A 17-year-old Alpha School student describes an AI-shaped education built on self-paced coursework, human guides and entrepreneurial projects. She also weighs her generation’s anxiety about automation against a conviction that technology should make more room for connection, judgment and creativity.

Journey founder Steven Zerfas makes the case for “super well-being,” using jhana meditation to build nervous-system fluency, soften mental tension and reshape emotional defaults. He and Dan Shipper discuss the promise and limits of bliss practice, from trauma-aware guardrails to AI-guided meditation coaching.

A conversation about escaping checkbox product management and treating ways of working as tools to be adapted, not doctrines to be obeyed. It traces how teams misuse OKRs, strategy and discovery when they chase outputs, and argues for intentional practices grounded in context, influence and evidence.