Crazy Wisdom

Aaron Lowry How to build? What does software do for helping us to customize our physical creations? Where is our awareness focused? Why does it focus there? How does it focus there? How does 3D engineering work? How do you find the most important constraints that are the obstacles in your way? How do you focus? What are the properties of thermal expansion? What should I understand about physics as a novice builder? What are geotelematics? (10 minutes in) What would be the best way to track all of the items at my airbnb? What is threat detection and how did you learn about it? Will hardware manufacturing come down in price soon? What is network infrastructure? What are the most important things to knoow about self-reliance and self-sufficiency? What is different about the western US and how did it contribute to the development of blockchain and bitcoin? What is ‘code is law’? Why is it important to trust 3rd parties less in our current age? Trust is the lubricant that creates positive human interaction Maybe impossible to overstate the value of trust The invisible infrastructure of trust  What is the reserve banking system? Where do we find ourselves today? cultural, political and economic institutions Trust is explicit for all these vast numbers of people People are habituated to the convenience of high trust but we now might be in a low trust meta environment How do you play the long game when everyone else is playing the short game or the evil game? How do you establish institutions so that long games can be freely played? How did so many unelected people get so much power in the United States? What is the ideal way of promoting and giving community resources to the community? How do bureaucracies destroy transparency and accountability in the United States? Were politicians ever not actors? What are the subtle effects of living in urban, suburban, and rural environments? Why do I hate hyperspecialization so much? What have you been 3D printing? How do we ground our roles in reality rather than complete performance? What is the best way to operate and why is it always in “the truth”? Why do so many people refuse to find feedback mechanisms (40 minutes)? What separates people who want to build worlds and consume worlds? How can you deliver feedback to someone who both wants it and does not want it at the same time? What do you know about entropy and what is its connection to purpose? What is the difference between maintenance and building? Why are some people compelled to progress? How do you master tools and materials in order to build in-flow? Why are mountain and rural people so practical? How does that influence their philosophy? What is trim carpentry? What is the difference between carpentry and house building? What are the constraints for building houses? What are all the differences between all the woods? What is the environment you are building the house in? What are the constraints of the materials What is my soil composition? How do you anchor things into the ground? What is pressure treated lumbar? What is a skid lower? What is rammed earth? What is the easiest place to build something in the United States in regards to permitting? What is the water situation in Wyoming? Water is the new gold and artificial constraints will make it insane What is the value of energy? How do we determine a viable versus a negative artificial constraint? What is NFT marketplace on Cardano called? @Aaron_Lowry on Twitter  

What is dialogue? What is monologue? How do you have dialgoue with your colleagues? And then engagement? How many corporate retreats have you done? What is a corporate retreat? How do you find perfect deals? What is a perfect deal? How do you deal with the stress from early deals? How do you deal with principal agent dilemma of investors? How do you deal with potential for embarassments? Is honor culture neccesary? Why does it show up in human relationships? What is the difference between true inquiry and reputational status building activity? How do you deal with the necessity of being an asshole? Man is a political animal, there is no apolitical. Who is someone you know that you know that you still find mysterious? Why do people have conversations? What do you do about the possibility of surprise? Conversation as a dance; what is the music that you are dancing to? What is the logos? What is the relationship between logos and revelation?What is Poesis? Can a muse be anything? What is a poetic disclosure? What is Plato’s phaedrus? Arate (skill or excellence) and aristeia (best game ever while he had the flu). What is the difference between Daemon and Spirit? What are your thoughts on the thing you just said and how AI will interact with it? Contemporary thought versus super power daemons. How do you make yourself ready to have God move through you? How do you work with ethical tightropes when ethics themselves are not respected by most people? How do you cultivate flow?What do you think about secularism? Animals don’t have type 2 thinking.  What is an Emu’s algorithims?Why do I feel nervous about being a Stewart algorithm? How do substances help us unravel and put back together our unconscious? What is your thoughts on city versus country? Is Western civilization less paradoxical than the east? What is hippie buddhism? How many hours a day are you reading? Do you put in your calendar? How do you wear a mask without idenifitying the character that the mask portrays? What is the science that has been rejected? https://nintil.com/discoveries-ignored What is science again? What happens when scientists experiment on themselves? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/ What is glory? How do you talk about science when you are not a scientist but have studied? What is the difference between scientism and science? What are your invalidated hypothesis that you have discovered in the past year? What do you think of dark ages? Who is Francis Bacon? Who are the scientists that have been ignored in their life but then turned out to be revolutionaries? What is an age of concealment? What is the cult of progress? Who did Jesus rail against?In what ways was Jesus a contrarian? What is the difference between change and progress? What is chronological snobbery? Can you see all of your own blind spots? What are the virtues of medeival thought? What is the different way of funding science? How is science funded? Corporate R&D, venture capital, and government-academic complex for grants. What are teh different ways that corruption shows up? Incredible incrementalism. If the grant complex is so wonderful, then why dont we 10X funding? What is Francis’ approach to funding science? Crowdfunding, find the experiment to validate  Philanthropy based prizes What is the spirit of science? How do narcissists use simple statements to manipulate thoughts? Should scietnists be passing laws? What can we call people who believe in Scientism? Paradox has no thearitcal solution. How can you develop paradoxical thinking? What do you believe is true that is absolutely true? There is no way of doing nothing.

  Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation ~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit @sigilante on twitter   What is a sigil? What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching? Driven by authoritarian high modernism Top down imposition Structural way of understanding context Industrial revolution Ten years ago there was online education MIT open course where Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from Humans are good at metaphors Give them a framework and people will figure it out These things are measurable Open problem in computer science Two classes of complexity Polynomial time Vastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time NP on the hard problems Has to do with the structure of our attention 9 years experience Philosophy of pedagogy Why doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge? How do you make something relevant? Strongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching Interdisciplinary Try everything, some things stick Analogical reasoning How do you improvise for metaphors? Why is it so disincentivized to do improv? Input output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast The model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate Tutorial method does not scale but its the most effective Really hard problem P=NP what is it? When I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state Rumsfeld called the unknown unknowns What questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions? What do you do when you need to solve a problem? Someone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in Go to the fringes to get the edge cases What is the advantage of a low status source? How do you make your questions and answers legible? Subtopics and how to use them? What is the demand for previous for previous programmers learning Urbit? What is the percentage of programmers who are learning Urbit? What was the first iteration of home school? Dozen people finished Now they have 60 people finishing Why does Urbit have a weird perception from people? Once you hear about it you go into the rabbit hole and it never stops Its a web within a web Its like a secret door in a house didn’t you know about it Pitch the idea of the treasure hunt powered by Urbit Why did stars survive in demand? How much did they survive? How much does it cost to buy a star now versus the 2022 downturn in crypto How do you get the right answer as opposed to the fast answer? Only developers who are autodidactic like and stay with Urbit Who is Richard Stallman? LISP He built community around GANU, Linux? Invented the free software  What is functional programming? What is the relationship between mental divergence and programming? What is the third type of developers in relation to something like Urbit? The arguers What is the fourth type of developers in relation to something like Urbit? Rebellious and devious enough  What is the relationship between Bitcoin and Urbit? What are the main challenges you see in terms of my crazy idea for the treasure hunt? What are the options to build this quickly? This is the main problem Is it a web page driven experience? Build an urbit app and get them to install it You would have to figure out how to do the call outs to the phone device Hot or cold game Only track wether they found it or not How can we effectively expose underlying things to the urbit server? 24 minutes in Should we think about Urbit as a operating system? Who is experimenting with Urbit moons as internet of things?

Bill Lawrence from ReStore   What did Zaire used to be called? What is River Blindness? What is less effective than DDT? Why would you dissect a fly? How do you dissect a fly? Why will we mine our own garbage? What items require special recycling? What is a “transfer station”? What is “planned obsolescence”? Who is leading the way with a “cradle-to-grave” philosophy?

Dashiell Bark Huss CEO, Wish Tender What is Wish Tender? Gifts from fans Gift registries It's a privacy company How do adult film stars know how to create boundaries? Is it hard for adult film stars to create boundaries? What is financial domination? A sub who likes to be submissive when it comes to money 90-Day Fiancee If someone comes to you and offers you gifts, what do you do? Why are you nervous about outsourcing? What is it like to do business with your life partner? Is Wish Tender a “no-code business”? Why is New Mexico a great place to do vanlife? Meow Wolf is Pee Wee’s Playhouse on acid What do you know about Urbit so far? What is the deal with Linkedin’s search? What do we know about lucid dreaming What do we not know about lucid dreaming? We don’t know any biomarkers during lucid dreaming Why don’t we know what is physically happening in lucid dreaming? What do the electrodes measure? EMG muscle tone EOG electric ocular graphing  EEG electroenchephalograph Alpha Beta Gamma Theta Lucid Dreaming lab at NorthWestern Send them an eye signal through the dream REM you can detect What about your 100 days of discomfort like? Vanlife (37 minutes in) Why does Stewart have a fear of wearing silly stuff? What was it like asking people to play Rock Paper Scissors? What is the feeling like of having someone confront strangers? What types of attention are fun to get? What is the difference between political swag and political garb? What happens when you wear both a Trump shirt and a Bernie shirt? What happens when you wear a Trump shirt at a college campus? (40 minutes in) What are some other things that will get you stereotyped that aren’t political? Why do both Dashielle and Stewart have so many idiosyncrasies when other people? What is relationship between stoicism and sex and/or sex word? Can you be both a sex worker and a stoic at the same time? What is it like to be a contrarian? What is the relationship between crying and stoicism? What are crocodile tears? How do you fire people? What are the differences between sympathy and empathy? What is metacognition? What does it improve in relation to lucid dreaming? What is the inner monologue’s connection to lucid dreaming? What does it take to be a good lucid dreamer? Why do people disagree about what just happened? What is a reality check? Awake What do you think of the deep sleep state? What are the stages related to deep sleep? Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 What is the difference between REM and deep sleep? What is the relationship between cannabis and lucid dreaming? Should I do an OnlyFans account? How do you get a lot of attention for a good cause? How can I get arrested for something silly? How do you find an old law to test? How do I create a mugshot for myself? What is the difference between satirical news and fake news? How can I get more magical realism in my life? Read the book from Gabriel Garcia Marquez? @dashbarkhuss on twitter

An experiment I'm running to live tweet my interviews in the forms of questions: The first try is with ~timluc-miptev on Urbit He is constructing and coordinating a DAO that will be a Layer 1 that will start as a ZK roll-up in the Urbit ecosystem.     What is a program running on the Urbit operating system? What does it mean to write to the ETH blockchain? What are the main constructs in building what you are building? What will it take to build a full layer 1 on Urbit? What is the deal with hype-farming? What do you need for a full layer 1?  How do you get people on board? How do you make sure its secure? How many years does it take to build trust in an layer 1? What use cases can be solved by a layer 1? Why is Urbit the best environment for staying productive and happy as a programmer? How do you balance the money-making hype-farming with staying grounded? How do you not pump and dump? What are the hype-farming paths? What is your marketing strategy? Does Urbit have the most high end mind share like Quora did but no longer has? How can this be nurtured? What is starkware? How do you get developer mind-share in an age when the best is already post-economic? Is raising money for crypto companies better to do in a venture style as opposed to crowdfunding? How do you become an accredited investor? Who do you show the money to? What is the impact of devs being post-economic and post location? How do you do due diligence when people like being anon? Whtat is the value prop of Urbit? What is the future of gaming on Urbit? What is the difference between production programming and fun/tinkering programming? Urbit is the unifying software behind the fun factor for programmers? What is a networking operating system? What will Urbit look like in a thousand years? Behind the scenes network operating system that no one notices. Will your thing eventually work on hardware? What is it like to live in a world of bits? What is your long-term physical location ideal? Nomad? What is the main challenge of building a ZK roll-up? How does it work in ETH? How can we think about in terms of state when it comes to ETH? How do you build a small ETH program as a ZK roll up? What are the main use cases that are being created right now with ZK roll-ups? Make transactions cheaper ZK roll ups seem like strange distributed bots straight out of a Gibson Cyberpunk Novel. What is the metaverse? What will happen to real estate when crypto is fully embodied in our physical life? What does it mean to be Will-maximalist? What are the upsides to living a fully remote work life? How do you balance the upsides and downsides? What is the difference between being grounded and dependent on a physical location? What were doing in Ukraine? Why are you a Russophile? What was it like to be ungrounded quickly by war in Ukraine? How is news different when you are actually in the physical location where the news is taking place? What are input/output matches? Track what the inputs were and what they said. Test whether it turned out to be true. Say to yourself what you think is going on and test it.

What is the current state of psychedelics? Is it legal to use psilocybin in a controlled treatment framework in Oregon? What state will be next? What does it mean to be a Schedule One Drug? What will the FDA do next year in terms of psychedelics? Why is Ibogaine illegal? What is Habitat for Humanity? What percentage of the population has P.T.S.D.? Who is on the cutting edge of research in this area?

Jacob Rudolph Executive Director of Pride Network What does it mean to develop leadership? What does it mean to have a third-party mediator? What are the main challenges when it comes to communication? What does it mean to serve? Do you still feel like you have to learn lessons about humility? What does it mean to open your heart? What is the relationship between the nervous system and emotional growth? God is real, now what? I’m not alone, and the connection between being divergent and finding others who are like us. What turn-keys have you found recently? How do you find equations that unlock everything? How many books has David Hawkins written? How do you find holy company? How do you not identify with trauma in groups? How do you find healing alone? Trauma bonding in groups. What have you learned of forgiveness? How did the U.S. Federal Government stop Native Americans from practicing their religion? How many people are in chronic pain? Can you forgive people while alone? What is the relationship between the God-realm and forgiveness (look at you, Jesus and crew)? Is pain socially mediated? What is the relationship between collective and individual pain? What can we learn about safe spaces? How do you lead groups without getting enwrapped by the dark triad? What is the value or utility of suffering? How do you get to the unmitigated experience of their own pain? What do you think of my idea of MDMA therapy? How can you tell the difference between CPSTD and someone on the dark triad? How do you help people become their own self healers? What is a basic education on trauma? The holistic psychologist on Instagram, Dr. Nicole Pera. What is the window of tolerance? How can we feel into our bodies and notice the symptoms of anxiety? Let's talk about drugs.  (27 minutes) What is the fawn response? How do you recontextualize things? What do you know about MDMA therapy and the FDA? What are your thoughts on pharmacology? Stepping stones for healing, not the end point How do you stop becoming a people pleaser? What is the relationship between involvement and alignment? How do you stop fixing, contro,l and caregiving when it’s not beneficial? The difference between love. What are the limitations of my own power? What is the Pride Network? What have you learned about running a Pride Network? How many people are at the Pride Network? Are you the one raising money? What have you learned about humility from raising money? Who do you mostly raise money for? How do you use social media to raise money? 1% of GDP goes to philanthropy. (45 minutes) What have you learned about being comfortable asking for money? Nonprofits doing money laundering. What is pathos (the emotional self)? What percentage of the non-profit funding comes from the middle class? Upper class? How do you find the people to get money for? Find the people who already do it and ask them. What are the legal requirements for the board structure? 501(3) status Can I serve as a channel? What percentages of fundraising streams in a non-profit organization? What are the causes that you care about? Pride Network, offering assistance to 18-29 LGBQT youth. Heart-centered leadership development. How can people volunteer? Corporate connections What do you look for in a board member? Pridenetwork.org

Stuart Christoph Director of the Urbit Foundation Grant Program What is the grant program for Urbit? Is that for technical people? 2 years from now we will be able to build businesses. What small businesses have you started? What are the security problems?How does Urbit scale? How much is a Star? How can I set up a Star? How do you enable more people to run their small businesses? What is a system admin?  Can we get the instructions of how to set up a star for my show notes?  https://operators.urbit.org/ To run a star, you don’t need to know any Hoon? To do a youtube video while doing a star.. On the deeper technical side, Urbit is not really great at serving large files Discoverability on Urbit for the Youtube videos. What are they tracking with the spaghetti URL’s? UTM parameters What do they absorb it in? How badly did GDPR impact small businesses? What is ownership? How did value generation change for labor to compute? What year did labor change to compute? Late 90’s to early 2000’s How does the equity ownership framework play into that? What type of things should someone be aware of when it comes to exchange of equity and relationships? What are psychopaths doing in terms of Gamestop and Crypto? What is happening behind the scenes? How do we align will and intent? How do you know the right person to go to for the reality check? What is the difference between manipulation and positive influence? Once you define a computer system it can be gamed. What are the first principles of building healthy working relationships? How is that different from love relationships? Are you using smart contracts to hire anonymous employees? What is the Sword of Damocles? What is the Hack-A-Thon that you are creating? Unconference in Miami 22nd-25th This is where they show off stuff 1 a week for new Urbit applications Books Bounty, Dalton Collective Hack-A-Thon that culminates at Assembly Hoon school live has 61 new Hoon developers How do I find one of the new Hoon developers? Teams of 2-3 people that cover an array of skill sets for the hackathon Competent Hoon dev, front end (javascript), and vision/user experience/ideation How can you build trust and relationships between the users on the Urbit network? What is TC/IP? What is an apprenticeship for Urbit development? How do I find the devs for the Assembly? Mars Invisible College Who to follow if you liked this episode: @urbitfoundation on Twitter urbit.org/grants DM ~sarlev-sarsen Join the Urbit Foundation’s group: ~wolref-podlex/foundation

Theodore Blackman Urbit Core Dev & Manage projects at Tlon Arvo Kernel Find him on ~rovnys-ricfer on Urbit What are metapolitics? What is content distribution for Urbit? What is the networking protocol for Urbit? How is Urbiit different from other networking protocols? What is Subscription Reform? What is a Pub-Sub system? What is the Scriname Space?Are there already scalable networking systems? What is the limit on users right now on Urbit? How do analytics work on Urbit? How long have you been programming in Hoon and Knock? What is an overlay OS? If I’m programming something for a Rasberry Pi, does it make it harder or easier?  Why would somebody want a peer-to-peer operating system? What does it mean to have a personal server? Why is it important? What is a root node and a routing node? What is the key to a distributed system? What are the pillars of it?What is transactional networking or persistent networking? Is Port my own server? How does that work? How easy is it to interface with APIs and connect Urbit apps to web apps? What is your favorite Urbit app? Have you used Urtweet? Do you have access to Dallee? Dalton Collective Octupus @_dalton  What is Urbit trying to do? Urbit destroys the need for a server admin (24 minutes) Are there any hardware wallets that can keep my Urbit planets? Ledger What is the PKI (Urbit ID system)? Azimuth What is the world going to look like in ten years when/if Urbit is much larger? What are autonomous digital communities? Bridge.urbit.org (33 minutes) What is the intersection between Crypto and Urbit? What is the software supply chain (47 minutes)? What are your thoughts on Holochain? ~Datnutpollen What is a categorization theorist?