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How does blockchain layering work? What can composability provide? What’s the value of money being mechanized? Can you translate the difference between centralized, protocol, and blockchain networks? Maybe you’re exploring ways to add digital depth to existing products?

So many questions, here are some answers!

After the 10 Commandments of UX are echoed in the break, we talk about how blockchain can support state management and sourcing truth alongside the power of AI. We brew on getting rugged by Big Tech, tokenomics to incentivize contribution, the lasting value of NFTs, user ownership in social media, Hats Protocol, web3 accelerators, Bitcoin halving, burning digital assets, and zero knowledge proofs. Try to keep up, share with a developer, and stay wild with tons of related episodes below. Let’s keep learning and building… together!

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EP3 – Blockchain Orgins 🎙️ Jon Woodard

EP8 – Cryptographic Cowboy 🎙️ Kyle Tut

EP25 – Stablecoins 🎙️ Chase Merlin

EP38 – Tokenomics 🎙️ Joshua Larson

EP39 – Digital Dawn 🎙️ Will Schneller

EP44 – Do What You Love 🎙️ Scotty Russell

EP71 – Still United 🎙️ Alex Myers

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By Ben McDougal, 3 monthsMarch 5, 2025 ago

You Don't Need This Podcast

Generative Humans

Chris Snider is an educator who helps students explore the landscape of communications. Knowing so much information is online, digital communication becomes apart of endless discussion. How does multimedia technologies flow so prevalently within marketing? Chris has been exploring the frontiers of social media and has taught at Drake University for over 15 years!

Listen as we surf the continuum of content creation. We approach the end of 2024 with this modern glimpse inside our university classrooms. Ben narrates Horizons from the Roasted Reflections library, then we jam on generative AI, intelectual humility, and emerging tools we use to connect, communicate, and collaborate.

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Generative AI Workshops

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https://BenMcDougal.com/content-creation

Reading Break from Roasted Reflections: Horizons

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Roasted Reflections

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By Ben McDougal, 5 monthsDecember 18, 2024 ago

You Don't Need This Podcast

Caffeinated Manifesto 2

Together, we have fun exploring the frontiers, and how we leverage time is one of life’s greatest explorations. Welcome back for a brand new season of recorded relics with leaders like us, who do things like this!

After the 55 wonderful whirlwinds that made for an epic Season 1, you may not need Season 2 of this podcast, but you’re in the right place.

This special episode includes an entertaining reflection on Season 1 of #YDNTP. Our timeless and unscripted host, Ben McDougal, brews in acknowledgements, a fun unboxing in the break, thoughts on what’s to come, and a hidden giveaway activated by the voice of BEN BOT. Enjoy this season 2 premiere, and your first look/listen from inside our new recording studio. Whatta fast start to more weekly jolts for the entrepreneurial lifestyle, then stay tuned, your weekly drip is back online, with all-new episodes released each Wednesday morning. Cheers and let’s keep building!

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Roasted Reflections
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By Ben McDougal, 8 monthsSeptember 18, 2024 ago

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Inextinguishable Light

Recorded at the largest sound stage in Minnesota, Ben McDougal and Jim Morgan compose a symphony of sound and share BIG news to tie a beautiful bow on Season 1 of You Don’t Need This Podcast!

Together, we jam on producing new music every day, sleeping in a kick drum, and being a part of other artist’s creative process. We hear the story of Conduit Sound, then celebrate pure wonder and serendipity by talking about inspired leadership within creative, inclusive, and open environments. In a special break, you’ll be first to taste the Collector Hardback Edition of You Don’t Need This Book: Entrepreneurship in the Connected Era! After the break, we put hands on the Collector Hardback Edition, then click on AI within music and transitioning from behind the camera to in front of an audience. We close by appreciating the support of family, invite you to ship your own art as inextinguishable light, and stick around as BEN BOT articulates a transmission from the future. Cheers to Season 1 and hit YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com for more timeless insight brewed to keep us building.

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EP44 – Do What You Love 🎙️ Scotty Russell

http://YouDontNeedThisPodcast.com

http://BENBOT.ai

By Ben McDougal, 11 monthsJune 19, 2024 ago

You Don't Need This Podcast

Aunt Julie

Julie McDougal shares a chat before she retired from IBM. Can you imagine being at IBM for over 35 years?! The featured guest in EP47 has lived on the edge of technology her entire career! Julie worked within the culture and this fun episode is a glance at how she united others. As you’ll hear, Julie is also Ben’s aunt. Fun! Cheers to everyone at IBM and cheers to a long, interesting, and impactful career. Happy retirement, Aunt Julie!

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By Ben McDougal, 1 yearApril 24, 2024 ago

Ben McDougal is an author, founder, technologist, and entrepreneurial ecosystem builder in the connected era.

Ben has been called a polymath. He evolves ideas into reality and accelerates others through the art of connection. Check out the innovations this leader has activated over time!

You’ve likely met Ben or heard him speak.

You Don’t Need This Podcast has been the place to enjoy a podcast every Wednesday morning for a while now! McDougal’s latest creation unites 80+ timeless episodes, each with featured guests in-studio! Listen and watch as leaders brew through the fabrics of an entrepreneurial lifestyle. The content creation never stops either. 160+ writings are now minted into Roasted Reflections. This library is a literary journey for the mind and could present a compelling path toward an all-new format coming soon.

Shifting gears, the quest that is FliteBrite remains compelling and an active part of Ben’s journey as a founder. Since 2012, their electronic serving system and beer festival app have created tech-infused paths for craft breweries and event organizers. This tasty story continues to be written, with fun, friendships, successes, learnings, and more fun, every step of the build.

Alongside his ventures, Ben caffeinates a nationwide movement called 1 Million Cups. After leading 1MC Des Moines for 5 years, Ben now collaborates with the Kauffman Foundation as the @1MCMidwest Regional Rep. He’s been making a ruckus in this position for over 5 years. What glorious collision, with endless generous 1MC organizers, in countless entrepreneurial ecosystems. Ben loves this leadership role brewed to connect and support 1MC organizers from 100+ communities throughout the Midwest and nationwide!

When it comes to nationwide efforts, Ben also had the privilege of teaming up with Techstars as an Entrepreneur in Residence and Ecosystem Builder. Investing 2021-2023 to build through the Iowa Techstars Accelerator was fantastic. That marketing-flavored, community building, culture, and founder-support role allowed Ben to continue accelerating inspired entrepreneurs… while connecting mentors and investors from around the globe.

Such experiential wisdom is translated into BENergy as McDougal speaks with a variety of different audiences. For example, You Don’t Need This Keynote activates students, while other talks accelerate young professionals, founders, side hustlers, and intrapreneurs. Watch fantastic examples here, then let’s chat about your next event, keynote speaker ideas, workshop collaborations, and/or entrepreneurial initiatives.

There’s so much more too. The full story is linked below and a spacious museum will keep you appreciating work that feels like play. As you’ll see through stories, Ben also enjoys travel, golf, EDM expeditions, reading, Seth Godin, philosophy, wine, craft beer, pinball, and spending treasured time with his wife and daughter. May the best of your todays, be the worst of your tomorrows. Cheers!

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