JB Minton

JB Minton discusses how to find the middle ground between "AI will save the world" and "AI will destroy the world." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jbminton.substack.com/subscribe

A live reading of the 1995 poem “Where Rivers Come Together” by poet George Looney. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jbminton.substack.com/subscribe

A reading of the poem “A Catechism On Longing” by George Looney from his book Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh (1995). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jbminton.substack.com/subscribe

BOOK DESCRIPTION Why does Twin Peaks haunt us decades later? Why does it feel less like television and more like a spiritual experience? Because David Lynch, practicing Transcendental Meditation every day for 52 years, created something unprecedented: a television series that requires elevated consciousness to experience fully. Through Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s framework of seven consciousness state...

The Red Room Podcast began as a conversation between two intelligent, passionate people who each loved television enough to sit down in front of a shared microphone and take turns letting the other person speak on a theme before responding. Over the years, Scott Ryan and I became effective at listening and asking each other questions that sparked further conversation. And so our podcast’s format a...

Last year, I presented on stage at a technology conference. The topic was AI for an aging population, and it was controversial. I asked the audience how many had been in business for ten years or more. Most raised their hands. Then I asked them how many had twenty years. More than half the hands went down. Thirty? About five stayed up. Forty? One stayed up. I shook my head in awe at the social and...