floating questions
Who do you have to become to do what you do?
Each episode enters through a different door — tech/AI, art, food, policy, faith — but the conversation always turns toward what's on the other side: identity, meaning, and what it feels like to still be figuring it out.
The guests are data scientists, game designers, chefs, founders, professors — but beyond the titles, who are they, really?
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Latest Episodes
Wen Tong: The Color You See Isn't the Color That's There
Wen Tong is an imaging engineer and (aspiring) colorist — his job is to make sure what you see on screen is exactly what the director intended. Turns out, that's almost impossible. Two people literally cannot see the same color....
Mason Grimshaw: Probabilistic Living, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Foundation Models for the Earth
In this episode of Floating Questions, we sit down with Mason Grimshaw, an MIT alum and mission-driven data scientist driving critical progress at the intersection of environmental conservation and indigenous empowerment in the age of AI. We ex...
Amine Bennouna: The "Fossil Fuel" of AI, Decisioning Under Uncertainty, and the Tenure Trap
You might have heard of Amine Bennouna from a previous episode (here) – from the Math Olympiad in Morocco to an MIT PhD and now a Professor at Northwestern's K...
Eric Wang: Cooking on Wall Street – From Private Equity to Culinary Craft
For the final episode of 2025, we are joined by a guest who embodies the spirit of exploration: Eric Wang. By day, Eric works in private equity in New York City, managing commercial real estate deals on Wall Street. On...
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Shaka Mitchell: Civil Discourse Through Music, School Choice & the Rise of AI in Learning
Today on Floating Questions, we sat down with Shaka Mitchell - Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Senior Fellow at the American Federation for Children, constitutional law lecturer, long-distance runner, creator of the...
