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Crazy Wisdom

Lawrence Wang: Modern Wisdom

August 2, 2019 · 56 min

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About this episode

Lawrence Wang works as a software engineer at MakerDAO, a decentralized project that operates within the Ethereum blockchain. 

This interview was special. Lawrence has a way of putting things so clearly and concisely that you'll be left speechless. From spiritual surrender to cryptocurrencies, this one's all about learning to navigate the turbulent waters of modern society with wisdom and clarity.

More on MakerDAO at https://makerdao.com

 

Timeline

(03:20) - What is MakerDAO?

(04:20) - How does Lawrence work with stress?

(07:16) - How can we adapt to the increasingly large networks of people in our lives?

(10:26) - Signal vs. noise

(13:20) - What's recently changed Lawrence's life in a meaningful way?

(14:36) - The sweet spot between optimism and pessimism

(16:00) - How is ignorance a form of freedom?

(18:02)- What's the impact of technology on principles?

(20:25) - What is actually going to save us (the world)?

(23:39) - Co-dependence vs. Interdependence

(25:38) - Anti-fragility, and the spiritual equivalent of "FU-money"

(29:09) - Establishing (energetic) boundaries

(32:12) - Lawrence on Meditation and the role of Technique

(39:00) - What are Stablecoins?

(44:42) - Cryptocurrencies' biggest promise

(48:20) - Remote-work: the future of human connection?

 

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Episode transcript
Lawrence Wang00:00

I had a lot of subconscious beliefs about the need to do things, the need to grow and learn and have capacity on my own. And I think that that was holding me back, actually, that it was something I learned for important reasons as I grew up. But now I'm in a phase where I lean a lot more heavily on what you could call social intelligence or social cognition, accepting that I have a piece of the puzzle, but my piece of the puz, only valuable insofar as it's interacting with and dialoguing with other people's puzzle pieces.

Stewart Alsop III00:37

Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Today I interviewed Lawrence Wang, a friend

Stewart Alsop III00:43

of mine for quite a long time

Stewart Alsop III00:45

now and very wise individual. He also happens to work at MakerDAO, which is a very interesting cryptocurrency startup that is.

Stewart Alsop III00:55

Well, you'll find out more about it

Stewart Alsop III00:57

in this interview that we did. And you'll not only find out more about cryptocurrency, but you'll also find more about stress, create activity and the question that I like asking people, how does a spiritual practice make you more antifragile? And Lawrence had the best answer to this question that I have found so far. And he also has lots of things to say about cryptocurrency, about stress, about creativity. I think you really enjoy it and I just want to let you guys know that I am doing a online course with anders Jones, the CEO of Facet wealth, who raised $40 million in his series A. We're going to be teaching startup founders the ins and outs of how to raise money for a seed stage or a Series A startup. We're going to have a lot of information in this online course, a lot of wisdom about how to do that, how to do that in the best way. Also, if you're a distributed company and want to learn how to build a distributed company, raise money for a distributed company. Anders has a lot of answers for you. Really excited to do this online course. If that sounds of interest to you. If you are a Series A or seed stage getting ready to raise money for your seed stage or your Series A, go ahead and subscribe to my blog@stuartalsop.substack.com that's s t E W A R T A l s o p.substack.com I will be including more more information and links to the application. This is application only. I want to make sure the best startups are included and yeah, and I just want to let you know that if you do go through the course there, we will do pitch work in the course. So if you're thinking about how do I make a pitch deck, how do I get the information that investors want, we will go over that. And if I don't want to promise this because this is really important, if the pitch is good, then I will send it to my network of investors

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