a podcast by fuad ali & damien joseph
Conversations with builders, doctors, founders, and thinkers about tech, health, careers, and the mind. One honest conversation at a time, since 2020.
with Dr. Jeff McDonough, Philosophy Dept. Chair, Harvard
What does a 17th-century polymath have to say about ChatGPT? More than you'd expect. We're joined by Dr. Jeffrey McDonough — Harvard philosophy chair and one of the world's leading scholars on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the man who co-invented calculus, designed the binary system, and is considered to be the last great polymath.
Every episode gets a color. Six colors, one cube, 97 conversations.
Nick Caldwell
VP Engineering, Twitter
episode #24
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury
Head of AI Ethics, Twitter
episode #54
Dr. Prachee Avasthi
Co-Founder & CSO, Arcadia Science
episode #71
Aman Khan
Head of Product, Arize AI
episode #95
Danish Ajmeri
Head of Crypto, Wealthsimple
episode #37
Dr. Ishwar Puri
Dean of Engineering, McMaster
episode #45
Leo Polovets
Founder, Susa Ventures
episode #79
Swish Goswami
CEO, Surf
episode #58
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What do you get when you combine two Gen Z'ers, a lot of coffee, and a bit of existential dread? A podcast, of course. Fuad studied Electrical & Biomedical Engineering at McMaster, worked on healthier public conversation at Twitter, and now builds AI tooling in New York. Off the mic he's reading, at a café, or playing basketball, and he's always up for meeting new people, so say hi.
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Damien spends most of his time confused, so he started a podcast about it, which makes him professionally confused. With a Master of Health Informatics from the University of Toronto, he works at the intersection of technology and healthcare, and won't stop until every clinic fax machine is returned to a museum where it belongs. Otherwise: reading, anime, and being a mediocre CoD player. His DMs are always open.