46: Gold and Tesla Beyond The Blockchain with Erik Townsend

Martin Sandquist

Martin Sandquist co-founded Lynx asset management, a 8 billion dollar hedge fund Do you want to learn more about investing? Check out https://theinvestingcourse.com/ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/]

Pippa Malmgren

Pippa Malmgren, award-winning author, former US Presidential Advisor and tech entrepreneur drpippa.substack.com [https://t.co/JKqP6hroVs] Do you want to learn more about investing, timeless value investing methods? Check out https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/] ⁠ [https://t.co/JKqP6hroVs]

47: Season 1 Finale – Synopsis of Lessons from our 15 Guests

We conclude Season 1 of Future Skills with an extra-long discussion about the top tips and ideas we learned from the following 15 guests: Even if you’ve listened to all their episodes, the Season Finale will provide some much-needed spaced repetition and nuance on those ideas. Do you want to learn more about investing? [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] Check out https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] Reading recommendations: *Read a written season summary on Ludvig’s blog [https://startgainingmomentum.com/future-skill/]. *Find a list of all Future Skills episodes + descriptions on the podcast website [https://futureskillspodcast.com/episode-list/]. If you're on our newsletter, you will receive written of this episode following shortly. ============= If you enjoyed our season finale: *Subscribe to Future Skills on: iTunes [https://futureskillspodcast.com/iTunes] | Android [http://www.subscribeonandroid.com/futureskillspodcast.libsyn.com/rss] | Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/futureskills/future-skills] | Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1DyKEg0IYdD2sboddb5QLr?si=FPC6px00Qs6snVHnh_803g] | Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/25minuter] *Join our newsletter [https://futureskillspodcast.com/martin-sandquist-ebook] for weekly summaries of the episodes.  *Apply for the Future Skills Program [https://futureskillspodcast.com/future-skills-program/] Email us at admin@futureskillspodcast.com *Rate us on iTunes [https://futureskillspodcast.com/iTunes]. It will help more people find us and prepare properly. And stay tuned for Season 2.

46: Gold and Tesla Beyond The Blockchain with Erik Townsend

In today’s episode we pick up the talk from episode 34 with investor, author, podcast showrunner and technology entrepreneur Erik Townsend [https://www.macrovoices.com/]. Once again we cover a lot of ground, including Erik's views on decision making & strategy, technological progress such as automation, and his current views on gold, oil and Tesla. We also talked about the process of writing and publishing his book "Beyond Blockchain [https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Blockchain-Dollar-Digital-Currency/dp/172917728X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1546244937&sr=8-2]" Not least we talked about Erik's views on cryptocurrencies and what could come after Bitcoin. ===== Do you want to learn more about investing?⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] Check out ⁠https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] In this episode you'll learn: * That writing a book is easier than many claim * But publishing and selling in large numbers is a special game of its own * Why a global distributed ledger digital but gold backed currency is the logical development beyond the blockchain * Why Tesla is still a zero * When the USD could lose its reserve status * Why and when the price of gold in USD could drop by 25 per cent or surge by 500 per cent ===== Erik Townsend [https://www.macrovoices.com/] is a retired software entrepreneur turned hedge fund manager and host of the Macrovoices Podcast [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/macro-voices/id1079172742?mt=2]. Throughout his career, Erik has capitalized on his ability to understand complex systems and anticipate paradigm shifts far in advance of the mainstream. A teenage computer protégé, he spent most of his high school years at MIT's Artificial Intelligence laboratory, where he taught himself several computer programming languages. Erik became an independent software development and design consultant to Digital Corporation's manufacturing systems technology group at age 17. By age 20 he owned his first private aircraft. ===== *Subscribe to Future Skills on: iTunes [https://futureskillspodcast.com/iTunes] | Android [http://www.subscribeonandroid.com/futureskillspodcast.libsyn.com/rss] | Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/futureskills/future-skills] | Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/1DyKEg0IYdD2sboddb5QLr?si=FPC6px00Qs6snVHnh_803g] *Join our newsletter [https://futureskillspodcast.com/martin-sandquist-ebook] for weekly summaries of the episodes.

45: Futurist Martin Ford on: the 23 Leading Architects of AI

❄ Merry Christmas! ❄ In today's Christmas episode we talk to futurist Martin Ford [https://mfordfuture.com/about/], popular speaker and author of bestselling books Rise of Robots [https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Robots-Technology-Threat-Jobless/dp/0465097537/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=] and now Architects of Intelligence [http://book.mfordfuture.com/]. Do you want to learn more about investing?⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] Check out ⁠https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠ [https://theinvestingcourse.com/⁠] This episode can be seen as the finale to the last three (#43 - robotics [https://futureskillspodcast.com/e43-why-robotics-is-the-new-auto-industry/] and #44 - global problems [http://futureskillspodcast.libsyn.com/44-the-5-global-problems-and-5-big-technologies]). We discuss where the future of AI, robotics, and other high-tech fields seems to be headed, based on the existing research and the lay of the land. Most important - Martin clarifies what might be reasonable to expect in terms of future progress in these areas, based on what he's learned from talking to the 23 leading innovators in these fields. Here's a rough outline of the conversation: * What is a robot? Martin's definition. * Is Martin positive or pessimist about the future in general? Will the job market be more or less mismatched in 10 years? * The Protestant Work Ethic is now mismatched to highly technological economy; how can we shift this value/tradition? * Universal basic income - could it work? Is it compatible with open borders? * What did Martin Learn from the 23 Architects of Intelligence? (Demis Hassabis, Nick Boström, Ray Kurzweil, Geoffrey Hinton, etc) * What's an evolutionary network vs neural network? * The leading AI companies - what are they up to? * Why bundling & leveraging existing technology in business model will be paramount. * Can normal people invest in AI startups? * Longevity escape velocity - and will Ray Kurzweil live forever? * Deep Mind + will Google achieve AI monopoly? * What are some Future Skills recommended by Martin? * And much more...! More about Martin: * Website [https://mfordfuture.com/about/] * Twitter [https://twitter.com/MFordFuture] * New book - Architects of Intelligence [http://book.mfordfuture.com/] ============= If you enjoyed this conversation: *Subscribe to Future Skills on: | . It will help more people find us and prepare properly.