Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

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Seph Gentle is a computer wizard working towards creating a better way to share data, freeing users from large data companies which take away user autonomy (we're looking at you, Google).

Check his blog out here: josephg.com/blog

Chapters:
0:00 Intro, an overview of who Seph is
0:46 Interview Begins ‘Feel your feelings retreat’
2:01: Loving our future self/ self compassion
06:11 Listening to what we want / Learning from Seph’s biological child
8:20 Learning from Seph’s improv teacher
10:41 How often should we force ourselves to do something?
12:36 Why you shouldn’t always pay people to do a task
16:16 How traumas build strength
18:43 Unlearning lessons from school
26:30 The Barn of Everything
29:58 Coding through different lenses
32:28 Reinventing computers (what would happen if computers were made by aliens?)
35:48 Taking our autonomy back from big tech
41:10 Should most terms and conditions statements be illegal?
44:26 The internet is in the feudalistic age. How do we move it to a democracy?
1:01:02 Seph is revolutionizing the peer review process (and the issues with peer review)
1:04:04 creating a reddit for science (revolutionizing the peer review process)
1:32:15 The Hacker News community
1:34:33 Stack Overflow
1:38:45 Speaking to the intelligentsia (the true ruling class)
1:41:12 Why tribalism in the US is so stark
1:58:39 Poverty and IQ
1:59:33 How gun violence affects the US psyche
2:01:45 The people behind mean comments
2:04:10 Covid perspectives
2:06:51 Compassion for white supremacists
2:12:36 The art of feeling and expressing emotions (this will save relationships)