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Syncing with the Earth's OS
This episode reflects on a single idea from musician Takeshi Kishiro: that a morning routine isn't about doing the same things every day, but about h…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Man Who Dissolved His Own Religion
This episode looks at Jiddu Krishnamurti — the man raised from childhood to be a global spiritual leader, who in 1929 stood before his followers and …
1 week, 4 days ago
Still Ahead at 90
This episode reflects on a passage from designer Junko Koshino's book — specifically her mother's habit, even at 80 and 90, of saying "my life is jus…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Desire to Be Different Is What Keeps Consumption Going
This episode looks at the quiet engine behind a lot of everyday consumer choices — the desire to stand apart, to be slightly ahead, to be someone dis…
2 weeks ago
The Best Kind of Work
This episode starts with a moment from an interview with Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, who mentioned that in retirement he trades sto…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
On Battery Life and Slack
This episode looks at the idea of slack — the small margins that keep a system from breaking — through two lenses at once: a daughter's overfull sche…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Make Your Mass Heavier. Leave a Dent in the Universe.
This episode starts in an eyeglass shop, where a conversation with a regular customer and his friend drifted from Interstellar to Steve Jobs — and la…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Invisible Line Between Two Pins on Google Maps
This episode reflects on a single sentence from a newsletter — about how physical safety in America depends entirely on where and when you are — and …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Don't Optimize What Shouldn't Exist
This episode looks at Elon Musk's five-step engineering algorithm — question requirements, delete, simplify, optimize, speed up, automate — and why t…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Man Bought for $13 Billion, and What He Said About AI's Real Edge
This episode looks at an interview with Alexander Wang — the Scale AI founder recently acquired by Meta in a deal worth around $13 billion — and what…
2 weeks, 5 days ago