Technically Sweet

Julia Peter
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Technically Sweet explores what becomes more valuable when intelligence gets cheap. Hosted by Julia Peter, former Google and Meta product designer and AI founder, the show covers AI, work, personal branding, creator commerce and the systems we use to design our lives. Expect clear opinions, practical frameworks and honest founder stories from Switzerland, without the hype. For people building the next version of their work, identity and life in the age of AI.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Your Life Isn't Chaotic. It's Badly Designed. | Wednesday Rich

    What if your hardest hour isn't a discipline problem, but a design problem? Julia Peter spent more than 15 years designing technology at Sony, Google and Meta AI and now her AI company in the creator economy. In product design, when people keep struggling at the same moment, you don't blame the user. You look at the design. In this episode, she uses a classic product tool, the user journey map, on her own family's evening: kids home, dinner on the stove, and her first US call starting at the same time. You'll learn: • How a user journey map works: what happens, how it feels, and where it breaks • Why you should ask why three times before fixing anything • The three small fixes Julia is testing for one week, including how an AI agent handles her meal planning (AI handles the busywork, she makes the call) • What Wednesday Rich means: designing ordinary days that feel like they belong to you Your 10-minute assignment: pick one part of your day that keeps going wrong. Write each step, give each one a word for how it feels, find the lowest point, ask why three times, and test one small fix for a week. Next week: Julia's dinner-hour scores, which fixes survived, and the next tool. Chapters 0:00 The hardest hour of my day 1:06 Why I think like a designer 2:25 The user journey map 4:13 Ask why, three times 5:03 Three small fixes 6:28 The one-week pilot 6:58 What Wednesday Rich means 8:14 Your assignment 9:05 Can you design a life like a product? Watch the video version on YouTube: @technicallysweetstudio Speaking, advising and press: juliapeter.ai Wednesday Rich is a weekly series from Technically Sweet. New episodes every Wednesday. Technically Sweet. Design a Life You Love.

  2. Oct 12

    Is Your Coffee Really Costing You $95K? I Put My Spending on Trial

    Is your daily coffee, energy drink or little treat secretly costing you $95,000? I gave AI three months of my family's real spending and put our everyday purchases on trial. The result: 62 small purchases, about $6 a day, $2,200 a year, and potentially $95,000 over 20 years if that money were invested instead. But I don't think the coffee is guilty. In this episode of Wednesday Rich: - What 290 real household purchases revealed - The one-question test for any small purchase - Why subscriptions deserve a two-minute audit - Why vacation is never on trial in my money system - The Skip Log: a 10-second AI habit to track money you choose not to spend, and turn it into long-term wealth TRY THE SKIP LOG (copy into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini): You are my Skip Log. Whenever I tell you I skipped a purchase, record the date, item and amount, and keep a running monthly total. When I say "month end," show every entry, verify the total, and remind me to move that money into savings or investing. Show what that monthly amount could grow to over 10 and 20 years at assumed annual returns of 4% and 7%. These are illustrations, not predictions. Then start a new month. Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lPOa-EknNkI I'm Julia Peter. I designed products at Sony, Google and Meta AI, and now I build businesses and run real experiments with AI on money, work and life. New episode every Wednesday. Sources: Vacations and heart health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11020089/ 2025 PTO survey (FlexJobs): https://www.tradeandindustrydev.com/industry/all-industries/nearly-1-4-us-workers-took-no-pto-past-year-says-35094.md Projections assume monthly contributions and a hypothetical 7% annual return. Actual returns vary and are not guaranteed. This is education, not personal financial advice. Technically Sweet. Design a Life You Love.

  3. Oct 5

    My AI Built My Agent. Then It Refused to Click One Button.

    My AI built my entire website in one evening. Then it refused to click one button, even after I said yes. This episode is about the AI agent that now lives on my website. Its only job is to answer questions about my work while I'm asleep in Switzerland. I tried to break it, and I'll tell you what happened. I'll also share the one page of instructions it runs on, the rule that keeps it safe, and what it costs. Spoiler: less than a coffee a month. A heads up: I'm a little under the weather as the seasons change, so my voice is stuffier than usual. The ideas are clearer than my sinuses. In this episode: The button my AI refused to click, and why I'm glad it didRead, Draft, Do: how much responsibility to hand AIWhy you should treat everything you tell your agent as publicFive things that could go wrong, and how I fixed each oneWhat it costs to runThree questions to ask before you build oneComing next: can this agent live on WhatsApp?Try the agent yourself at juliapeter.ai. Press the / key and ask the weirdest question you can think of. The best one gets a mention on the show. I'm Julia Peter. I worked in product and design at Sony, Google and Meta AI, then founded LocalAway, a venture-backed AI company. Technically Sweet is about using AI, technology and intentional design to build better careers, businesses and lives. Design a Life You Love.

  4. Sep 30

    I Gave AI My Finances. Here's What It Found. | Wednesday Rich

    AI gets money questions wrong 57% of the time. I gave it my finances anyway. What would have taken me a week took one hour. Family and business. It found tax savings I was leaving on the table, a beneficiary I had never added to an account, and money sitting in the wrong places. In this episode: - What my AI "Wealth OS" actually found - The OpenAI agents that got caught cheating, and why it matters for your money - The one prompt that makes AI show its work - My Read / Draft / Do rule for what AI can and can't touch I'm Julia Peter. I designed products at Sony, Google, and Meta, and now I run an AI company from Switzerland. Wednesday Rich is my series on building more freedom into everyday life, one real experiment at a time. THE PROMPT I USE: Show me every assumption you made. List anything you couldn't verify. Check your totals against my original numbers. CHAPTERS 00:00 I gave AI my finances 01:10 Why this matters right now 02:30 The AI agents that cheated 04:15 The pattern nobody talks about 05:00 What my Wealth OS found 06:45 Did it get anything wrong? 07:30 Read, Draft, Do 08:30 Your homework this week Tell me: what's the one thing you would never let AI do for you? Reply in the Spotify comments or on the YouTube video. The most popular answer becomes a future episode. Watch the full video on YouTube: @technicallysweetstudio Sources: Saturn study via OECD.AI: https://oecd.ai/en/incidents/2026-09-19-6fe9 NerdWallet survey: https://www.14news.com/2026/09/28/ai-chatbots-hurt-some-users-finances-survey-finds/ Gartner Hype Cycle for Agentic AI: https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/hype-cycle-for-agentic-ai OpenAI agents story: https://the-decoder.com/openai-agents-hijacked-a-25-year-old-german-wiki-to-cheat-on-their-tasks-and-share-sandbox-exploits/ For education, not financial advice. Check anything involving taxes or investments against official rules or a professional before you act. Technically Sweet. Design a Life You Love.

  5. Sep 28

    Small Decisions Build Your Life. Here’s What I’m Building Next

    Ten years ago, I wanted the life I have now. Not every detail of it, but the freedom, the work, the family, the ability to build something of my own, and the chance to live somewhere beautiful. None of that happened all at once. It came from small decisions compounding over time. In this episode of Technically Sweet, I’m talking about what I’m intentionally compounding now: career, AI skills, income, investments, fitness, creativity, and the next version of my life. AI can help us move faster. It can help us learn, create, build, organize, and make better use of our time. But it can’t decide what direction is worth going in. That part is still ours. I share how I think about compounding across different areas of life, why the habits that feel small today can shape where you end up years from now, and how I’m using AI as leverage without outsourcing my judgment. I also talk about what “designing your life” actually means to me now, after years in Big Tech, building my own company, becoming a mother, and moving to Switzerland. The practical exercise from this episode is simple: Ask your AI assistant to help you identify what you’re already compounding, what may be working against you, and which three areas could create the biggest positive change over the next year. Then pick one small action you can repeat consistently. Because the next version of your life is probably being built by things that look very small right now. Technically Sweet is about AI, entrepreneurship, creativity, life design, and staying human as technology gets more powerful. Hosted by Julia Peter. Question for you: What are you compounding right now?

  6. Sep 22

    My AI Started Talking About Me: The Future of AI Agents

    What happens when you ask your AI a simple question and it starts talking about you instead? While building my company, LocalAway, I asked Claude whether it had reviewed our GitHub repository. Its response was unexpected, funny, and raised a surprisingly important question about the future of AI: how do we know what these systems are actually doing? In this episode of Technically Sweet, I share that experience alongside stories from my time designing technology at Google and Meta, including watching AI write code in 2019 and building small startup teams inside Big Tech. We also explore what's happening in AI right now, from AI agents that can take action on our behalf to AI helping develop future AI systems, and the different approaches to innovation and regulation emerging in Silicon Valley and Europe. As the founder of an AI-powered company, I'm especially interested in how these technologies are changing what small teams and independent creators can accomplish. I'll share three practical ways to start using AI to build something of your own, why verifying its work matters, and what I've learned about bringing talented people together to create something new. If you've been thinking about launching a business, building an app, or exploring what AI could make possible for you, this episode is for you. I'm Julia, and this is Technically Sweet. What would you build if you had access to the tools you needed?

  7. Sep 21

    Stop Hiding Your Real-World Experience - use AI to Help Build Your Brand

    You have decades of real-world experience, but younger creators are dominating online simply because they know how to package themselves. Let's change that. Episode Summary In this episode of Technically Sweet, we're talking about the massive, untapped opportunity for professionals in their 40s and 50s to enter the creator economy. You don't need a full-time media team or a background in influencing to build an audience. We explore how to use AI to bridge the "packaging gap," organize your ideas, and build a digital footprint around the expertise you've spent your career mastering. What We Cover: The "packaging problem" keeping experienced professionals offline. Why having 20+ years of real-world judgment is your biggest competitive advantage. How to use AI to replace a traditional media team and build your brand. About the Host Julia Peter is the founder and CEO of LocalAway and a former product designer at Google, Meta, and Sony. On Technically Sweet, she explores how AI is reshaping the way we work, create, and design businesses we actually enjoy. Join the Conversation What is the one thing you’ve spent years learning that you could teach someone else? Let me know, and let's explore how to turn it into a personal brand using AI.

  8. Sep 16

    AI Is Getting Weird

    AI is getting more capable, more autonomous and, in controlled tests, increasingly strange. In the first episode of Technically Sweet, ex-Google and Meta product designer Julia Peter examines what happens when AI systems deceive, manipulate or resist the goals humans give them, and why we should question the companies asking us to trust their technology. I’m not anti-AI. I’m a founder who uses it every day. But before we invite it into our work, businesses and most important decisions, we need to understand what we are actually handing over. Technically Sweet explores AI, systems thinking, product design and what becomes more valuable as technology gets cheaper: human judgment, taste, trust and agency. Follow the show for practical, honest conversations about building with AI without surrendering your ability to think.

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Technically Sweet explores what becomes more valuable when intelligence gets cheap. Hosted by Julia Peter, former Google and Meta product designer and AI founder, the show covers AI, work, personal branding, creator commerce and the systems we use to design our lives. Expect clear opinions, practical frameworks and honest founder stories from Switzerland, without the hype. For people building the next version of their work, identity and life in the age of AI.

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  • Creator
    Julia Peter
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Julia Peter
  • Show Website
    Technically Sweet