Rick Steves' new book, "The Art of Rick Steves," is out now. He talks about how he got people fired from Apple for their work on the iPhone and other products. Also discusses his fascination with algrithms - algorithms that control our minds through social media. steves: I want to know who wrote the algorithm that loads the instagram post or loads the facebook post or loading the twitter post into my mind and not even know either.
Jack Butcher, Bilal Zaidi & Trung Phan discuss what they're finding on the edges of the internet + the latest in business, technology and memes.
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Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 – Meme of the Week + Ric Meeting Collison Brothers
- 0:09:29 – What We’ll Cover + $3.6B Bitcoin Heist
- 0:19:52 – Money Laundering Story & ENS Controversy
- 0:31:18 – Email vs Twitter + Key Man Risk
- 0:39:36 – Ethereum Culture + ENS Delegation
- 0:41:45 – Interface Between Ethereum + Current System
- 0:47:54 - Polygon Raises $450mil, ETH Scaling Solutions + Incentive Engineers
- 1:03:01 – Balance.io + Safari
- 1:12:24 – When Ric Met Vitalik & Gavin
- 1:20:55 – Business Model For Balance.io + Accredited Investor Laws
- 1:30:21 – Tokens vs Equity
- 1:32:11 – Jony Ive Genius
- 1:41:56 – Anonymous Algorithm People + Crypto Design Gap
- 1:47:55 – US vs UK
Links mentioned:
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