Thinking On Paper: A Technology Podcast For Curious Minds

Disruptors and curious minds, book lovers, readers! Welcome to book club, where serious readers come to get more from their books. It's where adventurous book lovers come to understand concepts, share ideas and get different perspectives. Benjamin Franklin said, "once you lose it, you’ll never find it again." Theophrastrus said, "it was the most valuable thing you can spend." Pericles said it was "the wisest counsellor of all." Oscar Wilde said "punctuality steals it away." Turns out they were all wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, Albert Einstein: “The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Or, “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.” Isaac Newton said, “Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.” Aristotle said, “Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.” Time really is all we have. And in this months book club, we're talking about it in more detail than we ever thought possible. We're reading: - The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli. Please Enjoy The Book. ============================== TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 The Order Of Time By Carlo Rovelli 1:30 Time Is An Invented Concept 3:24 Setting Up The Book 4:10 Time As We Know It 5:10 Modifying Space Time 5:36 Mass Slows Down Time 7:30 The Loss Of Unity 9:04 The Beginner's Mind 10:36 Heat And The Agitation Of Molecules 12:13 Entropy 13:07 No Heat No Time? 17:10 Entropy Is Time's Arrow =============================== Praise For The Order Of Time Philip Pullman: "Wonderful... Time is something we know about instinctively, here Carlo shows how profoundly strange it is." John Banville: "Physics has found its poet." Tom Whipple: "An elegantly concise primer that makes theoretical physics intelligible stunningly written." 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7vCKDbIU8&t=891s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #books #bookclubs #bookcommunity #carlorovelli

This is your week for ZK technology, Layer 3s and DeFi! Vince Yang, CEO of zkLink, unravels their profound implications for the financial infrastructure of culture. Explore how these cutting-edge innovations are set to revolutionize the way we interact with digital finance, bringing unprecedented efficiency, security, and scalability. Ever wondered what ZK Proofs are or why DeFi is essential? Vince sheds light on these complex topics, explaining how DeFi impacts businesses and finance. From simplifying the blockchain user experience to understanding cross chain interoperability, we'll cover the critical questions and insights you need to understand the future of decentralized finance. 🎧 Please Enjoy The Show! ========================== 👉 Sponsors: www.wripple.com 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMzfA9m_uY&t=2s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: Thinking on Paper Connect with Mark: Mark Fielding Connect with Jeremy: Jeremy Gilbertson #web3 #blockchain #crypto ================================ Sponsors - www.wripple.com ================================ Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMzfA9m_uY&t=2s ================================ Links To The Show: Join the book club - http://www.thinkingonpaper.xyz/bookclub Connect With Mark - https://markfielding.xyz/ Connect With Jeremy - https://www.jeremygilbertson.com/ #web3 #blockchain #crypto

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to Thinking On Paper: real conversations on the impact of emerging technologies on business and culture. This week we’re speaking with Stepn CEO Shiti Manghani. Solana is has over taken Ethereum in terms of defi transactions... it has perhaps the most engaged audience in cryptocurrency, all the memecoins and more problems on decentralization than a blockchain should wish to have... so why the success? 👟 STEPN is a web3 lifestyle and fitness app built on the Solana blockchain . It launched on December 1st 2021 with 99,999 NFT trainers. Each cost 1.3 SOL (Sol was trading at $228 dollars that day). In March 2022, they launched their governance token, GMT. The following month GMT was worth $4 and Stepn had a $3 billion market cap. If I’m reading the charts correctly, at one point 24-hour trading surpassed $4 billion. Someone sold a Stepn NFT for 58 Sol. Pretty darn extraordinary. Move-to-earn was a thing. You probably remember it. Of course there were many imitators to the Stepn throne. You could sleep, eat, meditate and (insert verb here)… to earn. The Stepn concept - if not the tech - was simple: you won GST (Green Satoshi Tokens, not GMT) based on how far you ran, jumped, hopped, swam, crawled. I'll be honest, I stopped paying attention at that point. But here’s the thing. Where most died, Stepn survived. Yes, It took a hit. The floor price is 0.01 Sol. GMT is trading at $0.2. But the market cap is still half a billion. A community has stuck with them. Or a new one joined. Stepn has matured. It's a lifestyle app. A social platform. Where people want to get healthy (and wealthy?) Strava meets couch-to-5k meets friend Tech. Last week it announced a partnership with Adidas. We're curious to know more. ===================== TIMESESTAMPS (0:00) Disruptors And Curious Minds (0:48) Web3 Remembers Stepn 2:04 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:34 Welcome Shiti Manghani 3:26 What Excites Shiti About Her Role In Stepn 7:01 The Stepn Story 10:10 What Is Stepn? 10:30 Stepn For Beginners 12:52 Explain The Stepn NFTS 15:13 How Did Stepn Survive The Bear Market? 18:55 The Adidas Collaboration 22:13 Real Life Stepn Fitness Success Stories 25:00 How Much Can You Earn In Stepn? 29:20 Community Building 31:45 Apple Pay 34:40 The Future Of Stepn 36:53 Rewards And Micro Payments 40:10 How To Create A Global Time With Solana 43:44 How To Onboard The Next Generation 45:19 Book Club ================================ 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2aj0zkIKo&t=496s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #web3 #blockchain #solana #movetoearn #lifestyle

Disruptors and Curious minds! Today you're going to learn how you can turn your digital footprint into your most valuable asset! Perhaps. We're back exploring the intersection of AI, crypto and blockchain and asking what it means for business, culture and finance. This week’s guest is Han Jin, Co-founder and CEO of Bluwhale, a blockchain startup that uses AI to provide Web3 Wallet insight, allowing brands to understand users, differentiate offerings, and target users, communities and high net-worth individuals. Han is Forbes 30 under 30 and 40 under 40 and his work, insight and projects have featured in Fast Company, Bloomberg, Fox News, ABC News, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, Discovery Channel, LA Times. Please Enjoy The Show. ================================ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Disruptors & Curious Minds 1:55 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:36 Welcome Han Jin 3:38 Non-Linear Progression 4:36 AI & Consumer Prediction Models In 2016 9:41 Matching Web3 Communities On-Chain 12:14 The Bluwhale Launch & Blockchain Messaging 17:00 Wallet Portfolios For Brands 19:29 Delightfully Personal In Web3 23:07 Building Your Community Via Wallets 26:08 A Better Web3 World 30:26 Market Driven Profiles 37:17 Measuring Attention In The Attention Economy 41:10 Blockchain Reputation 43:48 Which Blockchains Is Bluwhale On? ================================ Follow Han Jin: - BluWhale - https://www.bluwhale.com/ - Twitter - https://twitter.com/jinhan8?lang=en - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinhan8/ ================================ 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7icVsMdsyM&t=278s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠ #web3 #blockchain #cryptocurrency #blockchainculture

Disruptors and curious minds! On this week's episode of Thinking On Paper we explore the impact technology has on your brain. And here is a spoiler - it's not good. It actually shrinks your brain. Are you on your phone right now? Have you asked yourself what it might be doing to your brain? How is it triggering dopamine, interacting with cortisol and affecting your focus, concentration, mental capacity and memory skills? What about your kids? What about your relationships? How is the train wreck of technology pushing your crocodile brain beyond its evolution? If you've ever wondered what effect technology is having on your brain as you battle your dopamine addiction, crave a world free of notifications and distraction where you can work and focus and live in the present, then this episode might change your relationship with your devices. Dr. Larry Rosen is a professor of Psychology and the author of Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation and TechnoStress: Coping with Technology @ Work @ Home @ Play.  He has over 25 years of research experience on the impact of technology among children, adolescents, young adults, parents, school teachers, and business people in more than 30 countries. Please Enjoy The Show! ===================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Disruptors and Curious minds 1:52 Our Sponsors Wripple 2:46 Dr Larry Rosen 3:11 What Do Cortisol & Dopamine Do To Your Brain 6:23 What happens To Your brain on Social Media 11:36 Anxiety & Brain Productivity 14:00 Measuring The Energy Notifications Take From Your Brain 16:58 Why Does Your Cortex Thin? 20:52 Breaking Bad Habits! 26:36 Focusing Attention 31:50 The Role Of Your Neurons 36:09 Dopamine & Game Addiction 41:44 Next Generation Anxiety & Eye Contact 45:10 Why Kids Use Phones & Strategies To Lower Use 49:00 Further Reading On Brain Health ================================ 🎧 Listen Now & Enjoy the Show! 👉 Sponsors: ⁠www.wripple.com⁠ 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmIrjS0l0JY&t=689s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club: ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠ Connect with Mark: ⁠Mark Fielding⁠ Connect with Jeremy: ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer. This week we're reading part 5 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. The final part of our book club. And it gets deep. It starts with Marcus Aurelius and goes into the heart of what matters. Because if you've followed parts 1-4 of this book club, we have a wake up call for you. None of the decisions and choices you make matter one bit if you don't know what you really want, if you are not aware of what's really important in life. Here's some of the things we speak about this week: - What is Phronesis - the wisdom of knowing how to order your life to achieve the best results. - The wisdom of age - Memento Mori - what it is and a thought experiment on how to use it. - Comparison is the thief of joy. - What you can learn from Ebenezer scrooge - Possessions And much more... ====================================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:00 Turn Hindsight Into Foresight 3:00 What Are Good Decisions? 5:58 How To Order Your Life For Best Results? 8:34 The Wisdom Of Old Age 10:48 Have Dinner & Jazz Fun 14:30 What I Liked About Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish 16:26 The New Happy 19:38 Memento Mori 22:13 Seneca And Physical Health 24:29 Regret As A Lack Of Imagination Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8TrQEpFLY&t=57s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #bookclub #shaneparrish #clearthinking #bookcommunity #stoicism #stoicmindset #farnamstreet

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club, where we explore the insights, frameworks, strategies and secrets of books that will improve your thinking, elevate your leadership, give you courage and confidence and help you think clearer. This week we're reading part 4 of Clear Thinking by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. It's nearly 100 pages of insight, strategies and signals for better decision making. The decision is the outcome of the process. There are 4 stages - 1. Defining the problem. 2. Exploring possible solutions 3. Evaluating the options 4. executing the best one "When the stakes are low, inaction hurts you more than speed. The opposite is true when the stakes are high." TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Clear Thinking By Shane Parrish 0:50 The Decision Making Process 2:57 Rules And Safeguards 3:37 When The Stakes Are Low 5:36 Define The Problem 14:04 Get Real, Get With Reality 17:39 Are You A Chef Or Line Cook? 21:30 Opportunity Cost 28:20 Define The Most Important Part 30:15 Margins Of Safety ============================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULxMGbmZKAo&t=1807s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #books #bookclubs #shaneparrishclearthinking #shaneparrish #bookcommunity

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club. This week we're reading part 3 of Clear Thinking, by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish. "Part of taking command of your life is controlling the things you can. Another part is managing the things you can't - your vulnerabilities, or weaknesses." TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 0:39 Why Small Decisions Matter 3:32 Your Environments Affect Your Focus 5:16 Action And Consequence 8:18 Productive Self-Discourse 11:40 Hungry, Lonely, Angry, Tired 15:00 The Film Crew Strategy 17:36 Cognitive Load & Resistance ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. 👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX7vCKDbIU8&t=891s 🔗 Follow Mark And Jeremy: Join the Book Club:⁠ ⁠Thinking on Paper⁠⁠ Connect with Mark:⁠ ⁠Mark Fielding⁠⁠ Connect with Jeremy:⁠ ⁠Jeremy Gilbertson⁠⁠ #shaneparrish #clearthinking #strategy #thinking #mindset #thinkingonpaper

Disruptors and curious minds! Welcome to the Thinking on Paper book club. This week we're building our own personal board of directors as outlined by Farnam Street Founder Shane Parrish in Clear Thinking. We're going to take the great minds of business, music, writing and thinking and use them to hold ourselves accountable. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 1:06 Jeremy On Expecting More Of Yourself 5:06 Automatic Rules To Protect Creativity 8:14 Kind V Nice 11:41 Changing Your Mind 15:09 My Board Of Thinking Directors 17:30 Thinking Like Bob Marley 21:05 Stoicism ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing.

Disruptors and Curious minds, Welcome to the Thinking On Paper Book Club! This month we’re reading Clear Thinking, by Farnam Street founder and The Knowledge Project host Shane Parrish. This is the book that you need if you doubt your decisions, or fear making mistakes, or just want to think clearer about your finances, investments, relationships, friendships and business. This week we explore: - How to hold space to think - The inertia default and how it's holding you back - The social default, and how that is holding you back - Clear thinking in ordinary moments And much more... ================== TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Welcome To Book Club 0:58 Why Are We Reading Clear Thinking 2:17 Holding Space For Clear Thinking 3:48 How Are You Positioned To Think? 7:12 Parenting Clearly (The Ego Default) 10:40 Success Is Made In Ordinary Moments 14:53 The Inertia Default 16:04 The Social Default 22:21 Clear Thinking Is A Lever 24:00 Awareness Isn't Enough ========================= Why are we reading Clear Thinking? Some call the book a must read for intentional living and decision making. All we know is that in the quest for personal and professional growth and in the interests of the Nexus Thinkers, generalists and readers of Thinking On Paper, we know this book can change lives, careers, relationships and mindsets. Here’s what you can expect: 🧠 You'll Unlock Your Cognitive Potential: Parrish provides practical tools to harness the power of your mind and make better decisions. We love frameworks and strategies. Universal Truths, Actionable insight. 🧠 You'll Navigate Life with Intention: Oh those defaults! Be gone! The ego default, the social default, the inertia default and the emotion default. Clear thinking will help you recognise these biological defaults and give you the skills to override them. 🧠 You'll Enhance Decision-Making: What are you going to do with all this clear thinking? We’ll unpack the reality of better decision making at work, home and everywhere else you need to engage thinking before you jump head first into the fire. 🧠 You'll Override Your Mental Models: Parrish uses engaging narratives and stories to explain the mental models that hamper your progress, curtail your fun and put a million spanners in your works in progress! 🧠 Recency bias, Action Bias, the Affect Heuristic, Ambiguity Effect, Anchoring Bias, Attentional Bias, Authority Bias, Availability Heuristic and the Bandwagon Effect. You’ll learn how to notice them and send them packing. - - - - - - - - - - - - About Thinking On Paper: Jeremy is a futurist, writer, and nexus thinker . He loves books. Mark is a creative writer, futurist thinker and trainee Nexus thinker. He loves books too. #bookclub #clearthinking #shaneparrish #booktube #bookreviews