On this episode:
* How Mike went from wine and spirits to remote solar and battery storage sales after the pandemic
* Why he and his online sales buddies meet up in Vegas every year for a not-so-traditional “work trip”
* Sean calling out Mike’s subtle “sales voice” and what happens when we drop the professional mask
* A thoughtful take on ego as self-preservation—and why even self-aware people still need some of it
* Mike’s journey from Jewish upbringing to religious studies major to calling himself agnostic
* A discussion of whether religions are more alike than we think, and why no one really has all the answers
* Sean’s riff on telepathy, non-verbal autistic kids, and the idea of a shared field of consciousness
* How AI, population decline, and an aging world might force us to rethink the entire economy
* The question underneath it all: can humans actually behave altruistically at scale?
