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#127
Sunday · 19 min
Interview the VCs — Chris Kantrowitz 6/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I turn venture fundraising inside out: interview the VCs, show them who you really are, quit nickel-and-diming small funds on carry, and back strange ideas before consensus catches up.
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#126
Saturday · 18 min
Our KPI Is Death — Chris Kantrowitz 5/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into Quorum Earth’s fungus-based plan to save bees from Varroa mites, then follow the science, regulation, and scrappy manufacturing behind a biopesticide company whose KPI is death.
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#125
Friday · 34 min
Hired by Sony at 14 — Chris Kantrowitz 4/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I trace the hustle that got him hired by Sony at 14, then connect dyslexia, ADHD, and instinct to the unlikely path from early video-game testing to Quorum Earth’s bee-saving biopesticides.
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#124
Thursday · 34 min
Accidental Authenticity — Chris Kantrowitz 3/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into accidental authenticity: what Frank Zappa's house taught him about sycophants, how fame and money distort friendship, and how he hustled Gobbler through the venture clock.
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#123
October 7 · 22 min
Language Is a Technology — Chris Kantrowitz 2/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into the hidden technology of language: what remote work strips out of company culture, what his non-speaking son taught him about communication, and why telepathy, dreams, and the brain deserve serious experiments.
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#122
October 6 · 18 min
The Death Star in Century City — Chris Kantrowitz 1/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I compare pre-deal venture investing with music lawyers and Hollywood agents, then get into hacker-advising WarGames, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the CAA machine Andreessen Horowitz borrowed.
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#121
October 3 · 20 min
Reasoning from Fictional Evidence — Byron Reese 4/4
Byron Reese and I trace how stories shape what people fear and build—from biased machine learning and Hollywood’s dystopian AI to Star Trek, Agora, and the fight for a more optimistic technological future.
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#120
October 2 · 10 min
Stories, Dice & Rocks that Think — Byron Reese 3/4
Byron Reese and I follow the invention of probability into computer chips, then ask how stories, simulations, spreadsheets, sensors, and shared machine learning can help us choose a better future.
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#124
October 1 · 17 min
Where Are the Bronze Age Beavers? — Byron Reese 2/4
Byron Reese chases a weird question—why are there no Bronze Age beavers?—through Homo erectus, cave art, language, and the human superorganism he calls Agora.
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#123
September 30 · 7 min
Infinite Progress & Wasted, Two of My Favorite Books — Byron Reese 1/4
Byron Reese and I unpack Infinite Progress, The Fourth Age, and Wasted—then chase recycling’s perverse incentives back to the real technical problem: building clean, cheap energy.
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#122
September 25 · 17 min
Telepathy & Shared Consciousness – Spiros Michalakis 5/5
Spiros Michalakis and I explore The Telepathy Tapes, extraordinary claims, and the limits of what we know — then return to empathy, storytelling, and the challenge of connecting with other people.
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#121
September 24 · 19 min
AI, Education & the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer – Spiros Michalakis 4/5
Spiros Michalakis and I explore the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, AI tutors, game engines, and personalized stories — and how to help people go on adventures rather than spoon-feed them an education.
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#120
September 23 · 35 min
The Quantum Hall Effect & the Holographic Universe – Spiros Michalakis 3/5
Spiros Michalakis walks me through the quantum Hall effect, topology, entanglement, and his picture of a holographic universe. I test the ideas against jumping beans, scratch holograms, and a light bulb.
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#119
September 22 · 29 min
Why Gravity Feels Like Falling Through Time – Spiros Michalakis 2/5
Spiros Michalakis walks me through a thought experiment linking gravity and time. We explore consciousness, entropy, and what rock climbing and salsa dancing reveal about perspective.
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#118
September 21 · 36 min
The Intelligence of Outsiders – Spiros Michalakis 1/5
Caltech quantum physicist Spiros Michalakis joins Pablos to explore why outsiders, empathy, and shifting perspective may be humanity’s most powerful forms of intelligence.
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#117
September 18 · 31 min
A Million Robot Fans — Mike Winter 5/5
Mike Winter tells me how a 1994 Wired Robot Wars call pulled him out of an Alaska winter — flipper bots, a million fans, warehouse humanoids, and a Cannonball Run rule: never be bored.
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#116
September 17 · 38 min
Neurons in Your Hands — Mike Winter 4/5
Mike Winter and I go from local AI tools and gritty real props to childhood computers, Super 8 stop-motion, and why working with your hands still beats living only in your head.
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#115
September 16 · 25 min
Screw the Screws — Mike Winter 3/5
Mike Winter and I argue fasteners, DJI-grade mechanics, and a no-screws design challenge — then widen out to what manufacturing is for and what still makes a person fulfilled.
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#114
September 15 · 13 min
I Wanted to Make Monsters — Mike Winter 2/5
Mike Winter walks me through his first CAD startup, the secret wish to make film monsters, offline research contests, and why Dollar Tree dioramas beat sitting around watching TV.
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#113
September 14 · 11 min
AI or Die — Mike Winter 1/5
Mike Winter and I start with his AI or Die combat-robot fight against his BattleBots-veteran daughter — then dioramas as everyday model-making, and why creative thinking shouldn't live only in language.
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