148 Making meaning with Reggie James, CEO and founder of Eternal
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English - May 27, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBusiness Arts Design design packaging manufacturing business entrepreneurship kickstarter ecommerce Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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An online identity is a cyclical existence that feeds on the past. Reggie James calls the pre-Facebook internet "proto-identity." From there, we quickly excelled from profile pages to performative identity, slicing up our full self into concise slivers.
Reggie James is the CEO and founder of Eternal, a new kind of identity platform. He's rejecting the comforting nostalgia of what users have "liked," and building a new way forward. In this episode, he challenges what we think about when we think about our online identity, praises the future-thinking theories of game design, and pushes product designers to think beyond the container.