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2+title = "The Understanding Urbit Podcast"
4+description = "An interview-based podcast series about the Urbit project, as told by those working on it."
6+author = "Arthur Falls"
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8+image ="https://media.urbit.org/site/posts/essays/uu-podcast.png"
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15+The Understanding Urbit Podcast
18+At the end of January, the team at Tlon invited me to spend some time at their San Francisco office and to create a podcast series about Urbit. The idea was to produce an interview-based series about the project told in the words of those working on it. In this modest goal, I think we were very successful. Beyond a transactional description, however, we captured a range of perspectives of the flaws in our current computing landscape and visions for how Urbit will alter it.
20+Over the course of seven episodes the interviews explore subjects ranging from the philosophy of technology to the performance optimization of Nock execution. Most are non-technical, but even the technical ones will be understandable and entertaining to a non-technical audience. That latter fact is the result of just how much fun the Tlon team is to be around.
22+The series can be found on iTunes, Spotify, and most other streaming platforms.
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26+We begin our journey with Urbit veteran Galen Wolfe-Pauley who introduces the project and its design principles while reflecting on the collective Stockholm syndrome we suffer in the grasp of existing computing models. We learn a bit about Galen’s background in architecture, and the importance of invisible technology.