Exosphere’s Skinner Layne on Using History as Your Entrepreneurial Guide

Skinner Layne founded Exosphere as a learning and problem-solving community of immersive learning programs and experiences. After 10 years of adult life, he came to realize it wasn’t best to “arrive”; but instead to keep asking questions in an infinite game.

In this week’s episode, he explores the parallels between the Roman and Post-Rome period to help draw wise conclusions about rational directions for entrepreneurs young and old. He also helps us understand the real point of Exosphere and the psychographics of those it’s really perfect for.

Show Notes:

Skinner’s Bio (1:21) More on his background (2:33) Memories of the 1990s/Startup boom/bubble (5:06) Denying the rules established by history (6:25) Financial collapse fetish/Utopia (8:12) Considering the Roman empire (9:30) Considering the Post-Rome period (11:28) Meritocracy (16:45) Pessimism/Optimism/Skepticism (18:15) Applying “Accounting” to ones life (20:36) The Condescending Group ad (24:21) Just being Skinner/ Finite & Infinite Games (26:50) Two generations with few adults (29:26) Meet & confront problems/pains of life (29:37) A better adult makes a better father (31:49) On Exosphere (33:00) Institution built on asking questions (34:39) Who is Exosphere really for? (36:30) On Chile & Latin America (39:48) Startup Chile (41:48) Coming Exosphere programs (44:20) Exosphere/Borderless Society promotion (46:21) Skinner’s best advice (48:30) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp_Hs7kfGmA