03:03 - Rony’s Superpower: Being a Space Cadet: Free-Willing Imagination, Insight, and Intuition

06:54 - Becoming Interested in Technology

Science + Art
Star Wars
Solar Power

10:30 - Unstructured Play and Maintaining a Sense of Wonder and Free-Spiritedness

Geoffrey West on Scaling, Open-Ended Growth, and Accelerating Crisis/Innovation Cycles: Transcenden

15:15 - Power Structures and Hierarchies

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Order vs. Disorder
Greater Than Code Episode 125: Everything is Communication with Sam Aaron

35:04 - Using Technology to Decentralize Social Structures: Is it possible?

Hacking Reality
Enlightenment and Transcendence
Somatics
Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis by Stanislav Grof

01:05:19 - The Game of Capitalism

What It Means To Win; Mimicking Desires
Reorienting Around Joy, Creation, Learning, and Experiences
Self-Actualization & Community

01:09:39 - Are We Technology?

Survival of the Fittest

Reflections:

Tim: We as a global community, need to bring our drums to the drum circle.

Chanté: How do we build decentralized guilds?

Arty: 1) Breaking out of nets and creating opportunities to innovate, invent, rethink, and enable new things to happen. 2) How do we create more entrepreneurship and enable more entrepreneurial innovation to happen?

Rony: Empathy, Compassion, Imagination, Freedom, Courage.

BONUS:

The lost classic "Fire" (from one of Rony’s early bands)

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