#25 - Mike Lacsy

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 174 minutes

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Summary

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. ***TIME STAMPS*** 5:05: Mike’s Torn ACL; Cliff-Diving Adventures; Gary Vee 12:37: The early days of IG, TikTok Content 18:07: “Creative Engineer”; People skills; Being molded by your environment 27:26: Revisiting Mike’s college years and his mentality there; The importance of support from friends/ as an entrepreneur 36:17: Relationships as an entrepreneur 40:39: The opportunities Covid presents; Past downtime cycles and the companies that came from them; Amazon’s growth during Covid 49:06: Amazon is scary big now; the history of Amazon; The dispersion in the stock market and between corporations and small businesses; “The game” 1:01:39: How The Communist Chinese Government subsidizes their tech start ups (insane system); The 4 frontiers of modern technology 1:10:57: Moore’s Law (Tech); The TikTok issue with China; The slippery slope TikTok represents right now 1:16:53: Capitalism vs. Freedom in the Winner-Take-All Era; Companies buying out competition; Convenience vs. Data 1:25:17: Aliens; Simulation Theory 1:28:28: Renewable Energy & Adoption 1:33:27: The problem with a 2-party system; Climate Change & Politicization; 1:41:43: Dr. Steven Pinker, “Enlightenment Now,” and appealing to data/reason/logic; Our Culture of Fear 1:49:04: What Mike liked about Bernie Sanders in 2016; Left vs. Right polaization; The difference between Leftists and Liberals 1:58:57: Our need to feel validated online; Empathy; Peace among those who don’t respond to the noise 2:07:42: Zuckerberg saving himself with Instagram; TikTok created a perfect app; Instagram API’s 2:16:54: Mike’s crazy story about changing jobs at the beginning of the Pandemic; Mike’s work at Fire Hydrant 2:26:27: Automation even in the tech world; More background on Fire Hydrant 2:32:37: 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” 2:40:47: The next disruptions coming; Internet of Things (IoT) 2:45:05: 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” ~ YouTube FULL EPISODES: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	You're going to look back in this podcast and see the intermakings of what these people
0:35.7	are doing at the specific time and how they thought about it.
0:38.3	Here's a blueprint.
0:39.9	And anyone, you have to find the things that you're interested in and passionate about.
0:43.8	You must find that.
0:45.0	And I know there are some exceptions and some people, you know, they have the discipline and be like,
0:49.2	I don't really like this, but I'm good at and I'll roll with it.
0:51.1	And, you know whatever but if you find the things that you are good at and are willing to know it's not always going to be fun and just get after it and learn
0:59.0	make mistakes iterate learn make mistakes iterate or whatever the order is anyone can do it with
1:06.2	consistency and I speak on that coming from a point where I still, you know, am chasing the right side of the rainbow here to be able to say like, all right, pulled it off, did it right. But I've seen enough people who have done it and I've been through enough, including a lot of failures to know like, okay, that's the shit that doesn't work yeah you know
1:28.8	and and you have to do it you have to be in there and be willing to say well i fck that one up
1:35.2	yeah no that's fair i mean i couldn't have said it better myself that's literally that's really
1:38.0	that's really that's what we're trying to project that's it Out into the world. What's going on YouTube? One quick note before I start this episode with Mike, which was a good one.
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