going human
Because robots can't
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AI is rewriting everything. I'm here for the only question that matters: what stays ours? This is Going Human — My Stone, our Ripples, the Maelstrom of it all and the community's call-to-action: Tsunami.
Not an AI podcast — a human one that uses AI as the pressure test. A standing space to react to every new development and drag it back to a single question: does this tip humanity toward flourishing, or quietly demote our purpose and our life in community? The thumb on the scale is still ours.
Smart. Funny. Profane. Hopeful.
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Every other week a new headline swears AI changes everything. Maybe it does. But the harder question nobody asks out loud is the one I care about: What do we protect? What do we let go? What's the part that has to stay ours?
Going Human isn't an AI podcast. It's a human one — with AI as the pressure test.
So every development gets held up to one scale: does this put humanity's thumb toward flourishing, or quietly demote our purpose and our life in community? Sometimes it's both. Sometimes it's neither. The work is to keep asking — on the record, in real time, without pretending I already know.
Here's the whole bet: the thumb on the scale is still ours. Small human acts, done on purpose, accumulate — and your humanity, protected, becomes ours.
This is our temple, I am not your Oracle.
This is our temple. I am not your oracle. I'm three people in one chair.
Artist
A singer-songwriter, protective as hell of everything a machine can't counterfeit.
Operator
Four decades in Fortune 500 technology and operations, now building AI products by hand. Knows exactly how the machine works.
Father
An adoptive dad of two grown kids. Fears what AI does to their future more than what it does to his own remaining years.
The artist guards the human. The operator knows the machine. The father is the reason the question can't wait.
Four territories. One question.
Every episode lives in one of these territories — and all of them ask: what's worth protecting?
Body
How we inhabit ourselves. Movement, rest, sensation, presence. The irreducibly physical experience of being alive — the part no algorithm can simulate or replace.
Systems
The structures that actually shape a life — work, housing, healthcare, education. My deepest first-hand authority: four decades in Fortune 500 tech and ops, real estate and housing, and building AI products with my own hands. I've been inside the machine, so I know where automation serves us and where it quietly hollows things out.
Relationships
How we show up for each other. Family, friendship, conflict, repair. The messy, inefficient, irreplaceable work of loving people — in real time, with no undo button.
Meaning
Why we're here. Purpose, creativity, mortality, joy. The questions AI can generate answers to but can never answer for us — and shouldn't.
Four beats. The water wins.
It's a water metaphor that escalates — then gets deliberately smashed in the middle by the irreverent third beat. Water opens, chaos breaks, water wins. Every week.
Stone
I drop the stone. A subject, my honest take, the receipts and the reasoning behind it. The disturbance that starts everything moving.
Ripples
A guest, where the stone's impact spreads outward. They refract the same subject through their vocation and their human feelings, and it gets deeper. What makes you cool? What makes that human? Where does AI intersect — friction or fuel? Can you keep the good and cut the bad?
Maelstrom
The clippable, irreverent, profane one. Three real headlines, sorted onto the scale:
And this is where you come in. Sign in to vote the Fuck????s and leave your commentary on any episode. With each new drop the tally moves — a maybe graduates to a Fuck yes or plummets to a Fuck no, decided by all of us together.
Tsunami
One small human act to do before the next episode. Your one act is a drop; all of ours together is a tsunami. This is also where the housekeeping lives — follow, subscribe, and the sign-off.
Coming soon: send us a voice note — in your own words and your own voice — telling us how a Tsunami touched you. We'll play them on the show, drop after drop.
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