Theosis

Seven predictions for the year in tech, held with sober hope rather than hype or doom.

Andrew and Joel trade summer reading, seven books that shaped how they build. Range and kind vs wicked worlds, The Lean Startup on testing a hypothesis instead of debating it, Culture Making on why creating beats critiquing, and the evolutionary neuroscience the frontier labs are mining for the next breakthrough.

Wyatt Graham returns to read Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas — not the Pope “coming out against AI” but Catholic social teaching applied to the new thing. Technology is never neutral under the condition of the conditioners, the few oppress the many through its instruments, and prudential reasoning is the one thing AI cannot do.

Advent waiting against the technological impulse to seize, optimize, and never wait.

The Neo humanoid robot arrives; the hosts on labor, the body, and living with machines.

Is the AI boom a bubble or a turning point? The hosts weigh the signals.