Out Of The Cave

Out Of The Cave

Out Of The Cave is about discovering what society would look like if we started over with a clean slate and could implement the systems, culture, and tactics to develop a sustainable, healthy, wise, and fulfilled community. With the goal of not being a utopia, but instead optimized through human-centred design in all levels of society to make human living better, not perfect.

Episodes

April 29, 2019 52 mins
There is nothing more important to society than how you educate your populous. And even more important is who is educating that populous. We dive deep into these issues and what discuss what's wrong about the educations system we currently have in America, and how we don't make those same mistakes when creating a new education system for our society.

Jesse Stommel is Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Techno...
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Earth is in trouble, so it may not be the best place to start a new society. Gene and I talk about the possibilities of creating a space station that floats around the moon to harbor our new society. We get into how insanely difficult and expensive it would be, how we would create gravity, and learn about a few people that have already considered the concept.

Gene has is own podcast @TalkingSpace, he is also relighting Spaceflight O...
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A good friend of mine Aaron Freeman helps us out of the cave on this episode as we explore communication​ and the importance of creating a society that values and is properly taught​ the value of open and honest communication​.

You can connect with Aaron here:
www.meetthefreemans.com
https://www.facebook.com/aaron.freeman.3720
https://www.instagram.com/meet_thefreemans/

You can follow me on various social platforms here:
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What does it take to build an all-star team to do something almost unthinkable? How do you convince the best to do the impossible? On this episode, I talk with Ryan Naylor founder and president of localwork.com about how to create and pull together a team. We discuss starting with why, and the qualities​ and skillsets to look for in ideal teammates.

You can connect​ with Ryan here:
www.blueaspenmarketing.com
www.localwork.com
https://...
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This is a new episode type. It will typically be only available on Patreon, but I'm releasing it as a teaser here so you can get an idea of what you'll get.

In this episode dig into Adams belief about the law of attraction. We examnie his defnition of it, and how he thinks it affects his life. To do this I use what is called street epistemology which is where I examine someone's belief using the Socratic method, which is basically ...
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How much have you thought about culture, how it affects you and even what it is?

This conversation with Adrian Mclntyre was phenomenal, i’ve really wanted someone to come on and challenge the concept. He did just that, and in the most constructive way possible. We dug deep in what the ever so elusive culture work means, and if it’s even possible to construct one?

Dr. Adrian McIntyre is a cultural anthropologist, media personality, an...
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There are a lot of advancements on the horizon in the field of longevity. With things like stem cell and nutrition research, people are going to live to be older and older. How will that affect society, and how might we consider that when building on up from scratch?

You can find Steve on the interwebs here:
https://www.kzmedicalgroup.com
https://www.facebook.com/DrSteveHruby
https://www.facebook.com/KZMedicalGroup/

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This is the first version of half audio essay episodes I'm going to do where I talk about my ideas pertaining to create a new society from the ground up. I love interviewing others and getting their thoughts, however, I feel a need to share my ideas so that you can get a sense of where I'm coming from, which also might give you more context when I'm interviewing guests on the show.

You can follow me on various social platforms here...
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Have you thought much about controlling the population of a community? What happens if you don’t have enough people, or if you have too many? How can we make sure we have a healthy population to reduce the chance of detrimental mutations​ while preventing crowded streets and living situations.

On this Episode,​ Rebeka Brubaker​r carries us out of the cave as we discuss potentially caping the cities population. We talk about bio...
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Waste. We’re going to do it and It’s going to happen, but how are we supposed to deal with it? Society has to make things, and people need to consume things, but what do we do with everything that gets left over and in what ways can we make it so that we create as closed a loop system as possible?

In this episode, David Biello carries us out of the cave as we discuss waste management and in what ways we might be able to create a soc...
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How difficult do you think an open relationship would be? Probably pretty difficult. However, might that be only because you've just never been taught how to be in an open relationship? Cheri and I dive deep into this as we chat about her open relationship, and why raising​ kids in a more communal sense could be a more ideal way to raise children for both the kids​ and the parents.

Cheri Reeder has​over 30 years as a nurse in psycho...
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Have you read Manna? [http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm] Elio recommended I read this before we talk, and man, am I glad​ he did. This story fully encasulates what might have to happen to force a kind of reboot. We talk about the medium-long​ story, as well as sustainable farming, ai, and robotics.

Elio is an Arizona native who has been engaged in software development and systems architecture work since 1997. He has worked on a v...
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Do you live in a dense city or a suburb? Have you ever thought about the effect​ it has on you? I talk with Chris about the ways in which density plays a part in the creation of a good city and why that is important.

Chris is an​ Urban Designer and is currently in the process of becoming an architect​, which is by far one of the hardest things you can do.

You can follow me on various social platforms here:
www.instagram.com/jptaxm...
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How would you design a city if you could? Where might you start? In this episode, Michelle and I chat about stating with nature and examining what works there, first. Then, using those findings to help us design a city that is cohesive with nature but also inspired by it.

Here are the resources​ discussed​ in the podcast:
Michelle's​ website offer: http://www.naturefactor.com/jp/
Search​ for biomimicry​ examples: https://asknature.o...
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Chris Matthieu helps us out of the cave on this episode and we dive into learning about what decentralized computing​ is and how it might help lead us into a true sharing economy, one where ownership is taboo, and we all own everything together. We also get into other fun topics like self-driving​ cars.

Chris is the founder of Computes where he created a way to decentralize computing​ and recently sold that to the AR company Magic ...
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Andrea is the author of the book Sixty Days Left and an all-around funny, good-hearted​ person. We get deep though and talk about a tough topic in a new light. Is death a bad thing? Or have we just made is so? We examine if death should be viewed as bad, or as just another life event, or maybe even celebrated at times. How should our new culture view death?

You can find Andrea at this specific links:
https://www.instagram.com/andrea...
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On this episode, we talk with Kenny Wiess an entrepreneur​ and life coach. We dive deep into traumas, how to ​ work through them, and how we might educate parents to help their kids work through​ traumas.

You can follow me on various social platforms here:
www.instagram.com/jptaxman24
www.twitter.com/jptaxman24

You can find Kenny at:
https://www.facebook.com/kenny.weiss.56
https://www.facebook.com/coachkennyweiss/
https://www.instagra...
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Quinten baker joins us on this episode as we talk about blockchain, what it is, and how it might be used to create a more open and trusting society. Very little was discussed about cryptocurrencies on this episode, we dove more into alternative uses for the blockchain technology.

If you want to get in touch ​with Quinten​ reach out to him here:
https://www.facebook.com/qbaker86

You can follow me on various social platforms here:
www...
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Welcome to Out Of The Cave! This episode is an overview of what this podcast is about and what my vision is for it. I'm excited to have you join me on this exciting, terrifying, challenging, and fun journey.

In this podcast, we talk about what society can be by interviewing guests ranging from technology experts, architects, urban designers, anthropologists, and educators on how they would create a society from scratch. We also dee...
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