Podcast topics

Will AGI arrive before fusion power?

What programming language will be dead in 10 years?

Is open source winning or losing right now?

What's the most overrated piece of tech in your stack?

Should companies be allowed to train AI on copyrighted work?

What's a shipped feature you'd kill at your company tomorrow?

What's the most underrated UNIX tool?

Will browsers still exist in their current form in 2040?

What's a developer best practice that's actually a trap?

Should code reviews be mandatory or optional?

Are no-code tools good or bad for the industry?

What's the worst engineering decision that turned out right?

Will WebAssembly replace JavaScript or coexist forever?

What's a startup idea you'd start tomorrow if you had a co-founder?

Is microservices architecture actually worth it for most teams?

Will the next 10x developer be human or AI-paired?

What's a tech trend that's quietly winning while nobody notices?

Should there be a software engineer licensing exam?

What's the last bug that actually taught you something?

Is Linux on the desktop ever actually happening?

What's the worst piece of legacy code you've ever touched?

Should Big Tech be regulated like utilities?

What's an obvious tech use case that hasn't been built yet?

Is software engineering a craft, a science, or just plumbing?

What programming language do you wish you knew better?

Will AGI arrive in your career or your kids'?

Pick the most underrated AI use case in your daily life.

Should AI labs be required to publish safety research?

What's a job AI shouldn't be allowed to do?

Is the alignment problem actually solvable?

What's an AI use case that should not legally exist?

Will programming jobs collapse, evolve, or split in two?

Should AI-generated content require a label?

Pick one human-only profession in 2040.

Is AI writing better or worse than the median human writer?

What's the first task you taught yourself to delegate to AI?

Should models be allowed to memorize copyrighted text?

Will small open models matter or will frontier labs dominate?

Is prompt engineering a real skill or a temporary one?

What's an AI agent task you wish worked but doesn't yet?

Should AI companions be allowed for minors?

Will AI tutors replace teachers or augment them?

What's an AI startup idea that's clearly going to win?

Should AI training data be a public good?

Pick the one thing AI definitely won't replace.

What's an AI safety scenario you actually worry about?

Is open source AI a force for good or a security risk?

Should AI development have international treaties like nuclear?

What's the most overhyped AI capability right now?

Pick one industry that will look unrecognizable in 5 years because of AI.

Pick one album that should never have a sequel — defend it.

What's the most underrated instrument?

Will live concerts still exist in 2050?

What song changed you the most as a teenager?

Vinyl, streaming, or live — pick one and only one for life.

What's the last song you played on repeat for a week straight?

Is the album dead as an art form?

What's a genre you used to hate that you secretly love now?

Pick one band you'd watch live forever, anywhere, any cost.

What musician is the most misunderstood?

What's a song lyric that's lived rent-free in your head?

Should artists be paid more or less than they currently are by streaming?

Is music criticism still relevant in the algorithm era?

What concert do you still talk about?

Will AI-generated music ever make you cry?

Pick the perfect 4-track album closer.

What instrument should everyone learn at least the basics of?

What's the saddest song that secretly makes you happy?

Should a song's meaning be the artist's or the listener's?

What's a one-hit wonder that deserved more?

Which dead franchise needs to come back?

Is the metagame ruining the games you love?

Single-player or multiplayer — pick one for life.

What's a perfectly mid game you'd defend to the death?

Should AAA games still cost $70?

What's the most underrated game of the last 5 years?

Will console exclusives survive the next 10 years?

What's a game that changed how you think about storytelling?

Are achievements art or just busywork?

What's the last game that genuinely scared you?

Should speedrunning be considered a real sport?

What's a controversial game opinion you'd defend with your life?

Will VR ever go mainstream or is it permanently niche?

What's the most overrated game series of all time?

Pick one game soundtrack to live inside.

Is mobile gaming real gaming?

What boss fight ruined a game for you?

Should publishers be allowed to delist games?

What's a beloved mechanic you actually hate?

What's the perfect first multiplayer match for a new friend?

What's the best movie you saw this year?

Pick one director's body of work as the strongest of all time.

Is streaming killing or saving cinema?

What's a movie that aged terribly?

What's a movie that aged better than expected?

Should TV finales bear the burden of the whole show?

What's the best 'so bad it's good' movie ever?

Is there too much TV being made in 2026?

What's a remake that exceeded the original?

Pick one performance that ruined how you see an actor.

Is the auteur theory still useful?

What's a documentary that should be required watching?

What's the most overrated awards film?

Should sequels be limited to a maximum number?

What's a film score you can hum from start to finish?

Pick one movie you can quote 50 lines from.

What's a small indie movie you keep recommending?

Is the theater experience worth saving?

What director's next project are you most curious about?

What's the bravest casting choice in recent memory?

Pick one movie ending that should be different.

What show ended at the perfect time?

What's a TV show you watched purely for the cinematography?

Should TV episodes have a strict runtime?

What's a beloved movie you've never seen and refuse to watch?

What's the last book you couldn't finish — and why?

Pick one book that changed how you make decisions.

What's a book everyone praises that you actively dislike?

Is fiction or non-fiction more useful for understanding people?

What book would you give a 16-year-old?

What's an author you'd resurrect for one more book?

Should books still have physical editions?

What's the best opening line you can recall?

Is rereading a book better than reading a new one?

What's a book that takes 100 pages to start being good?

Should there be a 'one book per author' rule for canon?

What's a beach read you take seriously?

Is the novel still the right form for serious ideas?

What's a translated book that completely changed you?

Pick one book to be required reading in every high school.

What's a memoir more honest than fiction?

Is poetry still relevant in 2026?

What's a book you started disagreeing with and ended up persuaded by?

What audiobook is better than reading the text?

What's a book everyone should read at 25 vs 50?

Who's the GOAT in your favorite sport — and what's the case against?

Will American football still look the same in 30 years?

Should college athletes be paid more than they are now?

What's an underrated sport more people should watch?

Pick one rule change that would make your favorite sport better.

Is analytics making sports more or less fun to watch?

What's a sports moment that still gives you chills?

Will women's sports overtake men's in viewership someday?

Should performance-enhancing drugs be allowed if regulated?

What's the best athlete-coach pairing of your lifetime?

Is loyalty to a team rational?

What sport requires the most underrated kind of intelligence?

What's a forgotten athlete who deserves a documentary?

Should there be a global league for every major sport?

What's a sports cliché that's actually true?

Pick the best uniform/jersey design ever.

What's a coaching decision you'd argue with for an hour?

Will eSports be in the Olympics — and should it be?

What's the most boring 'major' sport?

Pick a venue you have to visit before you die.

Free will, illusion or real?

Is consciousness substrate-independent?

Would you upload your mind to a computer if it were possible?

Is there an objective morality?

Does meaning require mortality?

Is suffering a necessary part of a good life?

What's something you believe that most thoughtful people would call wrong?

Are you the same person you were 10 years ago?

If a tree falls in a forest with nobody around, what's actually true?

Should we have children if we predict the world will get worse?

Is happiness or meaning more important?

Does society owe you anything?

Is solitude undervalued or overvalued?

What's a moral intuition you can't justify but won't drop?

Should we trust our gut or our reason?

Is it better to be loved or respected?

Are some lives worth more than others?

Is it ethical to bring someone into existence without their consent?

Should we feel guilty about pleasures we've inherited?

Is forgiveness always virtuous?

Is hustle culture broken or just misunderstood?

Should every company have a 4-day workweek?

What's the worst business advice you've gotten?

Will remote work survive a recession?

Is venture capital good for innovation?

What's a category that should have died but somehow keeps growing?

Should founders be allowed to take secondaries before exit?

What's the best business book that's actually wrong?

Is the MBA worth it in 2026?

Should equity vesting be standardized across industries?

What's a business model that should not legally exist?

Will Substack-style independents replace traditional media?

Should every company publish their salary bands publicly?

What's a company you'd short tomorrow if you had spare cash?

Is product-market fit a real thing or a story we tell after the fact?

What's the last business decision you made on instinct?

Are layoffs a necessary evil or a management failure?

Should a small percentage of a company's profit be donated automatically?

What category will Apple disrupt next?

Is consulting honest work?

What's the worst career advice you actually followed?

Pick the moment you realized you were in the wrong job.

Is loyalty to an employer ever rewarded anymore?

Should you take the higher salary or the better team?

What's a job people romanticize that's actually miserable?

Pick the one mentor moment that compounded the most.

Is changing careers in your 30s harder or easier than you expected?

What's a skill you've built that won't matter in 10 years?

Should you tell your boss your honest career goals?

What's the worst meeting you've ever sat through?

Is networking real or a euphemism for being lucky?

Pick one person you wish you'd worked for at 22.

Should performance reviews be replaced with continuous feedback?

What's a job you used to want and now wouldn't take?

Is starting a company in your 40s harder than your 20s?

What's the meeting that changed your career trajectory?

Pick the dumbest reason you've quit a job.

Should sabbaticals be standard?

What's a piece of corporate jargon you've grown to hate?

Pick the best decision you made under your worst boss.

Should resumes still exist?

What's a job interview question that revealed something real?

Is salary transparency good or bad for individual negotiations?

Pick the most underrated job category in 2026.

What's a career mistake you'd make again?

What's the most surprising recent scientific finding?

Will we have a moonbase by 2050?

Is the placebo effect underrated?

What's a science myth that just won't die?

Should climate engineering be tested at scale?

Will fusion power matter in your lifetime?

What's an experiment that should be run but never has?

Are most published research findings false?

Should peer review be replaced with something else?

What field is most ripe for a breakthrough in the next 5 years?

Is space exploration worth the cost?

Should we revive extinct species we have the DNA for?

What's the science topic schools fail at the worst?

Will we cure aging or just delay it?

What's a discovery that changed how you see the world?

Should scientists be more or less involved in policy?

Is the multiverse science or philosophy?

What's the most beautiful equation?

Should there be a global ban on gain-of-function research?

What's a question only science can answer that you wish it would?

Is consciousness a problem science can solve?

Should the Drake equation make you optimistic or pessimistic?

What animal would you want to study for a year?

What's a lab you'd want to spend a week inside?

Will quantum computing solve a real problem in your lifetime?

What's a city that exceeded your expectations?

What's a city everyone hypes that you found mid?

Pick one place you'd live for a year, no reservations.

Is solo travel actually better than traveling with others?

What's the most underrated country to visit?

Pick a meal that defined a trip for you.

Is the Schengen-zone-style border concept the future?

What's a destination you'd never go back to and why?

Should we be flying less or just paying the climate cost honestly?

What's the worst tourist behavior you've witnessed?

Pick one city for the food, one for the architecture, one for the people.

What's a tradition you'd import from another culture?

Is hostel travel still a rite of passage?

What's a flight you'd take every year if money didn't matter?

What's a wonder of the world that's overhyped?

Pick a route — coast-to-coast, country-to-country, or city-deep-dive.

What's the best souvenir you've ever brought home?

Is digital-nomad culture actually working long-term?

What's a language you'd learn just to travel better?

Pick one place to bring a first-time international traveler.

What's a food you've changed your mind on as an adult?

Pick one cuisine for life — defend it.

Is fine dining worth it or theater?

What's a regional dish you wish travelled more?

Pick the perfect last meal.

Is brunch a meal or a personality?

What's a food trend you actively dislike?

Should restaurants list calories on menus?

Pick one ingredient you'd put in 90% of your meals.

What's the most overrated 'must-try' city food?

Should home cooking be taught in school?

What's a cooking technique you've finally cracked?

Pick the perfect breakfast under $5.

What's a food rule you've made up that you stick to?

Is meal kit subscription cooking real cooking?

What's a cuisine you keep meaning to learn?

Pick one dish your parent makes that nobody else gets right.

What's a food snob behavior you've embraced unironically?

Should tipping in restaurants be replaced with built-in service charges?

What's the perfect comfort meal at 2am?

What's a deal-breaker in a partner that's actually about you?

Pick one piece of relationship advice from your parents that aged well.

Is jealousy ever healthy?

Should couples have separate bank accounts?

What's a sign you've been ignoring that someone has shown you the truth about themselves?

Is romantic love overrated compared to deep friendship?

Should you be friends with your exes?

What's a love story trope that's actually toxic?

Is monogamy the default for a reason or by accident?

Pick one trait you didn't know you needed in a partner until you had it.

Is therapy mandatory for a serious relationship?

Should you date someone with a totally different politics?

What's a friend breakup you've never recovered from?

Pick the moment you knew a friendship was forever.

Is small talk the basis of any real friendship?

What's a family rule you'd want to keep — and one you'd burn?

Should children pick their own surnames?

What's a love language nobody talks about?

Is the right person at the wrong time really just the wrong person?

Pick the best apology you've ever received.

What's a coping mechanism that's secretly making you worse?

Pick the moment you realized you needed help.

Is therapy still stigmatized or has it overcorrected?

What's a piece of advice that actually moved your mental health forward?

Should we normalize talking about medication?

What's a daily ritual you can't skip without paying for it?

Is social media destroying your nervous system more than you admit?

Pick the smallest habit that made the biggest difference.

What's a feeling you've been avoiding for years?

Should mental health days be guaranteed by law?

What's a self-help cliché that's actually true?

Is happiness a goal or a by-product?

Pick the moment you stopped caring about something you used to obsess over.

What's a question your therapist asked that wrecked you?

Should journaling be taught in school?

What's a feeling you wish you could give a name to?

Is being alone good for you in small or large doses?

Pick one thing you'd say to your past self at the worst point.

What's a productivity trick that's actually a coping mechanism?

Should we replace 'how are you' with a better question?

What's a belief you used to hold strongly that you've completely changed your mind on?

What's the best advice you've ever ignored?

What's a hill you'll die on that's actually trivial?

Describe your perfect Sunday in 3 sentences.

What's something everyone else loves that you find boring?

What did you want to be when you were 10?

What's the smallest decision that changed your life?

If you had to teach a 30-minute masterclass tomorrow, what would it be on?

What's a problem you'd solve if money didn't matter?

What's something everyone gets wrong about your generation?

What's a compliment you got that you've never forgotten?

What's a skill you secretly want to be good at?

What did you believe was completely normal until you found out it wasn't?

What's the most useless thing you're really good at?

What's a piece of art that made you cry?

If you could erase one decade from your life and replay it, would you?

What's something that aged better than you expected?

What's a question you stopped asking because the answer scared you?

What's a trend you can't believe is back?

If your life had chapter titles, what's the current one called?