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Renaissance Circle
by Steven Muskal, Ph.D.
Steven M. Muskal, Ph.D. - AI Pioneer, Drug Discovery Expert, Innovator, and Musician - explores science, business, and the art of feeling good. Where innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs discuss the future of health and performance
Episodes
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What Are We Going to Do With All This Intelligence?
Tim Lewis hosts the stargazing at Cal-a-Vie's observatory, where Steven Muskal met him one night after hours of talk under the dome. He grew up in Michigan, the youngest of five, with the freedom to be home by dark. He got his first telescope at 11, a wobbly two-and-a-half-inch scope he rebuilt…
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From Displacement to Reconnection
Irina Ankoudinova is a biologist who has been displaced by technology over and over. She learned crystallization in the Kim lab at Berkeley, built zinc finger archives at Sangamo Therapeutics, and then CRISPR arrived. Every time technology made her work obsolete, she moved on. Now she wants to...
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That Go There
Why the memories worth keeping need a body that can move. Thirty years ago, my older daughter, two and a half at the time, sat on the floor with a wooden puzzle of the United States and placed every state exactly where it belonged. Nevada, there. Colorado, there. Ask her a capital and she would...
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Study with Hannah: 62,000 Study Cards Later, I Finally Asked the Obvious Question
I was home for a few days last summer when I found my daughter Hannah at the kitchen table, drilling nephron physiology at eleven at night. The studying didn't surprise me; that's just what Hannah does. The number she mentioned in passing did: 62,000 study cards, all hers, built one exam at a…
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Universities Built the Bomb. Now Build This.
Universities helped build the atomic bomb. They helped create the internet. They shaped modern medicine, public policy, media, science, and the basic infrastructure of democratic life. So why, at the exact moment when artificial intelligence is beginning to reorganize knowledge, labor, media,...
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Built in One Afternoon, Worth $100M: Dr. Steven Muskal on AI, Food Health, and Human Performance
Dr. Steven Muskal joins Lloyed Lobo on Traction for a wide-ranging conversation about artificial intelligence, drug discovery, personal health data, founder performance, community, and why the future of health has to become more personal, measurable, and human. Steve has spent more than 40 years…
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Toast Our Friend
What if the things we say at celebrations of life could be said while the person is still here to hear them? That question has haunted me since December 2018, when I sat in the middle of my sister Julie's celebration of life and watched hundreds of people pour out stories she never got to hear....
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The Rise of the Machine: The Next Evolution of AI Is Physical
The Rise of the Machine: The Next Evolution of AI Is Physical By Steven Muskal, Ph.D. For the past few years, the story of AI has been a story about language. I am convinced that is only the first act. The next major evolution of AI is not happening on a screen. It is happening in the physical...
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Content Makes Kings
Content Makes Kings: Out-Create the Algorithm For years we've said "content is king." Dr. Steven Muskal argues we've been stating it wrong. Content doesn't just reign supreme. Content MAKES kings. In this short, a scientist who has spent three decades building neural networks lays out why the...
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Your Kitchen Is a Pharmacy: Here's the Proof
A blockbuster cholesterol drug and a compound from Reishi mushrooms score 0.98 out of 1.0 on pharmacophore similarity. In three dimensional molecular space, the two present almost exactly the same biological face to the enzymes that regulate cholesterol. This is not folklore or wellness hype. It…
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AI-Dad: Preserving Legacy Through Conversational Intelligence
What if AI could preserve not only what someone knew, but how they reasoned, taught, joked, remembered, and loved? In this deeply personal Renaissance Circle episode, Steven Muskal explores AI- Dad, a conversational AI system built to preserve the voice, wisdom, legal expertise, family history…
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Curiosity Is the Only Sustainable Edge
Every so often, a conversation reminds me that technology is never the real story. People are. In this episode, I sit down with Moritz “Moe” Koeppenkastrop-Lueker, whose path may look nonlinear on paper but reveals a powerful coherence once you strip away titles and timelines. From the outside…
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When Constraint Becomes a Superpower
In this episode, Steve sits down with Gibson Hanks, a 17-year-old builder deeply immersed in computers, programming, and AI, for a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation about how real understanding is formed. Gibson is largely self-taught. He started ambitiously with C++, stepped back when…
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Christmas Lights, the Beetle and Recursion
In this episode, Steve sits down with Austin Urie for a wide-ranging, vulnerable, and often hilarious conversation about seasonal entrepreneurship, ambition, burnout, surfing, AI, ontology, and the strange ways curiosity can lead us into unexpected intellectual territory. Austin spends four…
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Christmas Lights, the Beetle and Recursion - substack post
When a man who hangs Christmas lights for a living begins thinking about recursion, natural pesticides, and the mathematics of existence, you know you’re in for an unexpected conversation. Austin Urie’s journey from rooftops in Rancho Santa Fe to waves in Hawaii became a reflection on purpose,...
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AI Dad
Preserving Legacy Through Conversational Intelligence When my father passed earlier this year, I found myself lost in paperwork, probate, and grief. But buried in decades of our email exchanges, I rediscovered his mind - the lawyer, the mentor, and the storyteller. From that spark came AI-Dad: a...
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Community Is the Moat
Steve Muskal sits down with Lloyed Lobo, cofounder of Boast.ai and Traction, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of From Grassroots to Greatness. From escaping Kuwait during the Gulf War to building a $10M ARR company without a marketing team, Lloyed shares how community-led growth became...
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Behind the Bar, Ahead of the Curve
Behind the Bar, Ahead of the Curve — Two bartenders walk into a startup and start reinventing how people learn, earn, and invest in themselves. Dakota and Vladimir are blending hospitality and machine learning to build tools that gamify skill-building, reward contribution, and turn human growth...
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Grit, Curiosity & Building What Matters
Biomedical engineers Megan Phillips and Fernanda Campos join Steve to explore the leap from research to entrepreneurship. They discuss career design, women’s health innovation, and how curiosity, strategy, and grit fuel meaningful ventures. A candid talk on validation, leverage, and building what...
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Glucose, Grit & Breaking Glass Ceilings
Personal Passion, Professional Pivots, and Mastering Medical Devices At age 12, Christy Shearer was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes—a shock that became her lifelong source of purpose. In this candid, fast-moving conversation with neighbor and host Steven Muskal, Christy traces how that early...
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Music, Security, and Meaning: Finding the Pocket with Dom Mather
Steve and Dom explore cybersecurity, music, and the search for balance in health, heritage, and harmony Cybersecurity expert, musician, and health hacker Dom Mather joins Steven Muskal for an open, deeply human conversation that moves between code, chords, and connection. Together they explore…
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Steven M. Muskal, Ph.D. - AI Pioneer, Drug Discovery Expert, Innovator, and Musician - explores science, business, and the art of feeling good. Where innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs discuss the future of health and performance
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Steven Muskal, Ph.D.
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Steven M. Muskal, Ph.D. - AI Pioneer, Drug Discovery Expert, Innovator, and Musician - explores science, business, and the art of feeling good. Where innovators, scientists, and entrepreneurs discuss the future of health and performance
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