Episodes

In this episode, I spoke with entrepreneur and writer Michael Ruiz. Michael has been a long-time Bitcoin proponent who raised concerns years ago about the lack of a Bitcoin circular economy and capture by large financial interests. When El Salvador...

In this episode, I spoke with my good friend (and podcast co-host at Made You Think!) Nat Eliason. His book Crypto Confidential is about his journey into the world of crypto and is one of the best narrative non-fiction books I've ever read. We...

In this episode, I spoke with Kris Newby, the author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. You may be skeptical about the premise of this book but I promise there is a lot more here than a baseless conspiracy theory....

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Eric Jorgenson, an author and investor, whose latest book is The Anthology of Balaji, a collection of wisdom, ideas, and quotes from technologist Balaji Srinivasan. Balaji is an electrical and...

In this episode, I spoke with my friend John Ganotis. John is the creator of a popular iPhone app called Pee & See (the number one number one app!) which helps users measure their hydration and health. John’s progression and journey as an...

In this episode, I spoke with David Montgomery and Anne Biklé, the authors of What Your Food Ate: How to Heal the Land and Reclaim our Health. I don't mean this lightly - What Your Food Ate is the most impactful book I've read in a long time....

In this episode, I spoke with Joe Martin, a musician from the UK who is pioneeering how artists can leverage value-for-value and Bitcoin to connect directly with fans and take power back from record labels and platforms like Spotify. Joe gets into the...

Welcome back to Outside The System. Today’s episode is with Nik Bhatia, the founder of The Bitcoin Layer and the Author of Layered Money. We spent a good amount of time in this episode talking about the foundations of money, monetary hierarchies,...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Athina Christacos, founder of Feminrgy, a holistic skin health business. Athina and I worked together at The Estee Lauder Companies, one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world, where she was...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Shiloe Bear, Founder of Creek Development. Her firm specializes in developing science-related properties and she took a really unconventional path into real estate. She's done build outs for...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Aleks Svetski, author of The Uncommunist Manifesto and founder of The Bitcoin Times. We got into topics in and around Bitcoin, including the Three Generation Theory of Bitcoin, merchant adoption,...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Gabe Brown, one of the world's foremost experts on soil health. I came across Gabe through Kiss The Ground, a documentary recommended by Calley Means when he came on the show (episode 14). Gabe held...

This episode is the inaugural episode of Outside The System Labs, a new series about extremely early solutions and the people building them. In this episode, I spoke with Peter Conley, the founder of Unbundl.ed, which is a marketplace for buyers and...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Myles Snider, founder of the Mother Tongue Cooking Club. Myles is one of my favorite follows on Twitter, mostly because I love eating and he shares a lot of pictures of amazing meals. During our...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with John-Paul Willett, the founder of Red Star Vapor. JP first caught my attention in a Twitter thread where he shared how he got the initial funding for his business through winning $20,000 playing...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Calley Means, the founder of True Medicine. We focused our conversation on the American industrial food system, especially how food companies manipulate government, institutions, and culture to...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with Anna Gát, the founder of Interintellect which describes itself as "Reinventing the French literary salon for the internet". They host online salons around topics across literature, science, psychology, and tons of other topics. They've...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke again with Cam Wiese, the founder of World's Fair Co to follow up on our first discussion (). If you haven't listened to that episode, I highly recommend starting there to get a deeper sense of what Cam...

In this episode of , I spoke with , a dreamer with a grand and ambitious vision - to bring back the World's Fair. The original World's Fair was an exhibition for companies and nations to come together to showcase their inventions and grand vision for...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with , the founder of Encrypted Energy. John is an entrepreneur, growth marketer, and engineer who is an alum of both Y Combinator and the Thiel Fellowship.  During the episode, we got into: Our...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with , an attorney and partner at who leads their Digital Media & Technology practice. If you've followed the world of cryptocurrencies at all, you know that the threat of regulation has been hanging...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with , the CEO of , a company building an alternative to health insurance while helping patients find quality and fairly priced care. They are one of the few companies I was able to find that is truly...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with , co-founder and CEO of , a Web3 company building the future of digital sports fashion. Prior to Fancurve, Chris was co-founder and CEO of Infinite E-Sports & Entertainment, which was . This...

In this episode of Outside The System, I spoke with , a partner at , which describes itself as "investing in teams led by dropouts, deep-tech scientists, and founders working outside of tracked institutions". My conversation with Zak centered on how...