@npub1mkq63wkt4… and @Vance my favorite global vs local optima is in game theory. The movie "A Beautiful Mind" shows how John Nash proved with math that doing the best thing for yourself AND the rest of the players was the most optimal move. Not the prisoners delima, but seeing outside the board or the game. The infinite game as Simon Sinek likes to talk about. With that in mind, the best thing in any organization is to treat everyone like they matter as written by the late St. Louis CEO Bob Chapman. Make the work safe and satisfying for the people. Use the growth model of motivation. Still though, if we can pay people with sats for a job well done, lets do that. Thanks for showing up in person to share this conversation! I think its better to keep your value in sats than mills (smallest unit of united states currency) but Ill still hold some of all if I can. Aluminim pop tabs are trading for a mill ($0.001) and if bitcoin is at $100k all three will be equal 🤪
Rob Long: AI, Scorpions in the Office & Why Local Optima Ruin Careers
By Vance Crowe
Ep. 481 · Aired May 22, 2026 · 1h 53m · Last boosted May 23, 2026
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Vance sits down with data engineer Rob Long — self-described as scoring near zero on the agreeableness scale — to dig into what professional AI use actually looks like. Rob walks through his work at Bayer building "Sales Companion," an iOS app that lets sales agronomists dump field notes, photos, and voice memos after customer visits, then uses an AI agronomy agent to surface product recommendations and flag crop disease issues the salesperson might have missed. It's a grounded, unglamorous look at how enterprise AI actually gets built and deployed. The conversation ranges widely, from the local optima prob...
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yourinn3rchildMay 29, 2026
100 https://fountain.fm/clip/dqidRsWFbLpasGKDfxLi is the "We Call Them Poor" song, but the artist is on X, can you poke them and get them to add the song to wavlake? I dont give my data to Elon or Zuck 😂
yourinn3rchildMay 29, 2026
100 Clipped the first song you shared and made a playlist but waiting on Fountain to fix the bug I found 😇. How do we share clips of boosts to add to the list you randomly select from? Became a premium fountener so I can save on the fees once I start zapping the artists $1 a song that I add to said playlist 👊
yourinn3rchildMay 27, 2026
2k Hey Chris how do we clip stuff for you? How can we request said clips? 2000+ sat Boosts are us selling our sats to you for your sweet sweet attention. To be unclear is to be unkind. We know you are the kindest Bitcoin Podcaster. Help us help you 🤟 Boba boosted 12533 but wiffed on the monty python clip 😭 you make us want to be better men and women 👊
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yourinn3rchildMay 8, 2026
13k A journey to get enough sats on here - River for the win as well as Bitcoin ATM's that charge $9 usd for the conversion 🤦. 12533 I hope you can get the Monte Python Holy Hand Grenade clip for this number 🤪. ? Can you compare the price of sats with usd mill ($0.001) and Gold's smallest unit (atoms) - or maybe the microgram price as the current system is even more crazy than the Bitcoin number? This way people can see how inflated the united states dollar has become and the real power of the sat 🤯
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yourinn3rchildMay 21, 2026
2.3k Holy hand grenade clip is okay, but the clip where he miscounts to three would be perferable "one, two, five! - three my lord, oh right three" followed by the explosion 😂. Love the emoji shout out! Thank you. Social media is fine, but how many fans do you need to give you $10 a month to make this worth your time?
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yourinn3rchildMay 26, 2026
2.2k How do we call in? How do we get your wife to join Linux Unplugged? Great convos are better with 4 participants according to "Dialogue - the art of thinking together" by William Isaacs 🤔 The Bob and Tom show does this with three dudes and Kristy. For future boost clips, check out Nestle Boost Drink commercials 😇
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yourinn3rchildMay 23, 2026
2.2k Not seeing last weeks baller boost on fountain - what gives? Do you prefer peeps watch on yubtub (mitchells vs machine reference) or fountain? What are the perks for joining the jupiter club for $15 a month? Lastly, what would it take to get you guys to come do a show in St. Louis MO in Vance Crowe's studio?
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yourinn3rchildAug 11, 2026
2.1k 2117 for the 117th episode plus 2000. Heard the Cold Card issue first from TWIB but also diversify and dont trust Canadian companies (que Team America Theme song). Is litigation against Kite in the works?
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yourinn3rchildMay 19, 2026
2.1k "Your inner child" back again even though River is holding my bitcoin for up to 5 days 🤬😭. I would love the Holy Hand Grenade clip for past and future 12533 boosts. Sats per doller is fine but 97% of the dollar has been inflated away since its creation. Other people like to compare bitcoin to gold but the smallest unit of gold is an atom. Gold can be traded by gram, but the equivalent amount of sats to atoms in a gram of gold is 3.06 x 10^21 sats which is more than will ever exist 🤦. At the current dollar and aluminum price though, a pop tab and a sat are worth the same 🥳 10 steel bottle caps are also worth a sat at scrap prices if we want get ahead of 2077 Fallout's timeline 🤔. - also you should definitely go on Vance (VCP) podcast in person in St Louis. Let us know what bitcoin bounty we would need to raise to get you there 😈
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yourinn3rchildJul 2, 2026
2.1k Episode 111 makes the run time 111 minutes 🥳 . What do you think of the idea of 2000 plus the previous episode to get shout outed? Im boosting 2111 just in case 😉.
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yourinn3rchildMay 25, 2026
2.1k Episode 21 was the first episode featuring the music we have all come to count on! Would love an outro with these beats sometime, a mashup of all the music and maybe some Chris quips 🤔.
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yourinn3rchildJun 3, 2026
2k Oh no maybe we broke your fountain account 😭 missed 9 of us above the 2000 sat mark by my count for 106. As long as people accept sats as payment it wont die. I tried to share the math on gold to bitcoin, The equivalent sats to ever exist equal to atoms of gold would be one grain of sand worth of gold - or 6.86 milligrams - thats how rare bitcoin will be 🤯.
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yourinn3rchildMay 25, 2026
2k Does 95% of this boost go to the advertisement at the beginning of the show - Progressive? 😂 I missed the youtube live even though Im subscribed and belled 😭🤷♂️. Id love for you guys to open with your sweet sweet music like TWIB does, then say "a quick ad to pay the bills" then come back. Feel free to put in as many ads you need to pay said bills 😇.
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yourinn3rchildJun 10, 2026
2k First to the Boost again - at least on fountain! Congrats in setting up the web boost so we can stack sats and exchange fiat for your support! Did you know the only Fiat (at least in the USA) that isnt value for value is the penny and nickel? The rest the govt is making millions just making more of them - and China was the one who started this Fiat Scam back in the 11th century 🤯
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yourinn3rchildJun 3, 2026
2k First to the Boost (ready player one reference) even though you said call OR boost - imma do my own thing 🤪. (To amswer your request for tech you are shipping) its gotta be Bitcoin with fountain! Making the playlist we can literally pay artists for the tracks we love. If a Sat could be generational wealth - do we boost 1 sat or the current USD equivalent? Thoughts?
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yourinn3rchildJun 2, 2026
2k (2001 space odesy boost 🙏) have you guys come across a rotary subwoofer in your journeys? It can hit 1 herz 🤯. I know Chris has an ultimate home theater video that may need a part 3 🤞
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yourinn3rchildMay 27, 2026
2k (2001 space odisy clip) Dont hate the player hate the game, I boosted the most sats last week but got jipped on my Lobster and Im the best 🤪. Whats the minimum that a baller boost can be? (Sometimes JB brings shouts out boosts that arent listed on the Fountain episode so we cant see if an episode is light on sats 🤔)
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yourinn3rchildFeb 12, 2026
1.3k #TheHolyHandGrenade Boost. 1253, though 12533 may be the price to warrant the clip 🤔. Boosting to drive you to another episode. I believe if we talk about gold and the other currency in their lowest denomination it would help. An atom of gold's worth, the dollar can be infinitely divisible just look at Office Space. A Sat is therefore much more valuable than any current atom of element 🤯
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