Always Becoming

The Monks and the Scholars Conversation #2 Everyone says to embrace AI — but what if being replaced was always the human condition? In this episode, a Zen master sits down with a table of Bio/AI PhDs and asks the opposite question: what can artificial intelligence still not do? The conversation moves from the frontlines of AI research into stranger territory — information versus wisdom, whether a...

The Monks and the Scholars Conversation #1 What does it mean to live well when life doesn't go according to plan? In this inaugural episode, Zen masters and Harvard PhDs discuss anxiety, failure, AI-era uncertainty, and the surprising freedom that comes from letting go of other people's definitions of "mainstream success." This is a conversation about finding peace in an imperfec...