Shownotes Transcript
In a bit of a departure from our normal format, Daniel Keller) interviews Chase Van Etten), founder and CEO of Vaporware) about his background and vision for the company.
We discuss:
- Absorbing the California Ideology by osmosis growing up in Petaluma
- How custom car culture informs Chase’s approach to technology
- Gaming as CEO Mode trainer Vs. depressive real world agency drainer
- Marketplaces as cooperation tech and the need to maximize informational flow rates
- How Vaporware aims to address the complexities of social computing
- Right and wrong approaches to standardization in software
- The multidimensional problem space of growing a radical software project as a startup
- Taking on megacorp incumbents by doing things outside the scope of their business model
- The great app-less future, (that Apple doesn’t want you to have)
- The Operating Function as a new paradigm in computing and foundation for a sovereign Exocortex
- Functional programming providing the basis for reliable and trustworthy distributed systems and software
- Vaporware’s competition and target audience
- The political implications of our technology and legal and ethical challenges
- Community sovereignty and individual sovereignty
- Some differing views on the pace of AI development
- How insanely high Chase thinks your monthly software bill is going to be in 10 years
- Different ways you can participate in our project if you’re interested!
Artwork: Peter Cain, “Z”, 1989