EXIT Podcast Episode 29: Joe Norman

Joe is a data scientist and lecturer in Complexity Studies at appliedcomplexity.io. His study of complex systems has led him to a passion for building communities and carving out space at human scale, which we’re all about here at EXIT. He operates a homestead in rural New Hampshire, where he is active in local government and working to build real things in the real world.

DegreeStudies is an EXIT member who researches "online domestic extremism" for the federales. We discuss: Why the deep state interprets memes as irresistible mind-control sorcery Which niche RW microceleb scares the bugman most, & why it is Dr Bennett How Islamic terrorism held the blue/red coalition together What the Russians are actually up to, if anything Remaining human in the face of cybernetic institutions Being in communion with history, & the beauty of LARP

Tactical Minivan is an EXIT member, a software engineer, and a crypto investor at 0xVentures, a blockchain venture capital fund organized as a distributed autonomous organization (DAO). We discuss: Novel applications of blockchain and NFT technology, especially in gaming Making decentralized finance (Defi) accessible to your grandma The closing of the crypto frontier What you need to know to become a blockchain engineer The incoherence of eternal appreciation

Braxton is a motivational speaker, a colt trainer, & author of The Glass Factory, a memoir of his recovery from catastrophic injuries after a suicide bombing in Ramadi in 2006. We discuss: breaking colts, raising cattle, raising kids the power of stewardship life mediated through movies the opioid epidemic traveling through the underworld