Ink vs Algorithm: The Writers' Pod

About Ink vs Algorithm: The Writers' Pod

Creative writing in all forms has never been this exciting -- or frustrating. In a time when ChatGPT writes novels, TikTok “authors” go viral, and algorithms decide which stories live or die, Ink vs Algorithm is a podcast dedicated to writers who bleed ink and and publish their heart out. Hosted by writer, ranter, and raconteur Mookie Spitz, each episode features lively conversations with flesh and blood authors who love what they do -- and hate competing with prompt-jockeys and viral Bots. Along the way more stories will be told and laughs shared, living proof the living still matter. Whether you’re a novelist, journalist, pundit, poet, or just a cynic with a keyboard and an attitude, Ink vs Algorithm reminds us all why lived experience still matters — and how extracting and sharing it still takes relentless grit, determination, and a mountain of fought for and refined talent.

Publisher

Mookie Spitz

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Oct 2025

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Stay in Your Lane and Watch It Go Off the Rails

   Mookie flips a familiar piece of career advice on its head: stay in your lane, the guidance handed to nearly every writer, marketer, and creator trying to build an audience. He builds the case around Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions, tracing how Newton's absolute universe held for centuries until Einstein tore it apart at twenty-seven by rejecting Newton's core assumption rather than refining it. Kuhn's insight, Mookie argues, applies just as much to building a career or a brand...

2. 

   2 Sept 2026

   Josh Adam: Understanding Reality through the Measurement Mind

   Mookie found Josh Adam the way both of them hoped strangers still could online, stumbling on one of his essays and immediately recognizing a kindred mind. Josh joins Ink vs Algorithm to talk about his book, The Measurement Mind, and fair warning: their discussion is one of the deepest, most unapologetically nerdy conversations the show has done, working through the actual nature of Reality itself. Josh spent a decade of hour-long gym commutes listening to physics and philosophy audiobooks, an...

3. 

   28 Aug 2026

   Doctor's Orders: "Put Your Hands On Your Head!"

   Mookie's back on Ink vs Algorithm with another true story that's got no business being this fun to tell. This one's got a needle, a Southern-accented campus doctor barking orders, a soon-to-be Grammy winner squatting in the next apartment over, and a girlfriend who wanted him married before she wanted him gone: cocaine on the pizza counter, a robbery a month like clockwork, and one deeply, spectacularly unglamorous trip to student health services that Mookie still remembers in vivid, wincing ...

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