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Thoughts of a TechnoWizard — 409 episodes
Worlds I Want to Build
A Recap of Black Reconstruction (Bad Audio!)
Design Work and Ecosystem of Projects
W.E.B DuBois and Booker T Washington are still relevant
Thinking and Driving
Venting about Miscommunications
Highest Highs
Dealing with Depression, The Point of Solarpunk, and my early thoughts in DuBois
Interviewing random people about better worlds
RIP Perry
Cat Healthcare and More about AI
AI, Lupe, and Art
AI and Agronomic Towers
Marxism vs Anarchism
Furlough Updates, Motivation, Malcolm X, Herbalism and Ministry of the Future
Reflecting on cages and what it means to be free
Addendum on Manifestation
Managing Feelings and thoughts on Manifestation
Procrastination and Fighting for Actionable Optimism
What's Next for Me
How Changing the World is as easy as making friends
Reminiscing a bit about my (old?) job
Furloughed
Ambitious Story Concepts with Disappointing Execution
The gravity of philosophy - a working metaphor
Existential concepts of 'God'
What the Grammys show about Institutions
Cats, Lego, and Hiphop
My co-op idea for changing the world
Moving in, Furniture, and Solarpunk Ideas
Pets, books, games, and more
Housing Updates and Pets
The benefits of gaming
Finding a house, pt 2
Finding a house, pt 1
Fears and insecurities around sharing ideas
Arkansas, Capitalism, and Afropressimism
The Thrill of Six Flags
Death
Aligning your tastes with your goals
For all the Haters
Why we need a process for changing the world
The problems of hip-hop and how we can fix them
Risk of Rain 2 - My current fixation
A rant about hip-hop
Talking about Civilization before the Eclipse
Updates and Better Futures
Learning from Gaming
Self reflections on ideation
Pulling the thread can be problematic - An observation and an apology
I've been procrastinating because of The Wandering Inn
Venting and imagining
Sharing thoughts I shouldn't have been scared to share
My 1st Trip to Vegas
Apologies, Clarifications, Identity, and Structure
Legos, Solarpunk, Dystopia and more
Exploring my Foundations of Technowizardry
Origins of my magical thinking
Wandering Thoughts about Magic and Technology
Venting about stories, wizardry, career, and longevity
Imagining Better Futures
Creative Expression
SFGE, Crafting, and the Death of Death
Reflections on Self (Expression, the Inner, and so on)
Restlessly Utopian - Frustrated desires for a better future
NYC Trip
Walking the Beltline
1st Camping Experience!
Apple VisionPro
Business, AI, and Apple VisionPro
I got a new car!!
Spirituality and Technowizardry
Just venting
The hot air of economy - some thoughts on the dangers and benefits of capitalism
Existential Futures - Some thoughts on aliens, AI, technology, and more
Venting, Capitalism, and AI (again)
The case for open sourcing A(G)I development - Why AI development won't stop and shouldn't be closed
GPT4's mental state - Implications of using Theory of Mind Psychology on AI
The hope of dramatic Solarpunk Stories
Ripples of Time - A better way to view reality
Community Building Tools - Ideas for building better worlds.
More problems with 'AI' - The internet's hall of mirrors
More Critiques on Dawn of Everything
Bing AI - The Exciting and Terrifying Future of the 'AI Wars'
Localisation - The simple method for revolution
We should be living SO much better
Critical Thinking and the blind bias of being 'unbiased'
AI is not intelligent, ChatGPT, goals and more rambling
Avatar, 'White Culture', and the power in believing (stupid) fictions
Housing, Capitalism, Utopianism, and more
Ethics and economics of AI - Problems, limitations, and ideas
ChatGPT... Some thoughts on OpenAI's new tool
Phygital Technology, Black Panther, Path of Ascension, and utopian stories.
Updates, Twitter, and Technology
How to redesign social media/the metaverse (a meandering conception)
Venting and Longtermism (again)
Talking to highschoolers and the problem with Longtermism
Atlanta Radical Book Fair, anarchism, and AI
How AI is more alien than aliens - a case for more transparency and accessibility
My story: how to massively change the world for the better, a technowizards ambition
10 ideas around technology, organization, and communication
Community Building and Hierarchy vs Awe in Religion
Believing in Santa - How indoctrination leads to authoritarian panic and self deception
Respect... At scale
Meaning and Respect
Why we need philosophy - Recognizing the conceit of hierarchy
Consciousness - why I think it's solvable thanks to emergence
Creating a Movement - Getting back to Solarpunk
The banality of hierarchy and why we need more egalitarian stories
Business without money - How to build communities beyond capitalism
The Poisonous Appeal of Capitalism
More Utopia - Becoming self sufficient
Utopia - Imagining a better world
How to use consciousness to solve more problems and build a better world
Social intelligence - how to build a better, more empathetic world
Intelligence - things to consider and how to rethink our idea of success tied to intelligence
The Four Pillars for Changing the World!
Severance, but with all reality
Research on the Origins of Hierarchy - Questioning economic development
Mental hierarchy and how it limits our freedom, development, and societal progress
Why we need anarchy - venting
Personal updates - car problems, book printing, pride expression, community building, and more
LaMDA - The bigger problems folks aren't considering about 'sentient' AI
Marxism - what it really is and what we can learn from it
Re: The Case Against Reality - What it means if space and time is not fundamental
Aliens - Cooperation vs competition, long time scales, and natural vs unnatural technology
Community, friendship, love, and eco tech
Visiting the Atlanta forest
#stopcopcity, saving the Atlanta forest, and learnings around real life activism/community building
Reflections on my self, how society puts us on edge, more problems with free-will, and love
Venting about my mistakes at work
Another case against free will - how decisions are a matter of environmental awareness
The Marvel Cinematic Universe of Madness - Moon Knight and Doctor Strange
My struggles with writing stories... Especially about non-human characters
Thoughts on human development, sentience, and free will
Elon buying Twitter, free speech, and web3
America wants you to be in debt
The problem with how we define 'civilization' - why being moderate is right wing
Ranting about Moon Knight and the problems with power scaling
Why we need to respect the philosophy of indigenous cultures.
DC Animated Movies and Moonfall - The importance of more imaginative fiction
A rant about Trees and Social Ecology
Solarpunk Software - Draft proposal for a social good grant
The inhumanity of healthcare as a product
Politics of media and sci-fi, solarpunk animism/voudon
Origins of Life, Alarming Climate Trends, and Strategies for Changing the World
Building a better world for tomorrow, today
Post-Civilization Worldbuilding
Alternative Civilizations - The importance of imagining different worlds.
Gatherverse and the Methods of Rationality
Gatherverse Brainstorming - Making the Metaverse a future with more humanity
Fuck America - A nation with corruption, racism, and classism at it's core
Progression Fantasy - From the Metaverse to Infinity
A 60page Newsletter about How to Change the World!!
Discussions on media and trans issues with a Special Guest!!
A decentralized Metaverse - ideas and use cases.
The multidimensional XR spectrum - How virtual and augmented reality are just two sides of a cube.
Addressing vaccine conspiracies - capitalism in pharma, the case for decentralized science, and more
Hospitals have terrible UX - We need to do better with medicine, healthcare services, and more...
Million-year societies - How to build sustainable technological progress.
Tangents on gaming, finances, holidays, activism, emotions, and so much more random stuff.
Flash Mob for Drifting?! And rambles about complexity, simulations for systems thinking, games, etc
XR User Flows, Squatting, The Illusion of Power, and the Subjectivity of Language
Aphantasia and the beauty of (systems-based) determinism
The Problem with YouTube and a quick case for decentralization
Work outside of work - OMIgroup, Citypride.org, and History of Inequality
Some truths about Internet and Cancel Culture.. as well as about the struggles of trans people
The Metaverse needs to be open, public, and free (ie non-corporate)
The Environment changes, so should we.
Building a better world through fiction and friendships
Currency without Scarcity or Greed - The importance of believing in a Great Mother Archetype
Pyrrhic Success?
Changing the World - My lifelong obsession... and other stuff
🤰🏿🧠 Social Females - The source of human intelligence and equality!!
The logic of feelings, archeological memory, comedy sensitivity, and solarpunking your world
🤯 Bo Burnham vs Jeff Bezos - A few thoughts on this amazing video essay by CJ The X
Space Opera and Property
Family Time, Religion, and Society
Taking apart gender, race, and culture
WOW!! Defeating the Myth of Social Evolution and Stupid/Naive Savages (Indigenous Philosophy)
Acceptance - The cure for emotional anguish
Trial Runs for Hiring and Skyrim-like Reality
Obligatory Facebook Episode 😅
Visiting the Country & Learning about Narcissism
Debt, Simulations, Society, and Human Nature
Sandbox MMORPGS - The need and potential for super immersive worlds.
Just chatting - Anarchy, Hip-hop, Race, Productivity, and so on...
Vaccines, Information Curation, and The Wandering Inn webfiction
How Hegel, Solarpunk, and Hunter-Gatherer cultures get us to think from different perspectives
The Magic of Being a Polymath
How Car Dependency turns suburbs into Wasteland... And how we can turn it back into dream land
Got into an accident. No injuries.
Montero - The Genius of Lil Nas X
How civilization creates more entropy
Trauma, Chakras, and other stuff
UI for XR - Why We Need Dynamic, Accessible, and Intuitive Design
Trying to reconcile with narcissistic parenting
The need for physical community
(Intellectual) Property is terrible, here's why. And what to do instead.
The Simplicity of Systems Thinking
Egotism, Abortion, and the Apathy of Binary Logic - A triggering Diatribe
Midweek Rambles - Schooling, Hiring, and Arcade Goals
Growing pains of a polymath/multipotentialite
Anthropology allows us to begin balancing the spreadsheet of humanity.
The Power of being interconnected, being curious, and being cooperative.
Black Ignite Talk, Newsletter, and Family Fun
Ambitious Concepts - A blessing and a curse
The infinite complexity in a blade of grass - how we all hold more stories than we tell ourselves
Free Will - Another thought experiment
Driving, Design, News, and Change...
New Schedule, who dis?
Commiting to my Mission
The true danger of AI and the propaganda of Capitalism
Credit is a terribly designed system and off-grid living seems very promising! Solarpunk FTW!
Right Wing Authoritarianism - A problem of fear mongering and social domination
WeWork - A cautionary tale of arrogance being misconstrued as confidence
UFOs - Aliens, Space Travel, and other stuff, Part 2
Netflix Shows and TechnoWizard Portfolio Website Ideas
Creativity, Game Night, Staying True to Myself, and Theming My Days
Money problems
Updates, identity, and alladat
What makes life worth playing? How can we make life feel more game-like?
Inter-brain synchronization, fractal communities, and aligning with your mission
Car-centric cities are STUPID AF!!! 🤬🤬🤬
My problem with Jordan Peterson
I too, dream of intimate Technology that empowers humans to be their best selves
The importance of nonprofit community centers, informed social spaces, and principled design.
Newsletter and the Problem with Lawns
What I'd say if I was on Lex Fridman's podcast - A rambling dialectic on free will and consciousness
Just a chill update
Projects, VR Games, and Luddism
Ideas on non-dystopian futures
Monday thoughts from the weekend - Intersectionality, gender fluidity, VR porn, and humans
How to mix realities - My ideal techno-powered community center
How humanity became an invasive species... And how we can begin to be more ecologically sustainable
Motivation, Scale, and Philosophy
Career Paths
Chill Weekend
More thoughts about other stuff 😅
Concerns about stuff
Warning! Existential Dread Incoming!
Why Ritualized Discomfort and Overcoming Adversity is Critical to Human Development
Qualitative Research and Compersion
Metacognition - Trying to share what I am thinking about what I am thinking.
Content, Music, and Social Media
What is Post-Modernism?
A Case for Anarchy
Why being woke is not that woke
Consciousness and free will
UFOS - Aliens, Terrans, or something else? Part 1
What if free will IS consciousness?
Everest, Productivity, Battlefield 2042, and more
Finances - Trillionaire dreams
Godspeak - An idea for more effective language
Busy week - Design, VR, UX Research, and Social Media/Society
Life can be AMAZING - How I want to create a scalable way for everyone to live an amazing life
Hyperlocality - Designing society to be more like nature
Intersectionality - The case for diversity and 'disorder'
More about Awareness and the meaning of life
Free Will - Consciousness as Awareness
XR - What does it mean to extend reality?
The Future of Education
What does it mean to extend reality?
No longer silent - Talking about climate change, society, and other hard topics
Updates and thoughts on revolution, history, and love
The future of the internet needs to be interoperable and contextual
Incompetence or Cowardice?
A case for banning Intellectual Property
How crowdfunding as a business model can scale 'significance'
Specialization - The need for bias, experts, and friendships for a holistic society
Why you can't ban politics at work
Personalize the World's Knowledge
Still struggling, but still trying
Healthy Transcendence - How and why I want to build a self-actualization business
Valheim as a Metaphor for Life + the Future of Design
What is entropy? What it means to be entropy machines
Learning about self-actualization and SB Kaufman's Transcend
Breaking out of the Local Maxima - What we can apply from Hunter Gatherer cultures
Is Google Good? - Why we need to create societal balance sheets to measure the impact of big tech
200,000 Years of Egalitarianism - How to create a better environment for society based on evolution
Scarcity is Delusional - How agriculture infected humanity and destroyed freedom
Lightning Round of Thoughts - Marketing, Chaos Box, Progress, NFTs, and Productivity
The Polar Bear Book - Initial thoughts as I start reading "Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond"
Letting go of Design Thinking... And Western ideas of being 'Developed'
Radically Ambitious Business Concept - What do I want to do?
What if we got technological progress all wrong?
What I want to do - figuring out how I want to change the world.
The Importance of Neuro Diversity
Balancing Principles
New mic! This is a test.
Promising events from fun conversations
Nerves, Xianxia, and Visual Design
Cashing out our ancestral bank account, RPG card game, and priority based goals
Much to be desired - Some updates
Spatial Media is the Next Stage of the Internet
Skip this one. It's just me flailing in the wind.
Spatial Media, Pokemon Go of Networking, and Chasing Novelty
Learning to play Go - Practical examples of emergence from simplicity
I want to be better.
The Importance of Psychedelics, Consciousness, and Emergence in Virtual Environments
ChessGods - An idea for a more 'exciting' chess game.
Byebye, for now
Letting Go - The Art of Reinventing Yourself
The Beauty of Mistakes (esp in Design) - 11/9/2020
Goodbye, iSimu VR. It was fun, thanks for all the zombies. - 11/7/2020
Drafting the Next Generation of VR - 11/5/2020
The role of dopamine, variable rewards, and environmental constraints in design - 11/4/2020
Ranting about the lack of design roles at emergent technology companies - 11/3/2020
Patterns of Life w My SO - 11/2/2020
Create more mature realities - 10/31/2020
The Nature of Life is to Experience... - 10/29/2020
Deconstructing Myself, Pt 3 | The source of my pain - 10/28/2020
Deconstructing Myself, pt 2 - 10/27/2020
Deconstructing Myself - 10/26/2020
Interwoven Dualities, 2 | Virtual communities and Being the Hero of your story - 10/23/2020
Interwoven Dualities | How and why we should balance the global with the local - 10/22/2020
The origins of yogic practices | Āstika vs Nāstika - 10/21/2020
The Key to my motivation, hopefully - 10/20/2020
Prepping and Plugging - 10/19/2020
A Manifesto for Radical Change - 10/18/2020
Good design speaks across mental models - 10/15/2020
The Pain of being different and alone - 10/14/2020
The Importance and Nature of Spirituality - 10/12/2020
Holding Myself Accountable, A Call for Help - 10/10/2020
Giving Thanks and Love to the People Around Me - 10/9/2020
Confidence: The Solution to our Problems - 10/7/2020
We Need to (Re)Design Human Society - 10/6/2020
Beginning the Process of Awakening - 10/5/2020
An Introduction to Mind Altering Substances - 10/3/2020
Science and Spirituality, Two Partners of an Eternal Dance - 10/1/2020
Improving the Hiring Process - 9/30/2020
Things Are Happening - 9/29/2020
Rationalizing Chakras - 9/28/2020
Radical Epiphanies on Algorithms, Religion, Humanity, and more - 9/27/2020
Discovering Sam Harris - 9/26/2020
Why is the Web Not Immersive? - 9/25/2020
Updates and Plans - 9/24/2020
The Power of Love in Business - 9/23/2020
Smol Movies can be cool AF - 9/22/2020
Privacy is Theft? Secrets are Lies?? - 9/21/2020
It's my Birthday - 9/19/2020
Let's Talk About Sex, Baby - 9/18/2020
One Punch Man vs Mob Psycho 100 - 9/17/2020
The Brain is Livewired, not plastic - 9/16/2020
Substance Abuse - 9/15/2020
Living with Purpose - 9/13/2020
Talking about my DREAMS - 9/12/2020
Getting ready for the job search - 9/11/2020
Aliens and Crazy UFO origin theories - 9/10/2020
2084 - Responding to James Altucher's predictions of the Future, 9/9/2020
Setting the schedule - 9/7/2020
Routines and Schedules, How to take charge of your life - 9/6/2020
Culture and Talent - 9/5/2020
D&D Can Teach Life Lessons - 9/4/2020
Startups, Career Goals, and Life Updates - 9/3/2020
Optimizing for Fulfillment by Crafting Realities like D&D Campaigns - 9/2/2020
Good Product > Maximizing Profit - 9/1/2020
RIP Chadwick Boseman
Feelings of self importance?
Why I want to design the future of virtual reality - 8/30/2020
Happy Birthday, My love. And the Platinum Rule - 8/28/2020
Everything is political? Thinking about politics in the workplace - 8/27/2020
A quiet morning, leaving time for stillness - 8/26/2020
Setting routines and goals, then falling off. - 8/25/2020
Holodecks, Nonphysical violence, The importance of Change, etc - 8/24/2020
Dealing with mental health - 8/22/2020
We need to fight Facebook before they destroy the future - 8/22/2020
The Next Era of Design - 8/20/2020
Fulfillment, lessons from ancient history on how to improve modern society - 8/17/2020
AR Control Schemes and Creative Tools - 8/16/2020
(Re)Starting My Audio Journal, 8/15/2020 Entry - Frustrations with myself
An update on what I've been doing and creating.
Society Needs to Address Our Real Problems
The Reality of Poverty, Part 2 - Possible Solutions
Or The Reality of Poverty, Part 1
Afroturism, Remote Work, and Recursive Recycling
The City of the Future - Part 1
The Space Age is Maturing Humanity into Adulthood
Consumerism: Discovering Better Alternatives Uncovered by First Principles
Thoughts of a TechnoWizard (Trailer)
No-Code Tools Will Free Humanity to Live Our Most Fulfilling Lives
Palaces for the People - Why and How We Need to Build Online Platforms with Architecture in Mind
Futuresight: An Underrated Superpower Or How to Overcome Adversity
A Key Part of Our Society That Deserves Far More Attention
AR is the future, VR is the end game
The Cultural Potential of Delightful UX Design
Don't Give Up. Level Up
The Danger of Regulation and How to Respect Our Data
Immutability - Why Jason Calacanis May be Wrong About Blockchain
B Corps are Dope!! The Truth about Capitalism
The True Fusion of Meatspace and Virtualspace via Actionable Gamification
How/Why we should be able to make money in Alternate Realities
Charity: Water is Amazing... I need to step up and do impactful work like that!
Intential Communities - Why we need more communes and dorm rooms to solve poverty.
How Our Ancient Instincts Can Be Limiting and What to Do About It
The Importance of Boredom and How to Apply our Ancient Instincts to Better Utilize our Modern Tools
How to Solve the Slow Death Spiral of the Retail Industry
Healthcare Tools Need Better Design
HUB of Life: A tool to take control of our data
Death May Not Be Inevitable: Why we should think about how we might live forever.
Plastic Concrete, Virtual Real Estate, and Voluntary Taxes
Throw Away the Coursework and Chnage The World!!
How to Make Super Greatly Immersive Games That Are Epic and Awesome 😁
The Power of Tripping Over Rocks
The Life-ification of Gaming
Blockchain and Layers of Reality - Apr 26, 2019
The Gravity of Life - Apr 25, 2019
A Newbies Idea on Quantum Computing
Worldbuilding - Tools you can use to help create the World