Amazon; Renewable Energy; China; Startups; Navigating Life in Your 20s

Mike “Lacsy” Lacsamana is a solutions engineer, entrepreneur, and podcaster. Currently, he works with Fortune 500 companies to re-engineer their software in emergency events. In addition to that, he is also the Co-Founder of Aeronaut Skincare—and a Co-Host of the company’s podcast, Project Aeronaut.

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About TRENDIFIER with Julian Dorey:
A podcast where hot takes meet context and ideas meet conversation. (Podcast / YouTube Vodcast)

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TIME STAMPS

2:48: Mike’s Torn ACL; Cliff-Diving Adventures; Gary Vee

10:20: The early days of IG, TikTok Content

15:50: “Creative Engineer”; People skills; Being molded by your environment

25:09: Revisiting Mike’s college years and his mentality there; The importance of support from friends/ as an entrepreneur

34:00: Relationships as an entrepreneur

38:22: The opportunities Covid presents; Past downtime cycles and the companies that came from them; Amazon’s growth during Covid

46:49: Amazon is scary big now; the history of Amazon; The dispersion in the stock market and between corporations and small businesses; “The game”

59:22: How The Communist Chinese Government subsidizes their tech start ups (insane system); The 4 frontiers of modern technology

1:08:40: Moore’s Law (Tech); The TikTok issue with China; The slippery slope TikTok represents right now

1:14:36: Capitalism vs. Freedom in the Winner-Take-All Era; Companies buying out competition; Convenience vs. Data

1:23:00: Aliens; Simulation Theory

1:26:11: Renewable Energy & Adoption

1:31:10: The problem with a 2-party system; Climate Change & Politicization;

1:39:26: Dr. Steven Pinker, “Enlightenment Now,” and appealing to data/reason/logic; Our Culture of Fear

1:46:47: What Mike liked about Bernie Sanders in 2016; Left vs. Right polarization; The difference between Leftists and Liberals

1:56:40: Our need to feel validated online; Empathy; Peace among those who don’t respond to the noise

2:05:25: Zuckerberg saving himself with Instagram; TikTok created a perfect app; Instagram API’s

2:14:37: Mike’s crazy story about changing jobs at the beginning of the Pandemic; Mike’s work at Fire Hydrant

2:24:10: Automation even in the tech world; More background on Fire Hydrant

2:30:20: Julian tells a story about Grand Central Station 2 weeks before the Pandemic hit; Mike discusses fitting into a new culture without meeting people in person; “Sitting with genius”

2:38:30: The next disruptions coming; Internet of Things (IoT)

2:42:48: Living in NYC during Covid; Mike talks about his mental health; Meditation; Julian’s “Connector” status; and some thoughts on what it takes to “keep going”