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Conversations about frontier tech, AI, Aesthetics, and Culture in SF

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On Frontier Science: AI, Physics, and Energy Breakthroughs in 2026

Stepping into the golden age of energy techIn conversation with Danielle Fong https://x.com/DanielleFong00:45 Danielle’s background, starting with college at 12 4:16 The global energy crisis 11:15 Productizing: from drones to data centers14:00 Powering your future openclaw with propane 14:34 Selling to the US gov vs consumer applications 19:30 AI, data centers, and new energy sources23:25 Agentic tools at Lightcell 27:54 Leveraging models across providers 29:54 Iterating on frontier science 43:22 Hyperscalers and the golden age of energy tech

43 min
9 MAR

Building Consumer Hardware in 2026

On building consumer wearables in 2026In conversation with Andy Kong @oldestasian interested in hardware? me too. fascinating chat, amazing lab aesthetic 00:00 quiz-bowl buzzers to the SF wearables scene 02:25 pebble, kickstarter, and what's changed 05:49 2 ways of developing wearables 06:59 CMs, budgets, and designing your own board 09:53 using Alibaba chat to source partners 14:07 planning a shenzhen trip 18:27 board vs mold design 25:53 boston vs sf vs nyc for wearables 30:00 LLMs + board design 33:50 is hardware still hard? 36:22 cubesats + chargerless 37:11 validate publicly, quickly Apologies, this episode cuts out towards the end. My bad :,)

46 min
1 MAR

Building AI Products in Public

In only 6 months, Zara Zhang - learned to code - grew from 2k→47k followers- consistently goes viral with the products she ships...when it's harder than ever to go viral 00:00 Builders want to learn how to put out content 01:40 Growing on X05:49 How to put out resonant content 10:19 Prolific building 11:47 2k→47k followers on X in 6 months16:59 Advice if you're new to vibe coding 22:31 Coding is the new form of literacy 27:19 Learning by building, safely & securely 28:06 The coding agent as the teacher 29:59 Coding models have gotten a lot better31:13 If you're building, you should be sharing 32:18 Software as a form of self-expression 34:42 People want raw, messy content 37:18 How to learn to code now

44 min
25 FEB

AI & Compute

In conversation with Evan Conrad, CEO of SF Compute00:00 Rolling with the punches00:36 Bank account is going to $003:10 The upcoming compute shortage4:06 SF Compute as the chill GPU cloud provider company

8 min
21 FEB

On SF Tech Media Growth & Creativity

In an era in which anyone can build anything, the builder playbook must include cultivating an audience. Matt Palmer has done this exceptionally well across platforms with his developer community. Matt breaks down the mindset for starting out with tech media and growing. 00:22 What are people getting wrong about the tech media landscape? 04:01 Few people ask about what it means to bring authenticity to content 05:34 On olympic weightlifting 06:30 On botanical sketches07:57 On separating from brand affiliation with content creation 08:28 On the techie to creative skillset switch 10:00 Favorite films11:54 The demand for storytellers 16:30 Consistency wins out over everything 18:00 Advice to ML/AI researchers who want to create content 20:47 On being silly 26:00 On the feeling of not being enough in content creation Follow Matt on X: https://x.com/mattypFollow Ashe on X: https://x.com/ashebytes

28 min
17 FEB

Feeling the Acceleration in SF & Entering the Year of the Fire Horse

On feeling the AI acceleration in SF, Entering the Year of the Fire Horse, and Staying Grounded in Community In conversation with Loewen Cavill, CEO of Amira and previously Google X & MIT. For the latest, follow me on X https://x.com/ashebytes or join my newsletter https://ashe.ai/newsletter

11 min

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