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Erics: Fisher and Levin - Improv & VR
Description
In today's episode I invite two of my best friends, Eric Levin (@ericrius1) and Eric Fisher, for a laid-back and entertaining conversation. Having previously worked at Facebook, Fisher is currently a character coach and social designer at MiNDFUL iMPROV. Levin is a VR developer who experiments with art, meditation, and yoga in his work.
In this episode, we discuss:
- VR, AR, and Technology
- Meditation, and Yoga
- Creativity and Business
- Job automation, and AI
- Skepticism, and Beliefs
- Freedom in Tech, Science and Truth
- Globalization
- The Age of Acceleration
- Limitations of language
- Psychedelics, Spirituality and Therapy
- Consciousness, Awareness and Attention
- Being vs. Becoming, and Flow
- Socialization and Improv
- Society and Culture
Timeline:
(02:43) Who is Eric Levin?
(04:17) Keeping Creative integrity in business
(06:58) Job automation, and creativity: will AI replace humanity?
(10:03) Designing digital spaces within a capitalist society
(13:17) Spirituality: Skepticism to Belief
(17:54) Creating Tech that serves Freedom, not Capitalism
(21:29) Are we entering the Age of Acceleration?
(29:05) Can work be a place of therapy?
(33:02) Ayahuasca, and other flow-inducing plants
(38:28) Flow: Being, or Becoming
(42:30) What is Improv: closing thoughts
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