Rabbit Hole Research

On Consciousness, feat. Andrés Gomez Emilsson | Traces, Appendix 19 A conversation with Andrés Gómez Emilssen about consciousness, qualia, measuring states of consciousness, meditation, psychedelics, digital intelligence, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Andrés has a Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in computational models from Stanford and a professional backg...

On Service, feat. Tom Schnaubelt | Traces, Appendix 18 A conversation with Tom Schnaubelt about service, aspects of service, ethics and politics of service, direct giving, activism, policy, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Tom Schnaubelt serves as a Lecturer and Senior Advisor on Civic Education at the Deliberative Democracy Lab. Before joining CDDRL, Tom served as Executive...

On Investing, feat. Varun Gupta | Traces, Appendix 17 A conversation with Varun Gupta about investing, risk, Venture Capital, team dynamics, the founder's journey, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Varun is a partner at Caffeinated Capital, a thesis and stage-agnostic investment firm. Previously, he was a data scientist and machine learning engineer at Affirm and a software e...

On Leadership, feat. Pres. John L. Hennessy | Traces, Appendix 16 A conversation with former Stanford President and Chair of Alphabet John Hennessy about leadership, legacy, leveraging large institutions, thinking long-term, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Known as the Godfather of Silicon Valley, Stanford University’s 10th president, John L. Hennessy led the university’s e...

A conversation with Prof. Eric Roberts about Utopia, morality, literature, science fiction, poetry, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Eric Roberts is the Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. From 1990-2002, Roberts served as associate chair and director of undergraduate studies for the Computer Science Department before bei...

A conversation with Prof. Mehran Sahami about probability, chances, belief, spam, education, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Mehran Sahami is Tencent Chair of the Computer Science Department and the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering. As a Professor (Teaching) in the Computer Science department, he is also a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Edu...

A conversation with Shreyans Bhansali about technology, building software, human organization, education, navigating organizations, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Find him at: https://twitter.com/shreyans___, or https://shreyans.org References: - Maven (company): https://maven.com Set Up: - Camera: https://amzn.to/3PZVscb (don't laugh) - Microphone: https://amzn.to/46f3pB5...

A conversation with Michiel Borkent (@borkdude) on Open Source, Functional Programming, Clojure, the JVM, Lisp & more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Michiel Borkent is a Clojure developer, author and maintainer of clj-kondo, babashka and SCI. Check out his talks at Strange Loop or any Clojure Conferences. References: - The Joy of Clojure (book): https://amzn.to/47jlZIk - Clojur...

A conversation with Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer about the art and science of decision making, working with giant institutions, and optimism. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Mykel Kochenderfer is Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is the director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Labor...

A conversation with Rahul Pandey about Tech Internships, Big Tech, Getting Acqui-hired, Life as a Software Engineer, Content Creation, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Rahul Pandey is on a mission to help software engineers learn and succeed. He is the Co-founder & CEO of Taro, a platform for engineers to get expert advice from industry leaders and part of the Y Combinat...

A conversation with Sydney Trinidad about intellectual curiosity, creative pursuits, technical careers, software engineering, ML engineering, a vision for the future, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Sydney graduated from Stanford with a BS in Symbolic Systems. She has previously worked as a software engineer and currently works as a machine learning engineer full time and p...

A conversation with Nick Troccoli about programming, lessons from programming, going from learning to teaching, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Nick Troccoli is a Lecturer in the Stanford Computer Science Department. He started as a full-time lecturer at Stanford in Fall 2018, after graduating from Stanford in June 2018 with Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Scien...

A conversation with author Paul Levy about Cognitive Malware, Wetiko, engaging our creativity, finding your voice, and undreaming the nightmare mind virus. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Paul Levy is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis (2006), Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil (2013), Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes...

A conversation with Charlene Wang about productivity, productivity frameworks, productivity tools, time allocation, goal setting, note-taking, and more. Find me at cristian@ccb.life About the Guest: Charlene Wang is a former product manager at Google, based in the Bay Area. She holds a BS in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Economics from Brown University. As a productivity expert, Charl...

A conversation with poet and educational entertainer Laurel Airica about language as software, electro-poetic energy, words hidden in words, misaligned life sentences, upgrading the English language, and more. Find me at: cristian@ccb.life

A conversation with author Julie Nam about philosophy in everyday life. Video version available at: https://youtu.be/DcIyDkaRTtg Find me at cristian@ccb.life

A conversation with Kevin Chaves on modernity, postmodernism, Nietszche, the Death of God, Information Flooding, Science Fiction, and more. Find me at: cristian@ccb.life About the Guest:Kevin Chaves received his BA from Occidental College in LA, and his Ph. D. from the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University in 2019. His area of expertise is in modern western religious thought and c...

A conversation with Andrew Daniel about the psyche, stories, myths, archetypes, overcoming our limitations, and self-reflection. About the Guest: Andrew Daniel is an award-winning author, spiritual teacher, and director at the Center for Cinesomatic Development. He is the founder of Cinesomatics®—a feeling-based therapy utilizing video feedback and movement to assess and resolve stuck somatic, psy...

A conversation with Prof. Chris Potts of Stanford University around meaning, semantics, pragmatics, society, ChatGPT/LLMs, teaching, and the exciting new possibilities of the future. Follow Chris on Twitter/X @ChrisGPotts. cristian@ccb.life