Reconnect & Rethink the hussh podcast
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The hussh podcast · Hosted by Manish Sainani

Reconnect & Rethink

AI is changing how we work, learn and stay close. Share what it means in your life, or watch for ideas you can use in your own.

30-minute conversations · Kirkland or remote · First episodes coming soon

For guests · Why you?

Your story matters

Share how AI is changing your life. Curiosity and skepticism welcome.

  • Be heard. Share your perspective with Manish.
  • Learn together. Explore your questions with an AI builder.
  • Be discovered. Let viewers find your work and ideas.
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For viewers · What you take away

Fresh perspectives and useful ideas

Real experiences to help you make your own choices about AI.

  • Try something useful. Find ideas for work, learning and connection.
  • Choose with confidence. Explore what to delegate and keep private.
  • Broaden your circle. Hear from people beyond your everyday world.
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The heart of the show

Technology is changing all of us

A nurse on her fifth night shift of the week. A grandmother learning to video call to keep in touch with her grandchildren. A student who has never known life without a phone. We want to hear from people with very different lives about their perspectives on AI, and how it is reshaping the world they live in.

Different lives with shared questions

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  • How you connect
  • How you learn
  • How you make it yours
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Why this conversation, now?

Take control of what AI changes and what you keep

AI is entering our classrooms, workplaces and personal conversations. We are already making choices about what to trust it with, often before we have talked those choices through.

Reconnect & Rethink makes room for that conversation. Each episode starts with a lived experience and ends with a question or practical idea you can take into your own life.

“Somewhere between the building and the busy, I lost touch with people I love… Reconnecting starts the same way for all of us: one name, one call.” Manish Sainani, your host

The people behind the conversation

Meet Manish and hussh

Your host

A builder’s curiosity

Manish Sainani is the founder of hussh, with 20 years of experience building products, including at Google and Splunk. Today, he is building personal AI.

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Behind the show

Own your AI, data and compute

hussh builds personal AI around a simple idea: people should own it. This show explores what that means with the people living through the change.

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A growing circle

One conversation opens another

Teachers, caregivers, creators, builders and neighbors. We are bringing different lives into the same conversation.

Every new voice offers another experience to learn from, a question to ask and someone whose work you might want to follow.

Share your story and discover a new perspective

Join Manish for a 30-minute recorded conversation at the hussh Garage in Kirkland or remotely. Tell us what you have experienced and what you would like to explore; we will follow up personally about fit and next steps.

Be a guest

Share your experience, explore your questions with Manish and help others see AI through your eyes.

Where shall we sit?

Thank you. We’ve got your application.

We’ll write to you personally.

Nominate someone

Know someone whose experience could change how others think about AI? Help bring their perspective into the show.

So they know who the note is from

Thank you. They’re on the list.

We’ll reach out with the same care you would. If they’d rather not, that’s the end of it.

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