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A podcast from @jed.co featuring conversations with technologists about the literature that has influenced them.
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Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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Matt Price on Piranesi
Matt Price – technology historian and professor – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics.
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August 31, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh

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Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang
Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.
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July 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Episode #17: Daniel X. O’Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

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Daniel X. O'Neil on The Waste Land
Daniel X. O’Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Episode #16: @al.merose.com Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

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Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman
Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Marcel Du...
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May 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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I really enjoyed this chat with @jed.co on his podcast @techsontexts.net

A Pattern Language is a really special book. If you’ve read it I hope this conversation deepens your appreciation for it. If not I hope it encourages you to check it out for yourself!
April 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander

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Johnny Rodgers on A Pattern Language
Johnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

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George Dyson on Childhood's End
George Dyson is on again, this time to talk about Childhood’s End and what it has to teach us about overlord technologies.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Fiction by Ted Chiang

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Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang’s masterful “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.”
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March 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Read ahead!

This month's episode (out sometime after the 26th), will about “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. Next month's episode will be about Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.

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Reading for February and March
In February, Keith Garrett will be on to discuss “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. In March, George Dyson returns to discuss Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.
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February 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Episode #12: @ginatrapani.org on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.

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Gina Trapani on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Episode #11: @nattyray.bsky.social on Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation

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Nathaniel Raymond on The Conversation
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...
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December 21, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Episode #10: @mcoatney.bsky.social on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mark Coatney on A Wizard of Earthsea
Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer, gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what the world is for, preindustrial longing...
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November 26, 2024 at 12:27 PM