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Banishing Your Phone from the Bedroom — The Simplest Sleep Fix
This episode looks at the simple habit of leaving a phone in another room at bedtime, and what that small shift reveals about the relationship betwee…
3 weeks ago
We Are Not Built to Stay Happy — On Homeostasis and Hedonic Adaptation
This episode looks at homeostasis — not just as a biological mechanism, but as the quiet force that pulls our emotional states back toward the middle…
3 weeks ago
SpaceX's Acquisition of Cursor: Buying a Habit, Not a Model
This episode looks at SpaceX's reported acquisition of Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, for sixty billion dollars — and asks why a code editor tha…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Is AI Infrastructure Now a Matter of National Security?
This episode looks at a lawsuit filed by the NAACP against xAI's data center — alleging unpermitted gas turbines and air pollution violations — and t…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Pulled: Are We Heading Toward a US Version and an International Version of Frontier AI?
This episode looks at the news that Anthropic suspended access to two of its latest models outside the United States — not just for foreign nationals…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
You're Only 48
This episode reflects on a short trip with parents in their seventies, and how that time together quietly surfaces the passage of time — in a slower …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Four Young People, Burned Alive for Asking to Be Paid
This episode looks at a 2026 incident in southern Italy where four young people were burned to death inside a car — teenagers and twenty-somethings w…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
A Quote from Takeda Shingen That Still Lands Every Time
This episode sits with a quote attributed to Takeda Shingen — the sixteenth-century warlord — about what emerges depending on how fully you give your…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Removing the "Fiction" from Science Fiction
This episode looks at SpaceX — not through the lens of its current scale, but through the earlier atmosphere when almost no one believed it would amo…
4 weeks ago
A Crowdfunding Campaign That Has Lasted 144 Years
This episode looks at the Sagrada Família — currently in its 144th year of construction — and what it means that a building has been continuously bui…
4 weeks, 1 day ago