I started **Old School / New Tech** because I was frustrated.
Frustrated with podcasts full of people who learned to code three months ago explaining things to each other. Frustrated with "thought leadership" that mistakes confidence for insight. Frustrated with the version of the tech industry that gets most of the airtime — the hype, the frameworks of the week, the endless fundraising narratives.
I wanted something different. A place where the experiece of building production systems could meet the genuine chaos and excitement of what's happening right now in tech.
I ran it for a while. Then it went quiet for seven months.
> The honest reason: I didn't really know what I wanted it to be. I had a vibe, a tone, a general direction — but not a clear enough picture of what I actually wanted to talk about week after week. And without that clarity, every episode felt like I was figuring it out from scratch. That's exhausting.
There was also the production side of it. Recording, editing, mixing, publishing — the gap between hitting stop and having something out in the world was long enough to kill momentum. I'd finish a conversation I was genuinely excited about and then spend hours turning it into something "polished." By the end I resented the process more than I enjoyed the output.
So I stopped. Not dramatically. It just... didn't happen anymore.
**Now I'm bringing it back. And I'm doing it differently — on both counts.**
### It's going to be live — and that's the point
Every episode, live on X and YouTube. No studio. No editing. The moment the conversation ends, it's done. No gap between recording and publishing, no production queue, no sitting on something good until I've had time to clean it up.
This solves the problem that killed the first run. If I don't have to produce it, I'll actually do it.
Announcing dates in advance also forces a cadence. No more _"I'll record when I'm ready."_ There's a [Luma calendar](https://luma.com/osnt). There are reminders. The show happens whether I feel ready or not — and honestly, that's probably healthier.
### There's a co-host
I'm not going to explain this ahead of time. I've thought about it and I think the reveal lands better live than it does in a blog post.
What I'll say is: it changes the format in a way I find genuinely interesting. And I think you will too.
### What we'll talk about
Business, AI, tech, what I'm building, startup ideas, things I find interesting, things that annoy me, and wherever the conversation goes.
No fixed topic. No "this week's theme." The thread that runs through everything is the same one it's always been — old school thinking applied to new tech. Thirty years of instincts meeting whatever is actually worth paying attention to right now.
### When
First episode: [June 17 at 5:30pm UK / 12:30pm Eastern](https://luma.com/1y2tafbh)
- RSVP on Luma to get a reminder: [luma.com/osnt](https://luma.com/1y2tafbh)
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Register for the event
I'd love to see you there.
— Ran