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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston is joined by Islam, Community Manager at Trilitech, for a thoughtful conversation about responsibility, judgment, and the emotional reality of working closely with people.

Before entering the Tezos ecosystem, Islam seriously considered a career in medicine. That interest in care, responsibility, and human impact never disappeared. It simply found a different place to live. In this episode, we explore how those values translate into community work, where decisions matter, clarity is essential, and there is rarely a script to follow.

Our guest is Islam, a community manager at Trilitech whose work sits at the intersection of people, communication, and responsibility across the Tezos ecosystem.

In this episode, we explore:

• What drew Islam toward medicine and what stayed with him after choosing a different path
• How responsibility shows up in community roles without formal authority
• The parallels between medical clarity and careful communication
• How judgment is formed when rules alone are not enough
• What community experiments reveal, even when they fall short
• The emotional weight of working closely with people at scale
• Lessons drawn from long-term loyalty and expectation
• What good engagement actually looks like from the community side
• One misconception about community-facing roles that causes the most friction
• What Islam hopes his work contributes to over time, beyond metrics