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New York, Los Angeles, and what gets lost when people stop building lives in place. That turns into a blunt look at remote work. Automattic made it work by hiring for written communication; most companies just broke the culture they already had.
Then we go somewhere stranger. Chris explains why he sees language as a technology, what his non-speaking son has taught him about communication, and why being in the same room still matters. We get into The Telepathy Tapes, blindfolded perception, psychedelics, lucid dreams, brain filters, and the experiments that might tell us what is actually happening.
It lands back on startups. Shared belief is not fluff. If a team cannot feel the same mission, no stack of tools will manufacture a heart-and-soul company.
