About the show
We're on a never-ending mission to build the best iterations of ourselves, and to help you do the same. Since 2020 we've recorded 98 conversations about everything from meditation to the future of technology, with subject-matter experts who actually do the work.
The show started as Into the Adultverse, two university friends figuring out adulthood out loud. It became The Next Iteration for the same reason the rubik's cube is our logo: you don't solve yourself in one move.
your hosts
Fuad Ali
What do you get when you combine two Gen Z'ers, a lot of coffee, and a bit of existential dread? A podcast, of course. Fuad did his undergrad in Engineering at McMaster, worked as an engineer at SpaceX and Twitter, and is now a Staff PM building Agentic tooling at Arize AI in New York City. Off the mic he's probably reading, running marathons, or working on his fav side project; researching institutional design for swarms of agents. He's always up for meeting new people, so hit his line!
fuadali.com
Damien Joseph
Lao Tzu turned to me and proclaimed “fall down seven times, get up eight.” And so in the face of my seventh quarter life crisis, I picked myself up once more. Afflicted with the brain equivalent of your eyes being bigger than your stomach, I spend most of my time confused; so I started a podcast which I guess makes me professionally confused? During the day I get paid for supporting pharma/biotechs in clinical trials and post-market. Other than that, I adore art, music, meeting new people, learning random new things, fighting a land war in Asia against my nemesis - nihilistic existential dread (I’m winning rn!), and just trying to live the good life. Opinions probably my own. DMs always open to new friends :)
get in touch
For guest suggestions, feedback, or anything else, write to info@nextiterationpod.com. Our DMs are open too.