Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg

Today’s guest is William Morgan, the co-founder of Restless Egg, a London-based incubator and accelerator designed specifically for a new class of “artist-founders” whose work synthesizes art, technology, and commercial product design.

His thesis: The tech sector’s obsession with optimization can’t help us discover the genuinely novel forms of human experience that this intelligent substrate makes possible. If we want something truly better, we need to cultivate the taste and discernment to know which futures are worth living in — and radically expand our imagination regarding what human-machine relationships can actually look like.

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Chapters

00:00 Teaser: Taste & Sovereign Choice

02:46 Intro

06:41 Meet William Morgan

08:05 The Origins of The Avant-Garde

10:09 Taste and Abundance