going on August 15th and 16th in the ascendant nation of El Salvador.
It will be a gathering focused on history, philosophy, crypto, strategy, vitality, the state, art, aesthetics, and reimagining a better society. There will be people who work in the Bukele administration there.
The itinerary and speakers:
A little promotional video:
Here’s the Twitter announcement and handles of those speaking. You can get tickets and details for the event here.
Palestra’s aesthetics are excellent.
And a small reflection:
I travel a fair amount, and often take pictures of banalities: parking lots, hotel rooms, roads, alleys, obscure gas stations. It creates a picture-based timeline for me. When I see an old photo of a dimly lit grocery store, it immediately ushers in memories of past experiences… “ahh yeah that was in rural Maine when I lived in that town with 200 people in it for a month”. The memory it jogs usually evokes a wistful, melancholic feeling.
It's not an uplifting nostalgia like "oh hey wasn't that fun!", but rather an "ahh, time pasts so fast. that feels like a lifetime ago, soon all of this will just be a memory..." I subject myself to this regularly. It’s like an almost-abusive revisiting of nostalgia, where I perversely revel in subtle temporal tortures by reflecting on roads once traveled. Everything is always “the good old times”. I’m trying to be more aware of these good ol’ times while they’re happening, real time. Hopefully these upcoming trips add to it.
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