Crazy Wisdom
Why Do I Need a Personal Server? - Galen Wolfe-Pauly
- Consciousness & Philosophy
- personal servers
- philosophy
- spirituality
- breathwork
- epistemology
- consciousness
- human potential
About this episode
CEO of Tlon
Why do I need a personal server?
Why is it that we all have access to centralized servers?
Why does all our data need to be in the same place?
What is the issue of large scale? How do we consume information?
How can I control my software?
How do you use a computer as a vehicle for everyday creativity?
How should I build my jungle gym?
Pitch my new massage table idea.
How do you manage writing for your role as CEO?
Does Hoon help you in the way it's written?
When will Tlon build a new Google Suite?
How will writing lead into computer development?
How do you deal with unproductive stress?
What is landscape?
How do you boot an urbit node?
2020:
2021: Work on the infrastructure so that other people can ship apps
2022: Take landscape and split them into other applications
Digital Basics OS
Simple suite of tools, solo for your own note taking.
What will be the business-to-business landscape for Urbit?
Real estate investment trust.
Landscape as an OS in more high-level stuff.
What is an OS?
All the stuff, UI Chrome, developer frameworks for building an application.
How do you make a toolkit really good?
Urbit becomes.
What is the problem with Google Docs?
How do you visualize your personal data?
What are the incentives to hoard other’s data?
Sell it to advertisers.
How do you build the social media layer on top of the internet?
What does the internet look like after Urbit?
Do we now have teleportation of the mind?
What do you think about ancient Athens and the thing that happened to them as a connected place?
How do you think advertising will work within Urbit?
What is the technological problem that Urbit solved?
How do you know when things turn mildly creepy?
Older than blockchain.
Who were the early creators of distributed systems?
Tell me more about cypherpunk.
What are distributed systems?
500 CS graduates in the late 60s. Electrical engineering programs (25 minutes)
Area of CS research: A program that runs on a bunch of nodes, which needs them to share data and compute together.
How did you find your investors?
What does Urbit mean in regards to the future of distributed systems?
Where does Gitlab fit into Urbit?
Its an F-U to the networked computing industry.
What is the industrial software complex?
What are the things that are served by a personal virtual machine?
What have you learned about the Self and self-identity from creating things on Urbit?
What are the upfront costs of learning Hoon?
In the early PCs the chip-set matters a lot. Chips run the code through the system.
Portability in software.
Why does ETH create a virtual machine? Why does it need one?
A system as of a bunch of nodes.
What do you think of Chia?
How do physics flow into computing and new technologies?
What is the one definition of computing?
Whatever comes next.
What is the relationship between Lightning and Urbit?
What is an arbitrary contract?
What is LUNA (45 minutes)?
How do you tell when something isn’t hyped?
In what ways was OHM like LUNA?
What has woodworking taught you?
What is materially useful here?
How can you get a categorical win?
How should I scope the project?
What is the most important thing about building what you are going to build?
What are the material constraints of the product you want to build?
How will that work with the new technologies coming out of the pipeline?
How do you work with people?
Look at interviews with the people who wrote cyberpunk.
What game?
What is Zaibatsu?
What is monolithic about the personal computer?
What is dynamic land?
Ubiquitous computing paper from the late 80s?
What is outdoor computing?
Episode transcript
This podcast doesn't really have a specific theme. It covers a lot of my interests. It covers a lot of other people's interests. It goes into philosophy, spirituality, business, how to live a good life, many different things. Ultimately, I don't believe in having themes for the things that we do. We can categorize the things and obviously we categorize things all the time. But I like to keep things open ended continuous process of discovering the truth as it is. And the truth is tricky because we can't really get to the truth exactly. Because the truth is nonlinear. It is, in the words of John Vervaeke, combinatorially explosive. Even the truth of this window that I'm looking at, the window itself, the glass that makes up the window, is combinatorially explosive. The cup that holds your water is combinatorially explosive. You cannot model that cup totally in your head. You're only getting an image of it in with your eyes and your brain. That's not the actual cup itself. So this show is a discovery of truth wherever it may appear. By talking to people from various different fields. I've talked to artists, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, refugees, just talking to anybody who has a glimpse into the truth. And through this conversation, through this mutual inquiry into what is true, what is real, hopefully we get to something that is helpful for to you now. We are in a time of crisis right now, but it is in those times of crisis that we find our strength. And so this show hopefully will help you to find the strength that is resting, that is deep, deep inside of you, that is part of your birthright as a human being and find that strength so that you can get through these difficult times. Also, I want to let you know that I'm offering breathwork sessions every day. I've got seven sessions a day and really excited to bring this to people. People have been really enjoying it and it has brought strength to people and courage. And that's my goal, is to help you find the courage to not only survive, but to thrive in the next couple years, maybe, because this virus is not going away. Usually viruses come in waves. So this is the first wave. It will go away and then it might come back. I'm not saying that I know for sure it will come back, but we are in this for the long haul. So this is a marathon, not a sprint. And I want to do everything I can to help you not only survive, but to thrive. So if you are interested in that, please find me on Twitter ewartalsopiii. My DMs are open I'd love to hear about what you think about this show. Also, it'd be very, very kind of you to both subscribe to the show on Spotify, Stitcher, itunes, many of the major platforms. And if you're really feeling generous, go ahead and give a review on itunes. So join me for the breathwork. Just send me a message on Twitter Ewart allsoppiii with your email and I'll add you to the email list where you where I'm sending out emails for the schedule. Hopefully see you there. Have a great day.
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