Episode 3: Dexter Tortoriello

This episode, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) catch up with our friend musician and technologist Dexter Tortoriello, AKA Houses. In addition to his decade plus music career, Dexter is cofounder and former head of technology at FWB. He’s currently co-founder and CTO of MindPalace, an ambitious project aimed at building high-res, interactive AI models of the self, derived from decades of personal data, which will be in private Beta 🔜

• Transitioning from the music industry into tech

• Perils and lessons learned from scene building

• What is the future (or lack thereof) for DAOS

• The emerging battle lines in the AI industry

• What’s next for MindPalace and other personal-data enabled agents

• Trusting big tech vs startups with your data

• Music-style royalty models for software

• The “Age Of Canvas” and Mass Custom software/os/hardware

• Enduring importance of physical artifacts

• The incoming militarization of AGI labs

• Speculations on our infant daughters’ relationship with technology and the future of work

Artwork: Robert Fludd, “Temple of Music”, 1624 [colorized]