Welcome to the After-On Podcast. I'm your host, Rob Reed.

And this is a series of conversations with thinkers, founders, and scientists.

Take a little time and stretch out, because these talks are unhurried and meant to bring you to a top percentile understanding of something important.

So, whether you're into start-ups or ideas, a techie or a lit major, take your time, engage your mind, and you'll be glad you did it.

Especially this week when we'll be talking to...

Me, Rob Reed, for something that's more of an announcement than an episode.

So I'm going to start by telling casual listeners, and particularly those who are tuning into this podcast for the first time,

that you'll probably want to skip this, and instead listen to the full episode, I posted just a few days ago, in which I interviewed a radically innovative DNA architect, named Floyd Roomsburg.

I'm recommending that, because this is an update on this podcast's future, which is targeted at those who listen regularly, and therefore hopefully care about that future.

And it's probably going to be a lot of detail, even for some of the show's biggest fans, because I really want to explain my thinking and present a nuanced take on where we're going from here for that minority that's really interested in the whole story.

So, for those who want to leave now, the cliff notes are that this podcast will continue, at least until the end of the year.

And hopefully, well beyond that, although with some changes in frequency, or at least in the frequency that I'm willing to commit to.

So with that quick summary, you are free to go.

But if you're a patron, though you too, are of course free to go, you may want to listen to most of what follows.

Otherwise, the 32-minute long audio post that I just put up to the Patreon feed won't make a whole lot of sense to you.

So, for those who are still listening, a quick summary of what's ahead, I'm going to start with a seven or eight minute review of the podcast's situation.

Then the remaining handish minutes of this will be kind of like a mini episode, in which I'll explore a certain set of thoughts connected to science and tech that I've been working on for a while.

I expand on these significantly in the Patreon post I just mentioned, and we'll be expanding on them a lot more in the coming months.

Now, to begin with the podcast update.

As most of you probably remember, back in the winter, I solicited your help in keeping this thing viable.

Up until then, I'd done it strictly as a passion project with zero revenue model.

But that was unsustainable, and I wanted to get to a level where I could keep things going indefinitely.

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