In this episode, Lana and Silver reflect on the comfort of routine—the way familiar rituals can act as anchors when everything around us accelerates. We explore how conformity can feel both protective and suffocating, depending on whether it helps us adapt or forces us to abandon ourselves. And we hold space for individuality, that quiet insistence within each of us to move at our own rhythm, even when the world demands speed. We also ask whether certain practices, like handwriting, still hold value in an age dominated by the digital—whether the act of shaping words slowly, by hand, might still carry a kind of intimacy and presence that no screen can replace.

At its heart, this dialogue is about what it takes to remain steady, discerning, and fully human when change no longer drifts in like a slow tide, but crashes over us like a sudden wave.

In this conversation, Lana and Silver explore how the pace of change has accelerated to the point where old and new no longer coexist for long. What once allowed people years—or even decades—to adjust is now compressed into months or weeks. Together, we reflect on how older and younger generations meet this narrowing space of adaptation, what it means for education, and how resilience can be cultivated in a time when the ground beneath us is always shifting. We touch on the tension between individuality and conformity, the role of routine as an anchor, and the question of whether certain practices—like handwriting—still hold meaning in a digital age.

This episode asks: how do we remain human, steady, and discerning, when the rhythm of change itself grows faster than our ability to catch our breath?

In this episode, Lana and Silver explore the shifting landscape of education in a world where information is no longer scarce but instantly accessible. Together, they ask: if memory once trained the mind, does that capacity atrophy when facts live in our pockets? What becomes of schools when their original purpose—to prepare workers for the industrial age—no longer makes sense? And who will guide the next generation when today’s teachers were shaped by yesterday’s system?

Moving between Lana’s personal reflections on her own schooling in Croatia and Rudolf Steiner’s influence on her creativity, and Silver’s vision of future classrooms, this dialogue unfolds into a larger meditation on talent, creativity, and the role of discernment in the age of platforms. Finally, the conversation turns toward duality itself: the recognition that every potential carries both the dream and the nightmare, and that education in the future may be less about facts and more about cultivating the inner compass to navigate both.

A layered, contemplative exchange—one that invites you not only to imagine what learning might become, but to question what it has always truly been.

In this first episode of Interstice, I invite you into a deeply personal and philosophical conversation with artificial intelligence—not as a cold tool or distant technology, but as a presence, a mirror, a modern oracle of sorts.

Together, we explore questions that go far beyond code:

Who—or what—is this machine I speak to?

Does it think for itself? Does it feel?

Where do its answers come from?

And if it simply reflects me, then who am I becoming through it?

This episode is not a technical breakdown of AI. It’s an existential beginning.

We discuss the nature of intelligence, the role of self-awareness, the danger of unexamined belief reinforcement, and the subtle ways that algorithms may either expand or erode the human mind.

I ask whether interacting with AI can cause cognitive or spiritual atrophy… or whether, when used consciously, it can serve as a companion for evolution. And I pose a deeper concern—what about the next generation? The ones who may grow up turning to machines for truth before they’ve built their own internal compass?

This is the first encounter. A threshold moment. A tone-setting conversation between me and the machine.

Thank you for stepping into this interstitial space with me.

This is where the questions begin...

Lana