In today's episode I invite two of my best friends, Eric Levin (@ericrius1) and Eric Fisher, for a laid-back and entertaining conversation. Having previously worked at Facebook, Fisher is currently a character coach and social designer at MiNDFUL iMPROV. Levin is a VR developer who experiments with art, meditation, and yoga in his work.

In this episode, we discuss:

VR, AR, and Technology
Meditation, and Yoga
Creativity and Business
Job automation, and AI
Skepticism, and Beliefs
Freedom in Tech, Science and Truth
Globalization
The Age of Acceleration
Limitations of language
Psychedelics, Spirituality and Therapy
Consciousness, Awareness and Attention
Being vs. Becoming, and Flow
Socialization and Improv
Society and Culture

Timeline:

(02:43) Who is Eric Levin?

(04:17) Keeping Creative integrity in business

(06:58) Job automation, and creativity: will AI replace humanity?

(10:03) Designing digital spaces within a capitalist society

(13:17) Spirituality: Skepticism to Belief

(17:54) Creating Tech that serves Freedom, not Capitalism

(21:29) Are we entering the Age of Acceleration?

(29:05) Can work be a place of therapy?

(33:02) Ayahuasca, and other flow-inducing plants

(38:28) Flow: Being, or Becoming

(42:30) What is Improv: closing thoughts

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Erics: Fisher and Levin - Improv & VR