The Digital Carpenter

People love to say we all have a choice. But what if how much choice you have depends on what you have, and on how other people see you?

In the first episode of the TDC Podcast, I talk about the line of survival: the line most of us never see, between getting by and actually getting to choose. I've lived on both sides of it, as someone with the career and the seat at the table, and later as a trans woman who lost her job, was beaten on a New York street and ended up homeless.

In this episode:

- Why a choice is what everything you've lived adds up to

- How being below the line changes the way your mind works

- How the way other people see you can move the line, and sometimes decides whether you survive

- The head start: how housing rules from generations ago still shape who gets a cushion today

- Why "just dress like a boy" isn't a real option

- Why we keep teaching people to make the same mistakes, more cunningly

- What a quantum computer teaches us about people the world writes off

- Why one of the most powerful men in AI is a warning about what our machines might be missing

- What I'm building to change it: EveVolved, a 3D model of the real world designed to bring people together

Nobody picks where they start. What we do with what we can finally see is the part that's ours.

Join me live every day at 6 p.m. at evevolved.org.