Exploring the Connection and Human Potential with Tim McLain

Episode 9 | On this episode I bring on my good friend Tim McLain to discuss the role and future of the connection as it relates to discovery and how it could provide fuel to tap into human potential. Tim has a background in Technology, Art, and Music and over the last 15 years, we have been working on and discussing the toolset to help light the spark to ignite more purpose in the human condition.

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Sublinked in Youtube stream below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=0s (0:00) Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=166s (2:46) Tim McLain introduced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=385s (6:25) That is part of the human condition. We only have so much time to make so much money to have quality of life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=440s (7:20) Are we supposed to have quantity of life or quality-of-life. And who is directing it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=600s (10:00) in some ways it has taken away motivation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=730s (12:10) it seems like the expectation of the quantity from the provider is stepping on the quality of the potential of the stakeholder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=900s (15:00) Tim Berners Lee frustrated with where the web is going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=925s (15:25) Mark Nadal - Peer to Peer vs. Domain connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1250s (20:50) The utopian vision. Theoretical vs. Practical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1296s (21:36) Google removing information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1383s (23:03) Javier Livas Cantu - Cybernetics and Centralized Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1418s (23:38) I would like to see technology developed that is more community based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1736s (28:56) Would like to have a Marxist, a Capitalist, and an Anarcho Syndicalist on the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=1812s (30:12) Dougals Engelbart and the death of his NLS System in favor of the localized PC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2095s (34:55) - Technology cannot replace the real world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2170s (36:10) Why not have our own personalized algorithms that we can tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2510s (41:50) It shouldn’t always be about what you like. It should be about what you need to see. What you need to learn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2551s (42:31) Word Explorer - a tool to help people discover movies that will move them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2854s (47:34) Fed information that keeps them from addressing that shadow self as Jung called it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2900s (48:20) If we want to have better information sorry we are going to want to do a little more work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=2924s (48:44) Police reform and George Floyd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=3028s (50:28) When the police aren't aligned with the communities, what is going to happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJtWLdcneEandt=3280s (54:40) And for the community member to have more respect for what the the police officer has to go through....