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Paul Town is an author and all-around star of the internet underground. He has a wild life story involving psychosis, alleged arson, and a ton of writing: In 2019 he wrote 3 books of more than 400 pages each. All of his books are self-published and quite underrated. We talked mostly about writing on the internet, indie publishing, and the internet-insanity nexus. This conversation was quite funny, interesting, and had some real insight around mindset, attitude, and how to live a creative life in the internet age.✦ Paul Town on Instagram: https://instagram.com/realpaultown✦ Paul Town's most popular book (comedic non-fiction): It Is the Secret✦ Paul Town's latest book (novel): RoseOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the free Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Gritcult is a Twitter anon who's built a small business empire exclusively through Twitter. We talk about getting jacked, how he built his business on Twitter, and how he thinks about content, crypto, cults, and much more.✦ Gritcult on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GRITCULT✦ Gritcult's crypto fashion marketplace: https://tri.bsOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Mark Beylin is a co-founder of Myco, a platform for Web3 social businesses. Mark is also a writer and he has interesting ideas about the intersection of business, social media, and crypto.Mark Beylin and Myco✦ Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkBeylin✦ Myco: https://myco.space/✦ How Myco works: https://m.mirror.xyz/6UxMOPMAnCZr8XSkhIM2Xx47bZ7X5rColwpnwIDbx5sOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Josh Rosenthal is a former academic historian and a specialist in the European Renaissance and Wars of Religion. He's now a serial founder and crypto investor. We discuss parallels between the crypto revolution today and the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Wars of Religion. If you listened to Josh's recent appearance on the Bankless podcast, this is like a Part 2.Josh RosenthalTwitter: https://twitter.com/joshuarosenthal6th Event, a crypto-first founder's fund: https://www.go6ixthevent.com/Other Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Eric Jacobus is a professional stuntman, motion designer, and independent philosopher. He is writing a book called the Art of Violence, about how mirror neurons and mimetic rivalry affect perceptions of violence. We talked about film, how to theorize cinematic violence, René Girard, how social crises change cinematic norms around violence, why mainstream cinema has degenerated so badly, and much more.Eric JacobusThe Art of Violence: https://ericjacobus.com/the-art-of-violence/Eric's Youtube: https://youtube.com/ericjacobusofficialRope a Dope (short film): https://youtu.be/G5xAbp1SW5cOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Indian Bronson is a pseudonymous writer and an early employee at Swype. Swype is building pseudonymous payment infrastructure on crypto rails.Swype: https://getswype.io/Indian Bronson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lndian_bronsonIndian's matchmaking service: https://www.keeper.datingOther Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Gabby Dizon is the founder of Yield Guild Games ($YGG), a decentralized autonomous organization that lends video-game assets to professional gamers for profit. Like a "World of Warcraft guild with a balance sheet." Their serious gamers earn around $1,000/month on average, sometimes much more. Remittances from the game Axie Infinity to the Philippines are greater than remittances from Hong Kong.Gabby Dizon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabuschYield Guild Games: https://yieldguild.io/Other Life✦ Join 5,500 academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter: https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Path started trading crypto when he was 15 and made a ton of money. He's famous for calling the Bitcoin top in 2017 but less known is that he's an OG of the 2015 Meme War and an Urbit bull.We talked about how meme culture informs his trading strategies; how artists and intellectuals should think about developing crypto projects; what he's bullish on right now, and what he thinks will stand the test of time amid all the hype bubbles rising and falling in recent years. Not financial advice, of course!➡️  Follow Path at @Cryptopathic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CryptopathicOther Life✦ Join 6,000+ academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter https://OtherLife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org

Signs of Life is my weekly newsletter about philosophy and science on the frontiers of internet culture. Subscribe at https://OtherLife.co.This podcast is based on Signs #63: Reality Splitters. We explore...How to find frontiersMónica Belevan's theory of Covidian AestheticsHow to listen to podcastsA light for the most midnightly men, according to NietzscheHow microdosing worksNews and events coming up (Based Mansion, Austin!)Links✦ ȘȈǤƝȘ 63, Reality Splitters: https://www.otherlife.co/signs-reality-splitters/ ✦ IndieThinkers.org: https://indiethinkers.org✦ Philip Monk's How to Find Frontiers https://pcmonk.me/2019/02/19/how-to-find-frontiers.html✦ Join a Tuesday morning work session: https://lu.ma/fhonr8u8✦ Edgeware Agency's Discord server: https://discord.gg/JXcdzNeQys✦ RSVP to Based Mansion: https://jmrphy.typeform.com/mansion-atx#source=pod

Mónica Belevan is a Peruvian theorist and crypto entrepreneur. She's the author of a newsletter called Covidian Aesthetics and co-founder of a Web3 production studio called Accursed Share. Her current focus is an NFT project called The Curse, which you can search for on Open Sea.We talk about Georges Bataille and the meaning of energy expenditure in the cryptoeconomy; Spengler, Wittgenstein, and Duchamp; the aesthetics of covid, the sentimentality of markets; the affective drama of Wallstreet Bets; egregoric warfare; and much more.➡️  Covidian Aesthetics newsletter: https://covidianaesthetics.substack.com➡️  Accursed Share production studio: https://accursedshare.art➡️  The Curse NFT: https://accursedshare.art/curse-nft-auction/Other Life✦ Join 6,000+ academics, creators, and investors who read the Other Life newsletter https://OtherLife.co✦ Join the Urbit group via https://exit.otherlife.coIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're working on long-term intellectual work outside of institutions, request an invitation at https://indiethinkers.org