Theo Marquez
Co-host · Tech & product
Former staff engineer turned writer. Theo brings the builder's eye - and a healthy suspicion of any sentence that contains the word "disrupt."
Season 4 · New episodes every Tuesday
Conversations at the edge of tech & culture.
Signal & Noise is a weekly show where builders, thinkers and troublemakers cut through the hype - long-form talks on the ideas quietly reshaping how we live.
- Episodes
- 120+
- Monthly listens
- 340k
- Rating
- 4.9
As heard on
- WIRED Audio
- The Verge Network
- Pivot Daily
- Future Tense
- Studio 9 Originals
The feed
Latest episodes
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58 min
The Quiet Rise of Small AI
Why the most useful models are getting smaller, and what that means for the next wave of apps, privacy and who actually owns intelligence.
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1h 04m
Designing for Trust with Mara Olsen
The veteran product designer on dark patterns, the economics of attention, and building software people don't feel manipulated by.
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49 min
The Creator Economy Hits Reality
Subscriptions are plateauing and platforms are squeezing. We map what a sustainable independent media business actually looks like in 2026.
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52 min
After the Algorithm: A Quieter Internet
A conversation about the slow return to small communities, group chats and the web we make for each other instead of for the feed.
About the show
No hot takes. Just the conversations worth having.
Every Tuesday we sit down for an unhurried, no-spin conversation with the people actually building, breaking and rethinking the future - founders, researchers, artists and the occasional brilliant skeptic.
We started Signal & Noise because the loudest voices rarely have the most interesting things to say. So we slow down, ask better questions, and follow the curiosity wherever it goes.
- Long-form & ad-light. One guest, real depth, no filler.
- Show notes for everyone. Links, transcripts and timestamps, free.
- Listener-shaped. Half our best episodes start in your inbox.
Behind the mics
Your hosts
Two restless minds with very different opinions and a shared allergy to easy answers.
Renata Cole
Co-host · Culture & society
Journalist and longtime culture critic. Renata keeps the show honest, asking who actually benefits - and who pays - when the future arrives.
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