1 year ago

Gary is a US-based technologist, multihyphenate creator, and civic entrepreneur dedicated
to building and evangelizing technologies, systems, and movements that generate hyperlocal resilience, self-sustainability, and dynamism.

Gary was named one of Forbes 30 under 30

Find him on tiktok where he has 133K follows

A relatively new youtube channel, Level Up America, where he interviewed by wife, Jocelynn, where he focuses on all things Foundational Tech
00:00:00 - Start
00:01:43 - Intro
00:04:19 - Who is Gary? How he got from the US from China with his family
00:05:49 - Marker 3
00:07:25 - Gary's love for the United States
00:09:39 - More on Gary's family
00:10:04 - The Disappointment of Obama and Trump as a Trigger
00:12:01 - Whitelash, Trump and Changing Targets of Racial Discrimination
00:15:08 - Gary joins up and supports a major woke activist
00:16:20 - Gary maximizes the rage on Facebook and his girlfriend tells him he's no fun anymore.
00:19:54 - Gary has an epiphany, goes cold turkey on the rage and has a philosophical shift
00:23:26 - Gary gets involved civics efforts and launches Civics Unplugged
00:28:01 - SBF and buying off government
00:31:42 - Civics unplugged and Gary's Conversation with John Vervaeke (SP: LINK TO YOUTUBE)
00:35:06 - Education and Reality TV Concept and How to Incentivize Great Teachers
00:41:19 - Gary's View on the Future and How to Achieve It
00:47:58 - Hoping that the government could follow Elon's cost cutting example through Desantis
00:55:38 - Gitcoin, DAO, DeSci and Crypto
00:59:31 - Solarpunk Commies
01:01:06 - Imposter Syndrome and the Value of Synthesizing Ideas
01:04:52 - Discussing Problematic Dominant Philosophies
01:08:19 - Twitter is a mirror to what is happening in the world, not getting caught up in a mob mentally, and improving terribly corrupt government.
01:14:09 - The Foundational Tech Pitch
01:15:49 - Gary reveals he has aphantasia
01:25:24 - Gary comments on what his condition makes him uniquely suited for and a game that he made to help figure that out. https://www.templegrandin.com/
01:31:42 - The importance of differences in people and how myopic classifying people by skin color is.
01:32:18 - Outro