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Who do you have to become to do what you do?
Each episode enters through a different door — tech/AI, art, food, policy, faith — but the conversation always turns toward what's on the other side: identity, meaning, and what it feels like to still be figuring it out.
The guests are data scientists, game designers, chefs, founders, professors — but beyond the titles, who are they, really?
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Guest interviews
English
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20 episodes
since Sept. 24, 2024
episodic
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Wen Tong is an imaging engineer and (aspiring) colorist — his job is to make sure what you see on screen is exactly what the director intended. Turns out, that's almost impossible.
Two people literally cannot see the same color.
I went into this conversation expecting to learn about color sci…
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For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang.
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Today on Floating Questions, we sat down with Shaka Mitchell - Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, constitutional law lecturer, long-distance runner, creator of the Come Together Music Project, and father of three.
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Timothy Chen’s story isn’t your typical Silicon Valley success arc.
He didn’t start as a hotshot coder - Microsoft once slotted him into the IT track, nothing more. Yet he went on to become a member of the Apache Software Foundation, contribute to open-source projects like Kafka and Mesos (the one…
In this episode, we sit down with Julia Morton - a writer, art curator, fashion designer, early YouTuber, and author of a Substack chronicling how artists are experimenting with AI (https://aiplusart.substack.com).
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In this episode, we are joined by Joshua Pulsifer - narrative designer and co-director at Zipit! Games, an indie studio in New York. Joshua and his partner Ben are building The Wide Open Sky is Running Out of Catfish, a story-driven photography game set on the back of a giant flying catfish. Beneat…
Data breaks. AI models go crazy. Downstream teams scramble to put out the fire.In this episode, I talk with Chad Sanderson, CEO and co-founder of Gable - a startup rebuilding data quality and governance from the ground up. We dive into the “shift left” philosophy: why upstream engineers must own th…
How do you measure whether an education policy is actually working?In this episode, I talk with Stephanie Franklin, Deputy Associate Commissioner of Strategy and Analytics at one of the largest education agencies in the U.S.We dive into the grounding yet complex role data plays in education - how s…
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