Michael Peres sits down with Craig Guarraci, a veteran product leader with 30+ years in tech spanning Microsoft, Amazon, startups, and his own coaching firm, Tech PM Career Path. In this episode, Craig breaks down the human side of AI product leadership and shares lessons from his new book, Beyond AI Models, on what strong product managers still need to do even as AI rapidly changes the landscape.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How Craig’s path from a college programming class to Microsoft shaped his product leadership mindset
• Why AI needs its own leadership playbook, even if core product principles still matter
• Why “customer first, why first” remains essential in a world obsessed with AI features
• How product teams should think about AI governance, monitoring, security, and privacy
• Where Craig believes AI product management is heading over the next three to five years

Michael Peres speaks with Yoon Auh, founder of Nuts and Bolts Technologies and holder of 37 patents in applied cryptography. Drawing from a background in physics, engineering, Wall Street trading systems, and privacy tech, Yoon explains how his work evolved toward building more resilient, flexible, and user-controlled digital systems for a post-quantum future.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How Yoon went from physics and engineering into Wall Street trading systems and algorithmic problem-solving
• Why he became obsessed with privacy, data control, and the limits of Web 2.0 architecture
• How DNA and biological systems inspired his thinking about redundancy, resilience, and self-describing encrypted data
• Why he believes post-quantum cryptography will force a major rethink of blockchain security
• How his QFlex approach could give users more control over how their assets are protected in a future-proof crypto environment

Michael Peres speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, astrophysicist, author, and science educator, about the scale of the universe, the search for life beyond Earth, and why helping kids stay curious may be one of the most important jobs in science. Drawing on a career that spans bestselling textbooks, award-winning children’s books, NASA work, and public science outreach, Jeff shares how Carl Sagan helped shape his path and why understanding our place in the cosmos matters so much. The uploaded transcript centers on science education, cosmic scale, the Fermi paradox, space exploration, and Jeff’s new book The Scale of the Universe.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
• How Jeff’s path shifted from biophysics to astrophysics and science education after being inspired by Carl Sagan
• Why people consistently misunderstand the scale of space and time, and why that matters
• What the Fermi paradox, great filters, and the search for extraterrestrial life can teach us about humanity
• Why Jeff believes science curiosity begins naturally in childhood, and how schools too often push it out
• How his books ended up being read aloud by astronauts from the International Space Station