Today we learned of Terry’s unabashed love affair with coal-fired power plants, which are arguably the most impactful technology of ever. Arguably in the sense that Russ is happy to argue against that claim. Where there’s no argument is on the importance of systems thinking and the role of complexity in modern society and work.

0m 57s Coming strong out of the gate, you CAN build an autonomous AI research agent. Russ wonders out loud if he should and what he can actually do with it.

12m 36s Russ aggressively pursues statistics and quantifiable measures of all things he tells Terry he’s wrong about. But there’s a significant body of research arguing that GDP is not a measure of human well being.

14m 17s “Flaneuring” is to wander about for the sake of observation, usually while French and wealthy.

16m 42s Corporate drones and career go-getters of a certain age will easily recall that Malcolm Gladwell popularized the notion that 10,000 hours are required to become an expert. This has been picked apart in many ways since, and today would best be classified as an interesting starting point for further exploration of skill versus practice.

37m 3s Microsoft is serious about powering data centers with nuclear reactors. At the time of recording, they had an opening for Principal Program Manager, Nuclear Technology.

40m 5s In a preview of company rundowns to come, Terry gives a shout out to Sunflower Labs for their drone surveillance platform and All Turtles as the product development firm helping make the drones (and a lot of other things) reality.

48m 28s Whether it’s FANG or FAANG, this is not a company. It’s Facebook, Apple, (Amazon), Netflix, Google.

59m 1s Terry reminds Russ that Gaussian distributions are perfectly normal.