Hence The Future

Earth is closed 🌎🚫

In this episode, Mattimore explores the global economic shifts that are occurring in 2020 and beyond. He also shares perspectives from Ray Dalio and Chamath Palihapitiya on what a new normal might look like...

Key Questions:

• What makes this event unlike any other?
• What are the closest historical corollaries?
• Why has productivity growth been so slow?
• Where are we in the short term debt cycle?
• Where are we in the long term debt cycle?
• What does the surge of jobless claims tell us?
• What is being done to stimulate the economy?
• What further measures might be necessary?
• Has the stock market already hit bottom?
• If not, when might the stock market hit bottom?
• How will the real estate market be affected?
• How will this impact workers and job seekers?
• How will Europe fair relative to the US and China?
• Is decoupling between the US and China inevitable?
• How will people, companies, and countries respond?
• Why compassionate capitalism may be the solution...

Future Scenarios:

• Worst Case Scenario
• Best Case Scenario
• Most Likely Scenario

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Truffles, Mushrooms, and the Mycelial Network 🍄

In this episode, Mattimore and Justin sit down with author Ryan Jacobs to discuss his new book, "The Truffle Underground." We also discuss how fungi is impacting agriculture, climate change, warfare, medicine, longevity, spirituality, PTSD therapy, and much, much more...

Questions on Truffle Underground:

• Symbiosis between dogs/pigs and humans and mushrooms
• How much of the value of truffles is in their innate quality versus people valuing truffles for their scarcity?
• In all of your investigative journalism, what was the most surprising finding compared to your expectations when you first set out?
• Were you interested in fungi before you set out to write this book?
• How much of the shadiness of the truffle business is specific to the way that Europe operates, vs being inherent to the trade?
• How do you suspect the truffle business will evolve in the future?
• What’s your opinion on real truffles versus truffle oil and truffle salt?
• How do you think demand and supply for truffles will change in the future?
• Why are humans and animals so drawn to truffles? What is it about them that’s so special?

Questions on Fungi, More Broadly:

• What role does fungi play on planet earth?
• What can be said about the symbiosis of humans and fungi throughout the course of evolutionary history?
• What makes psychedelic mushrooms so effective for treating PTSD?
• How are fungi connected to climate change?
• How are fungi connected to the colony collapse and pesticides?
• Are psychedelic mushrooms good or bad for you? How wary should people be? What studies have been done?
• Thoughts on how fungi will impact the future more broadly?

Future Scenarios:

• Worst Case Scenario
• Best Case Scenario
• Most Likely Scenario

Thanks for listening! 🔭

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How stand-up comedy is changing now and in the future 🎭

In this episode, stand up comic Aaron Weber joins Mattimore to discuss what it’s like to be a comedian in the year 2020, what makes a joke funny, the perils of cancel culture, limitations to free speech, the value that comedy brings to society, and how comedy is likely to evolve in the future...

Broad Topics:

• What is your go-to process for coming up with jokes?
• What makes something funny? The science and art of comedy
• 6 dimensions of humor: naughty, clever, cute, bizarre, mean, relatable
• Value that comedy brings to society: relief, social bonding, deeper understanding
• Are people more easily offended now than they used to be?
• Is it true 30% of people have no sense of humor?
• The pros and cons of cancel culture
• Has cancel culture gone too far?
• Twitter (and Facebook) are not real life
• Comedy as a bastion of free speech
• How the profession is changing

Rapid Fire Questions:

• What advice would you give to rising comedians?
• Will humans still be around 1,000 years from now?
• Will The United States still be United 100 years from now?
• What, in your view, is the single biggest threat to human civilization?
• What technological advancement are you most excited about humanity achieving in the future?
• Will machines become smarter than the average person, i.e. artificial general intelligence, by 2050?
• Will consciousness emerge in machines once they’ve reached a sufficient level of complex intelligence?
• If you were elected president, what would you do on day 1?
• Should scientists bring back the T-Rex?

Future Scenarios:

• Worst Case Scenario
• Best Case Scenario
• Most Likely Scenario

Thanks for tuning in 🔭

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