Mid-Age Tech

Nikolai Blinov and Maxim Buranbaev

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A podcast by middle-aged geeks about common sense and traditional relationships in the age of the war on the internet.

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Mustafa Basar (Ex-Riot Games) on Games, AI and Rockets that Never Launch

Mustafa joins hosts Nikolai Blinov and Maxim Buranbaev for a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation that starts with remote work isolation and drifts into AI token economics, whether Anthropic and OpenAI are becoming the new "landlords," gaming as an art form, Web3 regulation, and building things that may never launch. -- 00:54 Podcast Monetization, Therapy and Remote Work 03:52 Games and Project Management 06:44 The rocket Mustafa and Nikolai built together 20:45 Riot Games 26:41 AI is not efficient? 32:12 Developers to be Replaced by Product Managers? 35:32 The History Repeats 37:41 New Landlords and Peasant in AI Era 41:59 Mustafa on Growing Monopoly of Anthropic and OpenAI 44:44 How Mustafa Ended up at Riot Games 51:49 Create Your Own Game 54:22 Games to Have So Many Lives 59:12 Social Aspect in Games 01:03:51 The Threat of AI to Humanity in Art and Games 01:22:36 Mustafa on Web3 01:38:16 Trust as the Main Currency through History 01:43:33 Time as Most Valuable Currency 01:45:37 Question to the Next Guest -- Nikolai Blinov: nikolai@blinov.to Maxim Buranbaev: buranbaevma@gmail.com

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A podcast by middle-aged geeks about common sense and traditional relationships in the age of the war on the internet.

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