floating questions

About 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? Subscribe to float along! Official website: https://www.floatingquestions.com/ Ideas or collabs: floating.questions.podcast@gmail.com

Publisher

Rui

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Sept 2024

Latest episode

9 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Apr 2026

   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. I went into this conversation expecting to learn about color science, and I did — but we ended up somewhere I didn't expect. We talked about: Why working in total darkness actually ruins a colorist's perception — you'd think the oppositeThe moment his first film...

2. 

   4 Mar 2026

   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 explore how his work, life, and community view intertwine to thread a journey that spans from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation to the cutting edge of geospatial modeling. Parenthood and the Probabilistic Worldview: How Mason applied a "process over results" ...

3. 

   28 Jan 2026

   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 Kellogg School of Management. Recently, he has been thinking deeply about a critical question: Do we actually need more data for AI? In this episode, Amine discusses the idea that data is the "fossil fuel" of AI , and we have largely burned through the easy reserves. He believes the next frontier isn't about scale, but about ...

Who has been a guest on floating questions

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Stephanie Franklin
• Sean Chen
• Brian Hsu

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YouTube views

7,527

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

32

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