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Techs on TextsEpisode #12: Gina Trapani on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGina Trapani, exemplary human and champion of good things on the web, comes on to talk about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. We talk about creating universes, friendship, parenthood, all kidns of relationships, play, vulnerability, loving the web, the beauty of being bad at doing things, blank white boards, and learning a lot. If you listen, you will know what so many others already do: Gina is the best.Notes!Van Halen logo in MS PaintIra Glass on he taste gapPodcast with Nina Jacobson, producer of The Life AquaticTig Notaro on why nothing...2025-01-241h 21Techs on TextsEpisode #11: Nathaniel Raymond on Francis Ford Coppola's The ConversationNathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1974 film, The Conversation. Nathaniel makes a compelling argument that the movie was a history of the future – with Coppola accurately documenting the profound shift that surveillance technology would have on individuals and society. As Nathaniel says in our discussion: the movie is somehow more relevant to society today, 50 years after it was made.Many thanks to Natty for coming and doing this with me. He was the absolute best person I could ha...2024-12-211h 11