Hosted by Rui · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 20 episodes
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Who do you have to become to do what you do? Each episode enters through a different door — tech/AI, art, food, policy, faith — but the conversation always turns toward what's on the other side: identity, meaning, and what it feels like to still be figuring it out. The guests are data scientists, game designers, chefs, founders, professors — but beyond the titles, who are they, really? Subscribe to float along! Official website: https://www.floatingquestions.com/ Ideas or collabs: floating.questions.podcast@gmail.com
Rui hosts floating questions, a society show with 20 episodes published.
Wen Tong is an imaging engineer and (aspiring) colorist — his job is to make sure what you see on screen is exactly what the director intended. Turns out, that's almost impossible. Two people literally cannot see the sam
In this episode of Floating Questions, we sit down with Mason Grimshaw, an MIT alum and mission-driven data scientist driving critical progress at the intersection of environmental conservation and indigenous empowerment
You might have heard of Amine Bennouna from a previous episode ( here ) – from the Math Olympiad in Morocco to an MIT PhD and now a Professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. Recently, he has been thinking
For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang . By day, Eric works in private equity in New York City, managing commercial real estate deals on Wall Street . On
Today on Floating Questions , we sat down with Shaka Mitchell - Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, constitutional law lecturer, long-distance runner, creator of t
Timothy Chen’s story isn’t your typical Silicon Valley success arc. He didn’t start as a hotshot coder - Microsoft once slotted him into the IT track, nothing more. Yet he went on to become a member of the Apache Softwar
In this episode, we sit down with Julia Morton - a writer, art curator, fashion designer, early YouTuber, and author of a Substack chronicling how artists are experimenting with AI (https://aiplusart.substack.com). We ch
In this episode, we are joined by Joshua Pulsifer - narrative designer and co-director at Zipit! Games, an indie studio in New York. Joshua and his partner Ben are building The Wide Open Sky is Running Out of Catfish, a
Data breaks. AI models go crazy. Downstream teams scramble to put out the fire. In this episode, I talk with Chad Sanderson , CEO and co-founder of Gable - a startup rebuilding data quality and governance from the ground
How do you measure whether an education policy is actually working? In this episode, I talk with Stephanie Franklin, Deputy Associate Commissioner of Strategy and Analytics at one of the largest education agencies in the
In this episode, we sit down with Sean Chen - a former data scientist at Google and one of the first AI product managers at Walmart/Sam’s Club - to unpack his whirlwind journey through tech and startups. Sean reveals how
From a hacker's perspective, what are some of the most overlooked - yet critical - problems in tech? In this episode, Clarence Chio shares his journey from giving DEFCON talks on adversarial AI before it was cool, to bui
Floating Questions welcomes Ashish Ranjan Jha - former AI lead at Revolut, author of Fight Fraud with Machine Learning, and now founder of Nativ. In this episode, we trace Ashish’s journey across three continents and a r
Floating Questions welcomes Matt LeMay, a product leader, musician, and author of two books: Impact First Product Teams and Product Management in Practice. With experience at Spotify, Mailchimp, Bitly, and beyond, Matt s
Floating Questions welcomes Nivedita Gaur, whose extraordinary journey spans from India's Space Applications Centre to shaping the future of augmented reality (AR) as a Silicon Architect at Meta, where she contributed to
What is even fairness in AI? Is there such a thing as too much diversity in AI output? Should AI reflect the world as it is, or the world we wish it to be? In this episode of Floating Questions, Brian Hsu, a Senior Respo
In this episode of Floating Questions, we sit down with Amine Bennouna, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and soon-to-be professor at the Kellogg School of Management. We explore his childhood in Morocco and how competing
In this episode of Floating Questions , we sit down with Daniel Kofman , a serial entrepreneur who co-founded a solar panel company and started a defense technology startup recently, with a lifelong fascination for defen
In this episode of Floating Questions, we sit down with Shane Weisberg, an MIT graduate, hiking in the woods and dabbling in creative writing. Our conversation delves into Shane’s passion for sci-fi and fantasy, his thou
Dive into our debut episode of "Floating Questions" where we explore the intersections of data science, social enterprise, and personal history with Tristan Aubert. From his early years moving across continents to spearh
Shaka Mitchell
Nashville-based lawyer, facilitator and national leader in education reform policy · American Federation for Children
1 appearance on this show
Timothy Chen
General Partner · Essence Venture Capital
1 appearance on this show
Chad Sanderson
head of product - data platform · Gable.ai
1 appearance on this show
Sean Chen
COO and CCO · Validus Capital
1 appearance on this show
Matt LeMay
Product Management Consultant & Author · Product Management Consultant & Author
1 appearance on this show
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