Episode 68 - God as Complexity: Consciousness, AI, and the Unseen — with Blake Whitcomb
We build the tools that run our world on a sliver of understanding, then trust them with everything. In this episode, Matt talks with his dear friend Blake Whitcomb about the unlikely path from a rigid religious upbringing to the frontier of AI and cybersecurity. Blake shares how being cast out led to a reckoning, how he taught himself the way the internet works by writing commands out by hand in a cell, and how that focus became a clearance, a career, and eventually his own company. Along the way they get into masculinity, power, and why going into your own depths is the real work. Blake is the CEO and co-founder of Prophetic AI , a Denver-based cybersecurity company whose platform analyzes network traffic to catch the earliest signs of an attack before data is stolen or encrypted. A largely self-taught engineer who earned a Navy secret clearance and worked on networks for the Department of Defense and McKesson before founding his company, he has spent more than a decade studying how machines communicate. If his story moves you, follow the show and pass it to someone who needs to hear it. New episodes every two weeks.
