People Talking (@peopletalking) • Hey
The web3 podcast where we don't talk about web3 that much.
Publications
- Sam Simmons of Mintpass - Poker, Fandom, Gamification - S2E3
They say that game developers know more about human nature than psychologists, but gamers themselves are a close second if we can look at why we enjoy certain games over others.
My guest this week is Sam Simmons, Co-Founder at Mintpass: a collecting experience that makes your travels a part of your digital identity. Previously he spent 9 years rising up to become the President at PokerGo, a world-leader in poker television. But his resume started where a lot of web3 builders start: MMOs.
In this episode we hear about stories from Sam’s years spent around the highest level players in poker, reverse engineering WoW and other MMOs and why they’re so addictive, and gut check the difference between fandom and community (sneak peak: most web3 “communities” are more like fan bases).
People listening: I hope you enjoy this long overdue episode.
-Making the best decisions with the information you have. Not outcomes based.
-Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke “Resulting”
-Variance and volume in poker win out: https://www.888poker.com/magazine/strategy/understanding-poker-variance-will-help-you-cope-downswings
-Quote: Game developers know more about psychology than psychologists.
-Gamification done right: Attainable but challenging
-Having different ways to do things well
-Yu Kai Chou - Actionable Gamification: https://www.amazon.com/Actionable-Gamification-Beyond-Points-Leaderboards-ebook/dp/B00WAOGY4U
-8 things that drive us to do what we do
-Higher purpose - Narrative around why you should do something
-White hat vs black hat - Some tactics make you feel good, others bad.
-Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke:
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Bets-Making-Smarter-Decisions/dp/0735216355
https://www.quantifiedstrategies.com/annie-duke-thinking-in-bets/#:~:text=We%20judge%20the%20quality%20of,book%20called%20Thinking%20In%20Bets.
-Every hand revealed - Gus Hansen: https://www.amazon.com/Every-Hand-Revealed-Gus-Hansen/dp/0818407271
-Zero to One - Peter Thiel: https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296
-Stoicism - Ryan Holiday - Daily Stoic: https://ryanholiday.net/
-The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky: https://www.amazon.com/Messy-Middle-Finding-Through-Hardest/dp/0735218072
-Atomic Habits - James Clear: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299
-Every action you take each day is a vote for the person you want to be.
- Season 2 of People Talking is here with 2 new episodes 👉👉💥💥
People Talking is the web3 podcast that's not about web3. We bring on web3 heavy hitters and cover topics outside of web3 that influence how they approach the space. That's a massive sandbox to play in.
Ep1 is with Francesco Bisardi, a crypto and AI OG where we cover how to practically use AI today for business and pleasure, alpha on high-signal people to follow in AI, and more. Also, he's an Italian powerlifting champion. That wasn't on my bingo card.
Ep2 is with Jon Hillis of Cabin, a provider of coliving neighborhoods in nature for creators and remote workers. We cover everything from stories of working through the chaos of COVID to new theories of human nature.
As always, I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking.
P.S. if you can like/subscribe/follow/rate etc whereever you're watching, it really helps the show out and if it was onchain you would get credit but since it's off chain you'll just have to accept my gratitude 😁
- Humpty Calderon of Crypto Sapiens - Collecting - S1E8
Hey People Listening, have you ever collected Pokemon or Yugioh cards? Did you have as absurd of a Beenie Baby collection as I did? Did you try to justify all of this spending to your parents who reluctantly relinquished hundreds or thousands of dollars for this seemingly pointless stuff? This episode is for you.
Humpty Calderon, founder and host of the CryptoSapiens podcast, has always been an avid collector of many things: comic books and manga, action figures, whisky, watches, and of course digital collectibles. In this episode he shares his story of collecting, why he does it, and a glimpse into his factors for what makes something collectible. I don’t think I have to harp too much on why this is relevant to web3.
Enjoy!
Humpty’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/humptycalderon
Crypto Sapiens Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3yS1Y61r0XkogChx12JQ2q
Collecting: An Urge That’s Hard to Resist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mind-collector/202010/collecting-urge-s-hard-resist
Teddy Baldassarre Watch YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TeddyBaldassarre
The Urban Gentry Watch YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@theurbangentry
Watchfinder and Co YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@watchfinder
Theo and Harris Watch YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoandHarris
Wristwatch Revival YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival
Gerald Genta Designer of Nautilus and Royal Oak: https://www.geraldgenta-heritage.com/gerald-genta
Tikkon Kinkreet Manga: https://myanimelist.net/manga/442/Tekkon_Kinkreet
The Once and Future King - TH White: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43545.The_Once_and_Future_King
Reinventing Organizations: : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness - Frederic Laloux: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20787425-reinventing-organizations
SPB143 Seiko Watch: https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/products/prospex/spb143j1
GS SBGW289: https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/sbgw289g
Hodinkee: https://www.hodinkee.com/
Goldammer Vintage Watches YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GoldammerVintageWatches
- Dougie DeLuca of Figment Capital - Music, Aliens, and Native American History - S1E7
How the hell could music, aliens and native American history have any possible connection to web3? You'd be surprised.
Okay actually the Alien conversation was unplanned and had no tie in, but it was still fun.
Dougie DeLuca has been an analyst in the Cosmos ecosystem for 3 years now and has been at Figment capital for over a year. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation between making music and how it’s a nice break for your brain from the screen, a quick debate on whether or not aliens have visited earth, and the surprising lessons from distributed communities of Native Americans and what they can teach us about designing our own communities.
Dougie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DougieDeLuca
Figment Capital: https://twitter.com/FigmentCapital
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America: https://www.amazon.com/Indigenous-Continent-Contest-North-America/dp/1631496999
History of Guerilla Warfare in the Adirondacks: https://hamiltoncs.org/forever-wild/military-history/history-of-guerrilla-warfare/
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Dougie’s Deep Dive Thread of Threads: https://twitter.com/DougieDeLuca/status/1485688448325402624
Mysterious Universe Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jUIHJh8tpRxk6YLafhswz
Fermi Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Obol and distributed validator technology: https://obol.tech/
Patrick star, push our validators somewhere else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_pTGhOyPbw
Japanese Shintoism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
- Tasafila (Shane) of BlockbusterDAO and R3WIND - The Power of Nostalgia - S1E6
Tasafila (Shane) is most well known as the founder of Blockbuster DAO which aimed to buy the Blockbuster IP in late 2021. We talk about his background in filmmaking and investigative journalism (there’s a fun story in this conversation about that) and how that positioned him to harness the power of nostalgia with Blockbuster DAO.
Enjoy!
Tasafila’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/tasafila
R3WIND Twitter: https://twitter.com/R3WINDxyz
R3WIND’s Mirror: https://rewind.mirror.xyz/
Baubax Travel Jacket: https://www.baubax.com/
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/17/12/1131/6585517
Nickelodeon Documentary: https://www.hulu.com/movie/the-orange-years-the-nickelodeon-story-05933844-48af-4c75-bb60-7ed497ca4916
Crypt TV: https://crypttv.com/
Screenwriting and Filmmaking book: Robert McCee: Storynomics: https://www.amazon.com/Storynomics-Story-Driven-Marketing-Post-Advertising-World/dp/1538727935
John August, Craig Maison Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ohMdZ91g1sXIYz8ylNgD9
Nicole - Nostalgia podcast: Nicstalgia: https://www.nicoletremaglio.com/nicstalgia
Joseph Campbell: Hero With a Thousand Faces: https://www.amazon.com/Hero-with-Thousand-Faces-audiobook/dp/B01BFBXOM8/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw2cWgBhDYARIsALggUhpS-EqJx8xdQFFV6bDdow60ATDCzLI04ezghnsJ-xW0H1reaHifQPQaAncCEALw_wcB&hvadid=409986903515&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9028787&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9887489688688118478&hvtargid=kwd-642118551499&hydadcr=22566_11319577&keywords=the+hero+of+thousand+faces&qid=1678905755&sr=8-1
Baubax Travel Attire: https://www.baubax.com/
- Pietro Moran of The Giving Block - Charity and Philanthropy - S1E5
In crypto years, Pietro is a long-time friend and former teammate of mine from our college track days. He’s doing amazing things in the space pushing web3 use cases to an area that can hugely benefit but doesn’t get enough coverage because of lack of degen opportunities: Donations in crypto.
As the Director of Crypto Partnerships at The Giving Block, Pietro is working directly with thousands of nonprofits to accept crypto donations and improve transparency and reduce transaction fees.
If you aren’t currently donating crypto to nonprofits, this episode is for you.
Enjoy!
- Hey People Listening, have you ever collected Pokemon or Yugioh cards? Did you have as absurd of a Beenie Baby collection as I did? Did you try to justify all of this spending to your parents who reluctantly relinquished hundreds or thousands of dollars for this seemingly pointless stuff? This episode is for you.
Episode 8 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Humpty Calderon, Host of the Crypto Sapiens podcast and co-founder of Mosaic.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1BoaWsCfSaKwR7JGup5PTw
Humpty Calderon has always been an avid collector of many things: comic books and manga, action figures, whisky, watches, and of course digital collectibles. In this episode he shares his story of collecting, why he does it, and a glimpse into his factors for what makes something collectible. I don’t think I have to harp too much on why this is relevant to web3.
- Episode 6 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Tasafila (Shane), creator of BlockbusterDAO (now R3WIND).
Tasafila (Shane) is most well known as the founder of BlockbusterDAO which aimed to buy the Blockbuster IP in late 2021. We talk about his background in filmmaking and investigative journalism (there’s a fun story in this conversation about that) and how that positioned him to harness the power of nostalgia with BlockbusterDAO.
Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pFcamWib3ZC5zUyPbn5Ok
- Episode 5 of People Talking is now live 🎥🎉My guest this week is Pietro Moran, Head of Crypto Partnerships at The Giving Block.
People Talking is a web3 podcast that's not about web3. It's a place for web3 builders and creators to talk about topics outside of web3 that influence how they approach the space.
In crypto years, Pietro is a long-time friend and former teammate of mine from our college track days. He’s doing amazing things in the space pushing web3 use cases to an area that can hugely benefit but doesn’t get enough coverage because of lack of degen opportunities: Donations in crypto.
As the Director of Crypto Partnerships at The Giving Block, Pietro is working directly with thousands of nonprofits to accept crypto donations and improve transparency and reduce transaction fees.
If you aren’t currently donating crypto to nonprofits, this episode is for you.
Enjoy!
- People Talking: The web3 podcast that's not about web3
- Episode 4 of People Talking is published 🎥🎉
Steph is a branding wizard and head of media at Seed Club, a DAO and creator accelerator. We cover her life in traditional branding before web3, geek out over the marketing genius of Ryan Reynolds, and dissect the elements of good storytelling to use for your own projects. Hint: Storytelling is a skill and can be learned and applied to more than just Pixar movies.
Enjoy!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SgPuQ16GJdFDBGxsxy6oO
- Episode 3 of People Talking is Live 🎥🎉 My guest this week is Stefen Deleveaux (@stefdelev.lens) covering Economics and Ecology.
If you don't know who Stefen is, now is a good time. Stefen Deleveaux is the Head of Growth at Govern and President of the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance and one of the first friends I made in web3. Somehow, when you talk to anyone who knows Stefen personally he always comes up as one of their favorite people in the space. It’s hard not to like this guy.
Not only is Stefen a great guy, but he’s a respected thinker in web3. He recently spoke at ETH Denver on better DAO contribution tracking (recording pending) and has spoken at many other events. And now his crown jewel of achievements: Guest appearance on People Talking (heh).
Hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4N1p65okWwjyGAhvYF2DFC
- First 2 episodes of the People Talking podcast are LIVE 🎉🍾 You can find them on Spotify and soon on Apple podcasts.
https://open.spotify.com/show/0KVhAV7MItkdkQ50f9lrql
What is People Talking?
The problem I see with a lot of web3 podcasts right now is they seem to bring on the same people to the same shows and talk about the same things. While I love a lot of these shows, I found myself getting exhausted by the highly tactical, intense, adderall-induced vibe that a lot of these shows emanate and feeling like I have to have my notes out and finger over the pause button to consume everything.
Vibe-wise, what I feel is missing is some middle ground between something that's informative and educational and something that's fun and rejuvenating to listen to. At this starting point, I also noticed that a lot of the coolest people I talked to in web3 were interested in a lot of other topics. My favorite people in the space weren't just technologists or finance bros like the dominating narrative about crypto. These were people voraciously curious about economics, ecology, collective identity, probability and gambling, physics, native american history, music, skiing, charity, ego on the internet, and so much more. While some of these topics come up, web3 is always the dominating subject for all written and audio content created right now in the space.
This is where People Talking comes in. This podcast is meant to create a chill, relaxed and intellectually curious space for the voraciously curious in web3 to talk about these other topics and explore the hidden connections that hugely influence their approach to web3.
To follow the journey, consider following me and collecting this post (it's free).
I hope you enjoy the first season of People Talking and have as much fun as I am learning about a range of topics from the coolest people in web3.