My very dear friend Marie-Theres Strauss challenged me to trade seats for this one. I think I agreed to talking about the pod, but ended up answering questions about myself.

Marie felt that anyone following these conversations is entiteld to know more about where I am coming from. So it’s a bit different and I’m not sure my bio is inherently interesting, but I’ll offer it.

What is true though: I believe in live dialogue as a uniquely rich format for learning because there are two subjectivities involved. People always communicate at multiple intellectual, emotional, and embodied levels, briefly mixing their worlds with a third, shared reality. That’s what makes talking to another human being different to chatting with an LLM… Engagement goes both ways. We can be intrigued, or triggered, or bored, or actually inspired. If the conversation is any good, it isn’t controlled by either of us.

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