Satellite Haiku
Two long-time best friends wander through culture, politics, tech, and fatherhood and try to arrive at—stumble upon, alchemize and synthesize—something wise.
Milo & Shawn
Show overview
Satellite Haiku has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 72 episodes. That works out to roughly 85 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 8m and 1h 17m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 34 episodes published. Published by Milo & Shawn.
From the publisher
Two long-time best friends wander through culture, politics, tech, and fatherhood and try to arrive at—stumble upon, alchemize and synthesize—something wise. satellitehaiku.substack.com
Latest Episodes
View all 72 episodes073: Empty Vessels
072: Money, Corruption, and Cults
071: Apocalypse How? (AI Edition)
070: Late-Stage Trumpism
069: Remembering 9/11
068: Reality Remains Undefeated
067: What is the point (of creating art)?
065: Technology and Sports
064: Middle Age and its Metaphors
063: Weaving through Miscellany
062: Imposter Syndrome
061: Art, Sports, and Cultural Identity
060: The Economics of Music and Healthcare
059: Wave of Change
058: Journeys to Non-Belief
057: Value in the Doing
056: Layers of Attention
055: Process vs. Product
054: The Constant and the Variant (redux)
MiLo shares an update on his grandbabies and uses that to riff on the constant versus the variant (nature versus nurture). We linger on parenthood for a bit, and then we talk about approaches to human learning, analogous approaches to training AI, Waldorf education, screen use and attention span, ADHD, the purpose of school and different college majors, STEM versus the humanities, the idea of the “collective” (i.e. society) and its obstacles, globalization, “fraternity” versus selfishness, whether selfishness is endemic (constant) or learned (variant), proxy debates in politics, Steven Pinker’s view of human progress, the need for certainty and cognitive closure, religious belief. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com
053: Supposedly Smart People
We talk about audiophiles, stereos of our youth, early portable music devices, white gentrification, artistic idiosyncrasies, writing, the pap smear test, videoconferencing apps, libertarians, Andreessen, Musk, Zuckerberg and the end of the Metaverse, the stupidity of supposedly smart people, the daily barrage of crime and scandal, fears about the midterms and 2028 elections.Mentioned in this episodeDr. Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek physician and pathologist who developed the “Pap Smear” screening method in the 1920s to detect cancerous cells in the cervixEx Machina (2014 film) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com