In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Nick Shelton and I talk about:

• Why spamming yourself with marketing newsletters is a good way to start building your personal network.
• Why curiosity is a superpower.
• Why we network less in person?
• Why social networks have changed the distribution of friendships around the world?
• Has COVID changed the world of networking permanently?
• and much more about building friendships and human psychology.

You can watch this episode on Youtube in 4K resolution – The Judgment Call Podcast Episode #31 Nick Shelton (How to do networking right).

Nick Shelton is an entrepreneur and author of the book An Introvert’s Guide to World Domination: Become a High Level Networker and Upgrade Your Life – now available on Amazon.

You can reach Nick via his LinkedIn page.

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Ted Schilowitz and I talk about:

• Is Hollywood missing ‘good hacker’s?
• Does ‘core innovation’ or ‘commercialization’ matter more in technological progress?
• Will Hollywood become a leader in innovation? Does it already provide a ‘permissionless environment’?
• What entertainment will the iPhone 2030 edition deliver?
• What is the current state of innovation for ‘wearable glasses’? Do they have a ‘Newton’ or an ‘iPhone’ moment currently?
• Why did VR not take off (yet)?
• What is the killer app for AR?
• Will Big Tech ever shrink again?
• Are Bitcoin and UBI a great idea? What are good alternatives?

What this episode on Youtube in 4K – The Judgment Call Podcast Episode #30 Ted Schilowitz (The future of the entertainment industry).

Ted started out as a Director and producer of his own films. After that he joined a number of technology companies including RED an innovative producer of high end movie cameras and after working at FOX Studios he is now futurist in residence at Paramount and an evangelist and speaker for the role of innovation in Hollywood.

You may reach Ted on LinkedIn.

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Episode Greg Raiz and I talk about:

• How to manage the different timelines and motivations of angel investors, VCs and entrepreneurs?
• How Greg got started with his popular Youtube channel.
• How the ‘core value’ of entrepreneurship in the USA has changed over time?
• What roles does a platform play for entrepreneurship?
• Is capital less important than attention these days?
• How does risk assessment work for venture investors? And what is Greg’s golden rule before asking for money?
• How will the singularity impact our lives?
• Is the ‘Big stagnation’ real?
• and much more!

You can watch the podcast on Youtube in 4k resolution.

Greg Raiz is the founder of Raizlabs a mobile and web application design and development.

Greg started angel investing in Boston in 2017 and has invested in over a dozen companies to date. His interests are in companies that are improving lives through technology and design. Companies that have a clear vision, mission, team and plan are most interesting.

You may reach Greg via LinkedIn.

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Robert Matzkin and I talk about:

• Does surfing make you a better entrepreneur?
• How to avoid ongoing fights between co-founders.
• A better future of education in schools and universities.
• What blended learning might be the future.
• How should we deal with the reduction in equality?
• How we will deal the major new innovations like AI and Quantum computing?
• and much more!

Watch this episode in 4K on Youtube.

Robert Matzkin is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of myquest.co. Robert also mentors others entrepreneurs to find a better work and life balance.

You can reach out to Rob via LinkedIn.

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In this episode of The Judgment Call Podcast Desi-Rae and I talk about:

• How these ‘social media bans’ actually got started.
• Why ‘Big Tech is so powerful’ and why it is ‘eating politics’ right now.
• Is the ‘race conflict’ and ‘gender conflict’ and other hot button political issues just narratives that are used to distract citizens?
• How and why did the world go so ‘crazy’ the last few years?
• Is the overshoot of empathy to blame for the divisiveness of today?
• What are the pros/cons of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the impact of the movement in summer 2020 in the US.
• Do Desi-Rae’s political opinions shape her artwork?
• Is Bitcoin a tool to create a better and more responsible government?

Desi-Rae is a Youtuber, Crypto enthusiast and artist. Desi-Rae started with videos she recorded while driving and she is not worried about touching sensitive topics like Race and IQ, Fascinated and Horrified.

Watch this episode on Youtube in 4K resolution.

You can reach Desi-Rae via Twitter.

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In this episode of The Judgment Call Podcast Arran Rice and I talk about:

• The spoils of being an entrepreneur and digital nomad
• What drove Arran to become an entrepreneur at the age of 11
• How Arran used Digital Marketing to scale his businesses
• Arran’s view on the travel industry and the current crisis
• What Arran’s current start-up simpleflying.com is about
• How the COVID crisis changed my own travel habits
• and much more!

View this episode on Youtube in 4K resolution.

Arran Rice is a serial entrepreneur, digital media ‘wonderkind’ and digital nomad.

You can reach Arran via his website.

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In this episode of The Judgment call Podcast Charles-Louis Allizard and I talk about:

• What distinguishes ‘Digital Nomadism‘ and tourism?
• Why personal travel is way to ‘world peace’.
• What are the positives and negatives of ‘Digital Nomadism’? Is ‘Digital Nomadism’ an expression of the reduced entrepreneurial opportunities in many developed economies?
• Is loneliness a necessary downside of travel? What role does fulfilling your own purpose play in that?
• What is the future of education? How does the concept of ‘atomic knowledge’ shape learning?
• How languages shape our thinking and awareness of things around us.
• France’s legacy in Europe and in the world.
• And much more.

View this episode on Youtube in 4K resolution.

Charles-Louis Allizard is a web developer, entrepreneur, digital nomad, lecturer and is directing web documentaries in his free time.

You can reach Charles via his website.

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Xavier de le Rue and I talk about:

• How Xavier find his perfect locations and mitigates the enormous risk of his hobby and profession?
• What video games and jumping off a cliff have in common?
• How Xavier grew up to be a winter sports athlete (and the surprising story of his family of athletes)?
• What to do in an avalanche?
• How Xavier’s popular Youtube movies are actually being filmed.
• The joys of snowboarding in Antarctica.
• Are the Himalayas the final frontier for ‘extreme snowboarding?
• Xaviers new podcast The Sustainability Dialogues Podcast

Xavier de le Rue is a World Champion of Snowboarding, Youtuber, Daredevil of Extreme Snowboarding who drops off 150 degrees from a mountain cliff before having his morning coffee. You may reach him via his website.

Xavier also hosts The Sustainability Dialogues Podcast.

Video credit for the Youtube episode:

• This is my Winter and Mission Antarctic

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Mark Saroufim and I talk about:

• Has the AI community become intellectually lazy and is there a a stagnation in progress?
• Why is AI so complicated and what are the gatekeepers in AI research right now?
• Should we expect Artificial General Intelligence soon? How predictable is the progress in AI?
• Why is there so little innovation in creating ‘cheaper products’?
• The surprising libertarian roots of Lebanon.
• Why the Internet is so great of connected like-minded people.
• The future of education – revisited.
• and much more!

Mark Saroufim currently works with Graphcore and has previously worked for Microsoft, NASA and studied at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley. He is a prolific writer at Medium including his latest article Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation.

You may reach Mark via his website.

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In this episode of the Judgment Call Podcast Aaron Fulkerson and I talk about:

• The very short history of information sharing inside an enterprise and open-source distributions (and Mindtouch!)
• What punk rock and entrepreneurship have in common?
• What social media does to our children?
• Did the Facebook algorithm change in 2015 start the polarization of the world we currently see?
• How Youtube has been changing the world of education already.
• Is success early in your life a curse or blessing?
• What is the best age to discover philosophy?
• And much more!

Aaron Fulkerson is a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO of Mindtouch and is now working with ServiceNOW.

You can reach Aaron via LinkedIn.

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