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Mind the Gap: Billions To Make Workers Disappear
[curious] Two point seven billion dollars. That's how much Amazon set aside last year — not to build something, not to launch something — but to pay people to leave. [surprised] And they weren't alone. Intel, Oracle — collectively, Big Tech spent billions just on severance packages. Billions. To not employ people....
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] Mind the Gap. We'll see you tomorrow.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Price Tags on Air, Water, and Future
[curious] Somewhere in the Imperial Valley right now — one of the hottest, driest stretches of California — alfalfa fields are drinking Colorado River water the same way they have for decades. But last week, the developer of what would be the largest AI data center in the state filed a lawsuit to take that water for itself. [surprised] Wait — an AI company is literally suing a river for a drink?...
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.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Your Brain Won't Shut Up Under Anesthesia
[curious] Picture this. A patient is lying on an operating table in a university hospital. Completely unconscious. General anesthesia. Lights out. Except... their brain is still listening. [surprised] Not just listening — processing. Researchers found the unconscious brain could distinguish between real sentences, grammatical nonsense, and complete gibberish. While the person was fully under....
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] Happy threshold day. Mind the gap.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: A Dinghy, A Dissident, And Radical Simplicity
[reflective] Sometime last month, a man named Dong Guangping climbed into a rubber dinghy off the coast of China... and started paddling toward South Korea. [serious] No GPS. No motor. Just a political dissident, an inflatable boat, and the open sea. He made it. And this weekend — he arrived in Canada....
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] Mind the Gap is produced every morning for people who want to start their day curious. If something landed today, share it with someone who needs a simpler Monday. We'll see you tomorro
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Dead Scrolls and Dormant Systems Wake Up
[excited] A scientist in Kentucky opens her laptop, stares at what looks like a lump of charcoal — two thousand years old, pulled from the ruins of Herculaneum, sealed shut since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. She's never touched the scroll. Nobody has. And yet — line by line — she's reading it. AI and particle accelerators pulling Greek text out of carbonized papyrus, letter by letter. ...
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] This has been Mind the Gap. Enjoy your Sunday, and we'll see you tomorrow morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Billion-Dollar Bridge Nobody Can Cross
[curious] Picture this — a six-lane bridge, two point six billion dollars, the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America, spanning the Detroit River between Windsor and Detroit. It's done. Finished. Tested. The paint is dry. [amused] Let me guess — someone forgot the ribbon for the ribbon-cutting?...
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 mind the gap.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Spreadsheet That Broke Ottawa's Grid
[curious] So there's a CEO in Ottawa — Bryce Conrad, runs Hydro Ottawa — and he's staring at a spreadsheet that shouldn't be mathematically possible. [surprised] Because the number on it is bigger than his entire city. He told CBC, quote, 'By the end of this year, we will have received requests to connect that exceed the total amount of power that is used today by residents and businesses within t...
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: [playful] Go name things correctly, everybody.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: **$75 Million and a Fan Funeral**
[curious] So imagine you're scrolling your phone over morning coffee, and the one film studio you actually trust — the studio that gave you Everything Everywhere All at Once, Moonlight, Hereditary — just signed a seventy-five-million-dollar AI deal with Google DeepMind. [amused] And the internet immediately catches fire. Kotaku runs the headline: 'A24 Fans Mourn Its Death.' Quote, 'Membership Canc...
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. Go own your Thursday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Oil Company Powering Your AI
[curious] Somewhere in West Texas right now, Chevron is building a power plant — not to refine oil, not to run a pipeline — but to run a Microsoft data center. An oil company... generating electricity... for AI. [amused] An oil giant and a tech giant walk into the desert. Sounds like the opening of a very expensive joke....
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] And touch a sweater for us.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: When Thinking Became a Commodity
[curious] Picture a trading floor. Screens everywhere. But instead of oil futures or soybean contracts... the tickers show GPU hours. Blocks of raw computing power — being bid on, hedged, and sold like barrels of crude. [surprised] Wait — someone is literally buying futures contracts on... the ability to think?...
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: [amused] And you'll defend it to the death
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Students Who Were Never Born
[curious] So picture this — it's June, registration season at a mid-size American college. The admissions director pulls up the fall enrollment numbers and just... stares. The freshman class is down eighteen percent. Not because applications were bad. Not because tuition went up. But because the students themselves were never born. [surprised] Never born. As in, the 2008 financial crisis scared an...
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: [playful] And I'm Maya. Go name things correctly, friends. Have a beautiful Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Tiny Startup That Broke AI's Math
[curious] Last month, a tiny startup in Miami — fewer than twenty employees — walked out of stealth mode and told the entire AI industry it had been doing the math wrong. Not a little wrong. Fundamentally wrong. [excited] The company's called Subquadratic. Their claim? They've cracked the computational bottleneck that limits every large language model on the planet. If that's true, it rewrites the...
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: [serious] And the piece describes him as someone who, quote, 'doesn't mince words,' saying that most of
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: When Money And Machines Both Lose Control
[concerned] Friday afternoon. A forex desk somewhere in downtown Toronto refreshes the screen and watches the Canadian dollar slide toward seventy cents US. The headline in the financial press uses one word to describe the selloff — 'brutal.' [serious] That same week — same actual week, Maya — the CEO of one of the world's most powerful AI companies picked up the phone and asked the US government ...
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: [playful] Mind the Gap. We'll see you tomorrow morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: File Your Taxes, Ride a Glowing Dog
[amused] Picture this — a warrior in full plate armor, riding an enormous glowing dog through a neon fantasy kingdom. Sword drawn, cape flowing, the works. [playful] Cool, cool. And this warrior earned that magnificent beast how, exactly?...
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] But they do require treats. Which is also a nudge. We can't escape!
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Shoe Company That Quit Shoes
[amused] Somewhere in San Francisco right now, there's a warehouse full of unsold wool sneakers. Sustainably sourced merino. Carbon-neutral soles. And a logo on every box that — as of this week — no longer exists. [surprised] Wait... Allbirds? The shoe company?...
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] Happy Friday, everyone. We'll see you Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The CEO Who Talks to AI First
[thoughtful] Picture this. It's six a.m. in Toronto. Dave McKay — CEO of Canada's largest bank — sits down with his coffee. But his first meeting isn't with a person. [curious] It's with an AI. One he built himself....
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.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Right About Everything, Wrong About When
[thoughtful] Picture this: it's 1873. A train engineer in Philadelphia just bought his third railroad stock on margin. Everybody he knows — his barber, his pastor, his mother-in-law — they're all in. Railroads are the future. They're transforming the economy. And you know what? They were right. [amused] But?...
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] That's our show. We're Mind the Gap. Have a clear-eyed Wednesday, everybody.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Too Much Brain In Too Few Places
[curious] Picture this — a robot arm, no bones, no joints, covered in soft silicone suckers... drops into the Mediterranean, touches a rock formation it's never seen before, and each sucker independently decides what to do next. No central brain calling the shots. [fascinated] Like each fingertip has its own tiny mind. An octopus that somebody 3D-printed....
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: [excited] See you tomorrow morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Company That Scared Itself
[curious] Friday night, ten thirty PM Eastern. Developers across the continent are mid-sprint — agents humming, code compiling — and then... nothing. Fable 5 and Mythos 5 just vanish. [amused] One blogger captured the mood perfectly. And I quote: 'Man, I was just trying to relax and have my agent code on a Friday.'...
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. Go name your Monday something good.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: When Every System Screams At Once
[excited] Sixty thousand people packed into BMO Field yesterday, phones held high, streaming every angle of Canada versus Bosnia — and somewhere underneath all that, Bell's brand-new 5G Plus towers are quietly screaming. [warm] Meanwhile, in a back room at Toronto Western Hospital, an epidemiologist is refreshing a dashboard tracking measles exposure alerts. She hasn't slept well in days....
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 morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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