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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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  • #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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  • #111
    September 10 · 15 min

    Planet Water — Juan Enriquez 3/4

    I ask Juan Enriquez why net zero won’t quickly cool a planet that is mostly water—and what science we need to do before the emergency.

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  • #110
    September 9 · 14 min

    Air Condition the Planet — Juan Enriquez 2/4

    Juan Enriquez and I confront the case for geoengineering—from runaway methane and ice-core climate shocks to cloud ships, reflective drones, and the politics of cooling Earth.

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  • #108
    September 3 · 24 min

    Constant Tension — Marc Porat 4/4

    I closed with Marc on holding two futures at once — paperclip apocalypses, the stories in our heads, and why I still believe we have volition in the toolkit we are building.

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  • #107
    September 2 · 13 min

    Break the Hockey Stick — Marc Porat 3/4

    I pressed Marc on cheap energy as a civilizational discontinuity — and whether AI is actually different in kind, or just another hockey-stick story we tell ourselves.

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  • #106
    September 1 · 20 min

    Goal Cloning — Marc Porat 2/4

    I asked Marc how a vision actually spreads inside a company — Alan Kay’s goal cloning, hiring people who already see it, and pulling from the future instead of pushing from the present.

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  • #105
    August 31 · 14 min

    I was Born of Revolutions — Marc Porat 1/4

    I sat down with Marc Porat about personal technology as a north star — and how information as power runs from his family history through Stanford, Apple, and General Magic.

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