Reality Maximalism, Small Data, and Urbit with Josh Lehman

10/05/22 • 96 min

Josh is the executive director of the Urbit Foundation. Previously, he was the Chief Product Officer at Tlon, which is the primary developer of Urbit.
Outline
(00:00:00) Sizzler
(00:00:54) Introduction
(00:01:27) What is Urbit?
(00:10:02) A new networked computing architecture
(00:16:26) How does Urbit "feel" different?
(00:21:49) There's always someone listening on the old web
(00:24:35) Identity on Urbit
(00:36:53) What's on Urbit right now?
(00:41:34) Friction in software is...good?
(00:44:33) How will Urbit fit with the existing internet?
(00:50:23) How Josh thinks about the role of technology in his own family life
(00:58:16) Calm computing
(01:02:08) The attention economy is an accident of architectural design
(01:07:59) The metaverse
(01:17:04) Josh's healthy tech habits
(01:24:54) Is there going to be a case for reality in the future?
(01:32:42) Connecting with Josh, Assembly 2022, and what's next for the Urbit Foundation
Episode links
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jlehman_
Understanding Urbit: https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit
Convivial Networks: https://urbit.org/blog/convivial-networks
Assembly '22: http://assembly.urbit.org
Bring your kid back to reality: https://virgils.io

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Dr. Nikhil Nadkarni is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is also the medical director at Little Otter health, a personalized online mental health care platform for children 0 to 14, designed by the world's experts in childhood mental health and delivered fully virtually through their state-of-the-art platform to the comfort of your own home.
(00:00:00) Sizzler
(00:00:38) Introduction
(00:01:28) About Little Otter Health
(00:09:34) Insights from the mental health tech startup world
(00:16:22) In-person versus teletherapy
(00:20:07) Virtual reality, psychotherapy, and clinical use cases
(00:25:16) Opportunities for clinical research
(00:29:37) Technology use and mental health
(00:32:49) How Nik cultivates a healthy relationship with technology
(00:38:57) Is there still a case to be made for reality as we go deeper into the digital age?
(00:42:44) Connect with Nik
Little Otter: https://littleotterhealth.com
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Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nik-nadkarni/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/littleotterhealth/
@littleotterhealth
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Professor Albert "Skip" Rizzo is a clinical psychologist, the director of medical virtual reality at the university of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, a USC department of psychiatry, researcher, and virtual reality pioneer, who has spent over two decades bringing VR into clinical settings for management and treatment of conditions, including PTSD, traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's and stroke.
Outline
(00:00:00) Sizzler
(00:00:34) Introduction
(00:01:21) How Skip became interested in virtual reality
(00:05:53) Virtual reality and clinical research
(00:12:12) BraveMind: A virtual reality intervention for veterans with PTSD
(00:19:15) VR and the hype train: Is the Metaverse here to stay?
(00:23:01) Acceptance of virtual reality in the clinical community
(00:24:57) Areas of clinical VR research that deserve more attention
(00:34:13) Entrepreneurs, clinicians, and researcher working together
(00:36:07) Is there a case for reality in 2022?
(00:41:52) Technology and addiction
(00:46:16) Virtual Psychedelics Inc
(00:51:57) Connecting with Skip and his forthcoming Ukraine project
Links
Skip's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkipRizzoVR
Bring your kid back to reality: https://virgils.io