Social Leverage Letter | Issue #62

The Art & Science of Interoception, Cybersecurity Mistakes, Blueprint to Building in the Metaverse, and Powering Web3 with Compute Infrastructure

Here's a list from the past week with thought-provoking content for founders and investors:

3 articles, 2 podcasts, and 1 video. 

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Sami Issa and Maggie Love of W3BCloud on Powering Web3 With Compute Infrastructure... May a Thousand Blockchains Bloom (EP.226)

Listen to this episode from Panic with Friends - Howard Lindzon on Spotify. I’m excited to be doing this first episode in a series of shows over the next few months on blockchain, crypto, web3 – whatever you want to call it. As long-time listeners know, I’m a drafter behind smart people on web3. I’m learning as I go, yet being skeptical, and probing through it. I have my angle of attack and know how I want to spend the next few years working on blockchain, infrastructure, web3, NFTs, and community.  And while I haven’t talked often enough about it, in full disclosure, Social Leverage Acquisition Corp ($SLAC), the company I’m CEO of, has announced a proposed merger with W3BCLOUD. In addition, Social Leverage (Fund IV) (where I’m a GP) is a shareholder and member of the sponsor group – but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. So who better to have on to make sense of all this?  Guests: Sami Issa, CEO & Co-Founder at W3BCloud Maggie Love, Director - Ecosystem & Partnerships & Co-Founder at W3BCloud, Founder at SheFi howardlindzon.com, w3bcloud.com, shefi.org  Twitter: @howardlindzon, @PanicwFriends, @W3BCLOUD, @maggielove_, @She_Fi, @knutjensen  linkedin.com/in/samiissa linkedin.com/in/maggielove07 #fintech #invest #investment #venturecapital #stockmarket #finance  Show Notes: Introduction (00:39) Welcome Maggie and Sami (06:44) Understanding ‘compute’ (06:58) Decentralization & ‘permissionless’ (1016) Crypto & Web3 (12:47) In the back yards of Giants (17:20) Composability (21:27) Not a ‘Winner take all’ world (24:04) Origin story (24:20) Dealing with bear markets (31:48) The adoption cycle (35:20) Infrastructure is the way (38:10) Buffett’s crypto play (39:45) Next internet revolution (41:54) Moving through the cycles (44:05) What makes the register ring? (50:19) Optimizing the hardware infrastructure (52:25) What is ‘trustless’? (52:54) ‘Proof of Stake’ (56:51) A new internet paradigm (59:50) An internet of value (1:00:52) The ‘wallet’ is key (1:01:28) Wrapping up (1:03:34) Closing thoughts (1:09:12) 

Robert Mckee on the Power of Storytelling

Listen to this episode from The Daily Stoic on Spotify. Ryan talks to Robert Mckee about his new book Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game, the importance of showing not telling, how to tell a great story, and more.Robert McKee is the most sought after screenwriting lecturer around the globe. He has dedicated the last 30 years to educating and mentoring screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors internationally. Robert’s articles on Story have also appeared in hundreds of newspapers and magazines around the world including Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker Magazine, and more. He continues to be a project consultant to major film and television production companies such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, & MTV. For more information, you can visit hismwebsite, which we have in the show notes.📕 Ryan Holiday's new book "Discipline Is Destiny" is out now! We’ve extended the pre-order bonuses for the next week—among them is a signed and numbered page from the original manuscript of the book. You can learn more about those and how to receive them over at Dailystoic.com/preorder. ✉️  Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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