Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 11 minutes ago
Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield works in mind-jazz across genres to help navigating our world of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play for people to thrived in it. Host of Future Fossils, former Digital Media Strategist for The Santa Fe Institute and host of Complexity Podcast, former Community Manager for The Long Now Foundation and Research Analyst for a stealth Mozilla AI spin out, his latest project Humans On The Loop examines agency in the age of automation through conversation, music, essay, social weaving, and the rearing of bespoke language models.
LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield
SUBSTACK: michaelgarfield.substack.com
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/michaelgarfield
TWITTER: twitter.com/michaelgarfield
TOOLS:
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Boss RC-505 mkII Loopstation: boss.info/us/products/rc-505mk2
16:53 - Brunton Transit pocket compass: brunton.com/products/standard-transit
25:47 - Black Diamond Storm 500-R headlamp: blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/product/storm-500-r
33:17 - FLUXX by Looney Labs: looneylabs.com/games/fluxx
42:14 - Humans on the Loop: michaelgarfield.substack.com
For show notes and transcript visit: kk.org/cooltools/michael-garfield-paleontologist-futurist
To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7
Paleontologist-Futurist Michael Garfield works in mind-jazz across genres to help navigating our world of accelerating weirdness and cultivate the curiosity and play for people to thrived in it. Host of Future Fossils, former Digital Media Strategist for The Santa Fe Institute and host of Complexity Podcast, former Community Manager for The Long Now Foundation and Research Analyst for a stealth Mozilla AI spin out, his latest project Humans On The Loop examines agency in the age of automation through conversation, music, essay, social weaving, and the rearing of bespoke language models.
LINKTREE: https://linktr.ee/michaelgarfield
SUBSTACK: michaelgarfield.substack.com
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/michaelgarfield
TWITTER: twitter.com/michaelgarfield
TOOLS:
0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Boss RC-505 mkII Loopstation: boss.info/us/products/rc-505mk2
16:53 - Brunton Transit pocket compass: brunton.com/products/standard-transit
25:47 - Black Diamond Storm 500-R headlamp: blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/product/storm-500-r
33:17 - FLUXX by Looney Labs: looneylabs.com/games/fluxx
42:14 - Humans on the Loop: michaelgarfield.substack.com
For show notes and transcript visit: kk.org/cooltools/michael-garfield-paleontologist-futurist
To sign up to be a guest on the show, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/qc496XB6bGbrAEKK7
