Mere Mortals Conversations

Today is a mix of physical training and philosophical pondering, as all good podcasts should be! In Episode #319 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: how my brother is eating 5 servings of fruits and veg to glow up, whether there is any merit in forcing people to do things for 'the greater good', Juan's realisation that he is no longer good at pullups, why we differ on the...

So how much do we care about food? Well it turns out not that much! In Episode #318 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why our taste of food is lower than the average, how our lifestyles impact our food choices, the Spartan Juan life of tuna/beans/chicken/bread, why we both need partners who are better cooks than we are, my theory that food can be used to cover up deficiencies in an unheal...

Odd stuff all around this week. Juan actually worked, I exposed my sock fetish and weird photos from space. In Episode #317 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why we enjoy manual labour but only in small doses, trying to explain BTC to my dad, how I met and lost a kindred soul, why Dothraki was copyrighted and Luis von Ahn couldn't use it for DuoLingo, Juan's fascination with...

I'm going to become a world class handbalancer, here is my plan on how I want to do this. In Episode #316 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: what it means to be world class at something, why conscious effort on improving and fixing mistakes is critical, a common occurrence of people getting injured whilst trying to show off, the humbleness of Floyd Mayweather (lol) and my list of prin...

Why did Juan cause a car crash? In Episode #315 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the random as disturbance on a narrow road, our disagreement on being left behind and getting overwhelmed by new tech, the Tim Ferriss episode with Balaji, slang and how words get invented or adopted, Oscar Merry's podcast app and why clipping is awesome and whether it is better to let niggling inju...

Are there any current trends that will impact history as much as 9/11, COVID, social media or the iPhone? In Episode #314 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: how this topic could be easy to confuse, how history is quite subjective, what type of moments matter to an individual, why current hot topics aren't necessarily historical events, the practical benefit of appreciating the moment,...

Alexander Watanabe is an artist, coder, architect and creator of the 'Unsigned Algorithms' on the Cardano blockchain. In Conversation #76, Alexander and I discuss: why he had the time to read lots of books during his useless undergraduate, how he went about creating the code for his NFT's on-chain, his views on art and using new mediums for expression, why the universe isn't &a...

Juan has been teaching his family about Ethereum and I've been changing the way I look at the difference between Bitcoin and everything else. In Episode #313 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: how a Piccolo latte should be made, how The Coffee Club screwed over Juan (again lol), reading Saifedean Ammous's book on BTC and how it is the only real cryptocurrency, why I'm a...

How do we physically and mentally prepare ourselves for periods of productivity? In Episode #312 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: whether it is possible to be jacked and going all the time, why routine can take away effort in hyping oneself up, how we trigger ourselves into focused concentration, why Juan likes the Ultradian rhythm technique, a detour into the exciting new Podcasting 2.0...

You hear that ....... it sounds like it's goal time. Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that com...

There are some subtle differences that Fountain is doing compared to other podcast apps using the advertising model, but explaining them takes a lot of nuance. In Episode #311 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: James Cridland's reaction to our supporter leaderboard, the Petar version of 'Kilroy was here', fee and split talks going on in Podcasting 2.0, the real culprits...

What would happen if I didn't tell you that hypotheticals might not, not be useful? Brain explosion .... In Episode #310 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: Juan's inability to put his phone on silent, why I've been struggling with the book 'Reasons And Persons' by Derek Parfit, how we tend to use hypotheticals in real life, why I believe it is more about the intent...

We are bringing back our creation of Effective Philosophy© to solve a recent lie that I told. In Episode #309 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: Brendan highlighting our recent shift away from philosophy, Juan's recent book review, why I lied about the details of car switching within my family, why lies that effect reality are the ones that really need fixing, Juan's recent t...

A lot of this discussion was based on an episode of 'The Art of Manliness' with Jon Tyson. In Episode #308 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: whether tribal and extreme rituals are necessary to enter manhood, why forcing your child to do these things could backfire, moments in our lives that distinguished us, whether it actually is necessary to have a rite of passage and qualitie...

Spencer Pearson (also known as Sir Spencer) is the host of multiple podcast (Bowl After Bowl, AbleKraft), developer of a decentralised music app (DeMu) and at the forefront of running with scissors in Podcasting 2.0. In Conversation #75, Spencer and I discuss: what attracted him to Podcasting 2.0, why the music industry is screwing over musicians, how the combination of Bitcoin/RSS/V4V can make th...

If there was an ultimate game show all with different versions of yourself (horny, happy, assertive, angry, confident, etc.,) which of them would win? In Episode #307 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: whether you would prefer your upper body or lower body to be cold, revisiting the gameshow I explain in Ep #203, how different permanent mental states would effect our lives, why goal se...

It's a special solo episode today that also became a DJ set of decentralised music! In Episode #306 of 'Musings' I discuss: why I'm podcasting alone today, how Podcasting 2.0 infrastructure and technology can help make the music industry better, why middlemen suck and peer to peer payments solve this, a real time example of supporting my favourite artists, potential arguments o...

Juan has been killing life back in the gym but I've been having a shit time of it. In Episode #305 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why Juan loves training after being away, the difference between PB's and PR's, why Juan believes it is impossible to over train, my experience of joining a gym chain after calisthenicing for the last 5 years, why I don't want to (but...

We don't think it will, but here are the best arguments we came across of why cryptocurrencies will fail. In Episode #304 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the reason for searching out arguments that go against our beliefs, a series of podcast/video recommendations with great pointers in the negative category, comments from our listeners about why they don't like crypto, why too...

You hear that ....... it sounds like it's goal time. Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous monthly goals and how we will fix that for the month that com...

In one way or another this whole episode was about memes. And you can believe me, because I am now officially Saitama Sensei. In Episode #303 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: my plan for doing one-arm handstands at a comic con, what is was like to listen to Gary Vaynerchuk live in person, the contrast between LA rudeness and Minnesotan niceness, why Microsoft Support are the biggest...

What if you just want to come up with fun hypotheticals for a while? Well you do it! In Episode #302 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: why we want to do rapid fire hypotheticals, reverting back to old mediums of communication, unknown Colombian fruits, Craig Wright and his claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, why being a politician would hella suck, a bunch of questions on our own sanity and...

I've been on a research quest to find the best arguments for why cryptocurrencies will go to zero, here's what I found out. In Episode #301 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: our thoughts on the upcoming crypto winter, why serious people will still be working on projects (like 'unsigned_algorithms'), chatting about complete capitulations days before the Terra LUNA f...

Want to know what happened at #veecon 2022? We've got the post-trip report right here. In Episode #300 (which we forgot to celebrate) of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: Gary Vee's influencer/NFT conference, Juan's couple of first days in LA, a breakdown of each individual day, why the quantity of networking was probably too much, meeting some idols and cool people, whether h...

How many times in life does one experience those moments when you realise that the world doesn't work the way you thought it did? In Episode #299 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: the upcoming Brissie winter, Juan's adventures in Veecon, why sloppy communication gets you into trouble, how to fix miscommunication, why an 'oh shit' moment once a year is useful, Stoic...