Through Another Lens Podcast

<p>What's in this episode• The Tuesday morning that almost everyone recognizes• Why this isn't burnout, even though it looks like it• Conceptual exhaustion, named for the first time• The kitchen analogy that explains...

<p>What's in this episode</p><p>• The Jesuit kitchen and the math of scaling</p><p>• Michael Ruhlman's Ratio and finally having the language</p><p>• The TEDxAmericanRiviera era, the pause, and what we changed when we...

<p>EPISODE</p><p>Through Another Lens · Episode 81 · At 72, I Made My First Album in Twelve Hours</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>A five-second thought on a Friday afternoon. Twelve hours of work across two days. A...

<p>Episode</p><p>Through Another Lens · The Robots Can't Win</p><p>Description</p><p>What if the right answer to the AI replacement panic has been sitting inside your skull the whole time? On this Saturday's Elder...

<p>At twenty-two, Mark had retired from restaurant work after a Mother's Day shift at the John Dory broke him. He was going to make art instead. A month later, Veane called. He was the Head Chef and Baker at the Jesuit...

<p>Most of us run a method our whole life and never stop to name it. Mark shares the three-Sunday-Story arc that led him to realize a tagline he didn't write in 1990, a five-step method he named in 2017, and the...

<p>In 1965, a twelve-year-old in Southern California sat on his bed and stared at a cutaway drawing of the New York City subway until something shifted. Sixty years later, he built that drawing into an AI-powered...

<p>Summer, 1965. Renton, Washington. My dad sat at the kitchen table with the sports page folded in thirds. He’d scan it before he said a word to anyone. Scores from the night before. Standings. A trade rumor. By the...

<p>In 1985, a $65,000 piece of software came with a hundred-page list of everything that didn't work yet. Nobody complained. Today, AI ships with perfect confidence and no caveats -- and sometimes it invents a baseball...

<p>A car ride. One question. Eight civilizations. A living digital project made public by Thursday night, and still growing. This week Mark Sylvester tells the story of how reading Sarum sparked a curiosity that became...

<p>An environmental sculptor named Jonathan Goldman has been building something for five years: a 48-foot aluminum sculpture spelling TRUTH designed to float on American harbors. He's losing faith. Mark Sylvester is...

<p>The Discovery</p><p>How a row of glasses warming on an espresso machine in a New York food court led to fifteen years of ordering a drink nobody knew by name — and the one sentence that ended the confusion.</p><p>The...

<p>Some people get older. Some people get elder. Mark Sylvester has been doing a thing with his hands — a slow, two-handed gesture that makes the distinction physical — and people keep stopping him to ask about it. This...

<p>I’ve spent the better part of a year using the mountain as a metaphor. I’ve given talks around it, written a three-part series on it, and used it to explain to anyone who would listen why going from Idea to Impact is...

<p>This is the third story about a system I didn’t know I was building.</p><p>The first was about the problem—content that kept breaking in ways I couldn’t name, until I built gates to catch the failures. (If you missed...