Welcome back to Taiwan!In this episode I sat down with Apung and Bogdan. Its another case of learning about new friends. Bogdan is a cracked tech bro who eventually found himself in Taiwan, still doing tech and writing some pretty cool blogs. Apung is the founder of Fixin falvour, with his mission being to fix crappy food; and instil the virtues of naked cooking. So we go from Tech bro Huel life to eating well with flavour. This is one of the mroe interesting epsidoes in that my gfuests knew each other far better than I did so I hope you enjoy this culinarily politcal shaded conversation!CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro to Ep 802:00 How They Met05:49 Who Controls What We Think?11:21 Is Talking to Strangers Weird?16:28 Labels, Online Identity & Finding a Tribe21:25 Losing Touch With Reality22:47 Fooooooooood!25:39 The Slopification of Lunch 26:55 Cooking Doesn’t Have to Be Efficient33:43 Fixin Food!38:39 Eating Together50:22 Efficiency vs Enjoyment54:42 Living for Tomorrow58:23 Tech Bros Are Cats, Finance Bros Are Dogs62:55 Dating Apps Suck66:38 What Does a Good Life Actually Look Like?MEMORABLE QUOTES:“We’re in a fight for people’s attention.”“We’re basically desperate to build and hold on to some sort of extrinsic identity.”“It’s offensive to yourself… what’s the point of living?”“Cooking doesn’t have to be efficient.”“I realised I’m always living for tomorrow when I was working.”“Tech bros are a bunch of cats. Finance bros are a bunch of dogs.”“If you’re rushing so that you don’t really even exist, what does that even mean?”Intro and Outro Song:Track: The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats GroupMusic provided by Audio Library PlusWatch: • The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats |... Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/heros-journeyUnfinished Socials:IG: / unfinished.tncs X: https://x.com/unfinished_tncsTikTok: / unfinished.tncs Linkedin: / unfinished-podcast Website: In developmentJay Socials:Linkedin: / jay-uppal IG: / adventures_of_the_scarf Blog: https://substack.com/@tncsBogdan Socials:Site: https://buduroiu.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdanbuduroiu/Fixin by Apung:https://www.fixinonflavor.com/en

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Ep 7 aka as Ep 0 is out now.This is a time capsule from July 2025Maybe we were to soon to say we were already in that Tulip phase.

Welcome to 2025 aka a really shitty year for myself and most people I know.For this episode I sat down with my good friend Russ, when I was visitng him in July 2025. This is a bit of a proto-episode of Unfinished as at the time I hadn't quite decided what this would be.Thematically this is probably the most focussed episode cause we just talk about AI the whole time, and its fun to see how our views have changed since then.I met Russ in 2022 at Gamescom. For me Gamescom 2022 is a core Inflexion point in my life, a lot of the people I met there and experiences from that show have directly led to a change in my life's course and circumstances since. This show and a lot of the fallout I've been discussing so far are in some ways a direct result of the journey that started then and one of the people at its core was Russ. For better or worse if we hadn't been sat on the same table that Sunday night almost exactly four years ago today, my life would be looking very very different right now.Normal timeline00:00 Ep 0: A Time Capsule From 202502:05 When Russ met Jay05:01 Korea, Jeju & a Harry Potter Wedding06:28 Life in Toronto13:14 Canada vs USA 20:33 What Would Sovereign AI Actually Look Like?24:53 Efficiency or Comfort?25:40 From Games to AI29:06 Is Europe the New Third World?32:31 Energy is the Real AI Arms Race37:50 Why AI Agents Still Suck!40:42 Does AI Democratize Knowledge?45:11 Layoffs & the Future of Knowledge Work48:49 The One-Person Unicorn (aka Every VC's Wet Dream)55:26 Has AI Entered the Tulip Phase?57:49 Boom or Bust1:03:37 Corps vs Nations1:06:27 Your AI Agent is Your Life1:12:12 Open Source1:15:37 AI Lets Us Be More HumanFun timeline00:00 “The most powerful thing of AI as a tool… it also ungatekeeps that knowledge.”04:04 “Russ, give me the USB man. That’s how we bonded.”25:09 “We created tech so we could be lazy.”33:21 “If you go nuclear, you win.”41:02 “For the first time ever, you can be a specialized generalist in pretty much any field you want to be.”45:25 “It seems like it’s almost an excuse to fire people.”52:25 “Even if on paper they were the only person in their company, they could not have done that by themselves.”55:41 “Have we entered the tulip phase of investing in AI?”1:04:23 “This is the point where corporations become more powerful than nations.”1:07:09 “My conversations with ChatGPT are probably more honest than my conversations with 99% of people I know.”1:08:35 “The next frontier is going to be anticipatory.”1:09:35 “The ad won’t even be sent to me. The agent and my agent will make the decision to buy it or not.”1:15:50 “The thing I’m most excited for with AI is that it lets me just be more human.”Intro and Outro Song:Track: The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats GroupMusic provided by Audio Library PlusWatch: • The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats |... Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/heros-journeyUnfinished Socials:IG: / unfinished.tncs X: https://x.com/unfinished_tncsTikTok: / unfinished.tncs Linkedin: / unfinished-podcast Website: In developmentJay Socials:Linkedin: / jay-uppal IG: / adventures_of_the_scarf Blog: https://substack.com/@tncsRuss' Socials:IG: / r_sngLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russellsng/

A take I've had for years now is that AI is the greatest aggregator of human history and in some way it is democratizing access of that knowledge to the world. For all of human history, knowledge has been the way to power so what happens in a world where it is open?

Trying and failing to live up to our parents expectations as every good asian kid should, until they succeed or get jaded!Full ep is out now!

00:00 Intro to Ep 6!06:54 Co-Living at 9F09:04 Where to live? Where to stay?19:33 An Asian's Final Form27:53 The “Right” Path30:50 Banned from Reading (and Uni's)46:56 Learning to be Human55:45 The Power of Friendship!59:27 Prestige Over Happiness1:05:59 Growing up in a Different World 1:13:31 The Three-Week Trip That Never Ended1:23:39 Escape from SF!1:25:25 Money vs Freedom1:31:49 Are We Falling Behind?1:35:46 When Life Stopped Moving1:38:21 Learning How to Be Happy AgainFun timeline23:59 “We used to joke that my cousin’s husband was our final form.”24:55 “For a hot second, that’s what we ourselves wanted to be.”30:58 “My parents banned me from reading.”1:37:03 “I left my OCD untreated for two years and I think it really fucked up my life.”1:38:59 “At least I can start moving again.”1:40:20 “I don’t think I’ve been as happy as I am now in so long.”1:45:28 “I don’t want money. I want freedom.”1:50:55 “You’re not a jogger. You’re a sprinter.”Intro and Outro Song:Track: The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats GroupMusic provided by Audio Library PlusWatch: • The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats |... Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/heros-journeyUnfinished Socials:IG: / unfinished.tncs X: https://x.com/unfinished_tncsTikTok: / unfinished.tncs Linkedin: / unfinished-podcast Website: In developmentJay Socials:Linkedin: / jay-uppal IG: / adventures_of_the_scarf Blog: https://substack.com/@tncsDuss' Socials:IG: /dusssces/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dussadeewang/

Yup Jay's punshiments if he didn't get straight A's was to be banned from reading. #asianlife Full ep live on Wednesday!

Seriously sorry Koreans but you guys really drew the worst straw in the weddings draw.

In this episode I sit down with Jasmin, a fellow Nomad, Designer, Artist, Influencer, and all around amazing person!I met Jasmin last year when we co-lived in Nine Floor in Taipei and bonded over our struggles with the Digital Nomad life! So when it turned out we were both somehow in Seould at the exact same time, I knew I had to have her on. So for everything on Nomad Life, Exsistential Questions about Belonging, and the Worst Wedding Culture in the World check out the ep now!See you next week as we go back to Taiwan, for one of my favourite episodes, with one of my favourite people!Normal timeline00:00 Ep 5!01:31 Coliving at Ninth Floor07:24 Taiwan is Great!09:48 When Nomad Life Stops Feeling Free12:19 Korean Weddings Really Suck!21:10 Let's talk about Japan25:19 The Problem with Digital Nomad Culture32:20 The Friendship Cost of a Nomadic Life39:02 Why We Wouldn’t Work in Asia46:24 The Art of Doing Nothing in Taiwan48:22 On the Search for Stability Fun timeline0:00 “We don’t want smart people under us. We want dumb people because then we can control them.”3:42 “I’ve just sacrificed my sanity and my health for nothing.”9:48 “Being able to travel around is great, but it’s also really hard.”12:53 “You’re not even allowed to get married in the first six months after you start a new job.”15:03 “Even Germans have more fun.”17:18 “Just pay money and go home.”26:58 “After years of digital nomad travelling, they all have commitment issues somehow.”37:08 “We know where to go. Where do we stay?”43:09 “You showed perseverance, so we’re gonna give you the contract.”46:37 “They learned how to do nothing.”50:00 “It’s just about building communities and bringing people together and having fun.”Intro and Outro Song:Track: The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats GroupMusic provided by Audio Library PlusWatch: • The Hero's Journey - Audio Library Beats |... Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/heros-journeyUnfinished Socials:IG: / unfinished.tncs X: https://x.com/unfinished_tncsTikTok: / unfinished.tncs Linkedin: / unfinished-podcast Website: In developmentJay Socials:Linkedin: / jay-uppal IG: / adventures_of_the_scarf Blog: https://substack.com/@tncsJasmin's Socials:IG: https://www.instagram.com/ita_away_today/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/itaitsartAway Today - Nomad Trips:Web: http://www.awaytoday.asia/IG: https://www.instagram.com/awaytoday.asia/