Crazy Wisdom

You will like this episode if you are interested in Advaita Vedanta Non Dual philosophy or if you have a meditation practice. If you aren't interested in those things then this one might not have to much value for you but if you have even a hint of interest in these things then you will want to watch this. If anything doesn't makes sense please feel free to ask and I can explain or show more.  I take pride in my ability to spot talented and articulate people before the mainstream and I can promise you that Priya is one of the most articulate people I have found when it comes to this.

Here are a few questions which we discussed: What is the difference between writing for your business and writing for yourself? What is the relationship between imagination and writing? How do they intersect? What is the difference between desire and craving? Is writing thinking? How does the idea of human exceptionalism limit our understanding of intelligence? How can confusion be an answer? Find Rachel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DidYouWriteThat Find Holloway: https://www.holloway.com/

If you remember the interview I did with Ian Livingstone last thursday about starting companies outside of Silicon Valley, this is actually the episode that got me on to the trail of Ian and his company Dropout Labs. Boris basically helps me map out the entire global ecosystem for startups and where its headed particularly from the investment angle.  Find Boris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bwertz Find Version One: https://versionone.vc/

We talked about the following questions: What is unique about Africa when it comes to merging of technology, culture and capital? How can individual Africans find role models to model after colonization destroyed the local culture and imposed a different language? How does Nigeria show that the brand of being scammers is only representative of a small part of the population? Also we mapped the startup ecosystem in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and a few other places. Africa has a lot of things going on in a lot of countries so might take a few more episodes to get all of it on here.  Follow Wiza here: https://twitter.com/wizaj

You will like this episode if you are into machine learning, remote work, the rise of entrepreneurship around the world, secure computation, video games and their role in startup creation. Another good question we came up with was:   Can the journey from 0 to 1 be done remotely?

We talk about the rise of startups outside of silicon valley. Also about the interactions between large companies and startups and how their relationships have evolved over the past 10 years.  You will like this one if you want a snapshot into high technology, the replication crisis in science and some of the reasons behind it, or if you are really interested in global business. Find Torsten here on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tkolind If you are a startup looking for opportunities check out YouNoodle: https://younoodle.com/

We talk about the limitations of video for learning and what works best. We talk about the difference between implicit, explicit, and experiential forms of learning. We talk about neuroscience and how the brain works and learns. Find Hossein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hnivi Find Pendaran: https://www.pendaran.com/

We talk about the following questions: Was Sales the first tech job to go remote? When do you know when to meet someone in person or whether the conversation can be done remotely? How does bias show up when tech companies recruit salespeople? How did Shaan go from mathematics to becoming an expert in sales? Find Shaan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaanh Checkout Flockjay: https://flockjay.com/

We try to get at this question: How can we incentivize the truth? Is this possible? We also talk about the rise of the personal computing industry and Robin's role in that.  Check out Robin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinr Check out more about Living in Digital Times and their event at CES: https://livingindigitaltimes.com/

More question that we talk about: What happens when you build a product with an expectation of what will happen and then something entirely different happens? Is San Francisco losing its soul? Is its soul becoming distributed? Dhru on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhrupadkarwa HaikuJAM: http://haikujam.com Dhru shares HaikuJAM on TEDx: https://youtu.be/XzB0KwWsT5g