October 18, 2023
A Random Walk with Kevin
Description
Autodidact Kevin Shiuan swims up to the studio to walk us through his path from "business engineering" to the blockchain and into our robot plant future.
Episode
Bio
Kevin Shiuan works in Product at Wisetack. Formerly Lead Product Manager at Possible, Senior Product Manager at Blockchain, Head of Product at Highmark Data, Lead Product Manager at MassRoots, and Product Manager at Fiksu, Kevin is a Certified Scrum Product Owner and knows a lot about products. A magna cum laude bioengineer from UC Berkeley and a master of biomedical engineering from Boston University, he is a former water sports athlete, dancing astronaut, and also freakishly good at the flute. FUN FACT: Kevin and Jason share the same birthday!
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What Jason Learned
In the United States, there are more public storage facilities than there are McDonalds (circa 2015, there are over 50,000 public storage facilities vs. 14,000 McDonalds)
What Kelcey Learned
During the pandemic, Kelcey, among many other collectors, started recollecting old comic cards from his youth.
Top Five Tips on cryptocurrency investing

  1. Learn about bitcoin

  2. Get an account on Coinbase

  3. In Kevin's opinion, the core things that exist in cryptocurrency that will likely survive are Bitcoin and Ethereum

  4. Get a wallet, and practice getting Ethereum yourself (not your keys, not your tokens)

  5. Have fun!

Fact or Fiction: Cryptocurrency edition

  1. In 2010, a bug in the Bitcoin Blockchain created 1.84M BTC - FICTION, 184 million BTC were created by the 2010 bug

  2. 1 Satoshi is equal to 0.00000001 BTC and is the smallest unit in the bitcoin system - FICTION, the smallest unit is a millisatoshi, which is one thousandth of a Satoshi

  3. The disappearance of Satoshi Nakamoto is linked to the CIA - FACT, in 2010, the CIA wished to question Nakamoto about Bitcoin, and soon after, he disappeared into thin air

  4. Satoshi Nakamoto was nominated for a Fields Medal in 2016 - FICTION, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics

Recommendations

  • Music: La Dame Blanche

  • Movie: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Hunt for the Wilderpeople

  • TV: Barry, Our Flag Means Death, Reservation Dogs, Killing It

  • YouTube Video: Paging Mr. Morrow

  • Life Hack: If you buy two mattresses and you like the expensive one, you can "return" the expensive one (which is normally donated to charity), and get the cheaper one. You can also get replacement layers of mattresses and build your own.

Won't You, Haiku?
Blow my brains out please
What he said earlier and
No seriously