Thinking on Paper - Your Guide To The Impact Of Emerging Technology On Business And Culture Jeremy Gilbertson and Mark Fielding

Dana Sydorenko is a gaming entrepreneur, Investor, Forbes 30-Under-30 and a Ukrainian war veteran. She's the co-founder and CEO of GameTree, a free LFG app to find people (who share the same values and interests as you) to play games with, discover new games and coordinate gameplay sessions.

As GameTree’s CEO, Dana aims to transform the gaming landscape, fight loneliness, remove toxicity, boost mental health and unite global communities.

As a paramedic in Ukraine’s army (2014-2015) and running a successful company in a high-pressure environment she has honed her strategic and analytical skills, now thriving on diving deep into data, making complex concepts simple, and thinking from first principles.

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Disruptors and curious minds

(03:09) Welcome Dana Sydorenki

(03:54) Last week's carry over question

(04:27) How Dana views AI a positive for humanity

(06:09) What do humans do better than machines

(08:04) Do all gaming companies use AI?

(11:47) The biggest video games & platforms in 2024

(16:05) Brands In video games

(19:53) What is GameTree?

(23:20) Game theory and the prisoner dilemma

(26:14) Building Gametree

(29:40) Friendship

(31:54) Connecting Gamer DNA

(34:30) Lifestyle, mental health and video games

(38:14) Preventing toxicity in games

(42:54) Matching making and dating in games

(44:30) Dana's question for the next guest

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Questions we ask:

⏩ What is the current state of gaming? What are the biggest games, platforms, consoles?
⏩ What can a strong community do for a game?
⏩ What does a meaningful experience look like between gamers? What are they looking for?
⏩ What is an example of a game with a great community? What happens there?
⏩ What is Gametree?
⏩ Why is Gametree needed?
⏩ You have some big investors and a large community, what was the building process like? Could you talk us through it? Challenges, easy parts, etc
E-sports
⏩ What games are you looking forward to?
⏩ What’s your personal favourite game?
⏩ Ideas for balancing screen time for kids with the benefits that games offer.

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About Game Tree
GameTree supports games across PC, mobile, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and Wii. It includes titles such as Fortnite, League of Legends, Rocket League, Minecraft, Apex Legends and Destiny.

The GameTree community has grown to over 700,000 users. In December the company completed a fundraising round at a $19 million valuation, with investors including Coddy Johnson, former CEO of Activision-Blizzard; Sam Yagan, former CEO of Match Group; and Phil Schwarz former CMO of Tinder

Website - https://gametree.me/

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Watch Related episodes on YouTube:

Pentakill, League of legends and Riot Games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVm30l8z9fk&t=267s
Hyper-personalised video game music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3Qenv2HlO8&t=1995s&ab_channel=ThinkingOnPaperPodcast%26BookClub
Metaverse Gaming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owJQFbbjM0&t=222s&ab_channel=ThinkingOnPaperPodcast%26BookClub

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About the hosts:
Jeremy is a Nexus Thinker and interdisciplinary entrepreneur working across music, technology and story. He leads his wellness mastermind Write To Know You at major universities and organizations around the world.

Mark is a copywriter and creative writer exploring the impact of emerging technologies on business and culture.

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Hey Book Nerds and readers! It's book club time, and we're reading the mind-bending Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli... and we're back reading about entropy, time, human experience, relativity and time travel... this is a book club, but not as you know it. Is it the best book club on Spotify? It's our favourite....






Benjamin Franklin said, "once you lose it, you’ll never find it again." Theophrastrus said, "it was the most valuable thing you can spend." Pericles said it was "the wisest counsellor of all." Oscar Wilde said "punctuality steals it away."

Turns out they were all wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, Albert Einstein:

“The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Or,

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.”

Isaac Newton said, “Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.”

Aristotle said, “Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.”

Time really is all we have. And in this months book club, we're talking about it in more detail than we ever thought possible. We're reading:

- The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli.

Please Enjoy The Book.

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Praise For The Order Of Time

Philip Pullman: "Wonderful... Time is something we know about instinctively, here Carlo shows how profoundly strange it is."

John Banville: "Physics has found its poet."

Tom Whipple: "An elegantly concise primer that makes theoretical physics intelligible stunningly written."



👉 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86o26mTvctk&t=32s



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Disruptors and Curious minds! Don Norman has dedicated his career to understanding the intersection of design and human experience, in this far reaching and philosophical conversation on climate change, recycling, business, brands, AI, waste and humanity-centered design, one of the most thoughtful minds shares his wisdom on how we can save the planet and civilisation from ourselves.



TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) - Disruptors and curious minds

(01:08) Don Norman

(03:09) - How Do Misconceptions Hold Back Design?

(04:55) - Design In Nature

(06:32) - What Is Design?
(11:46) - Why Did Don Write Design For A Better World?

(14:54) - The Challenges That Need Human Centred Design

(16:19) - A Western Bias In Problem Solving

(21:36) - Measuring Meaningful

(29:10) - Plastics And Waste

(33:31) - Diesel

(35:01) - The Principles Of Human Centred Design

(37:22) - The Principles Of HUMANITY Centred Design

(42:17) - Examples Of Humanity Centered Design Success

(49:51) - The Don Norman Design Award Summit


(56:08) - Empathy And Business

(62:44) - Patagonia and B-Corps

(69:37) - Don's Question For Next Week's Guest


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Don Norman's seminal work, “The Design of Everyday Things,” explores how design serves as a communication channel between object and user. His insights into making technology more user-friendly and intuitive have revolutionized how we interact with everyday objects.

His latest book, “Design for a Better World,” continues Don's story, focusing on what he feels he ''left out" of Design For Everyday Things: Humanity.

In Design For A Better World: Meaningful, sustainable, and humanity-centered design, Norman challenges us to rethink our behaviours and the economic metrics that drive commerce and manufacturing, advocating for a world that emphasizes quality of life over monetary rewards.

Don Norman’s influence extends beyond his writing. He is the director of The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego, and a co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group.

As you'll learn by watching this interview, Don's commitment to fostering new talent and innovation is exemplified by the Don Norman Design Award Summit. To be held in November 2024, the event celebrates early-career practitioners and educational organizations that impact society through Humanity-Centered Design.

This is a far reaching and important conversation.

Please enjoy the show!


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Links To Don Norman's Work:

📖 Design for a better world book: https://jnd.org/books/design-for-a-better-world/



🎤 The Don Norman Design Award Summit: https://dnda.design/2024/en/page/home


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About the hosts:
Jeremy is a Nexus Thinker and interdisciplinary entrepreneur working across music, technology and story. He leads his wellness mastermind Write To Know You at major universities and organizations around the world.

Mark is a copywriter and creative writer exploring the impact of emerging technologies on business and culture.

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Join the book club - ⁠http://www.thinkingonpaper.xyz⁠
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Hey Book Nerds and readers! On this week's book club we're reading chapters 9 and 10 of The Order Of Time, by Carlo Rovelli... and oh boy! We're lost... Thermal time, macroscopic states, the blurring of time, the sub-atomic scale and..... ahhhhhh! Who made time so complicated?


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Praise For The Order Of Time

Philip Pullman: "Wonderful... Time is something we know about instinctively, here Carlo shows how profoundly strange it is."

John Banville: "Physics has found its poet."

Tom Whipple: "An elegantly concise primer that makes theoretical physics intelligible stunningly written."

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Watch all episodes of book club - • Book Club: The Order Of Time By Carlo...


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About the hosts:
Jeremy is a Nexus Thinker and interdisciplinary entrepreneur working across music, technology and story. He leads his wellness mastermind Write To Know You at major universities and organizations around the world.

Mark is a storyteller, writer and thinker exploring emerging technologies for LVMH & Culture3. He’s the founder of Metaverse-Writer, a self-published author, NFT creator and generalist.

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“We are passionate about the preservation of high-quality journalism and scientific research, while increasing its availability to the public. The current media industry is facing a dire economic situation and is plagued with bias and a resultant lack of trust. Olas aims to minimise bias and return more value to content creators by removing hierarchical control of the media." - Ciaran Murray

This week's guest is Ciaran Murray, a seasoned veteran of the blockchain industry, advising on numerous web3 projects and releasing a synthetics assets proof-of-concept last year. Ciarán previously worked in the media industry for British Sky Broadcasting. As such, he is well placed to understand the issues facing the media industry and how to apply blockchain and other distributed technologies to remedy them. 





🔍 How do emerging technologies collaborate (or clash)?



🔍 Wikipedia + Blockchain: Could the fusion of Wikipedia and blockchain revolutionize information sharing?



🔍 Journalism & Scientific Publication Challenges: Why is it so hard to get high-quality information in today's media landscape?



🔍 What are the biggest issues plaguing the media industry?



🔍 Decentralized Knowledge: How does decentralized knowledge operate?



🔍 Curated Prediction Markets & Quadratic Funding: What are curated prediction markets? How does quadratic funding work, and how can it foster a more pluralist media industry?



🔍 Can an ownerless media institution work?



🔍 Minimizing Bias & Re-establishing Trust: What are the biggest implementation challenges for decentralized media?



🔍 Combating Fake News & Deep Fakes: Can we solve the problem of fake news and deep fakes?



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Listen to previous guests:


Quantum Computing Season


Book Club


Mercina Tillerman Perez - Circle, USDC and crypto aid


Book Club - blackholes and wormholes


Tyler Adams - COZ Ceo on blockchain and web3 brand activations


Todd Haselhorst - Blockchain and the Logistics industry


Vince Yang - ZK proofs


Shiti Manghani - Stepn CEO on Solana and move to earn



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Peace!!

Professor George C. Schatz is Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at North-western University. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at Clarkson University and a Ph. D at Caltech. He was a postdoc at MIT, and has been at North-western since 1976.



Schatz is a theoretician who studies the optical, structural and thermal properties of nanomaterials, including plasmonic nanoparticles, DNA and peptide nanostructures, and carbon-based materials, with applications in chemical and biological sensing, electronic and biological materials, high performance fibers, and solar energy. His past work has also been concerned with understanding the dynamics of chemical reactions in the gas phase and in gas-surface collisions.




Professor Anupam Garg is interested in the formalism and applications of coherent state path integrals, especially as they relate to spin angular momentum and molecular magnets. He also maintains a cultural interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Since 2020, he has been collaborating with Professor Ketterson on micromagnetic simulations of various phenomena related to ferromagnetic resonance and nonlinear, large angle dynamics.

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Describe your interest in quantum mechanics and culture (Apunam)
What does everyone need to know (no matter their position or industry) about quantum Mechanics?
How will these principles affect innovation in the current industries
What are the most compelling intersections of your work and the evolution of the industries that we know today?
What keeps you up at night with the knowledge that you hold?
What are the most important unanswered questions in science today?
How do things get lost in the translation from science to industry? How do you bridge the gap
What’s the one question you wish people would ask you (about science) that they never do?

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