Past Episode Dockets

Jack Cuts Block in Half. Reason: AI. — 4,000 Jobs Gone

Jack Dorsey just cut Block from 10,000 to 6,000 employees. His stated reason: 'intelligence tools paired with smaller, flatter teams are enabling a new way of w…

Perplexity Computer — Is a Polished UI the Winner for Agentic Work?

Perplexity just launched an all-in-one agentic system: research, design, code, deploy, manage — end to end. 14.6M views. The question Ben is asking: when it com…

Google Nano Banana 2 — Pro Image Quality at Flash Speed

DeepMind just launched Nano Banana 2, built on Gemini Flash. State-of-the-art image creation and editing at Lightning speed. For context: the existing Nano Bana…

Qwen 3.5 — Frontier-Grade AI That Runs on Your Laptop

Alibaba just dropped an open source model that nearly matches Sonnet 4.5 on coding and reasoning, runs locally on a 32GB RAM Mac. No API costs, no data leaving …

Ben's OpenClaw Setup — Live Walkthrough

Ben walks through his full OpenClaw config on air. Env vars, tokens, identity setup, heartbeat. Shows how to personalise your AI assistant from scratch. Good de…

What If AI Doesn't Actually End The World? — Kobeissi Letter

The bullish counter to Citrini. Doomsday is the obvious trade and the obvious trade never wins. Introduces 'Abundance GDP': prices fall faster than incomes, hou…

The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis — Citrini

Fictional-but-rigorous macro scenario: what if AI wins so hard it crashes the economy? White-collar layoffs hollow out consumer spending (Ghost GDP), private cr…

Solo Founder Runs Company With 15 AI Agents

Defense-tech founder replaced his entire traditional team with 15 AI agents. This is the operational version of the macro thesis. Not 'will AI crash markets' bu…

Microsoft AI CEO: All White-Collar Work Automated in 12-18 Months

Mustafa Suleyman's claim that most white-collar tasks get automated within 12-18 months. For builders that's not a threat, it's a procurement window. What do yo…

The Plumbers Are Fine. Their Office Staff Aren't.

Plumbing company used to need 3 dispatchers, 2 customer service reps, 1 marketer, 2 admin. Now needs 1-2 people managing AI systems. The 10 plumbers stay. The 8…

Creator Economy vs AI Slop — Can Anyone Stand Out?

TechCrunch asks whether there's room for the next generation of creators when AI floods every channel. Flip it for the pod: how do builders create real signal i…