*From 1:04 to about 1:09 TK cuts out. Just skip that part!

Guess who's back? Reviving an old series, "Fridays with TK", we discuss what's wrong with the NBA, the meaning crisis, stat-lines vs storylines, the pope at the circus, the church, and more.

Something seems to have changed. Once upon a time, I would advise young people to do more open sharing of their ideas - daily blogging, podcasting, learning out loud. Today, while those have value, they seem to also have a danger that wasn't present before.

I asked Cyprian to help me try to discover what's going on.

I had two conversations on AI recently - one about its promise as a tech tool, and one about its dangers as a portal to hell.

I think both are true.

Cyprian (aka Vin Armani) joins me to discuss his take on AI. If you're not in for weird spiritual stuff, this is not the episode for you!

We talk about whether AI is a technology or an entity, how it differs from other tech, and what it means for civilization.

It took a while, but the latest ChatGPT Large Language Model AI thingy finally got me seeing an amazing future.

Steve Patterson brings some excellent analysis to what's going on and what it means.

Time to tell you about my new endeavor!

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The guys from Haste tell their winding tale from minor league baseball to building the Barpay app to creating a simple arcade game where the leaderboard gets payouts. That game led to a platform for game builders and a budding revolution.

If you can't see the coolness in this simple use-case, I don't know what to do for you!

Joel is the author of The Daily Job Hunt (crash.co/daily) which goes out to 170k+ people every morning, and he's just published his first book.

He joins to talk about the process and his own journey to becoming a creative machine.

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Nicky is an entrepreneur, former professional dancer and instructor, and fellow tiny payment fan. He created Genuine Retweets to solve his own problem, and discovered he was onto something much bigger.

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Joshua Henslee joins me to talk tokens, enterprise, and more.