Selected Articles / Videos By Subject Area​
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Selected Videos
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Talks at Google: The Simulation Hypothesis
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Talks at Google: The Simulated Multiverse
 
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Startups / Entrepreneurship ​/ Venture Capital
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The Startup Market Lifecycle (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 2020)
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5 Startup Tech Trends to Watch During the Pandemic (StartupNation, 2020)
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Secondary Sales in VC-backed Startups: A Primer (StartupGrind, 2017)
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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times (EntrepreneurOrganization, 2020
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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid ( YoungUpstarts, 2020)
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Startup Myth: Is It Better to First to Market or Not? (StartupNation, 2020)
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Why Most Entrepreneurs Don’t Understand Valuation (The Startup. 2018)
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Why Startups are Harder than MIT: Stress and the Entrepreneur (TheStartup, 2018)
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Gandalf the Venture Capitalist (Medium, 2013)
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The Zen of Entrepreneurship (Techcrunch, 2013)
 
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Simulation ​​Theory
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​ChatGPT, ‘Her’ and the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ (The Conversation, 2024)
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25 years later, ‘The Matrix’ is less sci-fi than tech reality (CNN, 2024)
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The Metaverse is Coming - We May Already Be In It (Scientific American, 2022)
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Why the Matrix Resurrections trailer brings the Simulation Hypothesis one step closer to reality(The Telegraph, 2021)
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Science and the Simulation Hypothesis (Scientific Inquirer, 2019)
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How to Build the Matrix (Techcrunch, 2019)
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Why We Need to Find Out If We Are In a Simulation (OneZero, 2019)
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The Top Virtual Characters (Variety, 2019)
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Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI? (Hackernoon, 2019)
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Religion and hte Simulation Hypothesis: Is Karma a Questing Algorithm? (Hackernoon)
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The Simulation Hypothesis: Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are In a Video Game (Hackernoon, 2018)
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Simulating Reality (Institute of Art and Ideas, 2020)
 
Tech Trends
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The App Wars: Trump, China and Tiktok (NBCNews, 2020)
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Is the Age of Robots Finally Arriving? (Hackernoon, 2020)
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Computer Chips that Read Your Brain Are Here - Are We Ready? (NBCNews, 2020)
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Fortnite Shows Why Apple is So Much Worse Than Google or Facebook (NBCNews)
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Will Human Writing and AI Writing Become Indistinguishable? (Hackernoon, 2020)
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Brain Computer Interfaces in Video Games (Hackernoon, 2020)
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Here's How the Big Tech Breakup should Go Down (VentureBeat, 2020)
 
Metaverse/Blockchain
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The Metaverse is Coming - We May Already Be In It (Scientific American, 2022)
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Threads of the Metaverse: A Comparative Framework for Virtual Worlds (Draft Paper, 2022)
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The Death of NFTs has been greatly exaggerated (NBC News, 2022)
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Why It’s Unlikely Facebook Will Run the Metaverse (NBC News, 2021)
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A Death in the Metaverse, A Mystery circa 2045 (Sci Fi Draft, Co-author, 2022)
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How Blockchain Could Kill Both Cable and Netflix (VentureBeat, 2018)
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How I Cornered the Market for Bitcoin Mining Using a Quantum Computer (Hackernoon, 2017)
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Automatic Online Auctions for OTC Trading of Cryptocurrency (Paper, Co-author, 2015)
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Building a Peer to Peer Cryptocurrency Trading System for Bitcoin (Paper, 2013)
 
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Spiritual / Synchronicity / UFOs
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Government UFO report timed for Halloween seems to downplay spooky sightings (NBC News, 2022)
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Congress is finally paying attention to UFOs. But it's still missing the point. (NBC News, 2022)
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The U.S. military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia? (NBCNews, 2021)
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Meditation Hacks for Westerners (and Easterners Too!) (Hackernoon, 2018)
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Magic and Miracles in the Himalayas: What to Read After Autobiography of a Yogi (Parts 1-5) (Atlantis Esoterica, 2019)
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The X-Files Revival: 5 Things You Need to Know about UFOs ( Medium, 2016)
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How the Simulation Hypothesis Explains the Unexplainable - Ghosts, UFOs and More (Collective Evolution, 2020)
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The Mandela Effect - Science, Science Fiction or Mass Delusion (OneZero, 2019)