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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

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston reconnects with Bosque Gracias, the artist collective and residency built by hand in the forests of Patagonia by Rosio and Mariano. After years offline and a chance reconnection during lockdown, Bosque found a new creative chapter through Tezos. Now, one year later, we return to see how that chapter has unfolded.

🎙️ Our guest is Mariano, co-founder of Bosque Gracias, returning to reflect on how the residency has grown over the past year and how hosting artists continues to shape both the space and his own practice.

In this episode, we explore:

What it feels like, in hindsight, to reconnect to the internet after five years offline

- How daily rhythm changes when residencies fill an entire calendar

- Moments when forest, river, and weather quietly reroute creative work

- Unexpected collaborations sparked by Bosque’s pairing wheel

- Times when things broke down and improvisation led to meaningful outcomes

- How hosting others has revived parts of Mariano’s own artistic practice

- The story of the engraver living on a mountain island and what visiting her studio reveals

- The tension between growing the residency and protecting its soul

- What Mariano hopes artists feel on their first morning at Bosque as spring begins

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This week on TezTalks Radio, host Brandon Langston speaks with Libertez, a longtime Tezos baker and contributor whose perspective on money and trust was shaped not by theory, but by lived experience. Having grown up in Venezuela during a period of economic collapse, Libertez brings a grounded and deeply personal lens to conversations about crypto, baking, and decentralization.

Our guest is Libertez, a home baker and writer active in the Tezos community, known for keeping his setup accessible and for sharing thoughtful reflections on trust, value, and resilience through his writing on Tezos Commons.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

What life felt like in Venezuela before the slow unraveling began

The moment when instability became impossible to ignore

How crypto entered Libertez’s life as a necessity, not speculation

What it meant to rely on these tools during the hardest stretches

Why he chose to become a baker and keep his setup intentionally simple

What decentralization looks like in daily practice, not theory

How writing became a way to process and share experiences that still matter

What Libertez sees when he looks at Tezos today, after years of watching it grow

A message for newcomers who are just beginning to explore baking or delegation