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2+title = "Urbit – A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet"
3+podcast = "Epicenter"
4+date = "October 18, 2017"
5+URL = "https://epicenter.tv/episodes/205/"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/epicenter.jpg"
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9+Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO of Tlon, the company behind Urbit, joined us to discuss one of the most radical and curious projects to come on the podcast. In development for 15 years already, Urbit aims to unravel the cloud computing paradigm that led to the creation of internet monopolies like Google and Facebook. Instead, in Urbit, each person has a personal server, a kind of digital sovereign entity, where applications are run, which leaves control and data in the hands of users.
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11+Galen joined us to discuss what the philosophy and ideas driving Urbit, how a radically different internet could look like and what our path is to get there.
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13+Topics discussed in this episode:
14+- The 15 year long history and evolution of Urbit
15+- Understanding Urbit through the metaphors of a personal server, a personal blockchain, a republic or an operating function
16+- The main Urbit components Nock, Hoon and Arvo
17+- How Galaxies, Stars and Planets create Urbit's hierarchy
18+- The Urbit namespace and why it has value
19+- How Urbit aims to radically reengineer how the internet works
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2+title = "A New Computing Platform"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 23, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-new-computing-platform/id1504188804?i=1000469310964"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+Few software projects today share either the contemporary relevance or fringe mystique of the Urbit Operating and Identity System. As a highly secure personal server, Urbit aims to deliver on many of the ideas pioneered by the Cypherpunks, and, after nearly 20 years in development the platform has begun a phased launch. Urbit gives us persistent digital identity, a new benchmark for secure computing, and maybe even an open source response to more modern social computing platforms like WeChat and Kakaotalk.
10+
11+In February of this year, Tlon, the main company developing Urbit, invited me to their San Francisco office to interview the team for a podcast series. During the three weeks I was there we recorded many hours of discussion.
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13+This series is a collage of excerpts from those discussions. The episodes aim to introduce the philosophy of Urbit, establish the problems it is designed to address, explain the way the platform works, and relate it to the world through the lens of Bitcoin, Software as a Service, and the growth model of Silicon Valley startups.
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15+We begin our journey with Urbit veteran Galen Wolfe-Pauley who introduces the project and its design principles while reflecting on the collective Stockholm syndrome we suffer in the grasp of existing computing models.
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2+title = "Technology & Freedom"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 23, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-freedom/id1504188804?i=1000469310961"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+The effect technology has on individual freedom is a recurring theme in lunchtime discussions in the Tlon office. Chief Product Officer, Anthony Arroyo has a background in linguistics and the philosophy of technology. This positions him well to explain the nature of this relationship and how Urbit positions itself between the two.
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11+Anthony offered the key insight that today computers have evolved from their nature as tools into mechanical colonizers of our lives. More than just absorbing our attention, the online services advertising greater human connection are in reality limiting the way we relate to one another to a centrally defined mode of interaction. This extends to the way we consume news, poisoning the well of information and leading to a toxic mass social environment.
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13+He offers Urbit as a solution that allows the user to determine their mode of interaction, and the scale of their social graph, rather than a graph that is global by default.
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15+Anthony also introduces three characteristics of a virtual tool that are needed for it to conform to our expectations of physical tools. He describes those characteristics as simple, durable, and yours.
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17+Finally, we learn about Urbit’s decrementing versioning system and the benefit of software that evolves toward stability.
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2+title = "Under the Hood of the Urbit OS"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 23, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/under-the-hood-of-the-urbit-os/id1504188804?i=1000469310962"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+Engineer Ted Blackman works on the Urbit OS kernel. Like many Tlon employees, Ted initially came to the project as an open source contributor. In this discussion Ted breaks the operating system down into its components and explains its relationship to Urbit ID which we will cover in-depth in episode 4.
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11+Ted begins by helping us establish a foundational understanding of what an operating system is and what roles traditional OSs excel in. Then he explores how Urbit functions as a layer above, creating a unique environment for applications to run within.
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13+A major question raised by the first half of this discussion, and which many Urbit enthusiasts will already have in the back of their minds is how can such a minimalist, universal operating system take advantage of the task specific performance benefits some CPUs offer? The answer lies in a unique Urbit innovation called Jets. In understanding Jets we can grasp the inherent performance limitations of an operating system like Urbit, and understand how those limitations can be overcome.
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15+Ted has a talent for making the complex understandable, so while this is a very advanced episode, even a non-technical person will find this discussion educational and entertaining.
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2+title = "Urbit ID & the Network"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 24, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/urbit-id-the-network/id1504188804?i=1000469544396"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+As Ted indicated in episode 2, The Urbit ID public key infrastructure and the Urbit network are core to the way individual Urbits communicate and maintain self-sovereignty. In this episode we hear from three members of the Tlon team, each explaining the part of the system they are most familiar with. OS lead Ted returns to introduce the subject.
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11+Tlon engineer, Logan, Explains the use experience of Urbit ID, The reason for some of the design choices, and the topography of the Urbit Network.
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13+Philip is a resident cryptographer at Tlon focussed on Public Key Infrastructure. He rounds this episode out by explaining what a PKI is, the differences between PKIs, and the way the Urbit ID PKI is implemented.
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2+title = "Built to Last"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 24, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/built-to-last/id1504188804?i=1000469641777"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+The recurrent theme of calm computing is explored more deeply in this discussion with Logan Allen whose focus is infrastructure and product at Tlon.
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11+Logan sees the attention economy, with all it’s popups and news feed clickbait as a result of the way startups are organised and funded. In between rebukes of VC capital and the growth business model, Logan describes a software landscape where the user is king, extending the views of Christian and Anthony.
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13+The only way Logan believes this can be achieved is to create a computing platform with different product design incentives.
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15+Part of this picture is a unified tech stack that applications share rather than the bespoke, but very similar, internal tooling built individually by major tech companies like uber, facebook, airbnb and others.
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17+For Logan, Urbit addresses this by standardizing a large part of the system stack. As an abstract I/O interface it separates the software and hardware layers in a way that allows applications to be developed for an environment that is consistent across hardware.
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19+This makes Urbit a much more efficient way of developing software from a corporate perspective by reducing dev-ops and the size of the layer that security concerns can happen in.
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21+One of Logan’s most powerful revelations is that today, system software, linux for example, is deeply complex and growing ever more so and the number of people who understand the way it works is shrinking proportionally to the task of maintaining that software. Designing a new platform that evolves toward stability may be the only way to ensure a secure computing landscape in the future.
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2+title = "Urbit and Bitcoin"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "March 26, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/urbit-bitcoin/id1504188804?i=1000469633746"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+Christian Langalis is the resident bitcoin ambassador to the Urbit team. His motto is sound money requires sound computing and this well describes his role is to develop Bitcoin infrastructure for the Urbit ecosystem.
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11+Christian’s interest in Urbit derives from a desire for a sound foundation on which Bitcoin can operate. He makes the argument that for all its potential, bitcoin cannot offer the benefits of sound money (sound being a term that requires specific definition in this case) without a sound computing platform on which to operate. Unix sysadmins have access to this today, but that leaves the future unevenly distributed.
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13+More than just a piece of Bitcoin infrastructure, Christian sees Urbit as a response to the shift toward unowned software and data caused the popularity of Software as a Service and content streaming platforms. He also sees the platform as an opportunity for individuals to access the full power of server computing, instead having to rent individual functionalities from subscription based services.
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15+Christian views data harvesting, and the pursuit of user attention as deep personal abuses in a way that recalls Galen’s reference to Stockholm Syndrome in episode 1
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2+title = "Tlon Operations & Community"
3+podcast = "Understanding Urbit"
4+date = "April 5, 2020"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tlon-operations-community/id1504188804?i=1000469641776"
6+image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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9+Tlon COO Erik Newton and Community Manager Kenny Rowe join this session to provide some additional background to Tlon and the Urbit Community.
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11+Erik Newton begins by explaining the relationship between the Tlon corporation and the Urbit project. We also discuss the reason behind the valuation of the address space, business opportunities, and plans for the launch of Urbit OS 1.
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13+Then Kenny describes the cultural reach of the Urbit aesthetic and how he found himself pulled into the project from his prior employer, Maker. In particular the notion of the Kelvin versioning system evolving toward stability as opposed to complexity, and the power of unique terminology to avoid false cognates.
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15+Kenny elaborates on the community on-boarding strategy of Urbit and its suitability for the collaboration needs of DAOs and front end requirements of smart contracts.
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2+title = "Palladium Podcast 49: Humane Computing with Urbit"
3+podcast = "Palladium Podcast"
4+date = "November 24, 2020"
5+URL = "https://palladiummag.podbean.com/e/palladium-podcast-49-humane-computing-with-urbit/"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/palladiumpodcast.jpeg"
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9+Wolf Tivy and Galen Wolfe-Pauly discuss what's wrong with social media and computing as we know it, as well as a new paradigm for humane computing. Galen is the CEO of Tlon, which runs Urbit, a personal computing server that is designed to give users personal control over their data on social networks and other applications.
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11+The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are based on, as well as other benefits like the community chat.
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99Édouard Urcades is a designer at Tlon. He thinks computers are like flowers; his goal is to design the most beautiful computer.
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11−Édouard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fiowerstructure
12−Édouard on Urbit: ~fabled-faster
11+Édouard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/flowerstructure
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13+Édouard on Urbit: [~fabled-faster](https://urbit.org/ids/~fabled-faster)
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1415✦ Get your own Urbit planet at [imperceptible.computer](https://imperceptible.computer)
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2−title = "Rationalists Are a Bunch of Queers with Wet Brain | The Urbit Series"
3−podcast = "Other Life"
4−date = "February 7, 2022"
5−URL = "https://podcast.otherlife.co/episodes/rationalists-are-a-bunch-of-queers-with-wet-brain-the-urbit-series"
6−image = "https://media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/full_1639502000-artwork.jpg"
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9−Honor Levy and Walter Pearce host the podcast Wet Brain. We discuss cataclysmic events about to happen, Starseed Theory, demons, fashion, God, the CIA, the problem with Millennials, how they got into Urbit, and more.
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11−The Wet Brain podcast: https://www.patreon.com/wetbrain
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13−✦ Get your own Urbit planet at [imperceptible.computer](https://imperceptible.computer)
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15−✦ Subscribe to the Other Life newsletter at OtherLife.Co
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2+title = "The Diary of Sam Frank w/ Sam Frank"
3+podcast = "Red Scare"
4+date = "May 21, 2022"
5+URL = "https://redscarepodcast.libsyn.com/the-diary-of-sam-frank-w-sam-frank"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/redscare.jpg"
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9+Writer Sam Frank joins the ladies to talk about Urbit, miladys, crypto, aliens, angels and more.
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2+title = "Josh Lehman: Urbit – The Peer-to-Peer Network Re-Decentralizing the Internet"
3+podcast = "Epicenter"
4+date = "June 29, 2022"
5+URL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqqUM-L_-2s"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/epicenter.jpg"
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9+Urbit is an exciting new operating system and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Under the hood it's a from-scratch software stack compact enough that individual developers can understand and control it completely. Urbit deconstructs the client-server model in favor of a federated network of personal servers with built-in, cryptographically-owned identity, each of which is capable of distributing and running their own applications that communicate over the Urbit network.
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11+We were joined by the Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation, Josh Lehman, who explained in depth how the Urbit ecosystem was built and now runs, the advantages of the network from user and developer perspectives, the bridge with crypto, and how the roadmap for the kernel is looking going forward.
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13+Topics discussed in this episode:
14+- Josh's background and how he became involved with Urbit
15+- An overview of Urbit and the current state of the system
16+- What’s changed about Urbit over the last three years
17+- Urbit's address space consisting of galaxies, stars and planets
18+- What Urbit applications are and how they differ from iphone applications or a dApps
19+- The advantages of the Urbit user and developer experiences
20+- The connection between Urbit and crypto
21+- The projects currently being built on Urbit - Holium, Uqbar, Tirrel
22+- What the roadmap for the underlying Urbit kernel looks like
23+- How you can get involved
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25+Links mentioned in this episode:
26+- Episode 205 - A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet: https://bit.ly/3yuvndm
27+- Urbit: https://bit.ly/3OC2uC0
28+- Urbit Grants: https://bit.ly/3QYDyWT
29+- Urbit on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3A9COrX
30+- Josh on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3No2Jz2
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2+title = "How Do We Enable More People to Run Their Own Servers? w/ Stuart Christoph"
3+podcast = "Crazy Wisdom"
4+date = "July 4, 2022"
5+URL = "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-do-we-enable-more-people-to-run-their-own-servers/id1354589767?i=1000568724305"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/crazywisdom.jpg"
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9+Stuart Christoph
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11+Director of the Urbit Foundation Grant Program
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13+What is the grant program for Urbit?
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15+Is that for technical people?
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17+2 years from now we will be able to build businesses.
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19+What small businesses have you started?
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21+What are the security problems?
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24+How does Urbit scale?
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26+How much is a Star?
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28+How can I set up a Star?
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30+How do you enable more people to run their small businesses?
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32+What is a system admin?
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34+Can we get the instructions of how to set up a star for my show notes?
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36+https://operators.urbit.org/
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38+To run a star, you don’t need to know any Hoon?
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40+To do a youtube video while doing a star..
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42+On the deeper technical side, Urbit is not really great at serving large files
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44+Discoverability on Urbit for the Youtube videos.
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46+What are they tracking with the spaghetti URL’s?
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48+UTM parameters
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50+What do they absorb it in?
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52+How badly did GDPR impact small businesses?
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54+What is ownership?
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56+How did value generation change for labor to compute?
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58+What year did labor change to compute?
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60+Late 90’s to early 2000’s
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62+How does the equity ownership framework play into that?
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64+What type of things should someone be aware of when it comes to exchange of equity and relationships?
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66+What are psychopaths doing in terms of Gamestop and Crypto? What is happening behind the scenes?
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68+How do we align will and intent?
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70+How do you know the right person to go to for the reality check?
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72+What is the difference between manipulation and positive influence?
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74+Once you define a computer system it can be gamed.
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76+What are the first principles of building healthy working relationships? How is that different from love relationships?
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78+Are you using smart contracts to hire anonymous employees?
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80+What is the Sword of Damocles?
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82+What is the Hack-A-Thon that you are creating? Unconference in Miami 22nd-25th
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84+This is where they show off stuff
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86+1 a week for new Urbit applications
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88+Books Bounty, Dalton Collective
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90+Hack-A-Thon that culminates at Assembly
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92+Hoon school live has 61 new Hoon developers
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94+How do I find one of the new Hoon developers?
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96+Teams of 2-3 people that cover an array of skill sets for the hackathon
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98+Competent Hoon dev, front end (javascript), and vision/user experience/ideation
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100+How can you build trust and relationships between the users on the Urbit network?
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102+What is TC/IP?
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104+What is an apprenticeship for Urbit development?
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106+How do I find the devs for the Assembly?
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108+Mars Invisible College
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110+Who to follow if you liked this episode:
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112+@urbitfoundation on Twitter
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114+urbit.org/grants
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116+DM ~sarlev-sarsen