Henry Shukman is a Zen Master, a meditation teacher, and co-founder of The Way meditation app.As AI poses some hard questions about what it means to be human, I thought Henry might help make some sense of things.

Chapters

00:00 Understanding Zen: A Personal Journey

03:52 The Need for Spirituality: A Personal Crisis

10:07 Living Zen in the Modern World

13:36 Navigating Modern Existence: Technology and Spirituality

18:38 The Motivations Behind Meditation

23:15 Technology's Role in Meditation: The Way App

32:06 Ambition and Spirituality: Finding Balance

39:47 AI and the Nature of Consciousness

45:04 Optimism for the Future: Meditation's Impact

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The Way App⁠ - https://www.thewayapp.com/

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My guests today are artists, film makers, educators, technologists and founders of Fuser, a company building an AI workspace for creatives.

With so much noise around what AI should or shouldn’t be used for, and where human creativity starts and ends, I wanted to get Dalena and Hirad on to talk more about the creative process in this technological moment.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Fuser and Its Founders

03:40 The Vision Behind Fuser

06:12 Creative Applications of Fuser

08:35 The Role of AI in Creative Processes

11:24 Navigating the Challenges of AI in Art

13:29 The Future of Creativity with AI

15:48 Investor Relations and Company Integrity

19:00 The Evolving Landscape of Art and Technology

20:52 Conclusion and Future Aspirations

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Fuser

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Mike Masnick wrote the paper that helped inspire Bluesky and now he sits on the Bluesky board.A long-time advocate of decentralised tech, Mike's paper 'Protocols not platforms' outlined how a more open protocol-based system to social media would create a healthier social media ecosystem in which people were free to vote with their feet (or their mouse) and go elsewhere, without losing access to the community they'd built.In this wide ranging conversation, Mike and I discuss the future of social media, the internet's trajectory from an open to a closed ecosystem, whether decentralisation can be a winning strategy in a capitalist economy, and much more.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Mike Masnick and Tech Perspectives

05:53 The Evolution of TechDirt and Innovation

11:03 Understanding Free Speech in the Digital Age

15:53 Protocols vs. Platforms: A New Approach to Free Speech

20:50 The Shift from Protocol-Centric to Platform-Centric Internet

28:48 The Evolution of Patents and Competition

31:10 Understanding the Problems with Big Tech

32:23 Moving Towards Decentralization

33:23 The Role of Decentralized Protocols

35:11 Generative AI: Empowerment vs. Control

37:55 Building Personalized Tools for Empowerment

41:35 Decentralization in Social Media: Blue Sky Explained

49:12 The Future of Decentralized Systems

53:04 Mainstream Adoption of Decentralized Technologies

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Protocols not platforms

Bluesky

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