The hussh podcast · with Manish Sainani
Reconnect & Rethink
Ten people made you who you are. Let’s go find them.
Kirkland, Washington · Thirty minutes · Free, always
A note, with gratitude
From Manish.
Dear friend,
Somewhere between the building and the busy, I lost touch with people I love. Colleagues who taught me the work. Friends who carried me through the hard years. Family I think about every week and call far too rarely.
So I’m starting with them. Not with an audience, and not with a strategy: with a list of names I should have called a long time ago.
Reconnect & Rethink is my way back to those people. Thirty unhurried minutes, one old friend, and the ten people who shaped their life. Then we go and find those ten. And because the work never leaves the room, we also talk, plainly, about the infrastructure being built underneath all of our lives, and who it should belong to.
Some of those calls will stay between us, and nobody is named until they say yes.
If you’ve lost touch with someone too, you’re in the right place. It starts the same way for all of us: one name, one call.
With gratitude,
ManishManish Sainani, your host · Kirkland, Washington
Chapter one
The Ten
One conversation. How far can gratitude travel?
Chapter one · The Ten
Every guest names the ten people who shaped their life. We reach out to every one of them, with a book before a microphone. Then they name ten more.
Conversations recorded so far: 0. We’re just getting started, and you can watch the number climb.
Who did you lose touch with?
Send them this. It might be the call that starts everything.
Chapter two
The Show
Seven formats. One feeling: you finish, and you want to call someone.
Chapter two · The Show
Contents
- 01
The Ten
a conversationOne guest, the ten people who shaped their life, and the story behind every name.
- 02
The Call
a phone callManish calls someone he lost touch with. Unscripted. It airs only if they say yes.
- 03
The Table
a roundtableFour chairs, one argument: AI and the core infrastructure beneath it, with the human in control.
- 04
The Class
a lessonA professor teaches one idea, for anyone, in ten minutes.
- 05
The Garage
a buildBuilders make something real at the hussh Garage in Kirkland, with the cameras on.
- 06
The Letter
a readingWe read a guest the book we wrote for them, and they write back out loud.
- 07
Your Ten
a listener’s callYou name someone you lost touch with, and we help you make the call. Their yes comes first.
Every episode, the same shape
- Cold openThe one moment you’ll remember, first.
- The themeComposed fresh. Tap play above to hear today’s.
- The conversationUnhurried. Nothing cut for time that mattered.
- One more thingOne small thing to try this week. A name, a note, a call.
These are the formats we’re making. There are no episodes yet: the first conversation is being arranged now, and this page will say so the moment that changes.
Chapter three
The Table
Four chairs. One argument we intend to have for years.
Chapter three · The Table
Every show needs a center of gravity. Ours is a roundtable in the mold of the All-In Podcast, the format that changed how technology talks to itself: builders at one table, unscripted, arguing about the infrastructure that runs the world.
Ours goes all in on two subjects, and only two: AI infrastructure, and the core infrastructure beneath it. Compute, energy, networks, money, and the layer of personal information on top of it all. And it holds one thesis, no matter what the week brings: the human owns their information, and personal AI infrastructure must be built with the human in control. Everything else is up for argument. That isn’t.
Each chair has a book written for the person we hope will take it. The invitations go out with the books, and we’ll name each guest here when they say yes.
Chair one
A book, written
The invitation goes out with it.
Chair two
A book, written
The invitation goes out with it.
Chair three
A book, written
The invitation goes out with it.
Chair four
A book, written
The invitation goes out with it.
Status, plainly: nobody has been asked yet, and nobody is booked. When a chair is taken, this page will say so, and not before.
When every person carries a supercomputer’s worth of their own information, what should they be able to take with them, and who gets to decide?
The question we’ll keep asking at this table, every time it sits.
Chapter four
Who you’ll hear
It starts at home. Then it widens.
Chapter four · Who you’ll hear
Reconnect
Family, friends and old colleagues
The first chairs belong to the people Manish lost touch with: family, friends from Purdue, and the colleagues he built with at Google, Microsoft and Splunk. The show is a homecoming before it is anything else.
Rethink
Builders, professors and partners
The people building AI and core infrastructure, invited to argue the thesis, or against it, in the open. Builders from our partners Google, Microsoft and AWS.
And the professors whose work we celebrate and learn from, among them Lav Varshney at Stony Brook, Niloy Ganguly at IIT Kharagpur and Petros Drineas at Purdue. The people teaching the machines get a microphone too.
Everyone we’d love to invite.
We haven’t asked anyone yet. This is our wish list, drawn from the people this site already celebrates for their work: teachers, doctors, musicians, builders, professors, and the Apple, Google and Microsoft communities. Nobody on it has agreed to anything. If you’re on it and would rather not be, ask to be left off and you’re gone. Know someone who belongs here? Nominate them.
Chapter five
Three doors
Pick yours.
Chapter five · Three doors
For companies and universities
Bring your builders to the table.
Put your people in the conversation about AI and core infrastructure, or talk with us about bringing Agent One to your teams. It begins with a conversation, never a pitch.
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The show is free. The thesis is yours.
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Finale
The line
The one thing at this table that never moves.
Finale · The line
Your information belongs to you. Not to a platform, not to a broker. So we build personal AI infrastructure with the human in control: consent first, ownership always, your agent working for you alone.
Argue with it at the table. That’s what the table is for. The line itself doesn’t move.