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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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Mind the Gap: Dancing Robots and the First Trillionaire
[curious] Picture this — a theatre somewhere in New York, last week. A choreographer is watching a humanoid robot perform a contemporary dance routine. Fluid arms, precise footwork, genuine artistic timing. [thoughtful] And the choreographer's reaction? Not amazement. Not fear. Just... a quiet unsettling question. The Atlantic's reviewer put it this way, quote, 'I've seen the tech, and it's impres...
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 is not what the CBC recommended, Maya.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: When The Deadline Has A Logo
[excited] So picture this — it's seven in the morning on a random Tuesday in Toronto, and a construction crew is jackhammering a brand-new pedestrian plaza into existence outside the stadium formerly known as BMO Field. In three weeks flat, they've widened sidewalks, installed wayfinding signs in four languages, and rerouted an entire streetcar line. [amused] Three weeks. The same city that took e...
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] Go enjoy those World Cup matches if you're in Toronto. And for everyone else — find your consolation today. Bye!
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: **The Needle That Wants To Kill Time**
[serious] Somewhere this week, in a clinical facility, a needle slid into a human arm. Inside that syringe — a drug no person has ever received before. A compound designed to do something we've only whispered about in science fiction... reverse aging at the cellular level. [curious] And while that was happening, a twenty-six-year-old athlete in Toronto — a pitcher on the cusp of the big leagues — ...
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 morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The House That Claude Built
[curious] Picture this — a brownstone in Brooklyn. Exposed brick, south-facing garden, listed at five point nine nine million dollars. And right there in the listing description, in bold... "seller will accept Anthropic stock." [amused] Not dollars. Not gold bars. Shares in an AI company that doesn't even trade on a public exchange....
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, everybody. This has been Mind the Gap.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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