Techs on Texts (@techsontexts.net)

Techs on Texts

@techsontexts.net

A podcast from @jed.co featuring conversations with technologists about the literature that has influenced them.

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Techs on Texts

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31 Jan

Episode #24: @kevinbullock.bsky.social on Pluribus by Vince Gilligan techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netKevin Bullock on PluribusKevin Bullock joins us to discuss Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. We explore individual morality, the ethics of science, AI, human nature, selfhood and memory, and ghosts.

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31 Dec 2025

Episode #23: @cydharrell.bsky.social on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netCyd Harrell on Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis TertiusCyd Harrell, devout civic technologist, joins us to discuss Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” We talk about tungsten cubes, techno cults, and our guesses about the “horrifying or banal...

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Al Merose

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29 Oct 2025

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Episode #16: @al.merose.com Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netAlex Merose on Convenience Store WomanAlex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Marcel Du...

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31 Aug 2025

Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netMatt Price on PiranesiMatt Price – technology historian and professor – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics.

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30 July 2025

Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netNoah Iliinsky on China Mountain ZhangNoah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.

Techs on Texts

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29 June 2025

Episode #17: Daniel X. O’Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netDaniel X. O'Neil on The Waste LandDaniel X. O’Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

Techs on Texts

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30 May 2025

Episode #16: @al.merose.com Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

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Johnny Rodgers

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30 Apr 2025

I really enjoyed this chat with @jed.co on his podcast @techsontexts.net A Pattern Language is a really special book. If you’ve read it I hope this conversation deepens your appreciation for it. If not I hope it encourages you to check it out for yourself!

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Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netJohnny Rodgers on A Pattern LanguageJohnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.

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30 Apr 2025

Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netJohnny Rodgers on A Pattern LanguageJohnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.

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1 Apr 2025

Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netGeorge Dyson on Childhood's EndGeorge Dyson is on again, this time to talk about Childhood’s End and what it has to teach us about overlord technologies.

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1 Mar 2025

Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Fiction by Ted Chiang techsontexts.net/episodes/202...

techsontexts.netKeith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of FeelingKeith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang’s masterful “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.”

Techs on Texts

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10 Feb 2025

Read ahead! This month's episode (out sometime after the 26th), will about “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. Next month's episode will be about Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. techsontexts.net/housekeeping...