The Man Who Fixes Problems for the Most Powerful People in the World

[@beethovenkasompe7395]

I don't know this guy, but I feel like he is someone I can connect so much with. The thought process and perspectives on tackling serious community issues are great.

[@bilalfurqan5154]

I wanna personally thank the interview for asking amazing questions. This interview was cool of wisdom.

[@TaurusBaileyAttorney]

Great interview by great guy Rey Flemings

[@sbzush]

Thanks for the interview. I would just like to point out a slight inaccuracy in reference to the sparker of the Arab Spring, Mohamed Bouazizi. He did not have any degrees. He had left school early to take care of his uncle and family and never continued his education. Some media outlets falsely reported that he has a degree, some even exaggerated and said two, as Rey has heard. But all of that is inaccurate. So, while the moral of the story is accurate (that working according to society's norms then not receiving the expected reward can be disappointing), the example of Bouazizi is not relevant.

[@pierbover]

Yeah and it's actually important to also understand the role of the Russian wildfires of 2010 which pushed the price of grain and how climate can have these impacts

[@tzc9309]

Lol this is a smart man, I like the idea of making kindness cool sexy and socially desirable a lot, society needs a real mental shift for positive change as this is the underlying basis for all things essentially. Now it is just convincing people who run these companies, and make business decisions, as well as governments that media and marketing shouldnt be purely to achieve a selfish goal lol. But i think the warren buffet point about human problems compounding faster than he can compound money also sums up this problem perfectly. No amount of money can change an underlying mental problem which persists then will consistently lead to other issues, reminds me of give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach a man to fish you feed him for life. The majority of the problems in the world are not financial ones, it is more psychological and mentality wise, e.g. fair resource allocation, greed, immorality, lack of empathy, material egotism, weakness of mind, and cooperation/the acceptance of differing beliefs etc etc fundamentally.

[@BradKaellner]

The self-made billionaire is the apex of success in the US. It would be fascinating to hear from everyone who achieved it... was it worth it?

[@espedale]

Great podcast, but you may need a new sound engineer. Ask your sound person if they understand the proximity effect. Rey's voice is booming!

[@thewize]

So, what's his book coming out?

[@michaelshepherd4652]

Who is your sound tech? Please have them turn. The volume of the voices up. There are times I can barely hear you your guest most of the time I can hear you. I can barely hear almost completely, and I am in my car with it completely blaring and it is hard to hear you, had to listen five times to hear the words croissant

[@tzc9309]

But one thing here also, when we look at the erosion of trust within society - who is primarily to blame here? If not government and media lies fuelling distrust and division, companies like facebook abusing privacy of citizens, all of these engineering society to maintain unjust status quos etc etc. The distrust has a cause, and these things are some of the biggest causes of this distrust within society. So it is semi ironic to come on as someone working for governments and probably in close proximity with these people, and suggest the same people who created these issues in the name of power, will happily just resolve them now. I would personally call bullshit on this for the majority of these people (elon musks aside).