People Talking | A Web3 Podcast That's Not About Web3

They say that game developers know more about human nature than psychologists, but gamers themselves are a close second if we can look at why we enjoy certain games over others.My guest this week is Sam Simmons, Co-Founder at Mintpass: a collecting experience that makes your travels a part of your digital identity. Previously he spent 9 years rising up to become the President at Po

Ever heard of social contract theory? If not, you have almost certainly heard the quote “...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” That’s from our favorite optimist Thomas Hobbes, the father of modern social contract theory. Followed by other prominent figures like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this trifecta formed a lot of modern humanity’s op

Ever heard of GPT? Obviously. But this episode isn’t covering the basics. Francesco Bisardi has been in small web3 and AI circles since 2017 working for Vite Labs, Nonfiction, TechCrunch and most recently at Bitgo. He’s been coding since he was 9 and brings that background to his work in growth hacking and influences the way he approaches his interests in AI. In this episode we

Hey People Listening, did you get your first foray into social media learning CSS and HTML to personalize your Myspace page? Do you doom scroll Twitter? Do you wonder about the elements of social media and which are good and bad?This week I have Lou Kerner on the show, who is both a social media and web3 veteran, to dig into social networks and community. Starting with his early da

Jim Chang (0xJim) is known on Twitter for his DeFi wizardry, incubating projects through Aave’s experimental arm, and hilarious but dense research on things like interoperability and rollups as a service. But in this episode we dive into 2 of his loves: Backpacking and Fashion. What relation do these things have to web3? What relation do they have to each other (hint: convertible

David Goldberg is the co-founder of Macro which is a web3 security company that does smart contract audits with customers like Synthetix, MakerDAO, Frax, Connext and more. They also are building products for web3 security. Before he dove into web3, he was a software engineer at Salesforce for a few years and founded a few startups. He has synthesized his experience in startups down

ChatGPT has sparked a lot of new debate over the future of AI and whether it will be a net benefit or net detriment, usually to the extremes that it will either free humanity from the burdens of work so we can focus on our true passions or will kill us all Terminator style. When it comes to web3, how can we direct ourselves towards the former future?This is one of many things ninty

Hey People Listening, have you ever collected Pokemon or Yugioh cards? Did you have as absurd of a Beenie Baby collection as I did? Did you try to justify all of this spending to your parents who reluctantly relinquished hundreds or thousands of dollars for this seemingly pointless stuff? This episode is for you.Humpty Calderon, founder and host of the CryptoSapiens podcast, has al

How the hell could music, aliens and native American history have any possible connection to web3? You'd be surprised.Okay actually the Alien conversation was unplanned and had no tie in, but it was still fun.Dougie DeLuca has been an analyst in the Cosmos ecosystem for 3 years now and has been at Figment capital for over a year. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation between ma

Tasafila (Shane) is most well known as the founder of Blockbuster DAO which aimed to buy the Blockbuster IP in late 2021. We talk about his background in filmmaking and investigative journalism (there’s a fun story in this conversation about that) and how that positioned him to harness the power of nostalgia with Blockbuster DAO. Enjoy!Tasafila’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ta