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Today’s episode starts with a shiny new announcement you may have already seen: Pickle, calling itself “the computer for your soul.”

From there, things get interesting. We talk—casually, curiously—about why so many tech visions keep trying to squeeze old-school software UI into our actual field of vision, what it really means to “record everything,” and why the biggest thing these systems miss might be the part of experience that can’t be captured at all. Along the way, we poke at operating systems for perception, confidence masquerading as inevitability, and a simple test for telling whether a tool belongs in your life—or just wants to be there.

No hot takes, no futurist yelling. Just a friendly, slightly incredulous walk through a very familiar Silicon Valley idea, and the questions it never quite seems to ask.



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