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Thinking Straight is a podcast for business leaders, product builders, and entrepreneurs who want to think rigorously about AI.
Featuring interviews with founders, builders, investors, and operators, the show brings an honest perspective to an AI narrative that is too often dominated by either breathless optimism or doomsday prophecies.
We cover: The tools, models, and breakthroughs actually worth your attention, what AI adoption actually looks like inside real organizations, and the hard questions facing our society as we navigate this transformation.
Examining the technology from multiple angles, the show aims to help listeners build a clear and grounded understanding of AI and its implications.
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
57 minutes
English
United States
5 episodes
since Aug. 27, 2026
episodic
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Kevin Lotto is a volunteer with the Torchbearer Community, a regular AI safety speaker with the AI Safety Awareness Project in Wisconsin, and co-founder of the Control AI Wisconsin Action Group. He is also a daily power user of the same AI tools he advocates regulating, which puts him squarely in t…
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Mike Maniscalco is the CEO of QumulusAI, an AI infrastructure provider built to deliver high-performance computing for AI natives and inference providers. Mike is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful exits who previously served as CTO of Applied Digital.Most of us experience AI as softwar…
Melissa Tondi is an agentic AI and quality engineering leader with deep experience in process engineering across the software development lifecycle. She has deployed AI at scale inside real organizations, and in this conversation we dig into the traps companies fall into and how leaders can use pro…
Rob Carpenter is the managing member of Frost River Capital, where he's actively acquiring and growing a portfolio of residential service businesses. Before that, he founded and led Valyant AI, a conversational AI platform for the drive-thru food industry that was acquired in 2024. He holds five pa…
Is AI making everyone in the room dumber, one polished answer at a time?In this episode of Thinking Straight, we talk with Erika Lenz, founder of KeepYourMind.ai and Kinetic Change, about the human side of AI adoption: the messy, cognitive, and organizational work that most companies skip on their …
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