{"id":240096,"date":"2026-07-01T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ryan-janzen-jarring-is-what-we-need"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:04:44","slug":"ryan-janzen-jarring-is-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ryan-janzen-jarring-is-what-we-need","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Janzen: Jarring is What We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWmiBVndVMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years ago, I sat down with Ryan Janzen, and his title said it all:<\/p>\n<p>Jarring is What We Need.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is an engineer and a composer. He builds bridges between electrical #engineering, #physics, and #music. He also plays the hydraulophone, an instrument you sound by touching jets of water.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that. Not strings. Not keys. Water.<\/p>\n<p>Most people chase technology for its own sake. Ryan asked a harder question. Why are we building this? What is it for? He worried openly about careerism in both the arts and the sciences, about the quiet drift toward doing things simply because we can.<\/p>\n<p>That worry has aged well. In an age of #AI abundance and endless capability, the scarce resource is not the How. It is the Why.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/ryan-janzen-jarring-is-what-we-need\">Continue reading \u201cRyan Janzen: Jarring is What We Need\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, I sat down with Ryan Janzen, and his title said it all: Jarring is What We Need. Ryan is an engineer and a composer. He builds bridges between electrical #engineering, #physics, and #music. He also plays the hydraulophone, an instrument you sound by touching jets of water. Think about that. Not strings. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1496,42,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-law","category-media-arts","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}