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The ostensible premise behind social media platforms is to enable people to connect online, but this gets jeopardized by their attention economy architecture and paid advertising algorithms. Today’s guests are Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jared Geller and they join us to speak about their platform, HitRecord, an online community built around creative collaboration. HitRecord offers artists of all kinds a platform to share their artwork or idea, and open it up to the input of other artists, thereby producing a trail that records the work’s progression much like GitHub does with code. In our conversation with Joseph and Jared, we hear about HitRecord’s journey from its early days as a production company to its current state as a tech company, offering decentralized access and editing capabilities to creative projects around the world. Our guests talk about some of the functionality on HitRecord and weigh in on some of the limitations of social media. We also explore the future of the movie industry, the blurring lines between creativity and technology, and what kinds of creative and community-driven art forms could grow out of quarantine and the pandemic. Make sure to check out their latest project “Create Together #WithMe”, a new Youtube series about making art and community out of uncertain times. “HitRecord is a community built around creative collaboration. HitRecord, it’s less about, ‘Look at what I made,’ and it’s more about, ‘What can we make together?” Key Points From This Episode: Introducing HitRecord, an online community built around creative collaboration Collaboration versus likes: connecting online differently to what social media allows Open-source culture: drawing from GitHub and Lawrence Lessig’s Remix for HitRecord Similarities between a software developer and an artist mindset The rules around attribution on HitRecord How the scope of projects made on HitRecord has grown and thoughts for its future The role technology played in making HitRecord’s contribution process more decentralized The value to be found by seeing and experiencing the process behind creative works Taking YouTube’s enablement of getting seen further by foregrounding the creative process Problem-solving using data versus emotion: the merge between tech and creative mindsets Hollywood’s heyday in the 1930s and the evolution of the movie industry The increased use of HitRecord in the pandemic TikTok’s genesis story and the pros and cons of the platform: music versus monetization The double-edged sword of new tech that become invisible but indispensable Lesser-known Joseph Gordon-Levitt films to watch during the quarantine

Today on the show, we welcome Austin Petersmith, Founder and CEO of Capiche. Capiche is a startup that aims to bring transparency and trusted reviews to the world of enterprise software. The SaaS industry has blossomed in recent years with dozens of tools being used across productivity, communication, databases and DevOps. In this episode, Austin gives an overview of how the modern software as a service (SaaS) industry was born and what’s coming down the pike. We hear the gap in the enterprise software customer experience that Capiche aims to fulfill and what the benefits are of having a communal space that fosters a mentality of users-helping-users. We also discuss the range of software available to us today and how the traditional top-down decision-making power within these structures is stretching across all employees into the hands of the individual. With more and more people settling into remote work during the coronavirus lockdowns, we explore the importance of having trust within organizations and why this is the most important leadership quality that needs to be practiced, right now. “There has been a power shift. People up and down an organization have a new voice Key Points from This Episode: Discover how Austin got interested in enterprise software and how Capiche began. The frustration with most software review sites when trying to find the right tools to use. The core differences between a personal peer-review and vendor-controlled review sites. Discover what Capiche is, how it works, and the gap it fills in the software community. The value of building a community around more honest and insightful conversations. Users helping users: Find out more about the discussions taking place on Capiche. Learn more about the mechanism Capiche uses to acquire users and get them to engage. The state of software for productivity today and the bottom-up adoption of software. Find out more about the SaaS trend and the consumerization of enterprise software. Using a well-known, established product versus using a new startup product. Is it really that easy for companies to chop and change software products today? Discover the general reception of Microsoft Teams among the Capiche community. Who is going to be the next Slack? Promising products to look out for on the horizon. Why trust is the most important thing when working remotely during the coronavirus.

In this virtual, remote, distant world we need to make sure that the technologies that support us can transfer information that is accurate, safe and trusted. For today’s episode, we had Dr. Alex Cahana join us to speak about the role Distributed Ledger Technologies will play in shaping business, health systems, and definitions of community in the post-pandemic world. Dr. Cahana is the Chief Medical Officer and Market Lead for ConsenSys Health. His experience is in military, healthcare and most recently, blockchain, and he believes that by ‘blockchainizing’ healthcare we can transform people from passive health service consumers into active, self-sovereign health and wealth producers. In today’s show, we discuss the importance of secure, trustworthy data to business and healthcare and how blockchain-based systems are ushering in a new era in this regard. Dr. Cahana tells listeners about what blockchain’s ability to remove ‘fakeness’ means for securing systems in health, law, news and more. Our conversation also covers the global pandemic and what it has emphasized, what we can learn from it, and how technologies that are being implemented now might be here to stay once things blow over. A key takeaway here is that surviving the pandemic should not come at the cost of our privacy. We discuss his efforts with “Failure Is Not an Option” (FINO) as far as their ventures toward reshaping business through blockchain, and the incentives blockchain could provide to people so that they can take a more active role in their own healthcare. Most importantly, Dr. Cahana’s message is that blockchain is a mindset. It represents a mentality where we realize that we have to work together and it enables a behavioral economy which makes things so secure that trust gets taken out of the picture. Tune in for Dr. Cahana’s big picture, cross-disciplinary insights. “Blockchain is a technology or software solution that solves the problem of ‘fake.’” Key Points From This Episode: An introduction to Dr. Cahana and his work in military, healthcare, and blockchain Blockchain, distributed networks, and public/private business partnerships in the last month The role that Distributed Ledger Technology can play in monitoring supply chains Blockchain’s ability to stop ‘fakeness’ and how this applies to medicine, news, law, etc Combining blockchain with other technologies to keep health data private in the crisis Business, contact tracking, privacy: how blockchain and AI could shape the new normal Weighing the severity of concerns between non-specialist doctors and practitioner trauma What blockchain can do to relieve the issue of health practitioner trauma What FINO is doing to create new business models: ‘trustless’ blockchain systems in a post-pandemic world The evolution of technology and whether we will learn from mistakes that caused COVID-19 Metrics to know whether our efforts to change are successful: a token economy The lasting effects that technological solutions will have; homeostasis vs allostasis Creativity, reflection, blockchain: three good things to come out of the crisis