Techs on Texts

Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang's masterful "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling." We talk about the benefits of forgetfulness, the limit...

1 Mars 20251h 25min

Gina Trapani, exemplary human and champion of good things on the web, comes on to talk about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. We talk about creating universes, friendship, pare...

24 Jan 20251h 21min

Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1974 film, The Conversation. Nathani...

21 Dec 20241h 11min

Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer (Time! Newsweek! Tumblr! Al Jazeera!), gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what t...

26 Nov 20241h 31min

Esther Dyson, whose bio defies summarization (and who happens to be sister of previous guest George Dyson), discusses Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spike Jonze's Her. We discuss the substance ...

30 Okt 20241h 20min

Jordan Tigani, duck herder and renowned "database person," gives us the gift of "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" by Jorge Luis Borges. We talk about about the potential of language, the limit...

22 Sep 20241h 25min

Buy Night FlightBuy The Little PrinceListen to Minds Behind MapsLook at the glorious website for GDAL (the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library). It's perfect!"The Little Prince becomes world's most tr...

30 Aug 20242h 6min

A few notes and links:Buy Jorge Luis Borges's Collected Fictions"The Zahir" PDF"An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" PDF (Note that this is a different translation than those in the Collected ...

30 Juli 20241h 6min