I got to hang out with Dr. Bruce Damer recently on the beach at Kaplankaya in Turkey. Bruce is an amazing scientist, a humble guy. Who has spent his whole career trying to figure out how did life begin on Earth?He and his co-conspirator Dr
Two nerds bullshitting about making amino acid Legos that kids can plug together to make proteins. This turned into a completely unrelated conversation about delivering personalized pharmaceuticals.
Robert Green is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. He's the director of Genetics Research at Brigham and Women's hospital and the co-founder of Nurture Genomics, where they're doing genomic screening for infants to detect and m
I met Dan Shapiro years ago when I went out to fly kites with Elan Lee. What a delightful guy! Dan is an inspiring entrepreneur with boundless energy, always upbeat.He's had, I think, four companies that succeeded, maybe three that were ven
Rob Angel is the inventor of Pictionary. You have played this game. I don't know anyone who hasn't. He Invented the game in 1985 and started manufacturing it in his studio apartment in Seattle, and then literally went out onto the streets,
Two nerds bullshitting about adapting cybersecurity to LLMs.Pablos: I have a totally different angle here. The topic is cybersecurity for AI so right now people are definitely doing cybersecurity to keep their models proprietary and k
Two nerds bullshitting about adapting cybersecurity to LLMs.Pablos: I have a totally different angle here. The topic is cybersecurity for AI so right now people are definitely doing cybersecurity to keep their models proprietary and k
I've got a real soft spot for heretics and people who carve their own path outside of the institutions and societal norms and things that everyone is so pressured into because it creates this echo chamber and there's these cookie cutter outcom
I've gotten to spend a little bit of time with Rob Shepherd over the years. He's working on soft robotics and all the different kinds of materials advancements that could really help us make robots that are more naturally integrated into the w
Two nerds bullshitting about augmented reality tattoos.Pablos: I don't know if this exists, but AR tattoos should totally be a thing. and this is just I think there's a couple different embodiments for this, but basically there should j
Lee Cronin is a true mad scientist. He's a professor of chemistry in Glasgow, where he also founded Chemify. This is a company that has invented a new type of approach to accomplish chemistry, very analogous to using the tool chain that we use
Two nerds bullshitting about an augmented reality baseball cap.Pablos: With AR, I think we got it wrong.Everybody's been trying to put dragons in the room or have a whale in the room or whatever. And they're going for this super rea
If you ever get the chance to hang out with David Eagleman, first of all do it. The first thing you're going to notice is that he's extremely nice, fun, outgoing and very friendly. He's lit up in the brain and he's prolific, he's doing a zilli
Music producer & sound engineer John Vitale is creating music to help people optimize brain states. After co- founding Focus@Will, where he designed music and soundscape channels for flow state he moved on to found Brain Music Labs Where he’s c
A true polymath, Moran started out in the Israeli military, in one of their elite intelligence units. Then ended up working as a hacker in computer security. And to this day is still in demand for that, but he had a weird experience when Franci
Two nerds bullshitting about stunts on the internet.Another idea I had a long time ago. That, unfortunately never deployed widely. I prototyped in the late nineties, it was called the Internet Random Mail Reader. For people who don't kno