Whoa, Vol. 3: Humanmaxxing

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  Jack Butcher 12.08.2026 1ч 10мин

  Welcome to Humanmaxxing, an interview series on thriving in the age of machines. You can follow along on ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠.Jack Butcher has built one of the most singular careers on the internet. He first became known for Visualize Value, where he distilled complex ideas about business and creativity into a visual language that traveled everywhere, then turned that attention into an independent education business.More recently, his work has expanded into digital and participatory art. At Art Basel Miami Beach in 2025, his installation Self Checkout invited visitors to pay whatever they wanted for a receipt and made the project’s costs and profits visible in real time. A display began at –$74,211, the cost of producing the exhibition, and updated with every purchase; by the end, 5,837 receipts had generated nearly $189,000 in revenue. Throughout everything he does, Jack’s genius is bridging design, markets, psychology, and technological advancement to challenge and expand our understanding of value in the modern world.In this conversation, Jack talks about how AI is changing his creative process, why he open-sourced his entire writing history, where creative value lives now, and why dismissing new formats (even brain rot) can prevent us from evolving creatively.
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  Cate Hall 05.08.2026 50мин

  Welcome to Humanmaxxing, an interview series on thriving in the age of machines. You can follow along on ⁠Substack⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, and ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠.Cate Hall is a former Supreme Court attorney and once the world’s top-ranked female poker player who went from the throes of addiction to leading a multibillion-dollar foundation. Her life is proof that even the most trapped among us can discover a path to fulfillment.There must be something like the opposite of suicide, whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living, or rescue their own life from destruction/obscurity. If there’s one book I’d bet on to catalyze that reaction, it’s Cate Hall’s You Can Just Do Things.In this conversation, Alex and Cate talk about what it means to live agentically, touching on God, AI surrender, meaning, and her #1 piece of advice for becoming more agentic.Chat with the Granola Notes for this conversation ⁠here⁠.Subscribe to the ⁠Sublime Newsletter⁠ for access to the full Humanmaxxing interview series.This episode is brought to you by Granola, the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.granola.ai/sublime⁠ and use code SUBLIME to get 3 months free.⁠sublime.app⁠ is the inspiration management tool creatives use to collect, connect, and create with their inspiration.Hosted by Alex Dobrenko, creator of Code for Creatives, a course for creative people learning to build with AI. ⁠Join the waitlist for Cohort 4⁠.
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  Henrik Karlsson 26.07.2026 1ч 22мин

  Welcome to Humanmaxxing, an interview series on thriving in the age of machines. You can follow along on Substack, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.Henrik Karlsson is Substack-famous, but he is still our answer when people ask who the most underrated writer in the world is. In this conversation, Henrik joins Alex Dobrenko to discuss:The pressures of internet fame, feedback, and monetizing creative workWhy AI has pushed him to become more human, weird, and playfulWhy he doesn’t understand people who don’t marvel at LLMsHis Radiohead vs. Coldplay theory of creative careersWhy his online persona is more aspirational than accurateand lots more…Chat with the Granola Notes for this conversation here.Subscribe to the Sublime Newsletter for access to the full Humanmaxxing interview series.This episode is brought to you by Granola, the AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings: https://www.granola.ai/sublime and use code SUBLIME to get 3 months free.sublime.app is the inspiration management tool creatives use to collect, connect, and create with their inspiration.Featuring Henrik Karlssonhttps://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/https://x.com/phokarlssonHosted by Alex Dobrenko, creator of Code for Creatives, a course for creative people learning to build with AI. Join the waitlist for Cohort 4.