The Daily Reflection
Two thoughtful voices on a story worth understanding. Short conversations about what happened, why it matters, and what remains open.
With Alex and Sam
Podcast series · 4 episodes
The Daily Reflection
Two thoughtful voices on a story worth understanding. Short conversations about what happened, why it matters, and what remains open.
Start · Episode 1 →Episode 1 · About 6 min
What changed in AI this week?
Alex and Sam examine three developments from 20–26 September 2026: a proposed US–China AI incident channel, Meta’s plans to extend its Muse agent to glasses and connected services, and Darktrace’s controlled tests of coding agents. They distinguish announced capabilities from demonstrated results, and consider what remains uncertain about deployment, safety and governance.
Episode 2 · About 3 min
Does Listening Count as Reading?
Alex and Sam explore what audiobooks share with print, what they do differently, and why comprehension, pleasure and literacy skills should not be collapsed into one definition of reading.
Episode 3 · About 4 min
When the reader gets a choice
Alex and Sam explore authored interactive fiction through inkle’s 80 Days and Ink’s documented design practices, asking how choices, constraints and consequences distribute authorship between writer, system and reader.
Episode 4 · About 4 min
The books we nearly lost
A Pen & Muse conversation about the difference between preserving books and helping people discover them, from volunteer digitisation to the rediscovery of John Williams’s Stoner.