In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, host Stewart Alsop talks with Umair Siddiqui about a wide range of interconnected topics spanning plasma physics, aerospace engineering, fusion research, and the philosophy of building complex systems, drawing on Umair’s path from hands-on plasma experiments and nonlinear physics to founding and scaling RF plasma thrusters for small satellites at Phase Four; along the way they discuss how plasmas behave at material boundaries, why theory often breaks ...
Dec 19, 2025•51 min•Season 15Ep. 145
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Javier Villar for a wide-ranging conversation on Argentina, Spain’s political drift, fiat money, the psychology of crowds, Dr. Hawkins’ levels of consciousness, the role of elites and intelligence agencies, spiritual warfare, and whether modern technology accelerates human freedom or deepens control. Javier speaks candidly about symbolism, the erosion of sovereignty, the pandemic as a global turning point, and how spiritual frameworks...
Dec 15, 2025•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 144
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, I— Stewart Alsop —sit down with Garrett Dailey to explore a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the mechanics of persuasion and why the best pitches work by attraction rather than pressure, to the nature of AI as a pattern tool rather than a mind, to power cycles, meaning-making, and the fracturing of modern culture. Garrett draws on philosophy, psychology, strategy, and his own background in storytelling to unpack ideas around narrative collapse, the chaos...
Dec 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 15Ep. 143
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop talks with Aaron Lowry about the shifting landscape of attention, technology, and meaning—moving through themes like treasure-hunt metaphors for human cognition, relevance realization, the evolution of observational tools, decentralization, blockchain architectures such as Cardano, sovereignty in computation, the tension between scarcity and abundance, bioelectric patterning inspired by Michael Levin’s research, and the broader cultural and theologi...
Dec 08, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 15Ep. 142
In this conversation, Stewart Alsop sits down with Ken Lowry to explore a wide sweep of themes running through Christianity, Protestant vs. Catholic vs. Orthodox traditions, the nature of spirits and telos, theosis and enlightenment, information technology, identity, privacy, sexuality, the New Age “Rainbow Bridge,” paganism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the unfolding meaning crisis; listeners who want to follow more of Ken’s work can find him on his YouTube channel Climbing Mount Sophia and on Twitte...
Dec 05, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 15Ep. 141
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom , I, Stewart Alsop , sit down with Dax Raad , co-founder of OpenCode, for a wide-ranging conversation about open-source development, command-line interfaces, the rise of coding agents, how LLMs change software workflows, the tension between centralization and decentralization in tech, and even what it’s like to push the limits of the terminal itself. We talk about the future of interfaces, fast-feedback programming, model switching, and why open-source momentum—es...
Dec 01, 2025•58 min•Season 15Ep. 140
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , I, Stewart Alsop , sit down with Argentine artist Mathilda Martin to explore the intimate connection between creativity, flow, and authenticity—from how swimming mirrors painting, to why art can heal, and what makes human-made art irreplaceable in the age of AI. We also touch on Argentina’s vibrant art scene, the shift in the art world after COVID, and the fine line between commercial and soulful creation. You can find Mathilda’s work on Instagram at @arte_mathi...
Nov 28, 2025•53 min•Season 15Ep. 137
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Guillermo Schulte to explore how AI is reshaping up-skilling, re-skilling, and the future of education through play, from learning games and gamification to emotional intelligence, mental health, and the coming wave of abundance and chaos that technology is accelerating; they also get into synchronous vs. asynchronous learning, human–AI collaboration, and how organizations can use data-driven game experiences for cybersecurity, onboar...
Nov 21, 2025•57 min•Season 15Ep. 138
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Terrence Yang to explore the US economy through the lens of federal net outlays, inflation, and growth, moving into China–US economic and military dynamics, the role of the dollar as a reserve currency, and how China’s industrial and open-source AI strategies intersect with US innovation; they also get into Bitcoin’s governance, Bitcoin Core maintainers, and what long-term digital scarcity means for money, security, and decentralizati...
Nov 17, 2025•51 min•Season 15Ep. 139
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop talks with Kevin Smith , co-founder of Snipd , about how AI is reshaping the way we listen, learn, and interact with podcasts. They explore Snipd’s vision of transforming podcasts into living knowledge systems, the evolution of machine learning from finance to large language models, and the broader connection between AI, robotics, and energy as the foundation for the next technological era. Kevin also touches on ideas like the bitter lesson , ...
Nov 14, 2025•50 min•Season 15Ep. 135
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop talks with Jessica Talisman , founder of Contextually and creator of the Ontology Pipeline , about the deep connections between knowledge management, library science, and the emerging world of AI systems. Together they explore how controlled vocabularies, ontologies, and metadata shape meaning for both humans and machines, why librarianship has lessons for modern tech, and how cultural context influences what we call “knowledge.” Jessica also ...
Nov 10, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 15Ep. 136
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop sits down with Harry McKay Roper , founder of Imaginary Space , for a wide-ranging conversation on space mining, AI-driven software, crypto’s incorruptible potential, and the raw entrepreneurial energy coming out of Argentina. They explore how technologies like Anthropic’s Claude 4.5, programmable crypto protocols, and autonomous agents are reshaping economics, coding, and even law. Harry also shares his experiences building in Buenos Aires an...
Nov 07, 2025•56 min•Season 15Ep. 134
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop sits down with Cryptogaucho to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, crypto, and Argentina’s emerging role as a new frontier for innovation and governance. The conversation ranges from OpenAI’s partnership with Sur Energy and the Stargate project to Argentina’s RIGI investment framework, Milei’s libertarian reforms, and the potential of space-based data centers and new jurisdictions beyond Earth. Cryptogaucho also reflects on Ar...
Nov 03, 2025•53 min•Season 15Ep. 133
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop speaks with Eli Lopian , author of AICracy and founder of aicracy.ai , about how artificial intelligence could transform the way societies govern themselves. They explore the limitations of modern democracy, the idea of AI-guided lawmaking based on fairness and abundance, and how technology might bring us closer to a more participatory, transparent form of governance. The conversation touches on prediction markets, social media’s influence on ...
Oct 31, 2025•55 min•Season 15Ep. 131
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop talks with Richard Easton , co-author of GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones , about the remarkable history behind the Global Positioning System and its ripple effects on technology, secrecy, and innovation. They trace the story from Roger Easton’s early work on time navigation and atomic clocks to the 1973 approval of the GPS program, the Cold War’s influence on satellite development, and how civilian and military interests shap...
Oct 27, 2025•59 min•Season 15Ep. 132
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Leo Guinan to talk about the Manhattan Project for Human Potential, his vision of AI as a tool for personal agency, and the Bottega model inspired by the Medici workshops as a way to reimagine networks, mastery, and transformation. The conversation moves through themes of exponential versus linear growth in the economy, the decline of manufacturing in Ohio, China’s rise through complexity and control of supply chains, the dangers of t...
Oct 24, 2025•56 min•Season 15Ep. 125
In this episode of The Crazy Wisdom Podcast , Stewart Alsop talks with Jacob Hall and Kyriakos Skiouris, co-founders of Agingo , about the evolution of blockchain from linear ledgers to volumetric, multi-agent architectures. Together they explore how concepts like sovereignty, auditability, and immutability can redefine trust, governance, and digital agency in both human and artificial systems. The conversation touches on blockchain’s philosophical and technical frontiers—what an “AGI for blockc...
Oct 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 15Ep. 130
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop talks with Rob Meyerson , co-founder and CEO of Interlune and former president of Blue Origin , about building the next phase of the space economy—from mining Helium-3 on the Moon to powering quantum computing and future fusion reactors on Earth. They explore the science behind lunar regolith, cryogenic separation, robotic excavation, and how private industry is rekindling the optimism of Apollo. Rob also shares lessons from scaling Blue Origi...
Oct 17, 2025•56 min•Season 15Ep. 128
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop sits down with Sam Barber for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, truth, and the nature of consciousness. Together they explore the difference between faith and belief, the limits of language in describing spiritual experience, and how frameworks like David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness help us understand vibration, energy, and love as the core of reality. The discussion touches on Christianity, Buddhism, the demiurge, non-duality, demons...
Oct 13, 2025•58 min•Season 15Ep. 129
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop speaks with Paul Sztorc , CEO of Layer2 Labs , about Bitcoin’s evolution, the limitations of the Lightning Network, and how his ideas for drivechains and merge-mined sidechains could transform scalability and privacy on the Bitcoin network. They cover everything from Zcash’s zero-knowledge proofs and “moon math” to the block size wars , sound money , and the economic realities behind crypto hype cycles. Paul also explains his projects like Zsi...
Oct 10, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 15Ep. 127
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , host Stewart Alsop talks with Jared Zoneraich , CEO and co-founder of PromptLayer , about how AI is reshaping the craft of software building. The conversation covers PromptLayer’s role as an AI engineering workbench, the evolving art of prompting and evals, the tension between implicit and explicit knowledge, and how probabilistic systems are changing what it means to “code.” Stewart and Jared also explore vibe coding, AI reasoning, the black-box nature of large...
Oct 06, 2025•58 min•Season 15Ep. 126
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Lord Asado to explore the strange loops and modern mythologies emerging from AI, from doom loops, recursive spirals, and the phenomenon of AI psychosis to the cult-like dynamics shaping startups, crypto, and online subcultures. They move through the tension between hype and substance in technology, the rise of Orthodox Christianity among Gen Z, the role of demons and mysticism in grounding spiritual life, and the artistic frontie...
Oct 03, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 15Ep. 124
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop talks with Agustin Ferreira, founder of Neurona, an AI community in Buenos Aires. Their conversation moves through Argentina’s history with economic crises and the rise of crypto as an alternative to failing institutions, the importance of Ethereum and smart contracts, the UX challenges that still plague crypto adoption, and how AI and agents could transform the way people interact with decentralized systems. They also explore the tension between Tr...
Sep 29, 2025•55 min•Season 15Ep. 123
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, host Stewart Alsop talks with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, about the rise of peer-to-peer dynamics, the historical cycles shaping our present, and the struggles and possibilities of building resilient communities in times of crisis. The conversation moves through the evolution of the internet from Napster to Web3, the cultural shifts since 1968, Bauwens’ personal experiences with communes and his 2018 cancellation, and the emerging vision of cos...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 122
In this episode, Stewart Alsop speaks with Nico Sarian, Executive Director of the Eternity Foundation and PhD candidate in Religious Studies, about the strange currents that run through Armenian history, the fractured birth of early Christianity, and the survival of Gnostic and Hermetic traditions into the Renaissance. The conversation weaves through questions of empire and nation state, mysticism and metaphysics, the occult roots of modern science, and the unsettling horizon of accelerationism,...
Sep 22, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 15Ep. 121
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom , Stewart Alsop speaks with Samuel, host of The Remnant Podcast , about the intersections of biblical prophecy, Gnostic traditions, transhumanism, and the spiritual battle unfolding in our age. The conversation moves from Dr. David Hawkins’ teachings and personal encounters with the Holy Spirit to questions of Lucifer, Archons, and the distortions of occult traditions, while also confronting timelines of 2025, 2030, and 2045 in light of technological agendas from ...
Sep 19, 2025•57 min•Season 15Ep. 119
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom , I, Stewart Alsop, sit down with Sweetman, the developer behind on-chain music and co-founder of Recoup. We talk about how musicians in 2025 are coining their content on Base and Zora, earning through Farcaster collectibles, Sound drops, and live shows, while AI agents are reshaping management, discovery, and creative workflows across music and art. The conversation also stretches into Spotify’s AI push, the “dead internet theory,” synthetic hierarchies, and how ...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 15Ep. 120
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, host Stewart Alsop sits down with Hannah Aline Taylor to explore themes of personal responsibility, freedom, and interdependence through her frameworks like the Village Principles, Distribution Consciousness, and the Empowerment Triangle. Their conversation moves through language and paradox, equanimity, desire and identity, forgiveness, leadership, money and debt, and the ways community and relationship serve as our deepest resources. Hannah shares stories from ...
Sep 12, 2025•1 hr•Season 15Ep. 118
On this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop sits down with Abhimanyu Dayal, a longtime Bitcoin advocate and AI practitioner, to explore how money, identity, and power are shifting in a world of deepfakes, surveillance, automation, and geopolitical realignment. The conversation ranges from why self-custody of Bitcoin matters more than ETFs, to the dangers of probabilistic biometrics and face-swap apps, to the coming impact of AGI on labor markets and the role of universal basic income. They al...
Sep 08, 2025•49 min•Season 15Ep. 117
In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, host Stewart Alsop speaks with Robin Hanson, economist and originator of the idea of futarchy, about how conditional betting markets might transform governance by tying decisions to measurable outcomes. Their conversation moves through examples of organizational incentives in business and government, the balance between elegant theories and messy implementation details, the role of AI in robust institutions, and the tension between complexity and simplicity in le...
Sep 05, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 15Ep. 116
