The media

From a conversation, into a build.

Real shows, real builds, real conversations — the proof that the work is real, and the on-ramp into doing it yourself. Pick anything below: every episode, clip, and article is a leaf, and every leaf points at the next live thing to build.

Latest episodes

The most recent conversations. Each one opens as a leaf — watch, then take the next step.

Value-First AI DailyAugust 6, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026

Nico Lafakis drove the Boston level of his block-destruction game live — a one-shot build he has not touched since it was generated — and laid out where it…

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The Value PathAugust 6, 2026

The Value Path - Aug 6, 2026

Joshua Oakes opens on rare-earth magnets — a physics lab, a broken engine repair, the platters they pulled out of destroyed hard drives — and then asks Chris…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 5, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026

Nico brings a clip Anthropic posted a few hours before air — an explainer on what the model is actually doing when it looks like it is thinking — and plays it…

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The AI-Native Shift - Beyond Industrial DefaultsAugust 5, 2026

Control Is the Inverse of Trust - Part 4: Natural Value Flow over Artificial Control

Three operators — Chris Carolan, Trisha Merriam and Erin Wiggers — take Natural Value Flow over Artificial Control out of the abstract and run it against…

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Value-First AI DailyAugust 4, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Aug 4, 2026

Episode 9 opens on how to be present at a conference while still capturing content, then reads a Top 3 board covering the EU AI Act becoming enforceable on…

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Let's UnboxAugust 4, 2026

Unboxing Revenue Hub - Contracts & Billing

HubSpot product manager Joe Warren walks through the billing-migration tooling he owns: how a migration onto Revenue Hub contracts actually runs, and what…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 31, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 31, 2026

Ep. 8 opened on the problem Chris has not solved: agents that understand time too well. He had started the show prep about ten minutes before the hour, and the…

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Value-First AI DailyJuly 30, 2026

Value-First AI Daily - Jul 30, 2026

Ep. 7 opened on a command that had run itself: Chris Carolan's morning schedule pass had set up his whole calendar and then, for the first time, prepped the…

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The AI-Native Shift - Beyond Industrial DefaultsJuly 29, 2026

Your Agents Are Only as Free as Your Rules — Part 3: Empowerment over Learned Helplessness

Belief two of five: Empowerment over Learned Helplessness. Trisha Merriam, Chris Carolan and Erin Wiggers take on the one that gets personal fastest, because…

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Writing

Long-form thinking — the ideas behind the builds, written down.

The media is the on-ramp. The build is the point.

Watch the work here, then go do it — live, with people on the same path. That's the academy.