In Conversation With

on the frontier of peptides & community in conversation with Tori Pastore @bonecondor 00:55 an intro to peptides 08:13 on peptides removing food noise: tori’s experience 14:30 dosing and combatting food engineering 16:14 on the verge of shapeshifting 20:30 bending attention, corporate surrealism, and Tori being a fan of Roy Lee29:35 the post-atomic bomb societal shift and the origins of “hipster” 35:17 techno optimism

In conversation with Mina Fahmi, CEO of Sandbar00:34 Mina's background01:42 Robotics, neural interfaces, and hardware06:06 Bringing nervous system work into designing AI products10:25 Building with voice12:38 AI extending self-concept19:05 AI sycophancy24:58 Agentic memory30:11 Hardware decisions at Sandbar34:16 Hiring at Sandbar36:04 Bringing AI to more people

On agent factories, memory, continual learning & building on the frontier while growing a familyIn conversation withSam Whitmore, engineering at @Cursor I am so excited to share this because I have been inspired by Sam for years...and this joins agentic products+memory with shining a light on pregnancy and raising a young family← we need more conversations on both!Dive in:00:25 Sam’s background01:38 Family building while in frontier tech11:50 Agent factories15:46 Continual learning, agent self-awareness, memory, and user goal alignment23:51 Building a thoughtful product culture at Cursor27:00 Thinking about defensibility in 202630:01 Selling outside of the tech/X bubble35:12 On reading fiction38:32 On pregnancy, hormones, and building42:58 On agent predictions for the next 6 months46:35 Hiring at CursorFollow Sam on X: https://x.com/sjwhitmoreFollow me on X: https://x.com/ashebytes

Stepping into the golden age of energy techIn conversation with Danielle Fong https://x.com/DanielleFong00:45 Danielle’s background, starting with college at 12 4:16 The global energy crisis 11:15 Productizing: from drones to data centers14:00 Powering your future openclaw with propane 14:34 Selling to the US gov vs consumer applications 19:30 AI, data centers, and new energy sources23:25 Agentic tools at Lightcell 27:54 Leveraging models across providers 29:54 Iterating on frontier science 43:22 Hyperscalers and the golden age of energy tech

In only 6 months, Zara Zhang - learned to code - grew from 2k→47k followers- consistently goes viral with the products she ships...when it's harder than ever to go viral00:00 Builders want to learn how to put out content 01:40 Growing on X05:49 How to put out resonant content 10:19 Prolific building 11:47 2k→47k followers on X in 6 months16:59 Advice if you're new to vibe coding 22:31 Coding is the new form of literacy 27:19 Learning by building, safely & securely 28:06 The coding agent as the teacher 29:59 Coding models have gotten a lot better31:13 If you're building, you should be sharing 32:18 Software as a form of self-expression 34:42 People want raw, messy content 37:18 How to learn to code now

In an era in which anyone can build anything, the builder playbook must include cultivating an audience. Matt Palmer has done this exceptionally well across platforms with his developer community. Matt breaks down the mindset for starting out with tech media and growing. 00:22 What are people getting wrong about the tech media landscape? 04:01 Few people ask about what it means to bring authenticity to content 05:34 On olympic weightlifting 06:30 On botanical sketches07:57 On separating from brand affiliation with content creation 08:28 On the techie to creative skillset switch 10:00 Favorite films11:54 The demand for storytellers 16:30 Consistency wins out over everything 18:00 Advice to ML/AI researchers who want to create content 20:47 On being silly 26:00 On the feeling of not being enough in content creation Follow Matt on X: https://x.com/mattypFollow Ashe on X: https://x.com/ashebytes