A YouTube series for intelligent, nontechnical adults who are tired of pretending technology jargon makes sense.
Each short episode explains one technology concept through an ordinary human analogy, translates it back into accurate technical language, and clears up one common misconception along the way.
From artificial intelligence and large language models to cloud computing, cybersecurity, passwords, encryption, and everyday digital technology, the series explains how modern tech actually works—in plain English, with humor, and without requiring you to become the person everyone avoids at dinner parties.
Whether you’re trying to understand how technology affects your work, business, nonprofit, or daily life, the goal is simple: make technology easier to understand, question, and use.
No tech background required. Bring your curiosity. I’ll bring the occasional existential crisis.
Season One
Cloud Computing Explained: The Cloud Is NOT a Cloud
What is cloud computing, really? A plain-English explanation of the cloud, data centers, servers, and where your files actually go—with considerably fewer actual clouds than advertised.
How Algorithms Work:
The Nosy Roommate in Your Feed
How do recommendation algorithms seem to know exactly what you’ll click next? We break down how algorithms use your behavior to shape recommendations, feeds, and suggestions—with help from one deeply observant roommate.
How ChatGPT Works:
The Extremely Confident Intern
What is ChatGPT actually doing when it answers you? Learn how large language models, tokens, prompting, and next-token prediction work—and why a beautifully written answer can still be completely wrong.
What Is an API?
How Apps Talk to Each Other
What is an API, and how do completely different apps exchange information? We explain API requests, responses, endpoints, and authentication using the postal service. As an analogy ….not literally.
What Is a Database?
The Junk Drawer That Hired a Librarian
Databases explained without the computer science lecture. Learn how records, fields, tables, relationships, and queries turn a digital junk drawer into information people can actually find.
What Are Internet Cookies? The Internet Has Been Taking Notes
What are website cookies, and why does the internet remember your shopping cart, preferences, and that pair of shoes you looked at once? Browser cookies, sessions, tracking, and first-party data explained in plain English.
How Encryption Works:
The Locked Box Inside the Delivery Truck
What does “encrypted” actually mean? Learn how encryption protects data in transit and at rest, what encryption keys do, and why encrypted does not necessarily mean invincible.
How Phishing Works:
Why the Internet Keeps Asking You to Panic
Why are phishing emails and fake messages still so effective? We explain social engineering, fake login pages, malicious links, spoofed senders, and the surprisingly powerful cybersecurity weapon known as panic.
Password Security Explained: Your Digital House Key Is Doing Too Much
One reused password is like one key opening every door you own. Learn how credential stuffing works, why unique passwords and password managers matter, how MFA adds protection, and how passkeys resist fake-login-page phishing—with a burglar unimpressed by your extra exclamation point.
How LLMs Are Trained:
The Intern Gets Homework
How are large language models trained? Our extremely confident intern gets fill-in-the-blank homework. Learn how tokens, loss, parameters, backpropagation, and an optimizer turn repeated practice into better predictions—and why training is different from using a model to answer.
Season Two is Coming!
Tokens & Embeddings Explained
How AI Attention Works
How to Write Better AI Prompts
Why AI Hallucinates
AI Memory Explained
What Is RAG in AI?
What Are AI Agents?
What Is Multimodal AI?
What Is Automation?
The History of AI Explained