The Rhys Show

Benjamin Bratton is a multi-disciplinary researcher of Philosophy, Art, Design and Computer Science. He is a Professor of Visual Arts and Director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at UCSD. He is also a Program Director of The Terraforming think-tank at Strelka Institute in Moscow. He wrote, "The Stack". We chat about how our models of reality are behind our technological reality, and how to update them. Apply to his program, The Terraforming, by Nov 10: https://theterraforming.strelka.com/ https://twitter.com/bratton https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

Rebecca Henderson is a professor at Harvard Business School and recently wrote a book called "Reimagining Capitalism." We chat about her 5-step plan to make businesses ethical, and especially concentrate on business metrics. https://twitter.com/RebeccaReCap https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44064568-reimagining-capitalism-in-a-world-on-fire https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

Yancey Strickler is the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, the author of an amazing book “This Could Be Our Future”, and the creator of Bentoism. Yancey is a Distinguished Fellow at the Drucker Institute exploring the future of capitalism. We chat about Bentoism and paradigm change. https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/ystrickler http://bentoism.org/

Marshall Ganz is an internationally known political organizer, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and the co-founder of the Leading Change Network. We chat about how his background in Germany led him into organizing, how technology has weakened our organizing capacity, and how crypto's economic scope keeps it from solving other values. https://twitter.com/LeadingChangeNt https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/mitDCI

Devon Zuegel is an open-source product manager at GitHub who is helping build the GitHub Sponsors program. We chat about that program, her philosophical mindset towards open-source, the pros and cons for viewing cities from a top-down vs. bottom-up perspective, and the benefits she's gotten from Twitter. https://github.com/sponsors https://twitter.com/devonzuegel https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/mitDCI

Kelsey Piper is a writer at Future Perfect, an Effective Altruist-inspired media publication from Vox. We chat about her mindset behind Effective Altruist media, the types of questions social justice is good at answering, and memetic immunity as cultural evolution. https://twitter.com/kelseytuoc https://www.vox.com/future-perfect https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

Caitlin Long is a 22-year Wall St. veteran and Forbes writer who leads Wyoming's blockchain coalition. We chat about how Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra, will co-evolve with Bitcoin and nation-state fiat. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_ https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark http://libra.org

Larry Lessig is a Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, a co-founder of Creative Commons, and an advocate for "Fixing Democracy First". We chat about #POTUS1 (an anti-corruption initiative that Larry is leading), updates to his pathetic dot, and how he's thinking about crypto. https://twitter.com/lessig https://twitter.com/equalcitizensus https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/mitDCI

Rob Reich is a professor of political science at Stanford University. We chat about his recent book, Just Giving, which outlines a political theory of philanthropy. We also dive into why he left GiveWell and how Effective Altruism should think about plutocracy and influencing politics. Finally, we chat about HAI, Stanford's new AI ethics center, and how they are trying to "win back" AI developers by incorporating social science into the development of tech. https://twitter.com/robreich https://twitter.com/StanfordHAI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://twitter.com/mitDCI

Tim Hwang, the director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative (a $26M AI ethics fund), and an old co-founder of the Awesome Foundation. We chat about the current politics around AI ethics, how movements in civil society can be co-opted by companies, how to build ethics into an academic field, and the impacts of micro-grants. https://twitter.com/timhwang https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark