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#2654: The Bachelor Brothers Who Built a University
Two brothers, a silk collapse, and a land donation that became the University of Connecticut.
#2653: The Hidden Infrastructure of American Puppetry
Tracing the surprising institutional depth of American puppetry, from UConn's puppet arts program to the Henson revolution.
#2652: The Mulberry Bubble That Built a University
The silk industry that built UConn, the cows on Horsebarn Hill, and one mysterious firing at the Dairy Bar.
#2651: AI Training Itself: Student, Teacher, and Grader
Can models generate their own training data and judge their own outputs? The promise and pitfalls of fully AI-led pipelines.
#2650: How to Catch an LLM's Bad Writing Habits
A practical guide to analyzing podcast transcripts for repetitive language and dialogue patterns — from Python word counts to embedding clustering.
#2649: Freelancing Without Getting Burned: Clients, Contracts & Cash Flow
How many clients do you need to survive? And what contract clauses actually protect you?
#2648: The Art of the Brief: Writing What Busy People Actually Need
Why a crisp 600-word brief is harder than a 10-page report—and how AI changes the game.
#2647: Enforcing Async Boundaries When Clients Call Anytime
How to choose the right async tool, set boundaries with clients, and where AI fits in.
#2646: When Your Door Won't Open: The Failure-Mode Philosophy of Smart Locks
Z-Wave vs Zigbee vs Wi-Fi for smart locks. What's reliable enough to trust with your front door?
#2645: How to Document Failures for Your AI Second Brain
Stop writing diary entries. Start writing retrospectives your AI agent can actually use.
#2644: Crafting Agendas That Actually Work (With AI)
Stop writing table-of-contents agendas. Learn the diplomat’s method for crafting meetings that actually achieve their goals.
#2643: How Stenographers Type 300 Words Per Minute
Court reporters don’t type letters—they chord syllables at 300 words per minute. Here’s how it works and why AI can’t replace them yet.
#2642: Who Takes Notes in the Situation Room?
The invisible people scribbling behind world leaders — and why their records shape history.
#2641: Bridging Analog and Digital Note-Taking
How Nano Banana finally solves the text rendering problem, turning messy whiteboard photos into polished tech diagrams.
#2640: Why Instructional Models Beat Conversational for Batch AI
Beyond cheaper tokens—how batch inference changes AI workflows and why instructional models beat conversational ones for automated jobs.
#2639: The Hidden Layer That Makes Search Work
Why your search results miss the mark — and how cross-encoders fix it.
#2638: How to Build Disposable AI Agents at Runtime
Create ephemeral AI agents that answer questions about specific items, then vanish. No persistent configuration needed.
#2637: How Russia Justified Invading Ukraine — and What Actually Happened
The real reasons Russia invaded Ukraine, the history erased by propaganda, and where the front lines stand today.
#2636: Take Notes Like a Diplomat
What WikiLeaks cables teach us about capturing meetings: judgment over transcription, context over completeness.
#2635: How to Upgrade Your Readiness Without the Anxiety
A practical walkthrough on situational awareness, news consumption protocols, and go-bag checks for ambiguous threat periods.