marikio

Thanks for the correction! Haven’t browsed it in about 5 years now, so memory is foggy :)

The 1957 issue of Life that includes the first coverage of Psilocybin Mushrooms in the Western World also has an advert for a local KKK sponsored baseball team. Wild.

Tabula Rasa Ventures | Remote ET | Head of Media & International Events | Full time | tabularasa.ventures

Im the Founding Partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures an Investment firm focused on psychedelic therapeutics. If you're interested in breaking into the world of VC through your expertise in Media and Events management this is a perfect role.

Contact me at marik@tabularasa.ventures

If you're interested in the intersection of startups/tech x psychedelics would love to chat: marik@tabularasa.ventures

You should read the book People Powered by Jono Bacon. Has some really good insights and is a 101 course on exactly this.

Most folks have been reading about the psychedelics renaissance.

A humongous problem is the absolute lack of data that many psychedelic assisted therapists, guides, spiritualists have, to be able to point to their specific types of therapy as effective.

You come across folks that make humongous claims about the specific modalities they use, but don't track the progress of their patients and therefore don't have the data to prove it. We're working with volunteers at Tabularasa.ventures to develop some simple applications to both screen clients and also allow for practitioners or individuals to record progress (reductions in depression, PTSD, etc.) over time whether treating with microdosing, self administered, or more standard psychedelic assisted therapy (PAT) methods.

Happy to collaborate -> marik@tabularasa.ventures

This is by far the most comprehensive and quantitative report we've seen. Our firm is also working on publishing industry insights: tabularasa.ventures/research

Incredibly impressed with the ThinkMyco team

Thank you for this.

Considering that vasectomies are completely reversible you're just giving people a safer form of birth control that they can opt out of any time. It's not about not trusting people. It's making individuals lives easier through the implementation of a default that allows for people to make more conscious decisions.

Beatboxing.

You get so much respect when you have a party trick that can turn any gathering into an improv acapella concert.

There are a few companies/orgs trying to solve these issues:

https://spankchain.com/

https://www.iliac.io/

But porn doesn't have high margins. No one (except the large distributors like Mindgeek - Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn) is making much money. Especially these small sites that are being built. After you subtract legal, production, performer fees you're left with almost nothing.

I worked in the Adult Industry for several years, but building tech for the industry wasn't financially stable for me so I had to leave. Still really passionate about the sex worker community though. Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.

Maybe we can start a small group of engineers who want to discuss working through some solutions together. My email is hello@marik.io if anyone is interested.

Wrote an article about addressing this just days ago... https://medium.com/@marikhazan/should-tech-have-nutrition-fa...

Step 1: sudo nano /etc/hosts

Step 2: Type at bottom:

127.0.0.1 facebook.com

127.0.0.1 youtube.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 instagram.com

Step 3: ctrl+"O"

Unfortunately, I've reached out to MIT, Yale, USC which seemed to have departments focused on parts of what I do, but they all basically said "awesome stuff, much needed, we don't have the funding to explore, but please keep in touch".

I play at the intersection of systems engineering and social movements.