Tim Bouma is the Director of Verification and Assessments at the Digital Governance Council, a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to developing standards for the Canadian Digital Ecosystem. Tim's current area of focus is developing conformity assessment schemes for standards related to digital trust identity.

About Podcast Episode

Read more about the episode by heading to https://northernblock.io/is-history-repeating-itself-or-are-we-operating-in-a-context-were-not-aware-of/

Some of the key topics covered during this episode with Tim are:

Why is understanding your context and others' contexts important important to prioritize in life?
How Tim’s new mental model has helped him better understand context, identity, trust and more (model linked below in resource section).
The relationship between roots of trust and the centralization/decentralization of societal administration.
How we can look at life through two realms: the physical and imaginary realms. How have these two realms evolved throughout history.
The origin of personal names!
Understanding how registries of claims and balances work and are managed.
How the transfer/unlocking of new knowledge has been a catalyst for power dynamic shifts throughout history.
Why architectures are important in shaping culture, beliefs, values, intentions, etc.
Should we focus less on identity and more on context?
How the separation of cryptography-driven protocols from applications shifts knowledge, which in turn shifts power dynamics.

Where to find Tim?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trbouma/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/trbouma

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#48 - Is History Repeating Itself or Are We Operating in a Context We’re Not Aware Of? (with Tim Bouma)