It's Just A Model

It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.
CHAPTERS
00:40 — The Wonderful Vacuum 
12:25 — Something is Off
20:12 — Conversation is the Artefact
24:00 — Where's the "We" in "Digital"?
38:32 — The "My" Curse
46:45 — National GPTs 😱 and Small Cute AI's
LINKS AND TIPS
House of El — https://www.youtube.com/@HouseofEl
Codex In-App Browser — https://developers.openai.com/codex/app/browser
Every's Proof — https://every.to/on-every/introducing-proof
Em Dash, En Dash, Hyphens — https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/em-dash-en-dash-how-to-use
"550,000 Lines of Code, 238 Conversations" —  https://specstory.com/blog/why-we-started-using-specstory
The Table metaphor for AI — https://stripepartners.substack.com/p/this-months-frame-how-hannah-arendts
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation — https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205307264-boom
The Diff — https://www.thediff.co/
Ruby on Rails — https://rubyonrails.org/
Scenius — https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/
Blue Pill, red Pill — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill
Embedded Finance — https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-embedded-finance-8417153
On Complexity — https://thecynefin.co/complexity-science-organisations-keep-changing-without-ever-changing/
Kars Alfrink and Peet Sneekes talk Cute AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvEZz0eJk4
ABOUT US
It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com
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It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Informal Introduction
00:44 — The Fable fable
12:00 — The Word Building Epoch
16:12 — The AI Exoskeleton
29:40 — We Are All Dungeon Masters
36:06 — Agents x The Double Diamond
47:10 — World Models
LINKS
No Soup for You! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqlQYBcsq54
The PGP Story — https://www.wired.com/1995/03/the-continuing-investigation-of-phil-zimmermann/
The Late Adaptive Path — https://www.designdirectory.com/firm/main?firm_id=201396&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Design Systems Are No Longer Optional — https://mandy.dev/posts/design-systems-ai/
I am a Patron — https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
Zork — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
Loops that Prompt — https://explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-engineer-loops-prompts-ai-coding-harness-engineering-2026
The Double Diamond — https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/resources/the-double-diamond/
World Models — https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/a-functional-taxonomy-of-world-models
Yann LeCun — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
Ben Burtt — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt
Quake Speed Runs — https://www.speedrun.com/quake
ABOUT US
It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com
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It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Informal Introduction
00:42 — The Pope
06:01 — Cavemen
10:00 — Luxury Tokens
22:00 — Pace Layers (again)
31:07 — Pencil vs Brush
38:37 — Word Building
LINKS
MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS — https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
After Automation — https://every.to/p/after-automation
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR — https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html
Caveman — https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
Regenerative Software https://regenerativesoftware.substack.com/p/immutable-infrastructure-immutable
Goofy Stance — https://www.wikihow.com/Determine-if-You%27re-Regular-or-Goofy-Foot
How Buildings Learn — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn
Ellipsis — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
Sheldon's compulsive closure therapy— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Av2l4t0U4
Lenticular Lenses — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens
Ferrari Luce — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens
Talk Dirty to Me Claude — https://plotprose.com/product/talk-dirty-to-me-claude-on-demand/
Millésime— https://www.corkrules.com/learn/decoding-the-wine-label-mill-sime
Claude System Prompts — https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
Wolfram Alpha — https://www.wolframalpha.com/

ABOUT US
It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com
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It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Formal Introduction
03:20 — What do we do?
14:00 — Mass-ignorance
24:00 — In praise of Maintenance
37:30 — S-curves
40:30 — Modern Times
59:00 — What is water?
LINKS
The System of Profession — https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo5965590.html
Henk Haaima — https://www.linkedin.com/in/henkhaaima/
Domain-Driven Design — https://www.domainlanguage.com/ddd/
Safety-I and Safety-II — https://erikhollnagel.com/ideas/safety-i%20and%20safety-ii.html
Error-Driven Development — https://medium.com/@ss-tech/error-driven-development-8a956c4a943a
Erlang — https://www.erlang.org/
Adaptive PAth — https://www.designdirectory.com/firm/main?firm_id=201396&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Three Times a Lady — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qTPVS1uiQ0
Incorruptible by Eric Ries — https://www.incorruptible.co/
The Watershed — https://thewatershed.markpesce.com/
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Revolutions_and_Financial_Capital
Rube Goldberg Machine — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
Modern Times — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)
Amazon drivers are hanging phones in trees —  https://www.engadget.com/amazon-flex-delivery-drivers-phone-trees-161728196.html
Skeuomorph — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
Calm Technology — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calm_technology
Getting Things Done — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
LLM Wiki — https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
Benn Jordan — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benn_Jordan
What is Water? — https://museumofpsychology.org/2019/07/09/the-what-is-water-fish-story/
ABOUT US
It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com
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It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.
Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.
In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Intro
01:50 — Twiddling Knobs
08:20 — Information Wants To Be Free
15:20 — Technology & Complexity
24:20 — What's My Job Again?
36:00 — Software Brain
48:30 — It's the Mindset, Stupid
LINKS
Enshittification — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Teux Deux — https://teuxdeux.com/
Twiddling — https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/
Kafe Belgie — https://www.kafebelgie.nl/
WOO — https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/wet-open-overheid-woo
Active Apple Devices — https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/02/01/apple-has-one-active-device-per-four-people-on-the-planet
Everything is Amazing — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxgK2OjHA2Q
What's My Name Again — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhYp73X29A
Reshuffle Book — https://www.amazon.com/Reshuffle-wins-restacks-knowledge-economy-ebook/dp/B0DTKW6NQV
Hans Klok — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Klok
Matt Rife — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Rife
Jimmy Carr — https://www.jimmycarr.com/
The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/15-law-conservation-attractive-profits-peter-knol-nxsse/
Software Brain — https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation
Programming as Theory Building — https://gwern.net/doc/cs/algorithm/1985-naur.pdf
ABOUT US
It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com
SUBSCRIBE
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Podcasting 2.0 https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6790883
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