Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap: The Chatbot That Outsmarted Erdős

[curious] So picture this. It's 1944. Paul Erdős — legendary Hungarian mathematician, the kind of guy who lived out of a suitcase and ran on coffee and amphetamines — publishes what he thinks is the definitive answer to a geometry problem about sets of points in high dimensions. [amused] And for eighty years, the math world just... nods. Like, yep, Erdős said it, that's that. Case closed....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [playful] And mind the gap.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: Champagne Emoji, Pink Slip, Same Inbox

[serious] Picture this. Wednesday morning, a Cisco engineer opens her inbox. First email: a company-wide celebration — record quarterly revenue, fourteen point one billion dollars. The champagne emoji is literally in the subject line. [concerned] Second email: four thousand positions eliminated. Same day. Same inbox....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [laughing] Mind the gap, friends.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: Drop The Case, Keep The Secret

[serious] Somewhere in Ontario, a Crown prosecutor walks into a courtroom, looks at the judge, and asks to drop the charges. Not because the suspect is innocent — but because proving guilt would mean revealing something the police would rather keep secret. [curious] And we're not talking jaywalking. We're talking major criminal cases. Violent ones. Cases the police cracked — and then chose to let ...

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [warm] And I'm Maya. Go be a witness today. We'll see you tomorrow.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: Sugar, Lies, and Bond Markets

[curious] A research lab at Radboud University hands you a drink. They tell you it's sweetened with sugar. You sip it — and it tastes sweet. Delicious, even. [playful] Except... there's no sugar in it. Zero. It's artificial sweetener. Your tongue was fooled — not by chemistry, but by a sentence someone whispered before you drank....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [enthusiastic] This has been Mind the Gap. See you tomorrow.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: When The Algorithm Delivers Cold Pizza

[curious] Picture this: a Pizza Hut delivery driver in the middle of a Friday dinner rush, staring at his screen. The AI system just told him to drive fourteen miles past the customer's house... then circle back. [amused] The pizza's getting cold. The customer's getting angry. And the algorithm? The algorithm is absolutely certain it's optimizing....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [warm] Go find something beautifully imperfect today.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: When Smart Systems Do Dumb Things

[curious] Picture this: a Pizza Hut delivery driver in the middle of a Friday dinner rush, staring at his screen. The AI system just told him to drive fourteen miles past the customer's house... then circle back. [amused] The pizza's getting cold. The customer's getting angry. And the algorithm? The algorithm is absolutely certain it's optimizing....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [warm] Go find something beautifully imperfect today.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: When Voicemail Was Actually Mail

[warm] Picture this. It's 1943. You step into a glass booth at a train station in Montreal. You drop in a quarter, lean into the microphone, and you talk — to your mother, your sweetheart, someone across an ocean. Your voice gets cut into a vinyl disc, slipped into an envelope, and mailed. [curious] No editing. No filters. No second takes. Just... you. Your breath, your pauses, that little crack i...

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [warm] Mind the gap, friends.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: **We Save Everything And Keep Nothing**

[warm] Picture this. It's 1943. You walk into a recording booth — maybe at a train station, maybe the back of a drugstore — drop in a quarter, and speak into a microphone. Your voice gets etched into a vinyl disc. You slip it into an envelope... and mail it across an ocean to someone you love. [reflective] And eighty-three years later — someone is still listening to it....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [amused] This has been Mind the Gap. Go make your Monday worth keeping.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: The Stoned Password Worth $400,000

[amused] Picture this. A guy in 2015 — probably listening to something mellow, definitely not sober — decides to change his Bitcoin wallet password. Types something. Hits save. And then... forgets it. For eleven years. [playful] Four hundred thousand dollars. Locked behind a password set by his own stoned fingers. And this week — Anthropic's Claude cracked it open....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [laughing] Ironclad life advice. See you Monday, everyone.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.

Mind the Gap: **The $400,000 Password He Forgot While High**

[amused] So picture this. A guy — handle cprkrn on X — changed his Bitcoin wallet password eleven years ago... while stoned. Promptly forgot it. Five BTC locked away. For over a decade. [laughing] Eleven years! That's longer than some marriages. And at today's prices, that's nearly four hundred thousand dollars just... sitting there....

In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.

Takeaway: [enthusiastic] See you Monday morning.

New episodes drop every weekday morning.