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THE EMPATHY EDGE - HOW TO INCENTIVIZE EMPATHY AND COMMUNITY IN A CAPITALIST WORLD

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“Community is intrinsically necessary for most people, even introverted people. Community is a sense of belonging that transcends the transactional. Transactions may come out of community, but they are not the point of community.”
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Key Takeaways:

  • We are all intrinsically creative. It is important to be bold in your engagement with other people’s creativity – which will also build your muscle to be creative yourself. 
  • There need be no poverty in the world – right now, poverty is a political choice of the system we live in. 
  • Civilizational transformation is usually the result of upheaval and catastrophe. It is rarely the result of a peaceful opt-in solution. It is our moral responsibility to be part of building and, then offering, those peaceful transitions.


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POLITICAL HOPE - MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION

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Raman Frey is the co-founder of Camp Earnest and Good People Dinners. He has meaningful experience in Silicon Valley in both the business and technology communities. Raman is also a brilliant modern philosopher, with terrific essays on Medium.
https://www.ramanfrey.com/
https://www.gpdinners.com/
https://ramanfrey.medium.com/
https://www.campearnest.com
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LOHIKA RE:THINK - SUSAN CAIN ON QUIET ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

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Raman interviews author and luminary Susan Cain as host of Re:Think.

​Did you know introverted leaders often deliver better results than extroverted leaders do? That the most spectacularly creative people tend to be introverts? That the most innovative thinking happens alone and not in teams?

Susan Cain is the author of “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.”
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LOHIKA RE:THINK - SUSAN CAIN ON QUIET ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

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Raman interviews Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, as host of Re:Think.

Many believe that social media algorithms have caused more harm than good. What if the software engineers building these algorithms had a framework for ethical decision-making? Could such a framework create more equitable algorithms? 
In addition to detailing his framework, Nicholas will share insights on how engineering teams can adopt its principles to the code they write. 
Nicholas will also cover:
  • What software engineers could be building now if they want to support a just and equitable world
  • Common moral choices that developers face when they’re building tools used by millions or billions of people
  • The moral hazards that can surface during software development
  • Whether we can build tools that make our economic system more democratic
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LOHIKA RE:THINK - CHRIS YEH ON BLITZSCALING 

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Raman interviews author, investor and founder Chris Yeh as host of Re:Think.

​In the book “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh provide the canonical way to build the world-changing companies of tomorrow.


Startups can apply its lessons to grow into enduring market leaders in record time. And grown-up companies can leverage its principles to transform their businesses by maximizing their breakthrough opportunities.
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SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA: INSPIRE FOR 5 

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Startups are a big part of our ecosystem who are creating new solutions to solve humanity's grand challenges.
In this episode, we're grateful to have Raman Frey share his top 5 tips for startups. For the last 19 years, Raman Frey has built companies and communities in the Bay Area, bringing people together around meaningful conversations about art, technology, religion, politics and philosophy. 
As of spring, 2020, Raman serves in advisory capacities for a number of stealth and launched startups, including New Age Meats, Better Humans and Lohika.
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Real Men Feel E201: Integrity for Chameleons

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“We all can give each other permission and give ourselves permission to be different men in different contexts.”​

Speaker, writer, entrepreneur and community builder, Raman Frey, visits to explore ideas of adaptive masculinity, identity, and more.  Raman talks about the need for a more fluid and contextual identity, stressing that being a chameleon is not out of integrity. Being resilient, flexible and adaptable is needed most when things are changing quickly. And we are indeed in times of rapid change.

Show notes and topics are here:  ​http://realmenfeel.org/2020/09/01/integrity-for-chameleons/
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Accelerated Startup Academy E4: Raman Frey on Building Communities

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"On this episode, I talk with Raman Frey about the importance of building authentic communities around your products and companies. Raman is the founder of Good People Dinners, a Bay Area community focused on meaningful conversations, usually over food and drink. These dinners, corporate salons, overnights and retreats bring together professional chefs and thoughtful speakers on a wide range of topics. They’ve been running for 8 years, producing nearly 250 events for organizations, including Mozilla, Synapse, and Frog Design. Since we are all stuck with little physical contact these days, I’ve asked Raman to share his insights on building genuine communities online and offline."
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RETHINKING HUMANITY: VIDEO INTERVIEW

I sit down with Sonya Larrea and Lacey DeLayne to discuss how we might re-imagine and reinvent the economy and government for a brighter post-pandemic world. ​
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90% MENTAL, EPISODE 108: EMBRACING FEAR

Raman Frey, Founder of Good People Dinners discusses how we can understand and embrace various forms of fear, given the current state and the emotional effects of the global pandemic, and how fear has been embedded into our everyday consciousness.
Raman shares intimate stories about how he has dealt with fear as an athlete, corporate athlete, and in life. It’s not about ignoring fear or being fearless… It’s about learning how to embrace your fear and being a quote un quote "bad host" for it.
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THE DIGITAL LOVE PODCAST, EPISODE 2 WITH SPECIAL GUEST RAMAN FREY

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Raman Frey is not your typical San Francisco based entrepreneur. We sat down in his kitchen and over a cup of tea talked about how technology is overengineering our lives and how the attention economy is only serving brands and business. Raman is working on a book about how we can create new incentives structures in commerce that are more ethical and sustainable. We touch on compassionate leadership and the very real emotional experience of being constantly digitally connected.
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Video: Blockchain would benefit people | Exclusive Interview with Raman Frey


​Raman Frey has been part of the San Francisco startup, disruption, and innovation culture since 2000 and has and has opened his mind, heart, and kitchen to us here at Newconomy.  There are twenty minutes of brilliance in the video. Every minute of it wide, insightful, instructional, remedial (we’re not all experts here, just about anyone can benefit from watching this interview), and inevitably prescient. Because I don’t want you to miss this interview I am going to share a spoiler from the very end. A mic drop moment that you shouldn’t miss and that frames the entire message and interview.​

Video: A New Era of Equality and Wealth: Raman Frey at Transformation2030


​Raman Frey spoke at the July 10, 2018 rendition of Transformation2030. His theories on wealth accumulation, distribution, and transfer can be found on Medium. During his speech, he touched the hearts of the audience and he made them think critically about the way business and life are structured. Watch now to find out more.

Video: Raman Frey - Altruistic Economies | Exploring Minds w/ Michele Carroll Ep. 9


​In this full episode of "Exploring Minds", Raman Frey and Michele Carroll explore the concept of "altruistic economies" and Raman's vision for a world that re-imagines incentive systems using blockchain technology

WISE@WORK: CAN BLOCKCHAIN INCENTIVIZE BETTER WORKPLACE CULTURES?

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Raman Frey is not your typical San Francisco based entrepreneur. We sat down in his kitchen and over a cup of tea talked about how technology is overengineering our lives and how the attention economy is only serving brands and business. Raman is working on a book about how we can create new incentives structures in commerce that are more ethical and sustainable. We touch on compassionate leadership and the very real emotional experience of being constantly digitally connected.
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Simulation #323 Raman Frey - Incentive System Design

Raman Frey has 18 years of experience starting businesses and organizations in the Bay Area including Co-Founding an International Art Galley for 10 years, Founding Good People Dinners 7 years ago which is a community focused on meaningful conversations which has hosted over 200 events, is a Partner at AH Global overseeing social media influencer outreach, and is currently writing a book called Mount Commerce: Beginnings of Incentive System Design.
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US VS. THEM: WHY WE CATEGORIZE PEOPLE AS OTHER

Raman Frey is not your typical San Francisco based entrepreneur. We sat down in his kitchen and over a cup of tea talked about how technology is overengineering our lives and how the attention economy is only serving brands and business. Raman is working on a book about how we can create new incentives structures in commerce that are more ethical and sustainable. We touch on compassionate leadership and the very real emotional experience of being constantly digitally connected.
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Deeply Connected: Integrity, Ambition and the Power of Commerce to Drive Ethical Progress

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“Ultimately, Deeply Connected is about empowering a nascent generation of business leaders to marry the idealistic and the practical, to align their “intrinsic motives” with profit motive, to feel good about how we all treat others and are treated and to reveal all the strategic advantages that come from this new and/both hybrid of values driven commerce.”
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THE JOURNAL: Hyper-Capitalism or a World Without Need

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“Those who most benefit from the status quo see how the trust-propagating and dis-intermediating potential of these new technologies threatens their holds on the manufacture of scarcity, the drivers of buying behaviors.”
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A Manager’s Job Is Making Sure Employees Have a Life Outside Work

“Fear is not the same as respect, and kindness is not the inverse of competence. People who believe their work truly benefits others and who are treated with respect in the workplace simply produce better results.”​
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DISPATCH LABS: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Reasons Why

“Over the years, the incentives of command and control systems as they exist now, of our current “more is better” system of commerce, is to concentrate power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands.”
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