As much as I try to stay present, my mind inevitably finds itself fixated on the future.

I ask myself lots of questions about the future. What am I going to have for lunch? What city

should I settle down in? Where do I want to be five years from now? What will my currently

non-existent children's future look like? I'm constantly making predictions and spinning up alternate realities,

maybe the one where I got that job at college humor,

or one which I chose to stay in that shitty relationship.

There is a certain amount of it that's useless thoughts,

puttering around in my mind,

but then there's the side that's productive.

There's a place for the future that's filled with excitement, creativity, and wonder,

a place where politics don't pull us apart, a world that's much brighter than the one we live in today.

That is if the robots and zombies don't destroy us first.

This is episode 18 of the ground up show.

My guest today, oh man, I totally screwed that up.

I told you this is new.

This is a new setup and I totally messed it all up from the beginning of the end.

I should just redo everything.

My guest today is Jordan Lejuwin.

Lejuwon.

Lejuwon. Yeah.

He's the co-founder and CTO of Futurism, a media company that reaches over 5.5 million people

on Facebook.

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