Wouldn't It Be Awesome If...?
by Arvind NagarajanA podcast explaining the world we live in and imagining ways to make it better
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Episodes
Month 5: Frustration and avoidance
26m · Published1:22 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/
Creating the next...Mr Beast?!
8m · PublishedCreate-stars Startup or Story on Youtube
Recommendation: Michael Lewis' Against the Rules - The Art of the Untold Story on Apple or Spotify
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- American kids want to be famous on YouTube - https://www.businessinsider.com/american-kids-youtube-star-astronauts-survey-2019-7?op=1Â
- 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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Knock knock. Who's there? Effective governance.
16m · PublishedJokedao 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
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References -Â
- 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.Â
WIBAI Recommends: LeVar Burton Reads
46m · PublishedStory - Immersive Remix: "Fantaisie Impromptu No. 4 in C#min, Op. 66" by Carlos Hernandez
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On Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/levar-burton-reads/id1244649384
On Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/21yjAjzYXD1xCNDad4OdTV
The magic number is...
11m · PublishedBethoyos 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
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Season 1 of the podcast on YouTubeÂ
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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.Â
Be the hero of your own story
9m · PublishedBethoyos Startup or Story on YouTube
Recommendation: Hidden Brain's The Story of Your Life on Apple or Spotify
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Season 1 of the podcast on YouTubeÂ
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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.
Wouldn't It Be Awesome If...? has 6 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 1:58:02. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 9th, 2024 19:40.