Ep 41 - Narrative in the Age of AI
This time a conversation with Nicholas DeMille on the “engineering/architecture” of narrative. We discussed salons and coffee houses as “social technologies” that emerge across history after technolo...
13 Aug 43min
Ep 40 - Can a Machine Have Good Taste?
I was interested in what was going on with Openclaw and heard that Lan Wei, a PHD at MBZUAI had won a hackathon experimenting with the edges of a new technology. Turns out her keen interest is the int...
19 Juni 34min
Ep39 - What a Victorian Biologist Can Teach Us About Thinking
I came to Eduardo's office expecting to talk about cells and data. What I found on his wall were the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th-century German naturalist whose drawings of jellyfish, radio...
15 Maj 33min
Ep 38 - Mammanoids & Tediophobes
Drawing on a 1960s speech by Howard Luck Gossage that contrasts money-driven business builders who want repeatable formulas with creative people who become more exploratory and less controllable as th...
9 Apr 13min
Ep37 - I Did Exactly What I Said I Wouldn't Do
After a five-month hiatus and a move to Abu Dhabi to take up the role of Head of Creative at the AI university MBZUAI, I've finally worked out why I got stuck with the Salon, and what it should become...
15 Mars 10min
Ep 35 - LIVE - How to be creative about next to nothing at all
In this episode of Firehouse Salon Live, we discussed creativity and the process behind it with our guests: Filmmaker Philip Rachid - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philiprachid/ and Designer Dave Office...
19 Juni 20251h 3min
Ep 34 - LIVE - "We Are Yet to Take the Helm of This Spaceship"
In this episode, we dive into the legacy of Howard Luck Gossage and explore creativity, environment, and unconventional thinking. Guests: Ali Grant - Designer and inventor of the Halo - https://www....
22 Maj 202558min
