With Bitcoin, it feels like a lot of the early adoption around that was as a counter to what was happening in the United States economically with the financial crash and fiat currency being used by the government to prop certain people up and not others. And I think when people are struck with a real sense of unfairness, they start to get motivated to take action --- Mike

SHOW NOTES

02:54 - Introduction and how the invisible hand of the market guided my IPO

06:02 - Bitcoin and the unfairness of capitalism

08:03 - The chaos of the early internet brought people together

13:01 - Are we not going to teach people philosophy?

17:05 - NFTs are certificates of authenticity for an idea

22:35 - DAOs are online Co-ops

27:00 - Growing up in a town of population 10

30:16 - Experiencing community after a decade of isolation

33:00 - Deconstructing the military machine

37:31 - Oregon, counter-culture and small businesses vs Walmart

41:49 - Plato and sandwich

43:43 - Daily routine

46:08 - Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds

49:38 - How to operate in the fringes of technology

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What really makes me pause at this point is not that someone has that unique of a thought process, it's that they've been able to distill it in a really memorable way, like Dawkins memetics. Like the idea of being on your deathbed and having no regrets; that's a very basic concept. I feel like a lot of people throughout history have had that idea, but Jeff Bezos put it into The Regret Minimization Framework and that sticks. -- John Coogan

SHOW NOTES

03:32 - Introduction
04:40 - Big tobacco and the end of cigarettes
07:00 - Society needs Einstein's as well as generalists and those building different knowledge sets
11:10 - From high school rivals to co-founders
14:17 - Fake it till you make it in silicon valley
18:02 - Distilling complex ideas like Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham
21:30 - I had an empty calendar and read books for weeks in YC
24:57 - America should have a very high customer satisfaction rate
30:17 - At what point did Theranos become a fraud?
35:25 - The main Marxist critique is capitalists are well off than workers
40:16 - We don't have enough founders working on multi-decade problems
43:21 - The second-order effects of building tech infrastructure
45:21 - There's lack of fragmentation in the college education market
51:40 - 3 books that will have a huge impact on civilization

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I've known Dave for a few months now and It was good to finally have him on the show. We talked about a bunch of stuff ( mentioned in the show notes ) from media in the past to where it's going and everything in between. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

SHOW NOTES

03:19 - Bleacher report became my lifeline when I was stuck in the drudgery of a full-time job

09:14 - Lessons from my failure at Inverse and building Audience Builders from first principles

12:40 - Building distribution networks in legacy media brands

17:47 - Deep work and blocking your calendar like Jerry Seinfeld

23:21 - People who shaped my worldview - Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Jake Lodwick, Kevin Rose

29:00 - Taking advantage of platform growth mechanics while building an original voice

30:55 - Sam Parr is successful because he is a student of history

34:18 - Building a media empire like Pomp

37:31 - Self-censorship

41:02 - Great brands create an entire world to build deeper fan experiences

45:12 - The promise of the creator economy

49:30 - Creators will start to look more like media companies and media companies will become more like record labels

52:00 - Bringing novelty into interview podcasts

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