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Season 1 Episode 168
A spec sheet looks like alphabet soup until you understand what each part actually does. This episode explains every major computer component using a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Be Wrong: Planning a Custom PC
Season 1 Episode 167
This is the first episode of a 10-part series on building a custom PC—but instead of jumping into hardware specs, the hosts discuss the critical art …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Bench Warmers vs. Gold Medalists: Why Market Size Beats Skill
Season 1 Episode 166
Why can a practice squad player making minimum wage out-earn Olympic athletes by 10x? Host A and Host B break down the brutal economics of profession…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Thousand Invisible Chefs: Why You're Running Code You'll Never Audit
Season 1 Episode 165
A developer types one command and pulls in 663 packages they've never heard of—each with full system access. We explore the trust paradox at the hear…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Built to Share: Why Ancient Water Commons Thrived
Season 1 Episode 164
The 'tragedy of the commons' is one of the most influential ideas in resource management—and almost entirely wrong. We challenge Garrett Hardin's 196…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Honorable Harvest: What AI Owes the Internet
Season 1 Episode 163
This is a direct sequel to Episode 161. We're applying Robin Wall Kimmerer's indigenous 'honorable harvest' principles—guidelines for sustainable res…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Combo Chain: What Baseball Knows About Throwing
Season 1 Episode 162
Baseball has spent decades decomposing the throwing motion into six frame-perfect phases, generating billions in biomechanical research. Volleyball u…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Braiding Sweetgrass: The Gift Economy Your Culture Wrote 15,000 Years Ago
Season 1 Episode 161
For 15,000 years, Indigenous peoples have encoded survival knowledge into culture and tradition. But when that knowledge isn't written down in the 'r…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Genjutsu Effect: How Your Brain Believes Lies
Season 1 Episode 160
Discover how repetition literally hijacks your brain's perception through the illusory truth effect. Based on a landmark Nature Communications meta-a…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Green Materia: Building Your Perfect Keyboard
Season 1 Episode 159
The custom mechanical keyboard hobby has become a $2.8 billion market obsession—and once you hear the difference between a standard board and a hand-…
2 months, 4 weeks ago