Can We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman
Big Technology Podcast
08/18/21
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Scott Heiferman is the founder of Meetup, a website that connects people online and gets them to meet each other offline. Heiferman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the internet can still bring people together vs. tear them apart, the latter of which it's done plenty of recently. This wide-ranging conversation gets into people's declining faith in institutions, our friendships and loneliness, Facebook's role in all this, virtual reality's potential, and the new company Heiferman is building today.
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Here's an Indistractable summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/
And a distraction guide: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/
And a schedule maker tool: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/
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