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A conversation with an anonymous guest on how new technologies can help promote positive moral behavior, blockchain and crypto concepts, digital art and NFTs, the convenience of centralization, online identity, impostor syndrome, the ever-newbie, and lots more.
Favorite quotes
- “Writing code is talking to computers, but you also have to talk to people through your code.”
- “How do we figure out, in a digital age, what is good and what should we aim for as a civilization, as a society?”
- “Information is the resolution of uncertainty.” —Claude Shannon, 1948
Books
- Collected Papers from Claude E. Shannon
- The Information by James Gleick
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Links & Terms
- DeFi (decentralized finance)
- Web3
- Escrow smart contracts
- InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
- Candy Machine
- Arweave permanent storage
- Genesis Go
- JavaScript, Rust & C++
- Pair programming
- Nifty Gateway & Foundation.app
- MetaMask & Exodus (wallets)
- Coinbase, Kraken & Gemini (exchanges)
- BIP39 (Bitcoin Improvement Protocol)
- Curiosity Stream - “YouTube for nerds”
- The Coding Train with Daniel Shiffman
- Ruby on Rails
- Keras & TensorFlow
- PlayXO.com
- SushiSwap, PancakeSwap & Abracadabra
- Glitch
- Ruby on Rails
- Anchor for Solana
Learning resources
- How to Mint an NFT on Solana Using Candy Machine
- Solana tutorials by Henry-E
- Solana tutorials by Doug Anderson
- Solana development guide with React, Anchor, Rust & Phantom by Nadir Dabit
- Ethereum & Solana tutorials by Brian Friel
- A normal person explains cryptocurrency
- Starting with Solana, Part 1
- Starting with Solana, Part 4 - A Todo List with Rewards
People mentioned
- Henry-E
- Brian Friel
- Nadir Dabit
- Doug Anderson
- Mr. Beast
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Edward Snowden
- Richard Feynman
- Aaron Schwartz
- Kevin Kelly
- Daniel Shiffman
Chapters
- 00:00 · Introduction
- 00:15 · Motivation
- 02:03 · Collaborative AI Sketching
- 05:02 · Blockchain and NFTs
- 09:07 · Promoting positive moral behavior
- 10:20 · Smart contracts
- 12:41 · The simplest smart contract
- 14:37 · NFTs
- 20:11 · Programming smart contracts
- 22:58 · Art
- 25:24 · Crypto wallets and passphrases
- 29:16 · Information
- 31:25 · Security
- 35:43 · Web3
- 39:24 · The convenience of centralization
- 44:02 · A definition of Web3
- 45:05 · Learning resources
- 46:39 · Anonymity
- 49:48 · Zuckerberg or Nakamoto?
- 54:08 · What would a good person do?
- 56:13 · Sharing your life online
- 58:10 · Hijacking the hijacking of your brain
- 01:00:41 · Pair programming
- 01:02:55 · Coding for yourself or others
- 01:06:54 · Impostor syndrome
- 01:10:15 · The constant newbie
- 01:10:58 · Content discoverability
- 01:12:31 · Outro
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