It’s called “Hard Fork,” and it’s all about the wild frontiers of tech. With co-host Casey Newton. Listen to the trailer here, and check out the first episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, rabbit hole listeners, it's Kevin.
I know it's been a while and you're probably wondering why I'm back in your feed.
Well, it's because I've got a new podcast that I want to tell you about.
It's called Hard Fork, and it's a weekly chat show that I'm hosting along with my friend and fellow tech journalist Casey Newton.
The first episode is out now, and I hope you'll give it a listen.
Here's the trailer.
I'm Kevin Roos, a tech columnist at the New York Times.
And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
Casey, we should probably explain why our podcast is called Hard Fork.
Oh, yeah.
So, a, our other names didn't get approved by the New York Times lawyers.
True.
And b, it's actually a good name for what we're going to be talking about.
A, hard fork is a programming term for when you're building something, but it gets really screwed up, so you take the entire thing, break it, and start over.
Right.
And that's a little bit what it feels like right now in the tech industry.
Like these companies that you and I have been writing about for the past decade, like Facebook and Google and Amazon, they're all kind of, of struggling to stay relevant.
Yeah, I mean, we've noticed a lot of the energy and money in Silicon Valley is shifting to totally new ideas.
Crypto, the metaverse, AI, it feels like a real turning point when the old things are going away and interesting new ones are coming in to replace them.
And all this is happening so fast and some of it's so strange.