🎧 Episode Summary
Teresa and Paul pick up the mics again for a deep, meandering jam on intuition, creativity, and building the new world piece by piece.
From art school vs. law school to AI writing experiments, they explore how humans learn, decide, and vibe when technology becomes a true collaborator.
This episode moves from laughter to insight — a live experiment in creative agency, AI literacy, and the art of becoming coherent in chaos.
🎙 Voices: Teresa + Paul
🎶 Production: Field mics & Amsterdam coffee table vibes
💫 Theme: Agency & Experimentation in the Age of AI
🕒 Episode Timestamps
TimeSegmentDescription00:00 | 💬 Vibing vs. Filtering | Intuition, energy, and why “vibing” feels like quantum conversation.
05:00 | 🎒 Law School to Art School | Choosing flow over fear; learning life at 46.
09:40 | 🪙 Student Debt & the Republic | From bailouts to Star Wars metaphors — the Force as economic energy.
16:00 | 🧠 AI as Writing Machine | Directing language models like an orchestra and learning your own voice.
23:00 | 🎯 Decision Making & Agency | When teams vibe, decisions turn into art. The power of one-way doors.
31:00 | 🧩 Paul’s Lego Kit | How to prototype a future — AI as modular creativity for everyone.
38:00 | 🔄 Analog vs. Digital | Teresa’s analog soul meets Paul’s digital mind; learning to translate.
45:00 | 🐬 Talking to Dolphins | Multimodal AI and why communication itself is the next art form.
52:00 | 🌍 From Monoliths to Small Teams | Rebuilding systems with trust and local agency at the core.
58:00 | 📚 BYOB — Bring Your Own Book | Art school publishing and AI as the new printing press.
1:03:00 | 💫 Closing the Loop | Decision log: post the raw episodes and let AI help curate the chaos.
💡 Key Themes
- The intuitive connection as a creative field
- Learning to “conduct” AI instead of obey it
- Rapid prototyping as spiritual practice
- Decision as art form → agency as design
- Trust as currency in the post-gatekeeper world
- Small teams as the new X-wings of innovation
💬 Pull Quotes
“Send kids to business school later — first, send them to art school.”
“We can do anything when we vibe.”
“Our chatbots should talk to each other.”
“Once the gatekeepers fall, we become the curators.”
“Agency is the real currency of the AI age.”
🧩 Mentions & Easter Eggs
- Elizabeth Richard Cox’s Substack article on debt & trust
- Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and the BYOB Fair
- Anthropic & OpenAI’s multimodal models (Sora 2, Dolphin Gemma)
- Local economy = Circular trust loop
- “Ready Player One” ↔ “Cyberpunk Utopia” ↔ “Chatty Tuesdays”
🌀 Credits
Hosts: Teresa + Paul
Series: Cyberpunk Utopia – Season 1: CPU Reboot
Episode Type: Full
Explicit: No
Keywords: AI, Creativity, Neurodiversity, Art School, Agency, Cyberpunk, Amsterdam, Conscious Tech, Burnout Recovery
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