December 13, 2024: IDF in Gaza, JFK Files, Astro Bot
Today is December 13, 2024, and here is all the news that's fit to predict: 1. Will Hamas allow IDF to remain in Gaza? 2. Trump declassifies JFK files? 3. Game of the Year 2024 - Announced. Plus, updates on the stories we covered this week, including Mangione's Manifesto, Fed December Rate Cuts, and more. These stories are actively unfolding. To stay up to date, head to Polymarket.com.
1: Jason Liu - The Freedom in Being Nobody
Jason Liu is a technologist, consultant, teacher, and friend. He spent the first part of his career as a machine learning engineer, mostly at Stitchfix, only to run into a wall: a hand injury that prevented him from being able to write any software for over a year. Fortunately, he's not so one-dimensional, and spent time reclaiming somatic experience in learning to free-dive, train Jiu-Jitsu, and return to the pottery practice he developed in art school, all while reckoning with big questions of ambition, purpose, and self-fulfillment. Since then, he's built a consulting practice helping modern AI companies better implement RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), avoid system design mistakes, hire elite talent, and build for an LLM-centric world. He maintains a large structured output library called Instructor with about 1m downloads per month, writes prolifically (which he does entirely via voice input with LLM editing, as we discuss), tweets semi-manically (he's grown to 30K followers on X with the simplest strategy I've ever heard anyone articulate—tweeting 30K times), and teaches courses on RAG and online consulting. Finally, my man can yap. He was a perfect first guest because he has no shortage of ideas but comes at nearly everything with a beginner's mindset. Timestamps (0:00): Intro to Dialectic (2:55): Brick laying vs. capital allocating (6:04): Acid Story: Trying so hard to be a somebody (9:20): Planning, judgement, elasticity, and abundance (11:28): Ambition and Trusting your future self (14:20): Fear; Confidence is the memory of success (18:46): Compounding psychology of risk taking (21:30): Do you get what you deserve? (22:32): Playing life on hard mode (27:22): Agency, Taking Accountability, and becoming essential (35:58): Consulting and Independent Contracting (39:52): Ambition and “Manhattan Project” Appeal (42:30): What are you motivated by? (44:36): Challenge runs and side quests (46:39): How to be prolific (53:46): Mastery, complex games, and creative fingerprints (57:47): Programming, animation, and style vs. cohesion (1:07:56): Jason only writes with his voice--with some LLM help (1:12:47): Flooding the airwaves with content (1:14:10): Twitter growth: simple math (1:19:49): Using the “sawdust” (1:23:30): ELI5 RAG (Retrieval augmented generation) (1:27:39): A final rant against couches
Episode 2 – The Psychology of Performance with Kate Kornish
Keywords: meaning, performance, psychology, blockchain, sales, authenticity, leadership, inner world, outer world Summary: In this conversation, Coach Coale and Kate Kornish delve into the profound themes of meaning, performance, and the interplay between our inner and outer worlds. Kate shares her journey from a professional musician to exploring the realms of psychology and blockchain, emphasizing the importance of finding meaning in our lives and work. They discuss how our internal beliefs shape our external realities and the significance of letting go in performance. The conversation culminates in practical advice for reconnecting with meaning through exploration and self-awareness.
Hyperactive Episode 11 - Design Everyday with 0xdesigner
We walk-and-talk with anonymous provocateur, 0xdesigner. He shares his journey to becoming a designer, his approach to communicating new ideas, breadth versus depth, building a body of work, inspiring others to action, shaping culture, and the conviction required to continue creating.
Rhetorik - Turning insecurities into art
In the second episode of Season five, we are joined by Chase Marchetti aka Rhetorik. Chase is a world renowned artist and DJ, best known for working with the rapper Logic since 2013. On top of being an insanely talented artist, he’s also been deep in the crypto trenches for years. He’s one of the most humble and down to earth friends I have and I’m thrilled to share this wide-ranging conversation with him. We dive into Chase’s musical background and how he got into producing, what it has been like to work with Mac Miller and Logic, van living life, spotting new trends and trading them in the trenches, creating Happy Goat, and so much more. If you’d like to sponsor Season 5 of We Do A Little, please reach out to [info@shillr.xyz] 0:00 Intro 5:25 Where did you grow up? 7:20 Where did your love of music come from? 13:30 How did you get into producing? 17:42 How did you find crypto? 29:10 Fashion 35:10 How do you find new trends before others? 42:00 What made you decide to live in a van? 48:10 How did you meet your significant other? 54:10 What is your biggest edge as a trader? 55:55 The gang talks about buying their first apes 59:00 How did Happy Goat come together? 1:09:45 Go to fast food orders 1:25:15 What’s your favorite venue to do a show in? 1:31:55 Losing respect for celebrities who half ass NFTs 1:43:13 Thoughts on Music NFTs 1:53:40 What would the title of your autobiography be? More Rhetorik: X: https://x.com/djrhetorik More Andy8052 X: https://twitter.com/andy8052 More Deeze X: https://twitter.com/DeeZe More WDAL X: https://twitter.com/wedoalittlepod Discord: https://discord.gg/AStUCwXERh More Shillr: X: https://x.com/shillrxyz Podcasts: https://shillr.buzzsprout.com/ More h0m3w0rk (creators of our theme song) X: https://twitter.com/homeworkNFT Production by Weesh X: https://twitter.com/__weesh__
Getting LOUDER with David from Hume
Everything you need to know about LOUDER with David Beiner. The co-founder of Hume and the team behind Angelbaby, Deathpixie and Kai Wav is back with their most ambitious virtual artist yet. We dive into the intention behind an open artist, the marriage of tokens and NFTs with 404s and how Boost is being used to amplify the initial distribution. Tap in for everything you need to know about LOUDER - now live at getlouder.xyz!
