A Thai restaurant tried to game Google, but accidentally went viral. We knew Google paid Apple a lot to be the default search engine. We didn’t know it was *a lot.* The Humane AI Pin? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Justin: Space: 1969 from Bill Oakley

Brian: Play Date

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Phone wars, flame wars, nearly-warring podcasters! The simple task of geopolitics. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Andrew: Curiosity Show on YouTube and “This Isn’t a Ponzi Scheme” from Coffeezilla

Brian: The Economist Podcasts+

Bryce: Kagi Search

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Andrew announced that he’s leaving OpenAI after a very positive experience! What’s next for him after years of being in the AI space. What will his new venture, Interdimensional.ai, offer to bridge the gap between ideas and new AI technologies? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Andrew: Joker

Justin: The Afterparty

Bryce: Interdimensional.ai

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iPhones, can you believe they’ve made 15 of them so far? Smartphones and how we own them have changed multiple times now. What could be next in the next, best iPhone? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Andrew: Paul Reubens, The Pee-Wee Herman Show

Justin: March to the Majority from Newt Gingrich

Brian: The Diamond Age from Neal Stephenson

Bryce: finity.

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There’s actually too much to watch now. Can a 20-year-old book give us a sign on the next steps of online media? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks: The Long Tail from Chris Anderson and FREE from Chris Anderson

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We can see our boundaries of “The Internet” fading and being lost to time. What does permanence in data mean? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Justin: Audio Hijack

Brian: Airplane II: The Sequel

Bryce: Paste

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Bryce talks out a new idea for LFG Marbles: a patron race series with changes to appeal to live and video-on-demand viewers. What are the stakes? What are the comps? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

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Artificial intelligence? P’shaw! Give me artificial languages! What could you do with an artificial or minimal language to benefit humanity? Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Andrew: Mini Language on Medium

Bryce: Things app

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A casual extra chat with Dr. Daniel Simons about diagnosticians, expertise information, and Andrew’s blockbuster formula to make best-selling book. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Be sure to check out Dr. Simons’s “Nobody’s Fool”

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Streaming has taken a new turn the past few years, but it likely won’t be an extension of the early-COVID explosive growth and spending. Netflix is now an old dog and things like Jury Duty are taking way more cultural cache than The Rings of Power. Send your project questions/ideas to [email protected], subject line “After Things.”

Picks:

Andrew: Kindle Scribe

Justin: Detroiters

Brian: The Righteous Gemstones

Bryce: Pocket City 2

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