Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRenters, Not Owners: The Truth About Your Game Library
Season 1 Episode 234
Do you actually own your Steam library? A 17-minute dive into digital ownership—from the $1,500 average collection to the California law that forced …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Sweet Spot: When Damage Makes You Stronger
Season 1 Episode 233
Have you ever gotten stronger from something that should have damaged you? Today we explore the hormesis curve—the counterintuitive principle that th…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Abundance Paradox: Why Gift Economies Don't Break at Scale
Season 1 Episode 232
What if the problem wasn't that gift economies can't scale, but that we've been measuring scale wrong? The hosts unpack why abundance-based systems o…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Art of Missing Well: Why Old Man Golf Wins
Season 1 Episode 231
What sounds like an insult might actually be the secret to mastering any sport. This week, we explore the "old manpower" philosophy: how playing it s…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Truth Vaccine: How to Inoculate Your Brain Against Propaganda
Season 1 Episode 230
Why do false beliefs spread so easily? In this episode, we discover the psychological defense against propaganda: inoculation theory. William McGuire…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Permission Slips: The Philosophy of Authenticity
Season 1 Episode 229
What happens when a counterfeit is physically indistinguishable from the genuine? When superfakes are so perfect that luxury brands need X-ray machin…
2 months ago
When Your Boss's Bot Meets Your Union's Bot
Season 1 Episode 228
Ford's 1930s union-busting operation was pure brute force—but the job is still happening today, just automated. We trace the evolution from Harry Ben…
2 months ago
Rotating Crops: Why GPU Monoculture Is Depleting AI
Season 1 Episode 227
Episode 157 warned about infrastructure wars and GPU dominance controlling AI. Today we flip the dangerous question: what if the entire GPU-centric a…
2 months ago
When Time Became an Argument: How Calendars Shaped Civilization
Season 1 Episode 226
Every civilization looked at the same sky and built a completely different calendar. But why? We dig into how calendars stopped being measurement dev…
2 months ago
Mystery, Not Problem: How Catholicism Scales Existential Relief
Season 1 Episode 225
After last week dissolved the very concept of objective measurement, we're left staring into existential vertigo—suffering is unavoidable, death is c…
2 months ago