v38 - Searls HQ2
Jun 06, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 38
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Summary
Justin is recording from a Japanese business hotel and shares the good news of purchasing a condo in Shizuoka City, detailing the complex purchasing process and future plans. He also recounts various travel mishaps and observations from visiting different Japanese prefectures, including trash rules, a bullet train mask rescue, crying at a movie, changes in Tokyo, and a memorable meal of living squid. The episode shifts to tech and societal commentary, discussing AI's impact on hiring, education, and the potential dangers of advanced models, before looking ahead to Apple's WWDC, speculating on new OS naming and a potential future iPhone design. Finally, he answers a listener question about his top three video games of all time.Episode description
Spoiler alert: I'm in the same country as I was for v37, but this time from a different nondescript business hotel. Also: I have good personal news! And, as usual, bad news news. I don't get to pick the headlines though, I just read them.
This episode comes with a homework assignment. First, watch Apple's keynote at 10 AM pacific on June 9th. Second, e-mail podcast@searls.co with all your takes. I'd love your help by informing me where my head should be at when I show up on the Changelog next week.
And now, fewer links than usual:
- The movie 父と僕の終わらない歌
- Fukushima
- The Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum
- Utsunomiya
- Fukui
- I got spicy about LLM neophytes
- Aaron's puns, ranked
- Entry-level tech hiring is down 50%
- AI Role in College Brings Education Closer to a Crisis Point
- Veo 3 marks the beginning of the end times (watch this supercut)
- If you're having an affair, don't use Claude
- Apple's turning it up to 26
- My theory on what 2027's "all-glass" iPhone is really all about
- Nobody uses semicolons; they're pointless
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