Going Direct Conversations
by Jordan Wolfe
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#79 Douglas Rushkoff: Remaining Human In The AI Age
#79 Douglas Rushkoff: Remaining Human In The AI Age
About this podcast
Going Direct explores the decentralization of the real economy and how new technologies can bring us closer to the products we buy and the people who make them.
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Episodes
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- #79 Douglas Rushkoff: Remaining Human In The AI Age · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 79I sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, author and media theorist who studies human autonomy and how we can remain connected in a digital age. He has written 25 books, including Team…
- #78 Ben Cartwright: The Second Life of AI Hardware Will Become a Big Market · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 78I sit down with Ben Cartwright of Cirkadis to talk about a part of the AI infrastructure buildout that very few people are discussing: what happens to the hardware when it gets…
- #77 Nikhil Gupta: Mining Isn't the Chokepoint. Refining Is. · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 77I sit down with Nikhil Gupta, founder and CEO of Determinant Materials, to talk about the metal refining process he’s invented to help bring back critical supply chains to…
- #76 Mollie Claypool: Building Affordable Housing That’s Beautiful. · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 76I sit down with Mollie Claypool, co-founder of Automated Architecture (AUAR) to talk about their shipping-container-sized microfactories used by homebuilders. AUAR is starting…
- #75 Tom Joseph: The Real Gatekeepers Of American Primary Elections · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 75I sit down with Tom Joseph, founder of America's Main Street Party, to talk about something we don't cover much at Going Direct: politics. The problem with American primary…
- #74 Sue Helper: Re-industrialization Starts With Coherent Strategy · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 74I sit down with Sue Helper, economics professor at Case Western Reserve University, to discuss America’s lack of coherence in industrial policy. We dig into government…
- #73 Inside Going Direct: Gen Z vs Millennial Debate On The Future Of Work · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 73I sit down with Duncan Young, founder of Saorsa Growth Partners and writer of the Substack Conduit of Value. We dig into why the future of work looks completely different for…
- #72 Rajat Bhageria: The Only Thing Keeping American Food Onshore Is Robot Labor · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 72I sit down with Rajat Bhageria, founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, to discuss why he believes robot labor is the only way to keep American food supply chains onshore. There are…
- #71 Maria Intscher-Owrang: Pour It, Mold It, Wear It - A New Way To Make Clothing In America · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 71I sit down with Maria Intscher-Owrang, co-founder and CEO of Simplifyber, to discuss their completely new way to produce soft goods with natural fibers. Her invention collapses…
- #70 Avalo: Using AI To Build A New Deal For American Farmers · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 70I sit down with Mariano Alvarez and Brendan Collins, co-founders of Avalo, to talk about how they are using their plant breeding technology to rebuild the US cotton supply chain…
- #69 Kat Scott: First They Laugh, Then They Fight, Then You Win, Open-Source Robotics · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 69I sat down with Kat Scott, Developer Relations Engineer at Intrinsic AI (a Google company), who’s spent her entire 20+ year career in robotics. Kat is the developer advocate for…
- #68 Fabien Cros: Decentralized AI Is Winning Inside the Enterprise · 1 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 68I sit down with Fabien Cros, who runs the AI practice at Ducker Carlisle, to talk about how he is seeing decentralized AI models inside organizations work much better than a…
- #67 Roya Amini-Naieni: Building the Self-Driving Biology Lab · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 67I sit down with Roya Amini-Naieni, co-founder and CEO of Trilo Bio, to talk about why 77% of biologists fail to reproduce their own experiments — and why affordable lab…
- #66 Tom Chi: The Capitalist Case for Cleaning Up Industry · 1 min · Season 1 Episode 66I sit down with Tom Chi, founder and general partner of At One Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, deep tech companies focused on cleaning up industry…
- #65 Jay Acunzo: Storytelling & Becoming Irreplaceable in the Age of AI · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 65I sat down with Jay Acunzo, author, speaker, and storytelling consultant, to discuss how to matter more and make people care in a world drowning in mediocre content. Jay shares…
- #64 Simon Owens: Business Of Content, $100 Billion Middlemen, & Future of Media · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 64I sit down with Simon Owens, an independent media industry journalist and specialist on the business of content. Simon breaks down the “Ozempic Effect” in AI-Generated content…
- #63 Duncan Young: Jobs Are Dead. Long Live The $10 Million Niche. · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 63I sit down with Duncan Young to discuss an essay he recently published on Substack that went a bit viral: “Jobs are dead, long live the $10 million niche.” Duncan explains why AI…
- #62 Brian Morrissey: The Great Decentralization of Media & New Media Energy · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 62I sit down with Brian Morrissey, and independent journalist and the founder of The Rebooting, to discuss a recent piece he wrote called, “New Media Energy” and our transition to…
- #61 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: What, “Going Direct” Actually Means · 2 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 61I sit down with Rafik Kheffache, founder of Heliosand, for our first-ever in-person episode in Paris. This was a different kind of episode where Rafik asks me to pull back the…
- #60 Aleks Gampel: America Needs High Quality, Affordable Homes · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 60I sit back down with Aleks Gampel, the co-founder and COO of Cuby, to talk about why construction has become less productive over time, why skilled labor shortages are getting…
