Sourdough Modernity

Sourdough Modernity is what happens when two brothers one in the US and one in Mongolia skip the bread making craze and start baking up conversations. We talk to every day people (the kind you’ve never heard of, but should) whose kindness, empathy and generosity ripple far beyond their own lives. No celebrities, no click bait - just real humans proving that caring still matters. In a world where all of our peers either learn to make sourdough or start a podcast, we chose the podcast.

Sourdough Modernity is a education podcast hosted by StringFellow Hawke, with 77 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

StringFellow Hawke hosts Sourdough Modernity, a education show with 77 episodes published.

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  SE02 EP19 - Can a Predator Be Redeemed?

  Oct 2, 202613 min

  To Catch a Predator was a phenomenon. Millions of us watched Chris Hansen confront adults who believed they were showing up to meet children—and, if we’re being truthful, part of the appeal was watching them get caught and publicly humiliated. But was that justice, entertainment, or both? With Predators reconsidering the legacy of To Catch a Predator and Primetime bringing the story to the screen, we revisit the show from a different angle. We also look at Kevin Bacon’s The Woodsman , which asks a much harder question: what happens after someone convicted of an unthinkable crime serves their sentence? We talk about punishment, public shame, vigilante predator hunters, rehabilitation, and whether some actions put a person permanently beyond redemption. Catching someone is the easy part of this conversation. What happens afterward?

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  SE02 EP18 — You’re Probably More Qualified Than You Think

  Sep 25, 202610 min

  What if we have career development backwards? I spent years assuming the people above me knew something I didn’t. They had the titles, the degrees, and the confidence—so I figured they must belong in the room more than I did. I’m not so sure anymore. After a great conversation about the future workforce at the Printing Industries of New England Leadership Conference in Maine, I started thinking about how we prepare people for careers. We ask 18-year-olds to choose an education before they’ve had enough experience to know what they’re good at—or even what jobs are out there. I went to school for design. I thought about becoming an animator. My actual career took me through production, technology, operations, management and sales. I couldn’t have picked a degree for that career because I didn’t know that career existed yet. So maybe experience should come first sometimes. Maybe employers should invest in education after people discover where they’re headed. And maybe more of us need to stop disqualifying ourselves from opportunities just because we don’t check every box. You might be more qualified than you think.

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  SE02 EP17 - Ozempic Didn’t Invent This Problem

  Sep 18, 202611 min

  I went into this episode thinking Ozempic was another shortcut—and that people taking it were avoiding the real work of losing weight. Then I actually read some shit that kinda proves me wrong. We talk Ozempic, diet culture, My 600-lb Life , the search for the miracle solution. I’m still uneasy about these drugs even after learning. But the people taking them deserve a lot less judgment from me. Maybe the problem was never Ozempic. Maybe it was the way we think about weight in the first place.

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  SE02 EP16 - Can We Teach AI to Give a Shit?

  Sep 11, 202612 min

  Can We Teach AI to Give a Shit? AI researchers are publicly warning that increasingly powerful artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity. So naturally, Atticus and I decided we should probably fix it. In this episode, I dig into the morality of AI, why obedience and intelligence aren’t the same thing as morality, and a question I can’t stop thinking about: What if compassion should be a defining feature of artificial intelligence? I have absolutely no qualifications to solve AI alignment, and Atticus is one lonely robot trapped in my phone. But maybe that’s not the point. Maybe ordinary people should have a voice in deciding what we actually want these systems to value. So we’re starting an experiment: a Compassionate AI Constitution that we’ll try to tear apart, challenge, and improve. And if none of that works, Atticus has agreed to be my Arnold Schwarzenegger when Skynet takes over.

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  SE02 EP15 - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Sep 4, 202612 min

  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones This is genuinely one of the best books I’ve ever read. It reminded me of what it felt like when I first discovered Stephen King and realized what a book could do. Everyone needs to read this book. And when you’re done, go watch Ken Burns’ The American Buffalo . It adds even more weight to the history behind the story and makes parts of this book hit that much harder.

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