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Matthew Jordan ( https://matthewjordan.ca/ ) is an explorer, historian, and urbanist. The conversation starts with water and municipal infrastructure and moves into Stewart Brand's concept of pace layering, the idea that a system has layers that change at different speeds. Matthew discusses Toronto's buried rivers, such as Garrison Creek, the city's large ravine system, and the Leslie...

Neil Chudleigh (x.com/neilsuperduper) is a founder, engineer, and developer, and the creator of Superwhisper (superwhisper.com). The conversation opens with a demonstration of Superwhisper, a voice dictation app, including its configurable modes, an Obsidian integration, and an offline use case. Neil discusses building customizable software, how large language models make complex tools more usable...

Benjamin Parry ( https://www.benparry.ca/ ) is a writer, systems thinker, and researcher. The conversation opens with a few of Benjamin's current interests and settles into a discussion of Machiavelli, drawing on James Burnham's reading of him as an early political scientist focused on outcomes rather than ideals. It then turns to the question of progress, using a walk across Toronto measu...

Chris Samra ( https://x.com/crsamra ) is a founder, engineer, and designer, and the creator of waves.camera. The conversation begins with Y2K-era design and becomes a detailed discussion of BlackBerry: its Waterloo origins, push email, enterprise security, the physical keyboard, and its decline, which Chris attributes to building for executives rather than ordinary users. They then discuss the ear...

Mikey Kim ( https://www.instagram.com/unclemikeysinc/?hl=en ) is a chef, restaurateur, and entrepreneur, and a co-owner of the restaurants Milou, Bonito's, and Bar Bowie. The conversation covers his path into cooking: reading grocery flyers as a child, growing up between Korea and the Canadian suburbs, asking for a deep fryer at twelve, and attending French culinary school. He discusses his ad...

Tarun Sachdeva ( https://tarunsachdeva.com/ ) is a designer, writer, and founder of Traces ( https://traces.com/ ). The conversation begins with Frank Chimero's essay "What Screens Want" and the idea that a new medium first imitates the one it replaces. They use the history of plastic as an example, then discuss skeuomorphism, the costs of convenience, and how AI imitates human voice...

Benjamin Parry ( https://www.benparry.ca/ ) is a writer, systems thinker, and researcher. The two read the Canadian Prime Minister's 2025 mandate letter live, line by line, as a way to understand how government works: the difference between elected officials and the civil service, how priorities are set and delegated, and the country's trade dependence on the United States. The conversatio...

Benjamin Parry ( https://www.benparry.ca/ ) is a writer, systems thinker, and researcher. Using maps and articles pulled up during the conversation, they discuss China: why most major cities have a Chinatown, how a culture stays coherent across generations, and how regions like the Greater Bay Area are connected by rail and transit. They also cover the Hakka diaspora, China's economic rise, la...

Gabriel O'Flaherty-Chan ( https://gabrieloc.com/ ) is a game developer, designer, and systems thinker, the creator of several games such as Chaotic Era, and now a co-founder of falcon.so. The conversation is built around the 1981 film Quest for Fire, which they use as a starting point to discuss human potential. Gabriel notes that a person 100,000 years ago had the same brain we do, and the two di...