This episode, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) catch up with our friend musician and technologist Dexter Tortoriello, AKA Houses. In addition to his decade plus music career, Dexter is cofounder and former head of technology at FWB. He’s currently co-founder and CTO of MindPalace, an ambitious project aimed at building high-res, interactive AI models of the self, derived from decades of personal data, which will be in private Beta 🔜

Transitioning from the music industry into tech

Perils and lessons learned from scene building

What is the future (or lack thereof) for DAOS

The emerging battle lines in the AI industry

What’s next for MindPalace and other personal-data enabled agents

Trusting big tech vs startups with your data

Music-style royalty models for software

The “Age Of Canvas” and Mass Custom software/os/hardware

Enduring importance of physical artifacts

The incoming militarization of AGI labs

Speculations on our infant daughters’ relationship with technology and the future of work


Artwork: Robert Fludd, “Temple of Music”, 1624 [colorized]

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