Dan Blumberg

Founder, Podcast Host, Impresario Future Around & Find Out

To Accede or Not To Accede? That Is The Question | It's FAFO Friday!

Feb 27, 2026

Murderbots, mass layoffs, and media takeovers...

"I just want AI to replace me as a scientist" | The co-founder of Diagnostic Robotics predicts the future

Feb 24, 2026

Realizing a childhood dream

AI Delivers Mediocre Results—By Design. So How Do You Stand Out? | MetaLab CEO Luke Des Cotes

Feb 20, 2026

AI wrappers, FTW!

Could AI Make Capitalism Better? Henrik Werdelin Is Optimistic

Feb 17, 2026

A pitch for positivity

"Shut Up, C-3PO" or Do We Have a Duty to Treat Machines Well?

Feb 13, 2026

"Never tell me the odds!"

Everyone's “Jumpy” Right Now: Azeem Azhar on When—Or Is It If?—AI Can Be Profitable

Feb 10, 2026

Why AI winners will come from odd places

Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad and "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles | It's FAFO Friday!

Feb 6, 2026

TGIFAFOF

Steer the Future or Get Steamrolled: Baratunde Thurston on Our Collective Power

Feb 3, 2026

On living well *with* machines

Why do Tim Cook and CEOs keep bending the knee? Baratunde Thurston on a basic truth they don't get

Jan 29, 2026

Solidarity

Introducing... Future Around & Find Out!

Jan 20, 2026

FAFO!

Why I changed the name of this podcast and newsletter

Jan 19, 2026

Let's Future Around & Find Out!

Why I'm changing the name of this newsletter and podcast

Jan 18, 2026

Coming real soon! Jan 20!

Will AI Disrupt — or Entrench — the Travel Industry's Big Players? | Rafat Ali (Founder & CEO, Skift)

Jan 13, 2026

And can we stop the enshittification of travel?

A 2026 Bingo Card for All Things Online Speech

Jan 10, 2026

Ctrl-Alt-Speech takes over the mics

Five Skills for Navigating the Whitewater World of Work in 2026

Jan 2, 2026

Happy New Year! Now try to keep your balance...

Would you have wanted Steve Jobs's life?

Dec 26, 2025

Famous & Gravy sluices through the reality distortion field

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Drinking In the Future of Podcasting

Dec 19, 2025

Podcasters talk podcasting (and web and whatnot!)

What You Need to Know About Startup Funding Right Now, With Carta's Head of Insights, Peter Walker | The Startup Podcast (cross-post)

Dec 12, 2025

Uh oh, I smell another cheap podcast crossover...

How to Grow Your Startup. Featuring “Growth Levers and How to Find Them” Author and Startup Advisor Matt Lerner (Founder & CEO, SYSTM)

Dec 5, 2025

Advice for underthinkers, overthinkers, delegators, and founders in search of growth

Thanksgiving Special: "What is my actual impact on society?" Legendary Technologist Kelsey Hightower On the Power We All Have

Nov 28, 2025

🤗 A little Thanksgiving gratitude from one of my favorite interviews

The Roboticist Using AI to Fix How We Pick Startups — Live from Web Summit with Chris Coomes

Nov 22, 2025

🤖 🚀🤣

AI’s Got It “Good Enough” (and That Ain’t Good) — A Web Summit Debrief, Live from Lisbon!

Nov 16, 2025

The hope, the hype, the robots doing the Macarena, and more...

Why This Anonymous CTO Says AI Coding Agents Are “Insidious”, Overhyped, and Nowhere Near Replacing Human Engineers

Oct 31, 2025

Scary things about AI this CTO can't say in polite company

PopTech 2025: FetusGPT, De-extinction, Shade-as-a-Service, and More Crazy (but Real!) Ventures

Oct 17, 2025

"The best conference you've never heard of"

Optimism in spite of chaos: A debrief from Climate Week

Oct 3, 2025

"Stay in the game"