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Chit Chats
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A project that endorses people to be more talkative and confident to speak into a microphone.
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August 8, 2026
Episode 13 - Databricks' Christopher Rapaport: one source of truth, and what agents actually change
<p>Christopher Rapaport runs field go-to-market across EMEA for Databricks. He joins Riccardo in Amsterdam, straight off the Data and AI Summit in San Francisco, for a conversation about what actually changes when a company stops moving data between systems and starts working from one source of truth.</p><p>This one stays concrete. Christopher explains the lakehouse without the jargon, after Riccardo asks him to pitch it to his grandmother. He describes the agents he genuinely uses himself, and why the argument for them is time rather than headcount. He pushes back on the idea that Databricks rewrites how a business runs: the process stays yours, it just stops being slow.</p><p>They also get into the harder parts. Whether this looks like the dot-com bubble or something that compounds. What a "Brickster" actually is, and why curiosity beats credentials. The gap between simplicity and the happy path, and why the legacy mind is the real thing to conquer after twenty-five years of habit. It closes on people: mentors, coaching, and what Christopher thinks leading authentically costs you.</p><p><b>In this episode</b></p><ul><li>Why the room in San Francisco and the room in Amsterdam ask different questions</li><li>What customers ask for first, and what they ask for once they know what to ask</li><li>The lakehouse, explained without a single acronym</li><li>The agents Christopher uses, and the mentor line about time he keeps coming back to</li><li>Bubble or compounding shift: the dot-com comparison, taken seriously</li><li>The Genie story: one executive, one train commute, desk to desk</li></ul><p><b>Chapters</b></p><p>0:00 Cold open<br />2:11 Live from the Data and AI Summit<br />3:03 What's different between the US and European rooms<br />5:42 What customers ask for first<br />7:34 Legacy, silos, and where the lakehouse starts<br />11:44 "Explain the lakehouse to my grandmother"<br />12:50 Do you use agents yourself?<br />15:24 The future of operations<br />18:39 Closing the skills gap<br />20:41 Are we in a dot-com bubble?<br />22:26 What makes a Brickster<br />25:51 Explainability, cost, or compute<br />26:58 Simplicity vs the happy path<br />28:32 Conquering the legacy mind<br />31:37 The Genie story<br />36:24 On mentors, and investing in people<br />38:10 Close</p><p><i>Chit Chats is hosted by Riccardo Murciano. New episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.</i></p>
June 7, 2026
Christopher Jorna — Building the Future of Film with AI & "Enabling Flow State"
<section class="episode-description"> <h1>Christopher Jorna — Building the Future of Film with AI & "Enabling Flow State" 🎬📱</h1> <p>What if there were a whole civilization of tiny people living inside your phone? 📱 Filmmaker and creative director <strong>Christopher Jorna</strong> turned that childhood daydream into a body of work — and in this episode of <strong>Chit Chats</strong> he shows how AI is quietly rewriting what a creative can build alone.</p> <p>Recorded on a windy Madrid rooftop (with a phone mounted on a pair of roller skates 🛼), this is a wide-ranging, genuinely nerdy conversation about storytelling, virtual production, and one idea that ties it all together: <strong>don't resist AI, and don't just watch it — redirect the river.</strong></p> <h2>💡 What you'll take away</h2> <ul> <li>🌊 The <strong>three paths for AI</strong> (resist / stop / redirect) — why building a new path in the river beats damming it</li> <li>🧠 <strong>"Enabling flow state"</strong> — using AI to amplify creativity, not replace it</li> <li>👔 Why you should <strong>treat AI like an employee</strong> — and why it's healthier for you, too</li> <li>🃏 <strong>Handover cards</strong> & <strong>gap analysis</strong>: get far more out of every AI session</li> <li>🏜️ The desert / gradient-descent analogy for how LLMs think — and why a little <strong>randomness</strong> finds a better path</li> <li>🎥 <strong>Story, story, story</strong>: every AI call on Find My Phone served the story — including the scene he cut</li> <li>⚙️ New workflows: white-wall VFX, color-grade-first AI rendering, the Claude × Blender plugin</li> </ul> <h2>👤 About the guest</h2> <p>Christopher Jorna is a half-Dutch, half-German film director and virtual-production technician with a background in economics and an MA in Film Directing from MetFilm School London. Creator of the Low Power Mode series — stories about the life inside your phone — and an advocate for AI that enables creatives.</p> <h2>⏱️ Chapters</h2> <ul> <li>00:00 — Intro: a rooftop, roller skates & directing remotely from Mumbai</li> <li>01:44 — Meeting Rob & the virtual-production roots of Low Power Mode</li> <li>03:18 — The childhood "tiny people in the cable" memory</li> <li>05:18 — AI as a companion, not a servant; treat AI like an employee</li> <li>08:01 — Handover cards & token efficiency (CLAUDE.md, /init, /insights)</li> <li>11:33 — How LLMs really work: the "row of desks" analogy & compacting</li> <li>13:59 — The AI-2027 rabbit hole: reverse inference, red vs green futures</li> <li>18:28 — Three paths for AI & the river / dam analogy</li> <li>23:29 — "Enabling flow state": the core vision</li> <li>25:02 — What flow state actually feels like</li> <li>30:46 — Claude fetching royalty-free sound effects (a practical example)</li> <li>33:17 — Story first: making Find My Phone (white wall + AI VFX, self-funded)</li> <li>41:19 — Work vs life: the London visa choice that led to Madrid</li> <li>43:03 — Gradient descent, randomness & taking the big leap</li> <li>45:16 — Goldfish: the Escobros, three wishes, shot in three days</li> <li>51:04 — When a small idea shows up in a big Hollywood film</li> <li>52:18 — Claude × Blender & the hi-vis (Unreal + AI render) workflow</li> <li>59:07 — The gap-analysis secret for Claude Code</li> <li>64:19 — Live demo: the interactive Low Power Mode website</li> <li>68:18 — Closing takeaways: write it down, build your path</li> </ul><h2>🔗 Christopher Jorna — films & links</h2><ul> <li>🌐 Website: <a href="https://christopher-jorna.com/">christopher-jorna.com</a></li> <li>📸 Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/christopherjorna/">@christopherjorna</a></li> <li>💼 LinkedIn: <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christopher-jorna-b88a78197">Christopher Jorna</a></li> <li>🎞️ Find My Phone — watch on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX4sJ9VBlKn/">Instagram</a></li> <li>💀 Los Sueños de los Muertos (2022) — watch on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tUaa7_D8C0">YouTube</a> · <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21845398/">IMDb</a> · <a href="https://festregards.com/...">FEST REGARDS</a></li> <li>🔋 Low Power Mode (2024) — IMDb · Letterboxd · Greenlit · MetFilm</li> <li>🐠 Goldfish — coming soon, made with the <strong>Eskobros</strong>: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eskobros_/">Instagram</a> · <a href="https://eskobros.com/">eskobros.com</a></li></ul> <h2>🎙️ Chit Chats</h2> <p>Hosted by Riccardo Murciano. If this resonated, <strong>subscribe</strong> and comment: what's the future you want to see — and what does flow state look like for you?</p> <ul> <li>▶️ YouTube: <a href="{{CHITCHATS_YOUTUBE_URL}}">Chit Chats</a></li> <li>🎧 Spotify: <a href="{{CHITCHATS_SPOTIFY_URL}}">Chit Chats</a></li> <li>📸 Instagram: <a href="{{CHITCHATS_INSTAGRAM_URL}}">Chit Chats</a></li> </ul> <p class="hashtags">#ChitChats #ChristopherJorna #AIFilmmaking #VirtualProduction #FlowState #LowPowerMode #FindMyPhone #Filmmaking #CreativeDirector #ClaudeAI #VFX #Storytelling #FutureOfFilm</p></section>
April 12, 2026
Peter Grafe: CEO of BlueAlpha, the AI-native marketing hub
<section id="episode"> <p><strong>Episode Title:</strong> Peter Grafe on AI-Native Marketing, MMM, and the Agentic Future</p> <p><strong>Guest:</strong> Peter Grafe</p> <section id="summary"> <p>A pragmatic conversation on where marketing is heading when measurement, decision-making, and execution start collapsing into one AI-native system.</p> <p>Riccardo sits down with Peter Grafe, CEO and co-founder of BlueAlpha, to unpack the founder journey from Tesla data science to building an AI-native marketing hub. Peter explains how a real attribution and measurement problem at Tesla became the seed for BlueAlpha, why traditional click-based marketing measurement is breaking down, and why media mix modeling is becoming more relevant again in a world shaped by AI agents, LLM search, and brand-driven demand capture. The conversation also explores operating as a European founder in San Francisco, the importance of speed, trust, and autonomy in startup culture, and what “AI native” actually means inside a modern company. They go deep on agentic workflows, MCP-based execution, how marketing teams may flatten as AI takes on more operational work, and why future winners will be the brands that win mindshare before a customer ever types a prompt. It is curious, practical, and grounded in how fast the landscape is changing right now.</p> </section> <section id="chapters"> <p><strong>Chapters</strong></p> <ul> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Timestamp data was not included in the provided transcript</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Japan honeymoon and staying connected</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Building team autonomy at BlueAlpha</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — The company culture: ownership, speed, communication</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — From Tesla to founder origin story</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Why marketing measurement broke</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — The gap BlueAlpha is solving</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Connectors, orchestration, and agentic execution</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — European founder lessons in San Francisco</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Raising capital and choosing investors</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — What “AI native” really means</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Why marketing is moving up-funnel</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Winning prompts versus winning keywords</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Agents, org design, and the future of work</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Trusting the process while measuring everything</li> <li><time datetime="PT0M00S">00:00</time> — Five-year and ten-year AI outlook</li> </ul> </section> <section id="links"> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <ul> <li>Guest: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ped-grafe" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Peter Grafe on LinkedIn</a></li> <li>Organization: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BlueAlpha</a></li> <li>Team page: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/team" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BlueAlpha Team</a></li> <li>Product mentioned: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/product" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Is BlueAlpha?</a></li> <li>Key resource mentioned: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/articles/what-is-media-mix-modeling-mmm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Is Media Mix Modeling (MMM)?</a></li> <li>Key resource mentioned: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/solution/agentic-execution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Agentic Execution</a></li> <li>Background context: <a href="https://bluealpha.ai/articles/the-hard-truth-about-mmm-and-incrementality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hard Truth About MMM and Incrementality</a></li> </ul> </section> <section id="takeaways"> <p><strong>Key takeaways</strong></p> <ul> <li>Marketing measurement is shifting away from purely click-based attribution toward broader, probabilistic systems that can capture real impact across channels.</li> <li>AI-native companies do not just add AI tools; they redesign workflows, roles, and execution around AI from the ground up.</li> <li>The future of marketing is less about winning a keyword and more about winning mindshare before a customer ever asks an AI what to buy.</li> </ul> </section> <section id="cta"> <p><strong>Call to action</strong></p> <p>Follow Chit Chats for more conversations at the edge of technology and business, and ask yourself: in an agentic world, what part of your work still has to stay human?</p> </section></section>
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