Noah Brier

Noah Brier

From The Curiosity+Courage Podcast by Tim Brunelle

January 2, 2025 · 1h 8m

About this episode

Noah Brier discusses his career journey and insights on the shift from deterministic to probabilistic computing in the context of AI.

When you’re trying to navigate tumultuous change, it helps to have inquisitive navigators. As I’ve tried to make sense of AI, I’ve found useful explanations and pragmatic advice in the work of Noah Brier. FYI—he’s hosting a Los Angeles version of the BrXnd AI Conference on February 6, 2025. [Listen to the interview above, or via Apple , Spotify , or YouTube . And if you’re enjoying these conversations, please share a link with someone else.] In this opening salvo of 2025, we hear from Noah as he walks us through his journey graduating from NYU into an initial career in journalism, then a pivot into the early 2000s era of NYC Internet-adjacent firms (Renegade, Naked Communications, The Barbarian Group) before co-founding Percolate in 2011. “My whole life has been an openness to following those strange gut feelings when things don’t add up or you can’t figure something out and just going down the rabbit hole.” Everything I’ve done - it’s been one rabbit hole after another.” - Noah Brier Of course we talked about AI. And I really appreciated his ability to frame the change we’re experiencing, as we shift from what Noah calls a Deterministic view of computing into a Probabilistic…

People in this episode

Host: Tim Brunelle

Guest: Noah Brier

Topics covered

  • AI
  • journalism
  • technology
  • business
  • change management

Keywords

  • AI
  • Noah Brier
  • deterministic computing
  • probabilistic computing
  • Percolate
  • BrXnd AI Conference
  • journalism
  • technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NYU, Renegade, Naked Communications, The Barbarian Group, Percolate

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