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Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks is the tech podcast about humans. Hosted by George K and George A, this podcast examines AI, infrastructure, technology adoption, and the broader implications of tech developments through both guest interviews and news commentary.Our guests bring honest perspectives on what's working, what's broken, and new ways to examine the roles and impacts of technology in our lives.We challenge conventional tech industry narratives and dig into real-world consequences over hype. Whether you're deeply technical or just trying to understand how technology shapes society, this show will make you think critically about where we're headed and who's getting left behind.
Unknown Host hosts Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks, a technology show with 195 episodes published.
That’s a wrap on season 4! What's coming next isn't just another season. Fifty-two episodes took the show past its cybersecurity origins into conversations with a corpus linguist, a nuclear security expert, an Amnesty In
Cloud computing solved for scale by centralizing everything into a handful of massive buildings. Edge computing is the argument that scale was never the only thing worth optimizing for. On this episode, Jeff MacMillan of
No one gets fired for doing what McKinsey says. That's not a joke, it's the actual product being sold in half of enterprise consulting: credibility a board can point to when a decision goes wrong. This week, Tim Lidman,
When companies mandate AI adoption without a use case, without a strategy, and without a business outcome in mind, they don't get transformation. They get jazz hands and nightmare token bills. This month's System Update
When an institution says it's changing, how do you tell the difference between real reform and a vocabulary update? Charlotte Duval-Lantoine has spent years studying organizations that adopt the language of culture chang
What if the problem with American democracy isn't that the system is broken, but that it's working exactly as intended, just not for you? Travis Misurell, founder of FiNC (Future is Now Coalition), has spent years watchi
The travel schedules and time zone tango is real. This week, revisit one of the most downloaded episodes this season, with Rachelle Tanguay. What if your biggest career obstacle isn't external—it's the “broken code” runn
The hype machine spent two years telling us AI was coming for your job. Now it's quietly walking that back. Why now? Follow the money. On this week's system update, George K. and George A. pull apart the vibe shift happe
What if the reason most people struggle to build meaningful professional relationships isn't effort — it's that they've mistaken a transaction for a foundation? David Homan has spent thirteen years building the largest p
What happens when a community votes no…but the #AI datacenter construction starts anyway? That is not a hypothetical. It’s what happened in Saline Township, Michigan, when a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle data center was reje
In the wake of more layoffs attributed to "AI," we thought it worthwhile to revisit this conversation from earlier in the year. Increasingly, AI is being used as a catch-all excuse to justify layoffs without clear return
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What if the story we're being told about AI's inevitability is hiding something underneath? That's the question Jessica Parker and Kimberly Becker put to George K. on their podcast, Women Talking ‘Bout AI. This conversat
The AI hype machine is taking up all the oxygen we need to actually stop the harm happening today. This month we heard from three guests who didn't compare notes. Didn't coordinate. And all three circled the same thing:
Are tech industries selling us a problems they invented? Ryan Clarque, CSO at Black Rifle Coffee Company, doesn't flinch at the big provocations. When Claude's Mythos model showed up in every LinkedIn feed promising a so
What if narrow #AI, rather than imagined AGI through scaling will be what changes the world? In some places, that’s already happening. El Mahdi Aboulmanadel founded DeepLeaf after watching smallholder farmers in Morocco
Amber Bennoui calls it like she sees it: most of what gets sold as "AI security" is just cloud security with sparkle emojis on it. She's co-founder of AISECA, a veteran product leader, and a more honest voices in a space
When was the last time a news headline about AI actually told you something true? George K. and George A. recorded this one from opposite sides of the planet — George K. fresh off RSA in San Francisco, George A. embedded
What if the best investment decision is one where no human is involved? Brant Meyer, partner at Trac VC joins the show this week to talk about the firm’s approach, where algorithms — not partners in puffer vests — make e
We've spent the last several months talking to people who live at the intersection of technology and the humans on the receiving end of it. A data privacy attorney. A corpus linguist. A clinical psychologist. A performan
Why do your friends and parents still get breach notification letters from companies they’ve never heard of? John Watters aka “The Cowboy” joins the show this week for a hard look at information security. In the early 20
Travis Misurell
founder · Future Is Now Coalition
1 appearance on this show
David Homan
Community-building strategist and author of Orchestrating Connection · Orchestrating Connecting
1 appearance on this show
Tim Lidman
Clyde
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Clarque
Black Rifle Coffee Company
1 appearance on this show
Amber Bennoui
AISECA
1 appearance on this show
Brant Meyer
Trac VC
1 appearance on this show
Mike McLaughlin
The AI ecos
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