Renaissance Circle

<p>What if the things we say at celebrations of life could be said while the person is still here to hear them?</p><p><br></p><p>That question has haunted me since December 2018, when I sat in the middle of my sister...

<p>The Rise of the Machine: The Next Evolution of AI Is Physical</p><p>By Steven Muskal, Ph.D.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the past few years, the story of AI has been a story about language. I am convinced that is only the...

<p>Content Makes Kings: Out-Create the Algorithm</p><p><br></p><p>For years we've said "content is king." Dr. Steven Muskal argues we've been stating it wrong. Content doesn't just reign supreme. Content MAKES kings. In...

<p>A blockbuster cholesterol drug and a compound from Reishi mushrooms score 0.98 out of 1.0 on pharmacophore similarity. In three dimensional molecular space, the two present almost exactly the same biological face to...

<p>What if AI could preserve not only what someone knew, but how they reasoned, taught, joked, remembered, and loved?</p><p><br></p><p> In this deeply personal Renaissance Circle episode, Steven Muskal explores AI- Dad...

<p>Every so often, a conversation reminds me that technology is never the real story. People are.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I sit down with Moritz “Moe” Koeppenkastrop-Lueker, whose path may look nonlinear on...

<p>In this episode, Steve sits down with Gibson Hanks, a 17-year-old builder deeply immersed in computers, programming, and AI, for a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation about how real understanding is...

<p>In this episode, Steve sits down with Austin Urie for a wide-ranging, vulnerable, and often hilarious conversation about seasonal entrepreneurship, ambition, burnout, surfing, AI, ontology, and the strange ways...

<p>When a man who hangs Christmas lights for a living begins thinking about recursion, natural pesticides, and the mathematics of existence, you know you’re in for an unexpected conversation. Austin Urie’s journey from...

<p>Preserving Legacy Through Conversational Intelligence</p><p>When my father passed earlier this year, I found myself lost in paperwork, probate, and grief. But buried in decades of our email exchanges, I rediscovered...

<p>Steve Muskal sits down with Lloyed Lobo, cofounder of Boast.ai and Traction, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of From Grassroots to Greatness.</p><p>From escaping Kuwait during the Gulf War to building a...

<p>Behind the Bar, Ahead of the Curve — Two bartenders walk into a startup and start reinventing how people learn, earn, and invest in themselves. Dakota and Vladimir are blending hospitality and machine learning to...

<p>Biomedical engineers Megan Phillips and Fernanda Campos join Steve to explore the leap from research to entrepreneurship. They discuss career design, women’s health innovation, and how curiosity, strategy, and grit...

<p>Personal Passion, Professional Pivots, and Mastering Medical Devices</p><p>At age 12, Christy Shearer was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes—a shock that became her lifelong source of purpose. In this candid, fast-moving...

<p>Steve and Dom explore cybersecurity, music, and the search for balance in health, heritage, and harmony</p><p>Cybersecurity expert, musician, and health hacker Dom Mather joins Steven Muskal for an open, deeply human...