AI & Technology
How artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, creativity, and what we build.
EP 09Neil Gawande
Building AI for Human Connection: Neil Gawande on Belonging, Perception, and Five Companies by 20
Neil Gawande started five companies by 20 — from a GPS tracker for seniors to The Block, a personal AI assistant he calls 'ClaudeBot for regular people.' A Still Human conversation about building AI for human connection, belonging as a computational problem, being a third culture kid who belongs nowhere, and what we quietly lose by building too fast.
EP 08William Norden
William Norden: Building Neural Networks from Scratch in C and What Most AI Engineers Skip
A Still Human conversation with William Norden — Research Engineer at Santa Clara University, neuromorphic computing researcher, and the rare builder who writes neural networks in C from scratch. We get into the intelligence augmentation argument, the high-dimensional tapestry of global problems, and why Russian piano pedagogy and USTA tennis show up in his backpropagation.
EP 07Toby Corey
Toby Corey: Zentrepreneurship, Tesla’s Fake Solar Roof, and Building Trust in AI
Toby Corey has been at the center of three tech waves — the dot-com boom (USWeb, $3B valuation), the clean energy transition (SolarCity, Tesla Energy), and now AI. He testified under oath that Tesla’s Solar Roof tiles were never connected to the grid, laid off 4,000+ people, and created Zentrepreneurship — a 21-principle framework for building companies with consciousness, taught at Stanford for 11 years. Now he’s building BrandCapsule: verifying identity in an AI world where hallucinations are the default.
EP 06Lilian Krengel
Building Traffic Lights for Space: Lilian Krengel on AI, Orbital Congestion, and Student Founding
A Santa Clara sophomore on building AI traffic lights for space, the Kessler Effect, and what it means when someone copies your startup in a weekend.
EP 03Krish Jajoo
We Are the Product: Krish Jajoo on Social Media, Silicon Valley Pressure, and Why Human Connection Still Wins
A Santa Clara sophomore on growing up in Silicon Valley, why social media made us the product, and where being human still beats every algorithm.
EP 02Michael Iwashima
Why AI Can’t Reason Over Time: Michael Iwashima on Brain-Computer Interfaces, Biosensors, and Building From Nothing
A bioengineer on why AI still can’t reason over time, what a soccer injury taught him about building from nothing, and where humans still matter most — brain-computer interfaces, biosensors, and accessibility tech.
EP 01Sean Wu
Execution Culture: How a Student Founder Raised $2M and Built Robotics for the Real World
Sean Wu raised over $2M for Synphony — a robotics startup tackling the sim-to-real gap — while finishing his junior year at Santa Clara. On execution culture, the wrestling lesson behind founder loneliness, and why most students never ship.