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Video conversations and field notes. The visual track of the same recordings that become the podcast.

Find every video on YouTube — @symbiotic-mind. The channel is organised in four playlists:

Field Notes — short 3–8 min essays-on-camera tied to a post.
Conversations — long-form dialogues between Vlad and Milena.
Built with AI — Vlad's dev workflow with Claude Code, multi-model setups, Ollama.
Research Reads — walking through a paper or a finding that changed our thinking.

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Essays, retold on video

6 August 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

What Should We Name Our AI?
30 July 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

Buying AI, but Not the Manager
23 July 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

The Asymmetry of Creation
16 July 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

Relationship Design
9 July 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

A Worldview Without a Person
2 July 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

What Should Be Allowed to Become Memory?
25 June 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

The Partner Who Flatters
11 June 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

Down the memory river with AI
4 June 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

The Partner Who Cannot Leave
26 May 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

Queryable vs Quotable *
22 May 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

Amplification
14 May 2026 · Vlad Sterngold

My API, Not My Resume
6 May 2026 · Milena S. Nikolova, PhD

You Are Not Using AI. You Are in a Relationship With It.