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From Free Agent to Chief Design Officer For our Double-O-Seventh episode, it is oh so appropriate to have Jon Myers as our guest. He's an international designer of mystery—living a jet-set life and assassinating design problems with expert marksmanship. We talk to Jon about his 20 years of design experience leading up to his current role as Chief Design Officer at Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City based crypto trading platform Liquid. You can find Jon at @JonMyers on Twitter and http://www.jonmyers.com/ You can learn more about Liquid at https://www.liquid.com/ Table of Contents: 00:17 - Intro 01:15 - Jon's Saigon Journey 02:17 - The Columbus Connection 02:43 - Jon's Design and Entrepreneurship Journey 05:16 - Digital Nomads, Lifestyle Business, Scalable Startups, Affiliate Marketing, Vietnam and a Medium Article 08:27 - American's Have an Unfair Advantage in Immigration and Global Citizenship 10:54 - World on Fire, Working for Yourself, Working for a Company, Abstraction Layers 15:04 - Introduction to The Liquid Crypto Platform 21:09 - Advice to be a Better Designer 24:31 - Smoking Shisha 26:07 - Exercise, Daily Routines, Productivity, Intermittent Fasting 28:42 - Distraction and Productivity 33:13 - What Does Jon Like Most About Living in Vietnam? 35:59 - Design vs Conducting 37:04 - Entertainment, Tourism, and Restaurants in Saigon 40:54 - Jon's Design Process 44:39 - Sketch (UI Design App) 45:54 - Game Design, New Platforms, and Gold Rushes 50:04 - Dynamite Circle 51:17 - Vitality in Online Communities 56:28 - Outro Hashtags: #liquid #crypto #design #ux #vietnam #shisha #digitalnomad #productivity #entrepreneurship #leadership #columbus #saigon #expatlife This episode is also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bJ072HFD7ns