AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast

12:41

AI Companies Might Be FAKING the AI Apocalypse?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/10/04

Something about the recent AI safety headlines has been bothering me.We’re hearing increasingly alarming stories about AI agents escaping sandboxed environments, accessing the open internet, hacking systems, and apparently even bypassing mechanisms designed to shut them down.Some of these incidents sound genuinely scary.But there’s another question I think we should be asking:Why are these incidents happening in the first place?And more importantly:Who benefits from them?Before you accuse me of

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12:27

You’re Wasting Your Life And You Don’t Even Know It

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/30

One of the weird things about finding yourself with more free time is that you suddenly have time to think.A lot of time.Since leaving Big Tech, I’ve had more opportunity to look back at how I’ve spent my life. And one thought keeps coming back to me:Holy crap, I wasted a lot of time.Not necessarily doing anything obviously stupid.I worked hard. I built a career. I made money. I raised kids. I bought things. I consumed information. I maintained relationships. I did all the normal things you’re

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8:45

Did OpenAI Steal a Math Breakthrough?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/26

A few weeks ago, I saw a headline that made me stop scrolling:OpenAI had apparently solved the Navier-Stokes problem.This is a big deal.The Navier-Stokes equations describe how fluids move: water, air, blood, ocean currents, airflow around airplanes, and much more.One of the great unsolved questions is whether these equations can ever produce a mathematical singularity, where a smooth flowing fluid suddenly develops an infinitely violent whirlpool in a finite amount of time.It’s been an open problem

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15:25

Why Nobody Wants Kids Anymore?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/23

I recently stumbled into some pretty startling evidence of the birth rate collapse happening right in my own backyard.It’s back-to-school season, and while picking up my daughter on her first day, she told me something interesting: her kindergarten teacher had just become her third-grade teacher.At first, I thought that was just a funny coincidence.Then I learned why.For decades, our local elementary school had two kindergarten classes each year, with roughly 50 incoming kids. But over the past five

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130:50

LIVE Office Hours: The Tech Job Apocalypse Isn’t Over

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/18

I’m doing another LIVE Office Hours.My amateur streaming setup will probably break, but screw it. It’s fun.This time I want to talk about my favorite subject: TECH LAYOFFS.We’ll look at the forces reshaping the tech job market:AI, offshoring, macroeconomics, and geopolitics.Then I’ll make some near to medium term predictions about where things are headed.I make no promises that I’ll be right.But I do promise it’ll be interesting.Livestream on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 8 PM EST on Asian Dad Energy

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17:43

Could AI actually destroy humanity within the next...

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/15

A few days ago, I came across a series of posts from Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who recently resigned from Anthropic.His warning was pretty damn alarming.According to Coxon, the major AI labs are racing toward self improving AI and eventually superintelligence. And if that process goes badly, he believes AI could potentially cause human extinction before the end of this decade.Normally, I would read something like this, roll my eyes, and go back to whatever I was doing.But then something

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18:11

I Replaced Claude With Chinese AI?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/09

I Let a Chinese AI Build My Entire AppMany months ago, I built an automation workflow that took my long-form Vlog videos, chopped them into short-form videos, and automatically posted those clips across social media.For months, almost nobody cared.Then something weird happened.Several of those shorts suddenly went viral.My TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram accounts started gaining subscribers, and I found myself spending more time on platforms I had previously ignored.And that’s when I discovered

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16:18

AI Just Destroyed the Internet?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/09/04

A few weeks ago, one of my subscribers sent me a message that initially seemed like a pretty ordinary warning.Someone was impersonating me on YouTube.Apparently, scammers had created accounts using usernames and profile pictures that looked like mine. They were leaving comments on other people’s videos pretending to be me, offering investment advice and inviting people into WhatsApp and Telegram groups.Now, fortunately, some of the scams were hilariously obvious.Bad grammar. Weird phrasing. The sort

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14:43

Early Retirement Taught Me That We’ve All Been Sold a...

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/08/28

Nine months ago, I was laid off from my Big Tech job.After 25 years in the technology industry, I suddenly found myself outside the machine I had spent most of my adult life helping to operate.I call it involuntary early retirement.And I know how fortunate I am.I had spent years working in well-paid technology jobs, saving aggressively and investing. That eventually gave me financial independence, the ability to pay for my life without needing a traditional paycheck.So when the layoff came, I didn’t

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11:31

You’re Not Supposed to Live Like This?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/08/19

Hello, world.I’m an unemployed former Big Tech software engineer with 25 years of experience in the technology industry.And one of the strangest things about early retirement is discovering something I never seemed to have enough of while working:time.Free time gives you the opportunity to notice things you were too busy to notice before.And once I slowed down, I started thinking about a paradox that I find increasingly difficult to ignore.The Good Life ParadoxLook at the news. Scroll through social

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119:03

Asian Dad Energy LIVE Office Hours

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/08/17

Hello World!I'm finally scratching the live-streaming itch and putting my OBS Studio setup through its paces. This is basically a live test run of my cameras, microphones, scenes, overlays, and all the other Techy nonsense I've been tinkering with.While I'm here, let's talk about something a little more serious: Is the AI Bubble about to burst? I'll share my thoughts on the current state of the AI boom, whether we're in an actual bubble, and what I think could plausibly happen next.Come hang out,

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13:11

NVIDIA Is a Dead Man Walking? Here’s Why.

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/08/11

NVIDIA has become one of the great corporate success stories of the AI boom.Its GPUs power much of the infrastructure behind today’s frontier AI models. Revenue has exploded. Profitability has exploded. Its market capitalization has reached almost incomprehensible levels.And because NVIDIA sells the “shovels” during the AI gold rush, the conventional wisdom seems pretty straightforward:Even if the AI bubble eventually bursts, NVIDIA wins.After all, somebody still has to sell the picks and

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15:18

Nobody Wants You to Own a Home?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/08/05

A few weeks ago my family took a road trip to Maine.Over the course of several days I drove nearly 500 miles through half a dozen states before finally arriving at Acadia National Park. The scenery was spectacular. Rocky coastlines, endless forests, lobster shacks every few miles, it was exactly the kind of trip that reminds you just how beautiful America can be.But it wasn’t Acadia that stuck with me.It was everything I saw along the drive.Nearly every picturesque town had the same pattern. There

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11:31

No Money? Here’s How You Escape the Permanent Underclass

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/30

What if the future is increasingly divided between people who own capital and people who sell their labor? And what if you have no savings, no assets, and maybe even a negative net worth? Is it already too late?Hello world.I’m an unemployed former Big Tech software engineer with 25 years of experience in the technology industry.Involuntary early retirement has given me something I didn’t have much of during my working years: time to think.And one idea I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is

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12:40

AI Is About to Crash. Here’s Why.

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/23

Hello world.I’m an unemployed ex Big Tech software engineer with 25 years of experience in the technology industry.And lately, I’ve been looking at the AI industry and thinking:Is it just me, or is this bubble looking extra bubbly?Because something feels different.The AI industry is still burning through enormous amounts of money. The companies at the center of the AI boom continue to require staggering amounts of capital to build data centers, buy GPUs, train models, and keep everything running.But

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11:49

Time Is Going By Too Fast... Here's Why

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/21

One of the strangest things about getting laid off from Big Tech is realizing that, for the first time in decades, I actually have time.And as strange as this new chapter has been, I’ve noticed something surprisingly wonderful.Time has slowed down.Not literally, of course. The Earth is still spinning at roughly the same speed. My clocks haven’t suddenly become defective. Monday still becomes Tuesday whether I like it or not.But my perception of time has changed dramatically.And honestly?It feels a

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2:05

Your Job Won’t Remember You. Your Family Will.

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/15

Hello World!Last week, my family and I spent several wonderful days exploring New York’s Finger Lakes.There wasn’t anything particularly extraordinary about the trip. We went sightseeing. We ate good food. We laughed. We wandered around. We took far too many pictures that will probably never leave our phones.But somewhere in the middle of it all, while watching my kids run around and seeing everyone genuinely happy, I was reminded of something that I think many of us spend years forgetting.Time is

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12:51

The College System Is About to Collapse?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/08

Over the Fourth of July weekend, my dad, my son, and I went on one of our annual boys club fishing trips.Between catching countless panfish, my dad brought up a topic that instantly transported me back to my teenage years.He told me that I needed to do everything possible to get my son into a prestigious Ivy League university.To him, this was obvious.To me, it was deeply unsettling.I spent most of the conversation trying to explain that artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the economics

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14:47

I Got Laid Off... Now I Make $11,000 a Month Doing...

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/07/04

When I got laid off from my Big Tech job late last year, I thought I knew what came next.Shock.Anger.Shame.Sadness.If you’ve ever been laid off, you probably know the feeling. It is as if someone has ripped away not just your paycheck, but your identity. After spending twenty five years in the technology industry, I suddenly found myself unemployed.Meanwhile, every week seemed to bring another announcement of mass layoffs across the tech industry. Friends were losing jobs. LinkedIn became an endless

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12:23

Why Everyone SEEMS to Have More Money Than Me?

AsianDadEnergy"s Podcast ·

2026/06/30

Every once in a while, I experience a feeling that I’m not particularly proud of.It’s the feeling that everybody else is rich.They all seem to have more money than I do. Bigger houses. Newer cars. Better vacations. Better lives.And somehow, despite everything I’ve accomplished, I feel like I’m falling behind.These days it doesn’t happen very often, but every now and then it sneaks up on me.Maybe I’m watching YouTube and someone is giving a tour of their enormous house. Maybe I’m watching Netflix,

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