Connection

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Connection is a podcast about food, people, ideas, building, gratitude, and the things that bring us together. Through conversations with builders, creators, cooks, technologists, thinkers, and interesting people, we explore what we can learn from each other, what’s already good, and what we can make better. Problems are real, but we’re not doomed. Stay curious. Build useful things. Be grateful. Connect. Presented by Zap Cooking. ⚡️🍳

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    You Can Build Now: AI, Nostr & the Power of Community | Connection Ep. 4

    What happens when the barrier between having an idea and actually building it starts to disappear? For the first guest episode of Connection, I'm joined by my friend and Zap Cooking partner, Daniel. Daniel's path didn't start in software development. His background was in design, branding and marketing. Then came Bitcoin, Nostr, community building, and eventually AI-assisted coding. Suddenly, ideas he previously couldn't build himself became things he could actually ship. Pasted text Pasted text We talk about the early days of Nostr, meeting internet friends in real life, Harlem Bitcoin, Node Stretch, Lightning, building a Bitcoin point-of-sale for a Harlem restaurant, and the long road that eventually led Daniel into building wallets and tools across the Nostr ecosystem. Pasted text Pasted text We also get into AI and the move toward “superintelligence,” vibe coding, what these tools are doing to creativity, and what happens when people who never considered themselves software developers suddenly have the ability to build. But underneath all the technology is something much simpler: Community. People helping each other. Learning together. Building things that solve real problems. Making mistakes. Trying again. And turning online connections into real relationships. Daniel and I have been building together for years. This conversation is really the story of how a lot of those pieces came together — and why we're both optimistic about where they could go next. People. Ideas. Food. Community. Connection, presented by Zap Cooking. ⚡️🍳

  2. Sep 26

    The Lost Art of Curiosity: What Should We Be Teaching Kids? | Connection Ep. 3

    What skills will a 10-year-old today actually need when they're working in the 2040s, 2050s, or even 2070s? We can't predict the jobs they'll have or the technology they'll use. But we can probably make some good bets about the skills that will endure. Curiosity. Critical thinking. Communication. Problem solving. Creativity. Learning how to learn. Building things. Working with other people. In Episode 3 of Connection, I explore why curiosity may become a superpower in a world where answers are increasingly cheap and instantly available. I get into why saying “I don't know” can be the beginning of learning, how manufacturing taught me that root-cause analysis is really structured curiosity, and why understanding someone doesn't require agreeing with them. I also explore my personal perspective on education: what foundational skills kids still need, how AI could enable more individualized paths to learning, the idea of an infinitely patient AI tutor, and why technology should ultimately give teachers more time to do the deeply human parts of teaching. And inspired by a Taoist lesson on mockery and ridicule, I come back to a simple choice we all face when encountering something unfamiliar: Dismiss it, mock it, or get curious about it. Maybe the future doesn't belong to the people with all the answers. Maybe it belongs to the people who know how to ask better questions. Stay curious. ⚡️ Connection is presented by Zap Cooking.

  3. Sep 19

    More Bloom. Less Doom. | Connection Ep. 2

    We spend a lot of time consuming everything that’s wrong with the world. The latest outrage. The next crisis. Why AI is dangerous. Why the economy is going to collapse. But what if we spent a little more time asking a different question: What did I build today? In Episode 2 of Connection, I explore the difference between consuming and creating, why I believe AI can be an intelligence amplifier, what manufacturing and continuous improvement taught me about developing a builder mindset, and why we should be willing to try things before they’re perfect.  I also talk about gratitude—not as pretending everything is awesome, but as recognizing how much good already exists around us while still working to make things better. We’re surrounded by human cooperation every day, and most of the time we barely notice it.  This week’s challenge is simple: Create something instead of consuming something. Build something. Cook something. Fix something. Teach someone. Call someone. Start the project you’ve been talking about. It doesn’t have to scale. It doesn’t have to make money. Just put something positive into the world that wasn’t there yesterday.  More bloom. Less doom. 🌱⚡️ Connection is presented by Zap Cooking.

  4. Sep 12

    Why I’m Rejecting Doomerism | Connection Ep. 1

    We’ve gotten really good at pointing out everything that’s broken. Money is broken. Social media is broken. Politics is broken. Food is broken. AI is coming for us. Society is falling apart. Some of those criticisms are legitimate. But what if we’ve become so focused on what’s wrong that we’ve stopped noticing what’s good? And what if, instead of waiting for everything to collapse, we tried to build something better? In the first episode of Connection, I explain why I’m starting this podcast and how my experiences in manufacturing, continuous improvement, building software, Bitcoin, Nostr, and Zap Cooking have shaped the way I think about the world. This isn't about blind optimism or pretending problems don't exist. It's about rejecting doomerism as the answer. We'll explore food, people, ideas, building, and gratitude, and talk with people who create things, challenge assumptions, change their minds, and make the world a little better. I don't think we're doomed. I think there's an incredible amount of good happening around us. Maybe we just need to do a better job connecting it. Connection is presented by Zap Cooking. ⚡️🍳

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Connection is a podcast about food, people, ideas, building, gratitude, and the things that bring us together. Through conversations with builders, creators, cooks, technologists, thinkers, and interesting people, we explore what we can learn from each other, what’s already good, and what we can make better. Problems are real, but we’re not doomed. Stay curious. Build useful things. Be grateful. Connect. Presented by Zap Cooking. ⚡️🍳

Information

  • Creator
    Zap Cooking
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Zap Cooking
  • Show Website
    Connection