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The Model Beneath

The Model Beneath

By: Headroom Collective
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The Model Beneath is a long-form podcast about how important things really work. Hosts Daniel Reed and Maya Chen take complex subjects across technology, business, science, geopolitics and history, then rebuild them from first principles through sharp, curious conversation. Expect clear mental models, concrete examples, serious counterarguments and ideas you can actually use.Headroom Collective
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  • Why Work Feels Fake

    Why Work Feels Fake
    Aug 2 2026

    How big companies confuse activity with progress


    Why can an organization be full of intelligent people, enormous budgets, and constant activity - and still struggle to produce anything real? Daniel and Maya go underneath the meetings and roadmaps, into the incentives, architecture, and management habits that quietly turn work into the appearance of work - and ask whether AI changes those systems, or just accelerates them.
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    1 hr and 23 mins
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