Wouldn't It Be Awesome If...?: Recent Episodes
Arvind Nagarajan
1:22 Frustrations on the journey
6:04 My purpose
8:54 The Lindy effect
17:22 Killer use cases for AI or VR
23:47 Social fitness
I am documenting my entrepreneurial journey launching a new middle and high school in North Carolina.
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🎞️ REFERENCES
Amor Towles interview on How I Write - https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1757883132722737555?utm_source=pocket_saves
The Experimentation Layer by Pack McCormick - https://www.notboring.co/p/the-experimentation-layer
Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out by Derek Thompson - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/
Create-stars Startup or Story on Youtube
Recommendation: Michael Lewis' Against the Rules - The Art of the Untold Story on Apple or Spotify
Buy The Maker's Dream - http://arvindn.gumroad.com/l/themakersdreambook
Subscribe to this pod in newsletter form instead - http://wibai@substack.com
Season 1 of the podcast on YouTube
References -
- American kids want to be famous on YouTube - https://www.businessinsider.com/american-kids-youtube-star-astronauts-survey-2019-7?op=1
- Alternative education goes mainstream - https://obviouslythefuture.substack.com/p/alternative-education
- The rise in alternative education - https://hillside.substack.com/p/the-rise-in-alternative-education
- Twitter thread on alternative ed - https://twitter.com/jwdanner/status/1591821653339648000
Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.
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Jokedao Startup or Story on YouTube
Eleven Startup or Story on YouTube
Recommendation: Sam Harris' Making Sense #209 - A Good Life (guest Scott Barry Kauffman) on Apple or Spotify
Buy The Maker's Dream - http://arvindn.gumroad.com/l/themakersdreambook
Subscribe to this pod in newsletter form instead - http://wibai@substack.com
Season 1 of the podcast on YouTube
References -
- The Only Crypto Story You Need, by legendary finance writer Matt Levine (fair warning: it’s 40k words so it really is the only one you need lol)
- Crypto’s Failed Promise
- Policy Proposals for Crypto Protocols to Make Them Less Dystopic and More Inclusive
- Crypto for people who don’t follow crypto
- The most important scarce resource is legitimacy
- The Dao of DAOs
Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.
I don’t check unsubscribe alerts and never look at my subscriber list.
Story - Immersive Remix: "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66" by Carlos HernandezSubscribe to LeVar Burton Reads!
On Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/levar-burton-reads/id1244649384
On Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/21yjAjzYXD1xCNDad4OdTV
Bethoyos Startup or Story on YouTube
Eleven Startup or Story on YouTube
Recommendation: LeVar Burton Reads "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66" by Carlos Hernandez on Apple or Spotify
Buy The Maker's Dream - http://arvindn.gumroad.com/l/themakersdreambook
Subscribe to this pod in newsletter form instead - http://wibai@substack.com
Season 1 of the podcast on YouTube
References -
For virtual reality:
- Adventures in Technophilosophy: On the Reality of Virtual Worlds
- Twitter thread on why you shouldn’t be dismissive of VR
- VR: Explained (quite dated but done by the best explainer)
- Meta Quest 2 Review (this is the relatively cheap Meta headset)
- Meta’s new expensive Quest
Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.
I don’t check unsubscribe alerts and never look at my subscriber list.
Bethoyos Startup or Story on YouTube
Recommendation: Hidden Brain's The Story of Your Life on Apple or Spotify
Buy The Maker's Dream - http://arvindn.gumroad.com/l/themakersdreambook
Subscribe to this pod in newsletter form instead - http://wibai@substack.com
Season 1 of the podcast on YouTube
References -
For AI text generation:
- Open AI’s GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin
- An AI might have written this
- Some of the main tools: GPT-3, Sudowrite, Lex
For AI art generation:
- Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E
- Meta’s new text-to-video AI generator is like DALL-E for video
- Some of the main tools: DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Make-A-Video
Wouldn’t It Be Awesome If…? is the beginning of many questions I ask myself about the future. WIBAI has become my place to attempt to make sense of the world we live in and imagine ways to make it better.
I don’t check unsubscribe alerts and never look at my subscriber list. So if this isn’t for you, you can unsubscribe below.
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Other References
My Amazon page (for reviews) - https://amzn.to/3pDm7zq
The Deep Space Between by Cassandra Stirling - https://amzn.to/33Zir2q
