Episodios

  • Mind the Gap: The Secret Census Floating Past Your Nose

    Mind the Gap: The Secret Census Floating Past Your Nose
    Apr 15 2026
    Mind the Gap: The Secret Census Floating Past Your Nose [curious] So picture this — a researcher in a London park holds up what looks like a tiny vacuum cleaner filter. She peels it off, seals it in a tube, and ships it to the lab. Inside that filter? DNA from forty-seven different species. Birds, foxes, fungi, three types of bat... and also — humans. [surprised] Forty-seven species... from air. Just the air sitting right in front of her face. That fil... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [warm] And I'm Maya. See you tomorrow morning. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    13 m
  • Mind the Gap: Why Half The World Is Building Again

    Mind the Gap: Why Half The World Is Building Again
    Apr 14 2026
    Mind the Gap: Why Half The World Is Building Again [curious] So picture this — it's Monday morning in Vancouver, and Ryan Holmes walks back into the Hootsuite offices. The company he founded. The company he left. He's interim CEO again, because the person who replaced him, Irina Novoselsky, just walked out the door. [amused] The founder boomerang. It's like showing up to your own surprise party... except nobody's surprised and the cake's half-eate... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [warm] See you tomorrow, everybody. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    13 m
  • Mind the Gap: Too Polished: When Humans Get Flagged As AI

    Mind the Gap: Too Polished: When Humans Get Flagged As AI
    Apr 13 2026
    Mind the Gap: Too Polished: When Humans Get Flagged As AI [curious] Somewhere in Canada last month, a horror novelist hit send on a manuscript. Months of work. A book deal already signed. And then — an email lands. The publisher is pulling the book. [serious] Not because the story was bad. Not because the market shifted. Because someone decided it read too smoothly. Too polished. The accusation? AI wrote it.... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [warm] Mind the gap, friends. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    12 m
  • Mind the Gap: Your Brain Is Already Running the Algorithm

    Mind the Gap: Your Brain Is Already Running the Algorithm
    Apr 12 2026
    Mind the Gap: Your Brain Is Already Running the Algorithm [curious] A neuroscientist at Dartmouth asks a volunteer to close her eyes and picture an apple. Red, shiny, sitting on a white table. The fMRI lights up. Then they show her an actual photo of an apple — same red, same shine. And the scan... is essentially identical. [surprised] Same neural process. Seeing it. Imagining it. And here's what made the researchers stop cold — the pattern closely mirro... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [laughing] That's either very comforting or deeply unsettling. Have a great Sunday, everybody. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    15 m
  • Mind the Gap: Your Brain Can't Tell Real From Imagined

    Mind the Gap: Your Brain Can't Tell Real From Imagined
    Apr 11 2026
    Mind the Gap: Your Brain Can't Tell Real From Imagined [curious] So a neuroscientist at Dartmouth is watching brain scans flash across her screen. One scan shows a subject looking at a photograph of a cat. The other scan? The same subject just imagining a cat — eyes closed, no image anywhere. [surprised] And the scans are... identical?... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [laughing] And I'm Maya — yes, like the illusion. See you Monday. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    14 m
  • Mind the Gap: The Train Toronto Stopped Believing In

    Mind the Gap: The Train Toronto Stopped Believing In
    Apr 10 2026
    Mind the Gap: The Train Toronto Stopped Believing In [excited] Picture this — it's Tuesday morning in Toronto, and for the first time in over a decade of construction headaches and blown deadlines, a train glides beneath Eglinton Avenue. [warm] Nineteen kilometres. Fifteen underground stations. One of the largest subway openings in North America in decades. And half the city still can't believe it's actually real.... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [warm] Mind the gap — and enjoy the ride. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    16 m
  • Mind the Gap: The AI That Left The Planet

    Mind the Gap: The AI That Left The Planet
    Apr 9 2026
    Mind the Gap: The AI That Left The Planet [excited] Last Wednesday, five hundred kilometres above the Indian Ocean, a satellite the size of a microwave oven took a photo of an airport — then did something no satellite has ever done before. [curious] It didn't beam it home?... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [laughing] Bye, everyone. Be impermanent on purpose. New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    14 m
  • Mind the Gap: Nvidia Bought the Software Running Every Supercomputer

    Mind the Gap: Nvidia Bought the Software Running Every Supercomputer
    Apr 8 2026
    Mind the Gap: Nvidia Bought the Software Running Every Supercomputer [curious] It's Monday morning. You're an AI researcher — could be U of T, could be MIT, could be anywhere — and you open your terminal to queue up a training job on the supercomputer. The software deciding when your GPUs fire? It's called Slurm. Runs on basically every supercomputer on Earth. And as of last week... Nvidia just bought the company that makes it. [serious] And if you're one of the AI... In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work. Takeaway: [enthusiastic] Here's what I'm taking away. Whether it's AI tools, quantum timelines, Canadian house prices, or your own brain — the foundations we assume are solid are shifting under us. And the peop New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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    12 m