Francesco D’Alessio — Keep Productive Founder — The biggest productivity upgrade isn’t a new app—it’s cutting the noise, locking in your principles, and using tools only as a thin layer on top.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• What Francesco would do if every productivity app disappeared overnight (and why it’s freeing)
• The Bento Method: packing your day into “large/medium/small” tasks to beat overwhelm
• How building an app changed his empathy for developers—and improved his reviews
• “Rules before tools”: why foundations matter more than chasing the perfect system
• The future of productivity: AI context capture, voice-first workflows, and why workload may actually increase

00:00 - If every productivity app vanished: the notebook fallback
00:33 - Why “more tools” often makes you less productive (and more anxious)
02:51 - Francesco’s origin story: fascination with software → 12 years reviewing apps
04:17 - The most counterintuitive productivity lesson (after building an app)
06:08 - Why Bento was born: fighting overwhelming to-do apps
07:41 - The Bento Method explained: large/medium/small tasks (and the 3/5/7 evolution)
09:44 - Behind the scenes: team setup, co-founder split (product vs marketing)
10:25 - Launch lessons: building for the wrong users + making it engaging
12:07 - “Rules before tools”: foundations, Todoist longevity, and avoiding constant switching
14:02 - The Notion trap: advocating a tool that isn’t right for you
15:07 - The must-have feature in future apps: AI context capture + voice commands
16:38 - Jarvis workflows, Todoist as chassis, AI as engine—and why expectations may rise
21:28 - What excites and scares Francesco: AI efficiency + nonstop work pressure
26:40 - The long-term future: when the best productivity apps become invisible
28:22 - Final mindset shift: tools only take you so far—stop tool-hopping

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Ulrike Guérot — European political scientist — Europe isn’t “the EU,” and the only way out of today’s crisis is to rebuild Europe’s republic‑spirit from culture upward—before war rebuilds it for us.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• The 1534 “Europa Regina” map and what it reveals about Europe’s lost identity
• Why the EU’s nation‑state design broke the original citizen‑driven promise of Europe
• How NATO, GAFA, and the dollar created a deep US dependency Europe can’t ignore
• The “oligarchization” of society: why cities homogenize while regions die
• A vision for 2049: Europe as a “big Switzerland” (republican, federal, neutral, cultural)

00:00 - What Europe promised at its “birth”
00:15 - Europe’s origins: Which date counts—and why it matters
00:48 - The 1534 “Europa as a woman” map (Europa Regina)
01:55 - Europe’s promise: unity after religious wars & the Renaissance
03:01 - Art as a warning signal: Europe painted in peace vs. war
04:08 - Ventotene (1941): the forgotten blueprint for a social, democratic Europe
06:00 - Hertenstein (1946): Switzerland’s citizen-led plan for a European federation
07:17 - Churchill in Zurich: how nation-states “won” over citizen democracy
10:42 - Europe ≠ EU: why Guérot says the EU is losing legitimacy
13:47 - The three US dependencies: NATO, GAFA, and the dollar
16:42 - Why Europe’s towns feel worse: neoliberalism, polarization, and lost community
19:20 - Civil war criteria: atomization, rich/poor divides, and broken solidarity
30:09 - Culture vs. hollow globalization: what Europe must recover
32:44 - “The West doesn’t exist”: NATO, propaganda, and the end of the illusion
36:55 - Multipolar world: why the US is a superpower without “civilization” roots
45:46 - War, mass psychology, and why “resonance” is the real political force
52:32 - Build the future now: why today’s ideas shape post-crisis Europe
57:25 - The European Republic: Europe as a big Switzerland (neutral, federal, republican)
1:00:07 - Neutrality studies, sovereignty, AI—and what comes after Pax Americana
1:02:12 - Day X: you can’t control events, but you can control the vision

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Robin Hanson — Social scientist & futurist — The universe looks empty for a reason, and the real “Great Filter” might be a quiet world government that stops humanity from ever expanding.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• The Great Filter explained simply—and why even a “small” filter ahead is terrifying
• Why “quiet aliens” are possible, but big civilizations can’t stay hidden for long
• The most plausible future filter: competent world government that bans expansion
• Futarchy: using prediction markets to make policy decisions better than politicians
• The Age of Em: brain emulations, AI civilizations, and why Robin expects a civilizational fall first

00:00 - Welcome & going straight to aliens
00:51 - Fermi Paradox + the Great Filter (explained simply)
04:37 - Could advanced civilizations hide from us?
06:27 - Is the filter ahead of us or behind us?
09:23 - “Grabby aliens” & what we can infer from an empty sky
10:09 - Extinction vs collapse: why permanent failure matters
14:12 - The most likely future filter: a world government that blocks expansion
27:09 - Futarchy explained: governance by prediction markets
42:31 - Applying futarchy to cities & countries (property values, citizenship, national welfare)
55:31 - Top criticisms of futarchy (hypocrisy, selection bias, metrics) + responses
1:10:52 - The Age of Em: brain emulations & a concrete path to “AI”
1:23:26 - Why Robin is more pessimistic now: cultural drift & civilizational decline

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