Frontier tech with metaphysical aftershocks.
Crazy Wisdom follows conversations that move quickly between technical systems and bigger questions about meaning, trust, power, and adaptation. Recent episodes range from robot navigation and open-source coding tools to cryptographic infrastructure, AI acceleration, 3D art, and consciousness language.
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Crazy Wisdom is built around the idea that technology talk should not stop at the product demo. The show follows guests into the machinery, then keeps asking what that machinery does to trust, work, perception, governance, creativity, and human orientation. Recent episodes make that range clear. Robotics becomes a conversation about SLAM, positioning, lidar, GPS, computer vision, and the infrastructure required for robots to navigate unstructured external environments. Crypto becomes a way to examine consensus layers, smart contracts, validators, decentralized governance, open-source projects, and privacy systems. AI appears as a force shaping coding, art, careers, research cultures, applied work, safety debates, and the feeling that technological change is speeding up. The register is curious and direct. It is comfortable with technical terms, but it does not keep them sterile. A discussion of 3D art in the age of AI can turn toward the singularity, acceleration, Alan Watts, software ownership, and the temptation to walk away from the whole system. A conversation about open-source coding agents can stay grounded in command-line interfaces while still asking why open source matters beside proprietary tools. A crypto discussion can move from IKA and D-Wallet Labs into OpenAI, Anthropic, applied research, philosophers, sociologists, therapists, and anthropologists inside AI labs. The consciousness material has its own lane. Episodes invoke Angelic Physics, Dr. David Hawkins, angels, carbon, karma, skepticism, and the map-of-consciousness vocabulary named in the show's taxonomy. That mix gives Crazy Wisdom its shape. It is not a clean technology briefing, and it is not a purely spiritual interview show. It keeps putting practical systems beside strange premises. The conversations sometimes sprawl, loop, and chase fresh associations. That looseness is part of the experience. The show suits a listener who likes frontier technology explained by people close to the work, but who also wants the social and existential questions left in the room. Its strongest appeal is the collision: robotics next to consciousness, cryptography next to governance, open-source tools next to AI anxiety, and practical building next to big speculative pressure.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants technical conversations that keep their philosophical consequences visible. It fits people comfortable with AI, crypto, robotics, open source, and consciousness vocabulary sharing the same discussion.
What sets it apart: Crazy Wisdom stands apart by letting implementation details and metaphysical speculation sit side by side without forcing them into separate categories. The show can move from SLAM or smart contracts to karma, acceleration, governance, and human adaptation in the same conversational current.
In his series "Crazy Wisdom," Stewart Alsop explores cutting-edge topics, particularly in the realm of technology, such as Urbit and artificial intelligence. Alsop embarks on a quest for meaning, engaging with others to expand his own understanding of reality and that of his audience. The topics covered in "Crazy Wisdom" are diverse, ranging from emerging technologies to spirituality, philosophy, and general life experiences. Alsop's unique approach aims to make connections between seemingly unrelated subjects, tying together ideas in unconventional ways.
Stewart Alsop starts with SLAM and leaves you questioning the humanoid robot.
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A skeptical metaphysics conversation finds its footing in engineering, massage school, and online social platforms.
Crazy Wisdom frames its conversation with Nicholas Faulkner, author of Angelic Physics, around the pressure spiritual claims face when skepticism is allowed into the room. The discussion starts with a shared interest in Dr.
A grounded robotics discussion on SLAM, positioning, and the infrastructure behind outdoor autonomy.
Robotics comes through as less a single breakthrough than a stack of systems that must cooperate. Crazy Wisdom's conversation with Luca McKenna, Director of Europe at Point One Navigation, steps around the usual humanoid-robot debate and starts with SLAM, the process that helps…
A measured robotics episode on SLAM, navigation infrastructure, and the case for specialized machines.
Crazy Wisdom looks past the visible drama of robots and into the systems that let them know where they are. Luca McKenna of Point One Navigation walks through SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, as the practical work of helping machines build a map and place…
Carol weighs AI's accelerating future through 3D art, uncertainty, and the temptation to step away from it all.
This episode sets AI's future against Carol's long arc as an artist, moving from 2D professional work into 3D art and the pressure of fast-changing tools.
A wide-ranging conversation on crypto infrastructure, open-source governance, and the research questions shaping AI.
Crazy Wisdom follows David Lakmish, co-founder of IKA, through a route that runs from cybersecurity, cryptography, and deep tech into crypto infrastructure.
Life-changing books, spiritually tested.
Long conversations at the edge of belief.
Grounded talk for the spiritually curious.
Crazy Wisdom #542 brings Nicholas Faulkner back to discuss Angelic Physics, Dr.
Crazy Wisdom #541 features Stuart talking with Luca McKenna, director of Europe at Point One Navigation, about the hidden infrastructure behind robots that need to know where they are in space-time.
Crazy Wisdom Episode #541 pairs Stuart with Luca McKenna, Director of Europe at Point One Navigation, to explain why robotics starts with localization.
Crazy Wisdom #540, "Own the Software or Go Amish," asks what happens when a 3D artist keeps moving deeper into technical tools as AI arrives.
David Lakmish says IKA and D-Wallet Labs were built to solve "zero trust custody and zero trust interoperability," not another consumer crypto app.
Baram Avazian recalls that after an earthquake during the Karabakh war, people in Armenia lived without power or water and planted potatoes together.
On Crazy Wisdom #537, host Stuart and solar entrepreneur Tom Fay connect off-grid living with solar power, Starlink, and community independence.
A discussion on how rapid AI development is reshaping traditional career progression and professional growth.
Stuart interviews Mike Bacon about his journey into hardware tinkering, starting from childhood, and discusses practical aspects of decentralization and mesh networks.
Dax Raad discusses building an open source command-line interface for coding agents and competing with proprietary alternatives.
Rob Meyerson discusses Interlune's mission to commercialize helium-3 from the moon for a lunar economy.
Paul Sztorc discusses the relationship between Bitcoin and Zcash, focusing on privacy and Layer 2 solutions.