Episodes

  • Episode 10: Cost Of Distrust

    Episode 10: Cost Of Distrust
    Jun 30 2026
    A pilgrim in Austin, Texas. Partly cloudy. Ninety-two degrees of dry heat. Three kilometers, and a check-in after a while away. They'd been heads-down building — deep in the Pilgrim app with Claude, turning a swarm of agents loose on the code until the tokens ran dry. About a model that launched and was pulled inside a week. About a tool closed to anyone who couldn't prove where they were born. About one country closing its source while another opens theirs, and who that leaves to set the direction. About Fight Club, a duvet, and the things we buy that we never really wanted. New projects, and the quiet cost of distrust. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep10 — returns to the trail on June 30, 2027
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    37 mins
  • Episode 9: The Inner Compass

    Episode 9: The Inner Compass
    Jun 4 2026
    Two pilgrims in The Domain, Texas. Overcast and seventy-seven degrees. Three kilometers through a district of shops and open walkways. Two old friends, one who speaks in visions, in one long unbroken conversation. It opened with pilgrimage as the exit from life's normality. About sauntering instead of hiking, and the ground John Muir called holy. About wandering versus the destination, and how the detours hold the treasure. About GPS, and the part of the brain that forgets how to find its own way. About the inner compass — the inner CEO, the disruptive manager, the inner lobbyist. About mantras chanted a hundred thousand times, and guidance that arrives all at once. About small towns that turn the chains away, and a vision of AI as a bridge between worlds. Some walks are one long conversation about how to find the way. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep9 — returns to the trail on June 4, 2027
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Episode 8: Pace Of Reunion

    Episode 8: Pace Of Reunion
    May 26 2026
    Two pilgrims in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wind and seventy-seven degrees. Three and a half kilometers up the Basin Trail at Red Rock. An old friend showed up in new terrain. They told the story of a fourteen day hike pushed into ten. About no itinerary, only the day and what it asks. About barefoot running and finger toe shoes. About Mars and Antarctica and the loneliness of leisure. About rattlesnake territory and the long way around White Sands. Some walks happen because the company is the point. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep8 — returns to the trail on May 26, 2027
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Episode 7: Three Layers Deep

    Episode 7: Three Layers Deep
    May 5 2026
    A pilgrim in Austin, Texas. Overcast sky. Eighty degrees. Three kilometers along a lake. They told the story of a season of building. About a book on noticing. About a spiral of hexagons that begins at zero. About a community that walks together once a month. About a wave that is already here. The only way forward is to surf. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep7 — returns to the trail on May 5, 2027
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    38 mins
  • Episode 6: Field Of Awareness

    Episode 6: Field Of Awareness
    Apr 24 2026
    Two pilgrims in Austin, Texas. Overcast and warm. Less than a mile in the heat. They talked about whether AI is conscious. About free will being five percent and as big as heaven and earth. About a temple in Taiwan where the self disappeared on the fourth floor. About awakening as death by ten thousand cuts. About the events that pass. About the field of awareness that does not. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep6 — returns to the trail on April 24, 2027
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Episode 5: Discernment Is Key

    Episode 5: Discernment Is Key
    Apr 17 2026
    A pilgrim in Austin, Texas. Wind by the lake. Two kilometers on a favorite secluded path. They talked about photos pinned to a path as relics. About the endless chase for digits on a screen. About the old teaching. To know there is enough. About the wave of AI that no one can stop. About the discernment that remains. We do not stop the ocean. We flow with life. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep5 — returns to the trail on April 17, 2027
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    38 mins
  • Episode 4: Play In Play

    Episode 4: Play In Play
    Apr 14 2026
    Two pilgrims in Downtown, Texas. Overcast. Twenty-nine degrees. Four and a half kilometers of reunion talk. They traced the edge of what AI can reach and what it cannot. They said the soul is not a transformer. That the tree is the universe, and the word for tree is not. That the child inside everyone only wants to play. That forgetting to play is the recipe for death. Remember the light inside. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep4 — returns to the trail on April 14, 2027
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Episode 3: Kindling Of Fire

    Episode 3: Kindling Of Fire
    Apr 11 2026
    A pilgrim in Austin, Texas. Overcast sky. Drizzle and twenty-five degrees. Five kilometers along a lake. They came back from a mushroom journey carrying questions. About sacred fire and the smallest kindling. About the spiral that always returns to the beginning. About the one piece at the center of every story, which turns out to be nothing. We are actors in a divine comedy who forgot we are in a play. The treasure was always where we started. Walk: https://plgr.im/ep3 — returns to the trail on April 11, 2027
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    1 hr and 3 mins