Konrad Urban

Entrepreneur First & Antler: Konrad's Honest* Guide

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

An honest, opinionated walkthrough of EF and Antler — what they actually are, who goes, the deal, and the things I wish I’d known.

Super Mary: Mission Impossible

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Knowledge Argument’s Mary is conceptually impossible — any system capable of emulating her brain must be informationally richer than her brain, making KA P1 self-defeating.

Conformism: Towards a Dynamic Model of Locating Disagreement

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Defends conformism via a dynamic disclosure model: agents should disentangle their web of entangled beliefs before treating peer disagreement as evidence, approximating rough peers toward ideal peerage.

European Banks: Not Fixed Yet

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A stress test of European systemically important banks shows they remain perilously undercapitalised — and that regulators and official stress tests obscure this.

Misc

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Blues

I co-founded:

Open Blues — a yearly festival that attracts guests from 5 continents. 100% DIY and volunteer-run.
Honey Honey Blues (sunset) — weekly blues classes in Warsaw, Poland. I usually teach with Kate Phellini.
NoName Blues (sunset) — weekly blues parties in Warsaw, Poland.

Film

I worked as the 2nd director for Oko i Ucho on a peak-time TV documentary film series with a viewership of around 0.5M. The series is about the influence of politics on architecture and urban landscapes.
Elegy for Dunelm House — Producer & Co-Director. Culture Y Award for Best Film at St Andrews University.
Radowid Silk — Producer.

Journalism

I worked as a fixer for Ángela Rodicio and her team during the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I worked as a photographer for Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Talks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Past

EthDenver — p2p electronic cash or just new middlemen?
DevConnect 2025 — Eth/Acc — Peanut Pitch
DevConnect 2025 — Will We Ever Have True P2P Digital Cash? — Onchain Banking & Fintech
When Help Hurts: Why a Friendly Government is a Threat to Crypto — Protocol Berlin
Wen p2p Electronic Cash System? — Devcon 7 SEA
Chain abstraction? But I want to know where my tokens are — Devcon 7 SEA
How can wallets deal with the multichain nightmare? — DevCon Wallet Uncon
Why wallets suck for payments — DevCon Wallet Uncon
Will we ever have a p2p digital cash system? — EthCC Payments Cafe
The Next Wave of web3 Applications (panel) — EthCC Infra Breakfast
Please stop obsessing about blockchain! — EthDenver 2023, The Next Billion Summit
Ambire Mini-Summit “The Next Billion” Vision (panel) — EthDenver 2023
The evolution of Layer-2 scaling solutions (panel) — CryptoSummit, Zurich
What can we learn from CEXes? — Pretzel DAO, Munich
On the Future of DeFi — Full Node, Berlin
No one should have to care about blockchain — Lift99 DAO, Berlin
Permanence and storing memories — IPFS Camp, Lisbon
Community Building — Let’s Phi
A Critique of Proceduralism — Advanced Research Computing, Durham University
Free Education — Durham University Union Society
On MVPs — University of St Andrews
IP is not property — Polish Philosophical Congress
Intellectual “property” — European Conference for Analytic Philosophy
Global and Local Exclusivity in Intellectual Property — GAP9 Osnabrück

Podcasts

Lift99 DAO
Human Story
Stable Stories
Web3 on Fire
Krypto Rozmowy
Goodnews