ALEXANDER WATANABE | The Perfect NFT, Art Discourse/History & The Digital Nomad Lifestyle

Alexander Watanabe is an artist, coder, architect and co-creator of the 'The Perfect NFT' on the Cardano blockchain. In Conversation #85, Alexander and I discuss: why Alex might has a more cynical disposition to NFT's, Sam Bankman-Fried and effective altruism, fun stories from travelling around the world, the cultural critique he is doing with The Perfect NFT and some tips for coding/handstands. Hope you're having a fantastic day wherever you are in the world, Kyrin out! Timeline: (0:00) - Intro to Alex (0:37) - Kompact.io pivot (3:16) - The Guchi experiment (8:00) - Naïve optimism & MLM (13:48) - Gift reciprocity (17:57) - Altruism: You're screwed no matter what (21:55) - Problems with charity (28:22) - Too many people in groups (34:30) - Gem hunting & bogged cars (37:13) - Childhood stealing stories & being skint (41:53) - Travel & not fitting in (48:56) - Misspelling names (52:02) - Artisitic decisions (57:05) - The Perfect NFT (1:02:07) - The underlying rules (1:06:54) - Art is a discourse/history (1:13:33) - Books & reinvention (1:18:22) - New mediums & immutability (1:25:44) - How the mint works (1:32:37) - People interacting as an orchestra (1:44:08) - Peak NFT (1:47:01) - On chain & on Cardano (1:53:14) - Python vs language learning (2:01:39) - Automate the boring stuff (2:08:18) - Lifting weights again (2:12:02) - Strength as a skill (2:21:15) - We're just monkeys (2:22:56) - Closing up Connect With Alexander: Website: https://theperfectnft.art/ Discord: https://discord.gg/EYwd6ybgMJ Twitter: https://twitter.com/monad_alexander Connect with Mere Mortals: Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/ Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReU Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@meremortalspodcast Support the show