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Practice Ground
Practice Ground explores how we find meaning as automation reshapes work, creativity, and daily life.
Host Nifemi interviews artists, engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and builders about the practices they use to stay grounded in a world that moves faster than we can process.
These conversations are shaping a book on meaning in the automation era, coming in 2025.
New episodes every two weeks.
Episodes
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Ashley Edwards: Mental Health Innovator - 'Technology Solves Nothing If We Lose Our Humanity' | Ep14
Ashley Edwards is the founder and CEO of MindRight — a platform delivering culturally responsive emotional support via text message, designed specifically for…
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Ken Jee: What Elite Athletes Teach Us About AI, Trust, and the Dip | Exponential Athletes Habits
Ken Jee is a data scientist, author of The Visualization Handbook for Elite Athletes, and host of The Exponential Athletes — a podcast diving deep into the…
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The Data Professor: Stay in the Game Long Enough...That's Where Magic Happens |Chanin Nantasenamat
Chanin Nantasenamat is known online as The Data Professor — the educator who turned a YouTube channel about data science into a pathway for millions of…
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Richmond Alake: From Lagos to Oracle, The AI Engineer Building the Memory Layer of the Future | Ep11
Richmond Alake is the Director of AI Developer Experience at Oracle, a former MongoDB developer advocate, and one of the most prolific AI educators you've…
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Josh Starmer: Why Tough Audiences Make the Best Teachers (And How StatQuest Was Born) | Ep. 10
Josh Starmer is the founder of StatQuest and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina. He's built one of the most beloved statistics…
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Sanmi Koyejo: Stanford Professor '50% of AI Is Data — 10% Is the Algorithm We Actually Teach' | Ep 9
Sanmi Koyejo is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he leads the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research group. He's also the…
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Yemi Amu: 'Tell the pH by Smelling the Water' — A Brooklyn Farmer On Human Instinct vs. AI | Ep. 8
Yemi Amu is the founder and director of Oko Farms — New York City's first and only public accessible outdoor aquaponics farm, which she established in Brooklyn…
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Tony Kipkemboi: "Stop Agentifying Everything" - What AI Builders Keep Getting Wrong | Ep 7
In this conversation, we explore what most teams get wrong when building agentic systems, how to distinguish between problems that need agents and problems…
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Michael Hendrix: AI Gives You the Most Average Thing - Because It's Based on Averages | Ep. 6
Michael Hendrix is a writer, author, designer, musician, collage artist, and educator. He spent decades at IDEO, where he pioneered the concept of design…
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John Small: The Human Magic AI Can't Replicate in Good Writing | Practice Ground Ep. 5
John Small is a writer, editor, journalist, and the host of Small Talk a Substack newsletter, podcast, and media business about Gen X culture, creativity, and…
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Joe Reis: Finding True North in the Age of AI Abundance | Practice Ground Ep. 4
Joe Reis is the co-author of the best-selling "Fundamentals of Data Engineering" and a polymath who refuses to be put in a box. He's a data engineer, advisor…
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Jason Mayden: I'm Creating for Centuries, Not Seasons | Practice Ground Ep 3
Jason Mayden is an industrial artist and designer who's spent his career creating products as "future ancient artifacts" - objects meant to be studied by…
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Juergen Hahn: Can Algorithms Do Critical Thinking? (And How AI Changes Education)
Juergen Hahn has spent decades debugging complex systems - from chemical plants to the human body. He's published 128+ papers, mentored 40+ graduate students…
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Sara Baumann: Are We Losing Our Senses in the Automation Era?
Sara Baumann left a successful career in occupational therapy to become a full-time artist (and she's never looked back). In this conversation, we explore why…