I teach a course on a Master’s degree for people who want to create the next generation of digital technology. It’s at NYU in their Interactive Telecommunications Programme - ITP. I love teaching there - the students are artists and programmers and designers, marketers, former Disney Imagineers, and even English
Hello messy humans. I'm going to start with a meta observation: I hate posts that start with 'omg it's been so long'. But omg it's been so long. Yes, for you it's been a blink of the inbox. For me,
It’s early October 2022, and the sun is scorching in downtown San Diego. In the ground- floor conference room of the Town and Country Resort, a charismatic man is vigorously pacing back and forth across the stage in Italian loafers. He’s wearing a fashionable slim- cut suit, shirt
I'm loathe to talk about Bryan Johnson in this newsletter, as it feels like his shark has jumped (there's also the ongoing lawsuit by a former employee/his ex-fiancé, and his association with convicted sex offender Jefferey Epstein). But I must. Because Bryan is a
A friend and I used to fall out every time we had a very peculiar conversation: a debate about whether there would be a time in the near future when an AI would be indistinguishable from a human. He was on Team AI. I was on Team Human. Our thought
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Somehow, I didn't think I was going to be writing about religion when I started down this path towards immortality. I thought I'd be investigating finances, exposing hubris, and uncovering wacko "solutions" to death. But this story is TOTALLY about religion. It's
Welcome to Messy Humans, a newsletter that documents the utopias we build and the everyday people who accidentally wreck them by being too complicated to fit into any master plan. It’s a newsletter in seasons, with each containing an episode every week over fifteen weeks. It begins, appropriately, with
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