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In this episode of Better Call Daddy, host Reena Friedman Watts sits down with Kiko Zang, business executive, tech founder, and opinion leader building human-centric consumer products. Kiko is the Founder & CEO of Chomp, a social game that rewards honesty instead of punishing it and she's on a mission to fix what she calls the "performative internet." Kiko opens up about her path from boarding school in China to New Zealand and the United States, the anti-authoritarian streak she carried as a kid, and the long road to understanding her own identity across cultures. The conversation gets candid as she discusses her experience with open relationships and how it reshaped her views on love, trust, kindness, and loyalty then turns to the bigger picture: why social media rewards performance over authenticity, why women in particular self-censor online, and why honest human belief may be the scarcest, most valuable data in the age of AI. Kiko also shares her founder journey from COO at Orca (one of Solana's largest decentralized exchanges, where she helped raise $19M and grow the platform to $1B+ in 24-hour trading volume) to building Chomp, which drew 50,000 beta users sharing millions of honest answers and raised $3.6M from backers including BlueYard, JSquare, and Accomplice placing her among the 2% of female-led startups to raise venture capital. Chomp launches on iOS in 2026. Equal parts personal memoir and founder story, this episode covers identity, relationships, resilience, the loneliness epidemic, the funding gap for female founders, and what it takes to build something real in a "dead internet" full of bots and AI slop. Keywords: Kiko Zang, boarding school identity, open relationships podcast, cultural identity, female tech founder, women in venture capital, social media and authenticity, dead internet theory, Chomp app, Solana Orca DEX, honest opinions app, read the room, loneliness epidemic, Better Call Daddy podcast, Reena Friedman Watts

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... Why Distributed Leadership Fails (And What Actually Makes It Work) Most nonprofit leaders I talk to already know they can't make every decision themselves. They've read the books. They've heard the term "distributed leadership." They've said out loud, in strategy meetings and board retreats, that they want more decisions happening closer to the people doing the work. And then, a year later, they're still the bottleneck. The story I hear is almost always the same. "I told my team they had authority. I told them I trusted them. But nothing changed. Decisions still come to me." What looks like a resistance problem is actually a systems problem. Distributed leadership is being announced instead of built. The word gets used. The system underneath it does not exist. When the system doesn't exist, people keep doing what the old system taught them to do. They ask permission. They wait for the meeting. They send the email up the chain. Not because they don't want authority. Because nothing around them has been redesigned to make holding that authority a real, workable practice. The Difference Between Declaring And Building A pattern I see over and over: a CEO decides the organization is going to be less hierarchical. They restructure the org chart. They rename departments. They talk about it in the all-staff. And then, six months in, nothing has actually shifted. The org chart is new. The meeting agendas are the same, the decision paths are the same, and the CEO is still the person everyone routes to. The chart got redrawn on top of an unchanged system. This is the structural piece that gets missed. An org chart tells you who is in charge of who. It doesn't tell you what actually needs to get done in the organization or who is accountable for making sure it does. And it doesn't touch the two places where the old hierarchy actually lives, which are meetings and decisions. Until those change, you've made a values statement. You haven't built a system. Trade The Org Chart For A Functions Chart The first piece of the redesign is the one leaders skip most often, because it looks like a semantic move and it isn't. Stop leading with an org chart. Build a functions chart. An org chart is about who is in charge of who. It's a picture of hierarchy. And a hierarchical leadership system, by design, consolidates power by concentrating decision-making. Using an org chart is literally a system that moves you in the opposite direction of distributed decision-making. A functions chart, which is the shape of the Leadership Blueprint I've developed with clients, is about what actually needs to get done in the organization and who is accountable for making sure it does. Instead of boxes for roles under other roles, you have named functions, each tied to a specific outcome, each with one person accountable for that outcome getting produced. That single move changes everything downstream. Now people aren't waiting to be told what to do by the person above them. They're accountable for an outcome, and they hold the decisions required to produce it. Distributed leadership stops being an aspiration. It becomes the actual design. One line from my conversation with Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, has stayed with me: "I both could hold distributed leadership, but then also had to teach distributed leadership to sort of the next level and the next level and the next level." What I appreciate about this framing is that it explains the mechanism. Once the functions chart is in place and each function has a clearly accountable owner, the work at each layer is to run distributed leadership inside their piece of the chart. That's a system carrying the practice, not a value statement trying to. Rework The Meetings The second piece is meetings. This is the piece I see leaders underestimate the most, and it is where command-and-control reinstalls itself no matter what the org chart says. Meeting agendas are a system. They reinforce whatever model is baked into them. If your leadership team meeting agenda is a series of updates rolling up to you, followed by decisions the group is asking you to make, you are running a command-and-control meeting. It doesn't matter what you call the meeting or what values you name at the top of it. The structure produces the behavior. A meeting designed to reinforce distributed leadership looks different. The agenda is structured around identifying where things are going right and where things are going wrong, and giving each outcome owner the chance to receive support from the rest of the group. Not approval from everyone. Not approval from any one person. Support. The group's job is to be useful to that owner, not to sign off on their work. That one shift, done consistently, changes how the whole organization behaves inside a quarter. People stop bringing their decisions to meetings for permission. They start bringing them for input, and the input goes back with them. Let People Volunteer Into The Outcomes They'll Own The third piece is how outcomes actually get owned, and this is the part most leaders get backwards Distributing decision-making is essentially the same thing as delegating outcomes. The person in a heads role is accountable for an outcome that sits outside their direct control. They can't personally make every donation come in, or every program hit its mark, or every partnership hold. But they own whether it happens. They decide what changes, what scales, what gets paused, what gets killed. The traditional way to fill those roles is assignment. The CEO and one or two senior leaders sit in a closed room and decide who gets promoted, who gets moved, who gets the new accountability. That model has two problems. It's bad for innovation, because people don't do their best thinking when they feel like they need a supervisor's approval for their next move. And it's bad for equity, because every layer of subjective human assessment lets inherited bias operate. The better move is to make the Leadership Blueprint visible to the whole team and let people volunteer into the heads roles they want to grow toward. The map shows every function, every outcome, and who currently owns each one. In front of the team, you ask: Where does the organization need to grow next? Who's ready for a heads role they've never held? Who wants to add a heads accountability on top of what they're already carrying? That's not chaos. It's not a free-for-all. It's a shift in the question. Instead of "what does my manager think of my work this quarter," the question becomes "where does this organization need to grow next, and where do I want to be standing when it does?" When someone volunteers into an outcome, the accountability lands differently. They chose it. They saw the map, understood the gap, and stepped forward. That's a very different starting point than being told what you're now responsible for. Ownership behaves differently when it's chosen than when it's assigned. The closed-door version of advancement produces one thing: the CEO deciding who moves. The open-map version produces three things at once: better innovation, better retention, and a more equitable system. Then Train Inside The System Once the functions chart is visible, the meetings are redesigned around it, and people have volunteered into the outcomes they'll own, training becomes the thing that lets the system actually run. Training is real work. Workshops, small conversations, direct coaching on what it means to invite the person closer to the problem into the decision, how to synthesize what they say, how to bring insight back and let it change the plan. It teaches people how to operate inside the redesigned system. On its own, though, training can't do the whole job. If the meetings, the reporting lines, and the decision rights still send the old signal, the training won't override them. Announcing a principle is a values statement. Building the system that makes it real, and then training people to operate inside it, is the whole job. Only the second one holds. Curiosity Is The Precondition There's one more piece underneath all of this that I want to name, because it's easy to miss. All of the structural work, all the redesign of the functions chart and meetings and decision rights, all the workshops and small practices, sit on top of a mindset. The leader has to be genuinely curious about what the people closer to the problem think. Not curious in a symbolic way. Not curious in a "we ran a listening tour" way. Curious in the sense that you actually don't already have the answer, and you know that the person in front of you has information you don't, and you want it. Jocelyn put it well: "I would probably say curiosity. I think that curiosity is such important sort of trait to hold, particularly as a leader. Like, I think we so often, as we sort of go up a journey in leadership, are told that we're the experts, that we know all the things, and people ask us all the questions, and we have the answers." This makes sense given the setup. When a leader believes they already have the answers, distributed leadership becomes theater. The information from the people closer to the problem never actually changes what happens. When a leader is genuinely curious, the information starts to move things. That's when the system produces something different. Curiosity is what makes the whole system real instead of performative. Without it, the practice collapses back into the CEO deciding everything, just with more meetings. What Changes When You Build It This Way When distributed leadership is actually built into an organization, a few things start to shift. The CEO stops being the bottleneck. Decisions get made faster because they're being made where the information lives. The people closest to the work feel the weight of it in a good way, they own the outcome and they own the improvement. Programs get better because they're being shaped by the people running them and the people they're serving. Money follows more easily because the strategy is grounded in what the ground actually looks like. None of that comes from the announcement. It comes from the redesigned system underneath the announcement. A functions chart that names the outcomes and who is accountable for each one. Meetings restructured around those functions, not around reporting to the CEO. People volunteering into the heads roles they want to grow toward, instead of being assigned in a closed room. Training that teaches people how to operate inside all of it. The CEO learning to sit on their hands the twentieth time they want to redirect. The point is to become the kind of leader who builds the system that makes the whole organization stronger, instead of the one whose signature has to be on everything. About the Guest Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO of Alight, leads a global team of over 2,000 members, leveraging her extensive strategic development expertise and a strong human-centered approach. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of IDEO.org, she drove collaborations with major global entities like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Acumen, fostering a decade of impactful leadership. Jocelyn's influence extends to her roles as a founding board member of Airbnb.org, board member of IDEO.org, advisory board member of Marketplace, and founding member of Chief. Connect with Jocelyn: Website: https://www.wearealight.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynwyatt/ Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. You can do that and follow us on LinkedIn.

Simone Stolzoff: How to Not Know Simone Stolzoff is an author and journalist who explores big questions about work, meaning, and identity. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and on the TED stage. He is the author of How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers (Amazon, Bookshop)*. I'm not sure about you, but I very much dislike uncertainty. And yet, basically the job of leadership is to not only deal with it but to help others thrive in the midst of it. In this conversation, Simone and I explore how to build your tolerance for uncertainty so you can lead much more effectively. Key Points We love certainty and our tolerance for uncertainty is decreasing due to the internet, smartphones, and AI access. Organizations with higher uncertainty tolerance tend to be more innovative and adaptable. We assume unwavering confidence breeds credibility, when in fact, research shows that those who admit what they don't know are perceived as more credible. Professional athletes have the same threshold for pain but a higher pain tolerance. We can develop a similar tolerance for uncertainty. Find your anchor points. By knowing the key boulders you can hang onto in a storm, you are vastly better able to weather uncertain times. Build to learn. Progress depends on uncertainty. Row through the fog. Maintain faith that you will discover the next step by continuing to row. Sometimes what we feel is most uncertain is actually more certain than we realize. Resources Mentioned How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers by Simone Stolzoff (Amazon, Bookshop)* Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes How to Lead Better Through Complexity, with Jennifer Garvey Berger (episode 613) Notice Disruption and Innovate Through It, with Steve Blank (episode 761) The Counterintuitive Secret to Creativity and Focus, with David Epstein (episode 789) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

Are You the One? We have one spot left in both cohorts Designing Your New Life in Retirement small group program, beginning in September. Is now the time to start working on what you’ll be retiring to? Learn more here | Sign up here Prepare for Takeoff: Is your money better prepared for retirement than you are to live it? Take this free 5-minute assessment to highlight may need you attention to build the retirement you’ve earned. __________________________ We spend a great deal of time thinking about how much we exercise. Esther Gokhale asks another question: How are we using our bodies during all the hours when we aren’t exercising? Esther Gokhale, creator of the Gokhale Method, became interested in posture after experiencing a severe L5-S1 disc herniation while pregnant with her first child. Surgery was followed by another herniation, and she began searching more broadly for ways to change how she moved in everyday life. In this conversation, Esther explains why she considers posture a missing pillar of wellness and why she believes ordinary activities (walking, sitting, standing, bending and even lying down) can become what she calls “life exercises.” We explore why sitting itself may not (completely) deserve its terrible reputation, what she means by a “J-spine,” how walking mechanics affect the entire body, and what modern adults can learn from young children and populations whose traditional movement patterns have been preserved. Most encouragingly for people in the second half of life, Esther argues that we should distinguish between what becomes common with age and what is necessarily natural. Her message is clear that our capacity for improvement often lasts much longer than we assume. _____________________ Bio Esther Gokhale (GO-clay) has been involved in integrative therapies all her life. As a young girl growing up in India, she helped her mother, a nurse, treat abandoned babies waiting to be adopted. This early interest in healing led her to study biochemistry at Harvard and Princeton and, later, acupuncture at the San Francisco School of Oriental Medicine. After experiencing crippling back pain during her first pregnancy and unsuccessful back surgery, Esther Gokhale began her lifelong crusade to vanquish back pain. Her studies at the Aplomb® Institute in Paris and years of research in Brazil, India, Portugal and elsewhere led her to develop the Gokhale Method, a unique, systematic approach to help people find their bodies' way back to pain-free living. Gokhale’s book, 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, has been translated into ten languages. Esther Gokhale has taught at corporations such as Google & IDEO, presented at conferences including TEDx(Stanford), consulted for the trainers of the SF 49ers and several Stanford sports teams, and conducted workshops for physician groups at Stanford, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, UCSF. The New York Times gave Esther the title “The Posture Guru of Silicon Valley. A Stanford clinical trial is currently studying the Gokhale Method. _____________________ For More on Esther Gokhale Website – Gokhale Method 2-minute Video Overview of the Gokhale Method  8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back by Esther Gokhale ____________________ Other Retirement Podcasts You May Like The Joy of Movement – Kelly McGonigal Eat Your Ice Cream – Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD Make Your Next Years Your Best Years – Harry Agress, MD _____________________ About The Retirement Wisdom Podcast There are many podcasts on retirement, often hosted by financial advisors with their own financial motives, that cover the money side of the street. This podcast is different. You'll get smarter about the investment decisions you'll make about the most important asset you'll have in retirement: your time. About Retirement Wisdom I help people who are retiring, but aren't quite done yet, discover what's next and build their custom version of their next life. A meaningful retirement doesn't just happen by accident. Schedule a call today to discuss how the Designing Your Life process created by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans can help you make your life in retirement a great one — on your own terms. About Your Podcast Host Joe Casey is an executive coach who helps people design their next life after their primary career and create their version of The Multipurpose Retirement.™ He created his own next chapter after a 26-year career at Merrill Lynch, where he was Senior Vice President and Head of HR for Global Markets & Investment Banking. Joe has earned Master's degrees from the University of Southern California in Gerontology (at age 60), the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlesex University (UK), a BA in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and his coaching certification from Columbia University. In addition to his work with clients, Joe hosts The Retirement Wisdom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% globally in popularity by Listen Notes, with over 2 million downloads. Business Insider recognized Joe as one of 23 innovative coaches who are making a difference. He's the author of Win the Retirement Game: How to Outsmart the 9 Forces Trying to Steal Your Joy. __________________________ Wise Quotes On Posture “Posture is very underrated as a pillar of wellness…Change the way you are living in your body….It’s sort of indispensable that we do life more skillfully because that’s where the big opportunities are.” On Misconceptions on Aging “Don’t…lower our standards and call things that are common natural.” On Why Now? “It’s never too late.” __________________________ The views and opinions expressed by guests on The Retirement Wisdom Podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the host or Retirement Wisdom, LLC. 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Ovetta Sampson is a design researcher, AI leader, and founder of Right AI. She previously served as VP of ML and AI Platform Design at Capital One and worked at Google and IDEO. Ovetta brought that experience to the 2026 ITX Product + Design Conference, focusing her keynote on a question that often goes overlooked: what happens when people interact with increasingly powerful machines? To help us answer that question, Ovetta offers a pair of frameworks that center on human engagement risk, responsible AI, and rethinking how product teams design AI products. Building AI responsibly requires more than better models or more sophisticated tools. Product builders must also understand the cognitive, social, cultural, and physical risks that can emerge when humans interact with technology. AI inherits many of the biases embedded in the data used to build it, Ovetta says. So organizations need to rethink how disciplines collaborate; as the lines between traditional product, design, engineering, and security silos blur, responsible AI requires organizations to redesign not only their products, but also the processes used to create them. Here's what else we learned: Human Engagement Risk Belongs in AI Product Design Ovetta's human engagement risk (H-E-R) framework is based on a fundamental premise: technology can harm people when designers fail to account for how humans behave around machines. The H-E-R framework identifies cognitive, social, cultural, physiological, and community risks. These risks become especially important with generative AI, where people can easily attribute human qualities to systems that do not actually possess them. As a result, AI product teams must consider psychological and cognitive outcomes alongside traditional usability concerns. Ovetta cautions: “There are real dangerous risks when we engage with machines and don’t mindfully think about the outcomes that can happen when we don’t protect humans psychologically, cognitively, physically, and physiologically.” AI Strategy Starts With Executive Leadership Responsible AI also requires leadership decisions that extend beyond individual tools or experiments, Ovetta says. Many mid-sized organizations are hesitant to adopt AI because executives are concerned about intellectual property, trust, and data leaks. Meanwhile, employees may already be integrating AI solutions without an overarching organizational strategy. It's a disconnect that creates opportunity for leadership to establish clear priorities before adoption becomes fragmented. AI strategy starts at the top, Ovetta adds, because executives have the authority to establish the conditions under which technology gets developed and used. “Once the C-suite understands the risk to their shareholders, to their products, to their employees, to their customers, it is much easier for me to bring in the implementation of how to mitigate those risks.” Dismantling Silos Is Essential for Effective AI Development AI challenges the traditional handoff model in which designers, engineers, security, legal, compliance, and other teams work separately before passing projects along. Ovetta says AI development requires continuous cross-functional input instead. Her D-C-R framework – draft, critique, revise – organizes teams around development stages, bringing the right expertise into each phase. “Instead of saying, ‘I’m a designer' or ‘I’m a researcher,' or ‘I’m a product manager,' or ‘I'm an engineer,' we say, ‘I’m in the draft mode,'” Ovetta adds. “Each skill set in that move brings what they need to get that draft ready for critiquing, right? And so it’s something that I give to organizations and teams to try to reimagine how they actually do their jobs.” Ovetta Sampson is not arguing for less innovation with AI; instead, she's arguing for a different definition of responsible innovation – one that embeds human consequences, executive accountability, and cross-functional collaboration into the product development process itself. [03:10] Protecting the fragility of humanity. There are a lot of things us humans engage in, especially what I call the cognitive biases, that make engaging with machines and other automated systems that make it risky for us. [05:57] The H-E-R Framework. But what it really is, is there are five dimensions. There’s the cognitive, there’s the social, there’s cultural, there the physiological. And then the overall community risks that when humans engage with machines, that can happen.  [10:08] LLMs built on ‘traumatized data sets.’ Generative AI has no moral code. It does not know truth or fact. And accuracy is not in its wheelhouse. In fact, it’s not in this training and it’s in its goals. So why when we type something into chat GPT, we expect truth back? I don’t know. [13:24] Protecting my values as a creator. That’s where I really want to start, because I don’t want to be a part of that. I don’t want to part of designing something that harms people. [14:00] I observed one reoccurring truth. Whatever is happening in the basement of a company starts in the C-suite. So if there is sexism, if there’s homophobia, if there racism, if there is bad culture, if it starts at the C-suite. Because the C-suite is the person who has the ultimate authority about what occurs in every floor of an organization. [18:26] The D-C-R framework — draft, critique, revise. The D-C-R framework is something I created because I was trying to explain to designers and product and engineers how their processes would change when they’re designing for and with AI. Each one of these disciplines should go through that makes the handoffs more like a circular iterative. The post 194 / Ovetta Sampson: Designing AI Products Around Human Needs – Not Just Technology appeared first on ITX Corp..

24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.Nemo potest duobus dominis servire : aut enim unum odio habebit, et alterum diliget : aut unum sustinebit, et alterum contemnet. Non potestis Deo servire et mammonae. 25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?Ideo dico vobis, ne solliciti sitis animae vestrae quid manducetis, neque corpori vestro quid induamini. Nonne anima plus est quam esca, et corpus plus quam vestimentum? 26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?Respicite volatilia caeli, quoniam non serunt, neque metunt, neque congregant in horrea : et Pater vester caelestis pascit illa. Nonne vos magis pluris estis illis? 27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?Quis autem vestrum cogitans potest adjicere ad staturam suam cubitum unum? 28 And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.Et de vestimento quid solliciti estis? Considerate lilia agri quomodo crescunt : non laborant, neque nent. 29 But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.Dico autem vobis, quoniam nec Salomon in omni gloria sua coopertus est sicut unum ex istis. 30 And if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?Si autem foenum agri, quod hodie est, et cras in clibanum mittitur, Deus sic vestit, quanto magis vos modicae fidei? 31 Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?Nolite ergo solliciti esse, dicentes : Quid manducabimus, aut quid bibemus, aut quo operiemur? 32 For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.haec enim omnia gentes inquirunt. Scit enim Pater vester, quia his omnibus indigetis. 33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.Quaerite ergo primum regnum Dei, et justitiam ejus : et haec omnia adjicientur vobis.[24] "Mammon": That is, riches, worldly interest.St Cajetan endeavored to imitate the Apostles in absolute poverty. He died A.D. 1547.

When experts are already there, they still may not see:"I think we need to go get our own data.""Sepsis smelled differently to him.""The more you dig into the individual, the more people you affect."One patient can teach what a system keeps missing...See BoldEncounters.TVA Table Turners SeriesAngela Finlay turns the tables again in Part 3.What If You Already Work in the Customer Space?Part 3 asks the harder question: what if you already work where the need happens, but still do not see it clearly? Mark brings in Dr. Todd Allen, whose sepsis work shows how doctors, nurses, phlebotomists, data, simulation, and direct observation helped move severe sepsis from a one-in-two mortality reality toward one-in-ten outcomes.Step Back and Look through New LensesBold Immersion is not only going somewhere new. Sometimes it means stepping back inside your own workplace with a fresh lens, watching one person at a time, and letting the senses find patterns that meetings, dashboards, and authority miss. Here, observation becomes more than a business tactic. It becomes a way to save lives, redesign care, serve customers, and build evidence no one can dismiss.Inside This Episode• Why ER doctors still needed a new lens inside the ER.• How a phlebotomist smelled signs in sepsis innovation.• Why studying one patient can help a system affect many.• How authoritative thinking delays care and needs to loosen.• What hospital rooms, produce pricing, and pediatric MRIs reveal about going to the scene.Go Deeper — Premium Action PlanThis Table Turners series culminates in a club-only Premium Action Plan led by Mark. Start now by choosing one familiar workflow you think you already understand. Watch it again as if new: who waits, who repeats work, who has hidden knowledge, what gets delayed, and what one person reveals about the whole system.Listen + Connecthttps://www.BoldEncounters.TVAngela Finlay, Table Turnerhttps://www.windwardhcm.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ablumfinlay/Todd Allen, MDtodd.allen.ut@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/todd-l-allen-md-facep-a8a7779Mark S. Cookhttps://www.WindfallPartners.comMoments To Revisit• Dr. Todd Allen explaining why a computer solution failed four times.• The phlebotomist whose senses caught what the system needed.• Mark connecting individual observation to larger population impact.• The hospital-ceiling video that made boredom impossible to ignore.• Dina Peters putting 400 hours a month back into produce service.Final ThoughtMark reveals that being near the work is not the same as seeing it. Real advantage comes when a professional steps back, gathers firsthand data, honors hidden expertise, and runs toward the space of the problem with enough humility to be changed by what is actually there.Join Us!Watch Part 3, then continue into the detailed examples and Premium Action Plan at https://www.BoldEncounters.TVThank YouDr. Terry Clemmer and Dr. Todd Allen, sepsis improvement and emergency-medicine observation.IDEO and Diego Rodriguez, hospital-room and pediatric MRI observation.Thomas Franklin, 9/11 photojournalism proximity.Dina Peters, produce pricing and service-hours example.Subaru of Indiana Automotive, zero-landfill preview.Calvin Cook—Caljo, original music, @Caljo MusicSacha Arias, Post Production, ska.films0211@gmail.comAliyah Peña, Post Production, aliyahmpena@gmail.comSkyler Maudsley, Video Editing, skylermaudsley@gmail.comRosalie McGinn, Social Media, rosalie.mcginn1@gmail.com

Bestselling and award-winning writers Seth Godin (The Practice), Amie McNee (We Need Your Art), Mason Currey (Daily Rituals) and Bec Evans & Chris Smith (Written) on choosing yourself before anyone else does, protecting the hour you actually have, and why the writing rules you were handed were the rules that worked for someone else.   You'll learn Why "grow a thicker skin" is the wrong advice for a writer facing rejection. What shifts when you notice the harshest rejection you face each day is your own. The case for lowering your standards if your ambitions are big. How an hour that doesn't look like writing can still be an hour of writing. What the word discipline shares with the word disciple, and why it changes how a project turns out. A quiet argument for half an hour a day over the perfect routine you can't sustain. Three questions worth asking at the end of every writing session. Why the writing rule that failed you was probably never yours to begin with. When a good outcome hides a bad decision, and what that means for your practice. The difference between talent and skill, and why only one of them applies to writing. Episode Links #150: Seth Godin — Obscurity Is the Enemy, Here's How to Stop Seeking Validation, Find Your Audience and Build a Creative Practice #158: Amie McNee — Creating Without Permission, Overcoming Self-Doubt, Facing Rejection, Building a Life on Your Own Terms, Embracing Social Media as an Artform #177: Mason Currey — Daily Routines and How Artists Work, Focus Time and Protecting Your Best Hours #046: Bec Evans & Chris Smith — Overcome Creative Blocks, Get It Written About the Guests Seth Godin is the author of twenty-plus international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about work and have been translated into 39 languages – among them Unleashing the Ideavirus, Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, Tribes, The Dip, Linchpin, Poke the Box, and All Marketers Are Liars. He writes the most popular marketing blog in the world and speaks to audiences worldwide. He is the founder of the altMBA, the founder and former CEO of Squidoo.com, the former VP of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!, and the founder of the pioneering online startup Yoyodyne. Amie McNee is a trained historian turned creativity coach, writer, and speaker best known for her popular Instagram account, @InspiredtoWrite, and The Unpublished Podcast. She's self-published two historical fiction novels: The Rules Upheld by No One and Regrettably, I Am About to Cause Trouble. Her book We Need Your Art: Stop F*cking Around and Make Something is a manifesto on the vital, human importance of creating. Her most recent novel, To Kill a Queen, a queer historical mystery set in Elizabethan London, was published in 2025. Mason Currey is a writer and editor living in Los Angeles and the author of the Daily Rituals books. In addition to compiling the Daily Rituals books, Currey was a design-magazine editor for ten years, working as the managing editor of Metropolis, the executive editor of Print, a senior editor at Core77, and the programming chair for the 2015 Core77 Conference. His freelance writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and Slate, and he has delivered talks on the creative process to high school and college students, writers' groups, and the partners of the design consultancy IDEO. He sends out a fortnightly newsletter on routines, rituals, and wriggling through a creative life. His latest book, Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life, was published by Celadon Books in 2026. Bec Evans and Chris Smith are the co-founders of Prolifiko, a coaching business that helps people build productive writing habits. They met while working together in a bookshop more than 20 years ago and have spent a lifetime writing and working with other writers. Prior to Prolifiko, Bec worked in publishing, led teams of writers and managed a writing centre for Arvon. She's also the award-winning author of How to Have a Happy Hustle. Chris has a background as a ghostwriter and content consultant to global business brands, charities and the public sector. He worked as an agency director before setting up his own communications consultancy and has written for national newspapers and magazines. He is also an award-winning comedy scriptwriter. The authors live in Yorkshire with their dog, Peggy. Their book Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts was published by Icon Books. For show notes, transcripts and to attend our live podcasts visit: podcast.londonwriterssalon.com.For free writing sessions, join free Writers' Hours: writershour.com.*FOLLOW LONDON WRITERS' SALONTwitter: twitter.com/​​WritersSalonInstagram: instagram.com/londonwriterssalonFacebook: facebook.com/LondonWritersSalonIf you're enjoying this show, please rate and review this show!

Matilda Ho was banned from the kitchen for the first 25 years of her life. Her mother's rule was simple: cooking is what you do when you fail at school. She now runs China's first food tech venture fund.I'm joined by Matilda Ho, Founder and Managing Director of Bits x Bites — a $100 million fund vintaged in October 2020, 15 companies backed, Series A and B, and a board seat as a condition of every check. Her LPs are sovereign funds from Singapore, the Middle East and China, agrifood strategics, and family offices.Her argument is that the food system cannot be fixed at the checkout. She spent five years at BCG and IDEO advising food companies, and one project — working out how likely a Chinese meat processor was to have another scandal — turned up roughly half a million food safety incidents a year. She built an online grocery to fix it one shopper at a time, then concluded that would take longer than her lifetime. The leverage was upstream.What she found upstream is a manufacturing advantage most investors outside China have not priced. Seventy percent of the world's vitamins, two-thirds of its amino acids and more than 80% of its stevia are already made there — much of it in brownfield plants with fermentation tanks sitting idle. Where European biotech founders cannot fund scale-up, she can buy it cheap.She is equally blunt about what does not work. Beyond Burger's peas travel from Canada to Suzhou to California, and the margin never survives the trip. China already has tofu — clean, plant-based and 2,000 years old. So she funds certainty over moonshots: functional ingredients, animal health, matcha. And in a market where government money is now the largest source of innovation capital, her first exit was a stake sold to a provincial government vehicle.In this episode we discuss:Why the food system cannot be fixed at the checkout, and what changes upstreamHalf a million food safety incidents a year — the consulting project that exposed themBiomanufacturing as China's unpriced edge: overcapacity, brownfield sites and idle fermentation tanksWhy alternative meat fails on unit economics in a country that already has tofuChina's “visible hand” — how government money became the largest source of innovation capitalSelling a portfolio company to a provincial government vehicle, and why DPI beats IRR in ChinaWhy she will not write a check without a board seatBacking wartime CEOs, and what a decade of bad hires taught her about founder diligenceFeatured guest:Matilda Ho, Founder and Managing Director at Bits x BitesListen Next:AgTech Profits Meet Planet: Where Climate Impact and VC Returns AlignDiscover More from SRI360°:Explore all episodes of the SRI360° PodcastSign up for the free weekly email updateKey Takeaways:Fixing food at the checkout does not scale. Matilda built an online farmers market and learned that people only change how they eat after a life event — a birth, a diagnosis. A movement, she says, but not a viable business model. The leverage sits upstream in the supply chain.The supply chain is the problem. In China a vegetable passes through roughly seven hands before it reaches a table. A third of food rots on the farm, another third in transit, and the rest is wasted in fridges and warehouses.China's arithmetic is brutal. Around 20% of the world's population and under 7% of its arable land, feeding 1.4 billion people. More than 85% of soybeans are imported, mostly to feed chickens and pigs.Biomanufacturing is China's quiet edge. Europe's biotech founders struggle to fund scale-up. China has the opposite problem — overcapacity, brownfield sites and idle fermentation tanks, plus the plant managers who know how to run them. 70% of global vitamins, two-thirds of amino acids and over 80% of stevia are already produced there.Cost is king and taste is king. Beyond Burger's peas grow in Canada, get processed in Suzhou, then travel to California for final formulation. The gross margin never works. And as she puts it, China already has tofu — clean, plant-based, cheap, and 2,000 years old.Government money is now the largest source of innovation capital in China. Local governments run fund-of-fund structures and back specialized GPs rather than investing directly. Her own first exit was selling a stake to a provincial government vehicle at Series B, in year five of the fund.In China, DPI matters more than IRR. IRR can be manipulated; cash returned to LPs cannot. Most domestic funds have only a five-year life, which forces short-term decisions. Her USD fund has ten to twelve years.Back wartime CEOs, not peacetime ones. Growing revenue tenfold when money was free is not a replicable track record. She looks for humility, grit, and founders who keep going when 99% of the signals say stop.Software alone does not work in agriculture. Farmers will not pay for something invisible. Her Beijing crop-model company had to bundle seeds and inputs with the software; two-thirds of its revenue now comes from selling the inputs.Drones changed the economics for smallholders. A tenth of the chemical input, up to half the water saved, and profits up around 30% on cash crops — plus a whole new job class of drone operators. Most growth is now outside China, in North America, Brazil and Argentina.Agrifood is under-invested. It accounts for less than 5% of total venture funding. Her ambition is that generalist fund managers eventually treat it as a sector worth a seat.Additional ResourcesMatilda Ho LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matildaho/Bits x Bites LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bits-x-bitesMatilda Ho on X: @matildajyhoBits x Bites: https://bitsxbites.com/Matilda Ho's TED profile: https://www.ted.com/speakers/matilda_hoRelated SRI360° Episodes:Beyond the 2/20 Model: Disrupting VC & 25% IRR from Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia

Fifteen years ago, Eric Ries handed a generation of founders a playbook. When Eli was in a Palo Alto-based startup accelerator in 2011, The Lean Startup felt like the only book anyone in that ecosystem was talking about. It was in the middle of a wildly optimistic moment for tech. Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world,” social media was blooming, and there was a widespread belief that technology was about to democratize everything and bring us closer together. Concepts like the MVP (“minimum viable product,”), the pivot, and build-measure-learn became the operating language of Silicon Valley. This is a preview of a premium episode. Listen to the full interview on our Substack: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/eric-ries But a lot of the companies built on those ideas went on to get corrupted by forces Eric hadn't yet named. His new book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great, is his reckoning with what happens after you build something great — and how to keep it from falling apart. Buy the book In this conversation, we get into why speed itself wasn't the problem, but treating a rising stock price as proof of health is like assuming more exhaust means a faster car. Eric explains why doing the right thing 100% of the time is actually easier than doing it 98% of the time, and how companies behave like superorganisms with their own emergent character — a point he illustrates with a genuinely mind-bending study about ants solving a puzzle that no single ant ever could. We talk about the “harder is easier” principle through stories from Patagonia and the long-term stock exchange he built as a design challenge, and why the value a company makes comes from the design of its products. And because we couldn't resist, we get into AI slop, LLM psychosis, and Eric's clear, simple antidote: never ask these tools to make you an artifact — ask them to teach you how to make one yourself. Bio Over the last two decades, Eric Ries's ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup; The Leader's Guide; and The Startup Way. As a founder, he has put his own ideas into practice with The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab; the Lean Startup Co, which teaches and supports the implementation of Lean Startup; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where the ideas that became the Lean Startup method were forged. On his podcast, The Eric Ries Show, he talks to guests including world-class technologists, thought leaders, and executives working to build profitable companies for the long-term benefit of society. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. *** Premium Episodes on Design Better This is a premium episode on Design Better. We release two premium episodes per month, along with two free episodes for everyone. New premium subscriber benefit: we've launched a private Slack workspace…join now to connect with designers, product leaders & creative practitioners in our community. And get a behind-the-scenes pass to every episode with The Roundup, where each week we bring you insights and actionable tactics from recent episodes. Premium subscribers get access to the documentary Design Disruptors and our growing library of books. You'll also get access to our monthly AMAs with former guests, ad-free episodes, discounts and early access to workshops, and our monthly newsletter The Brief that compiles salient insights, quotes, readings, and creative processes uncovered in the show. And subscribers at the annual level now get access to the Design Better Toolkit, which gets you major discounts and free access to tools and courses that will help you unlock new skills, make your workflow more efficient, and take your creativity further. Upgrade to paid Visiting the links below is one of the best ways to support our show: Masterclass: MasterClass is the only streaming platform where you can learn and grow with over 200+ of the world's best. People like Steph Curry, Paul Krugman, Malcolm Gladwell, Dianne Von Furstenberg, Margaret Atwood, Lavar Burton and so many more inspiring thinkers share their wisdom in a format that is easy to follow and can be streamed anywhere on a smartphone, computer, smart TV, or even in audio mode. MasterClass always has great offers during the holidays, sometimes up to as much as 50% off. Head over to http://masterclass.com/designbetter for the current offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.Simile est regnum caelorum thesauro abscondito in agro : quem qui invenit homo, abscondit, et prae gaudio illius vadit, et vendit universa quae habet, et emit agrum illum. 45 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum homini negotiatori, quaerenti bonas margaritas. 46 Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.Inventa autem una pretiosa margarita, abiit, et vendidit omnia quae habuit, et emit eam. 47 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum sagenae missae in mare, et ex omni genere piscium congreganti. 48 Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.Quam, cum impleta esset, educentes, et secus littus sedentes, elegerunt bonis in vasa, malos autem foras miserunt. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.Sic erit in consummatione saeculi : exibunt angeli, et separabunt malos de medio justorum, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.et mittent eos in caminum ignis : ibi erit fletus, et stridor dentium. 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.Intellexistis haec omnia? Dicunt ei : Etiam. 52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.Ait illis : Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno caelorum, similis est homini patrifamilias, qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.Laurence of Brindisi, a Capuchin friar who for some years ruled his whole Order, acquired great fame for learning and eloquence, and labored with remarkable success in most parts of Europe preaching to Catholics, to Protestants, and to Jews. When 80,000 Turks invaged Hungary in 1605, he it was who inspired the united Christian armies of 18,000 men to the attack and himself led them to complete victory riding before them bearing a large cross. He died in Lisbon in 1611. 1. The Treasure Hidden in the Field (vv. 44)A man discovers a treasure so valuable that he joyfully sells everything to buy the field.Notice two things:He doesn't give up everything reluctantly.He gives it up because he has found something infinitely better.Jesus isn't saying Christians should despise earthly goods. He's saying that once you've discovered the Kingdom, everything else finds its proper place.2. The Pearl of Great Price (vv. 45–46)This parable is slightly different.The first man stumbles upon the treasure.The merchant has been searching all along.Some people are converted unexpectedly. Others spend years searching for truth before they find Christ.Again, Jesus emphasizes the worth of the Kingdom.3. The Dragnet (vv. 47–50)Jesus is describing the visible kingdom on earth.The Church contains:saintssinnerspeople growing in holinesspeople resisting graceThe final separation belongs to God.Sometimes we wonder why evil seems to remain in the world—and even within the visible Church. Jesus says the final judgment comes at the end of the age.4. The Householder (vv. 51–52)Then He says:"Every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings forth from his treasure things new and old." A faithful disciple doesn't discard the old. He doesn't cling only to the new. He treasures both.As Catholics, we naturally think of:the Old Testament fulfilled in Christthe continuity of apostolic teachingthe Church preserving ancient truth while continually proclaiming it anew.

In this episode, Michael Dargie welcomes Susie deVille — entrepreneur, coach, artist, and self-described "concrete chiseler in chief" — who joins from a mountain plateau at 4,118 feet in Highlands, North Carolina. Susie works with entrepreneurs, creators, and visionary leaders who feel stuck and riddled with self-doubt, helping them reconnect with their innate creativity and unlock who they truly are. Her own path took a while to reveal itself. She studied anthropology, moved to Boston and then overseas for a career in publishing at HarperCollins, launched two nonprofits that are still running today, and became a real estate broker in 2001. It was during her master's studies that a class introduced her to the design firm IDEO, and, as she puts it, the top of her head came off. From that moment, all she wanted to do was understand innovation and creativity. That curiosity became a lifeline. When the markets crashed, Susie's finances, her marriage, and her health all went "poof" at once — a stretch she calls her nuclear winter. Her instinct was to work harder, which only pulled her deeper into the quicksand. So she rebuilt everything from the studs up, leaning on a simple but radical idea borrowed from Paulo Coelho: inspiration means breathing in. Most of us, she says, have gold-medalled the exhale — the doing, the burning out, the gerbil wheel — while forgetting to take anything back in. The conversation wanders happily from there. Susie explains her "creative circadian rhythm" and why she writes at three in the morning, when she can "take dictation from the divine." She shares the morning practices that bring her home to herself: Julia Cameron's morning pages, movement, inspired reading, and the one her clients resist most — making something with your hands, whether it's a quick sketch or a vat of gumbo. She and Michael also detour into Paris, flânerie, joie de vivre, and a plate of beef cheeks at Le Procope so good the entire waitstaff once gave her a round of applause. Underneath the fun is a serious message about energy over productivity. We're brilliant at solving for time and discipline, Susie argues, and terrible at noticing the hidden energy loads behind every bold move, hard conversation, and new boundary. Heal and optimize your energy first, and the grand voyage becomes possible. For the rebels in waiting, Susie offers a Joseph Campbell-flavoured reframe: the real work isn't the launch, it's the dragon of your becoming — your ability to tolerate uncertainty and keep going. Take good care of your energy and health, inspire yourself, keep a journal, and remember that your authentic, aligned self is the ultimate champion in any arena. Episode Highlights [00:44,000] What Susie Does | Helping stuck entrepreneurs and creators reconnect with their innate creativity. [01:30,000] The Winding Path | Anthropology, publishing at HarperCollins, two nonprofits, and real estate. [02:56,000] The Top of Her Head Comes Off | A grad-school class introduces her to IDEO and lights the fuse. [04:03,000] Nuclear Winter | The crash takes her finances, marriage, and health all at once. [05:00,000] Learning to Inhale | Inspiration means breathing in — not just the endless exhale. [07:33,000] Not the Artistic One | Why she believed she "missed the art genes" — and why that's false. [09:00,000] Cracking the Concrete | Sketching, watercolour, and mixed media start to reveal the authentic her. [10:20,000] Concrete Chiseler in Chief | An archaeological dig of the self that's energizing and fun. [11:38,000] Why Paris | Feeling instantly at home, joie de vivre, and artfully designed days. [16:11,000] Getting Lost on Purpose | The French idea of the flâneur and surrendering to serendipity. [18:32,000] The Art of Doing Nothing | Energy over productivity, and the hidden loads we never notice. [21:28,000] Creative Circadian Rhythm | Finding the hours when your best thinking actually shows up. [23:00,000] Morning Practices | Morning pages, movement, inspired learning, and making something. [27:51,000] Beef Cheeks at Le Procope | The Paris dish that earned her a standing ovation. [31:25,000] Advice for Rebels in Waiting | The dragon of your becoming and tolerating uncertainty. Links From This Episode Susie deVille — Innovation & Creativity Institute (with free toolkit) Buoyant: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free by Susie deVille IDEO — design and innovation firm The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Morning Pages / The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron Le Procope — the oldest cafe in Paris Fondation Louis Vuitton — Gerhard Richter exhibition Full show notes, transcript, and more: https://rebelrebelpodcast.com/episodes/find-your-fire-again

Simone Stolzoff shows you that it's possible to turn uncertainty into your advantage. — YOU'LL LEARN — 1) How to build your uncertainty tolerance 2) What to ask when you face indecision3) Why curiosity is the antidote to fearSubscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1168 for clickable versions of the links below. — ABOUT SIMONE — Simone Stolzoff is an author and journalist who explores big questions about work, meaning, and identity. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, he is the author of two books: The Good Enough Job and How To Not Know. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and on the TED stage. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.• Book: How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers• Book: The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work• Book site: HowToNotKnow.com• Substack: The Article Book Club• Website: SimoneStolzoff.com— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — • Tool: Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS)• Study: World Uncertainty Index• Study: "Is the Pain Worth the Gain? The Advantages and Liabilities of Agreeing With Socially Distinct Newcomers" by Katherine W. Phillips, Katie A. Liljenquist, and Margaret A. Neale• Study: "Increasing intolerance of uncertainty over time: the potential influence of increasing connectivity" by R Nicholas Carleton, Gabrielle Desgagné, Rachel Krakauer, and Ryan Y. Hong• Figure: Annie Duke• Book: Flex Your Feelings: Train Your Brain to Develop the 7 Traits of Emotional Fitness by Dr. Emily Anhalt• Book: London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe• Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath— THANK YOU SPONSORS! — • Shopify. Sign up for your free trial at Shopify.com/awesomepod• Monarch. Get 50% off your first year with code AWESOME at Monarch.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of In-Ear Insights, the Trust Insights podcast, Katie and Chris discuss how to separate artificial intelligence speed from actual business value and what we value from humans in an age of AI. You will discover why productivity charts hide critical context that changes everything. You will learn how to spot the difference between quick output and solid results. You will master a simple framework for letting machines handle data while you keep full control over every choice. You will walk away with practical steps to scale your daily workload without sacrificing your unique perspective. 00:00 – Introduction 02:15 – The misleading productivity chart 05:40 – Decoding the midterm results 09:10 – When tests measure the wrong skills 13:25 – The seven ways to use AI properly 18:50 – Why humans must keep the steering wheel 23:40 – Practical tools for smarter workflows 28:15 – Fixing the education gap 32:00 – Call to action Press play to uncover how you can turn artificial intelligence into a reliable partner that amplifies your best work. Watch the video here: Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: https://traffic.libsyn.com/inearinsights/tipodcast-ai-in-academia-workforce.mp3 Download the MP3 audio here. Need help with your company’s data and analytics? Let us know! Join our free Slack group for marketers interested in analytics! [podcastsponsor] Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript may contain errors and is not a substitute for listening to the episode. Christopher S. Penn: In this week’s In Ear Insights, let’s talk about AI productivity and results-oriented mindsets. We talk a lot about AI productivity gains, and a lot of people are rightfully asking, “Where’s the beef?” Going back to the 1980s Wendy’s commercial. I want to show you a chart. Katie, I want to get your reaction to this chart on some AI productivity gains and whether you would consider this a success or not. So let me bring this chart up here. This is from Brown University. We have individual workers, we have their original productivity scores in the gray, their AI-enhanced scores where they’re using an AI tool and how they increased. And the green numbers represent the percent change. Now, without any other context, at a first glance, what do you make of this? Is this an AI success story? Katie Robbert: Not necessarily. Christopher S. Penn: Okay, tell me why. Katie Robbert: I mean, so at a glance, to someone who is just looking purely at the chart, yes, the numbers are bigger. You have a bunch of green in the middle. So the percent change is positive. But as someone who is skeptical, I say, where did you start? What was the baseline? What are the roles? I have more questions than answers. I can’t look at this and go, wow, yes. Okay. Because to me there’s so much missing context. Who are these people? Is it self-report? What is the period of time that there? Is it one task? Is it multiple tasks? Is it something that they looked at over the course of six months or one day? I don’t know. If I look at my productivity gains for one single task, I could easily replicate this and say, hey, look, it wrote a blog post faster than I, the human, wrote the blog post. So therefore productivity gains. But what I don’t know is the blog post any good? How much editing does it have to go through? Is it something that’s actually ever going to see the light of day? And that’s one blog post. That doesn’t mean that every single post is created that efficiently. AI can create things really quickly. It doesn’t mean they’re any good. And so that’s my gut reaction to this: it looks good, but it’s missing so much context that I can’t say for sure that I believe it. Christopher S. Penn: Okay, I can tell you for sure these are actual scores. They are actual gains or losses. If your employee number S22 is there, you got it. Your performance went down. Katie Robbert: Yeah, yikes. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, you got to go. But, and these are real outcomes that matter. Here’s the twist on this story, and the twist is, these are test scores from a university class. The midterm. The professor said, something’s up. The orange scores of the midterm scores. So in the final, he prohibited it. He made the test in person. No assistance, no devices. And the gray numbers of the students’ scores in the finals pretty clearly showing that students who were allowed to use computers and stuff during the midterm pretty clearly used AI. And this story has been floating around the social media sphere. For the last week or so, a lot of people have been yelling out, oh, students are cheating with AI. This is terrible. It’s the end of education. And my take on it was, well, I think there’s a bit more nuance to that. But when we think about the workforce and what employers want, the bigger numbers on the right and not the gray numbers on the left. Now, with this new context, what do you think? Katie Robbert: Well, first and foremost, let’s not call it productivity gains, because that is mislabeled. Second, I’m with you, Chris. The notion of an open book test is not new. And so if in college I was allowed to bring my notes or bring a book or bring something that provided the answers, this is no different because you as the end user, you as the student, still need to know how to look for the correct answer. Because AI hallucinates a lot. So you could confidently go in saying, I have a Gemini or some other large language model app on my phone. I can just look up all the answers. Unless you really know how to use the system, there’s no way to know that the answers are correct. And so I feel like it is nuanced. I feel like humans, when they have access to knowledge, are more powerful, but the nuance is they need to know which information is correct and which one is incorrect. So, I agree. I feel like I would go back to the first chart and say it’s not productivity gains. That is 100% misleading. That is not at all what this is. Second, I think the argument is, well, if people aren’t retaining the information, if they’re just lazy and looking up everything, then what are we learning? Well, you’re learning critical thinking and how to research things. That in and of itself is a whole skill set. Ask the academics. There’s a place for it. Christopher S. Penn: Yep. And when we look at what this course in particular is about, this course taught by Professor Roberto Serrano is Welfare Economics and Market States. But this is from the syllabus. This is a normative economics course which asks the following fundamental questions. Are markets good or bad for the economy? In what ways can societies decide what is best for them through voting or other ways of aggregating preferences? Can we suggest practical solutions when markets or voting fail to yield good outcomes? Are there current political economic institutions good for society? Are they or not? In what ways? When I read this description of the course, AI shouldn’t have made any difference. Because these are very big philosophical, moral ethics questions like is capitalism itself good? Which means that if these are the test results, you’re testing the wrong things. Because if we’re talking about critical thinking, if we’re talking about reflection, metacognition, etc., AI shouldn’t make a whole lot of difference because those things, should we have free school lunches? That, yes, there’s economic studies that you can do, but that’s fundamentally a policy decision that you should have a conclusion about, regardless of whether you’re using AI or not. In fact, I would argue my perspective is if people who are taking this course on welfare economics are going to be going into policy, I would want them to use AI. I would want them to gather research. I would want them to have it push back and forth. Now, whether or not they were actually doing that, I don’t know. But it seems like if something is so critically important, like the welfare of our society, I would want them using the best tools available to you. Katie Robbert: So it’s interesting, it strikes me. I don’t disagree with you. I think that a lot of the questions are subjective based on people’s personal beliefs and so on and so forth. My sense then is if the question was should schools offer free lunch? Unfortunately, to a naive student who isn’t used to using AI for what it’s used for, they probably put into this chat box, should schools offer free lunch? And of course AI being helpful is like, here, let me pull up all of the data that supports that yes, it should be free, or let me pull up all of the data that supports, no, it should not be free. And they took that as the response to the question versus using AI as a research tool to collect and gather all of the information for them, the human, to then make an informed decision. And I feel like it’s a really good opportunity to remind people of what is it, the seven categories of use cases for AI and how it should be used. Like, don’t use AI to make a decision. You’re the human, you make the decision. Use AI to gather your information. Summarize. I’m not going to remember all seven off the top of my head. Yeah, I was like, I got summarize, I got rewriting. That’s all I have for abstraction. Christopher S. Penn: Take data out of data classification. Organize your data summarization. Take your big data and make it small. Rewriting. Take your data from one form to another. Synthesis. Take a small data and make it big. Question answering. Ask questions of your data and generation. Make new data from your data. Katie Robbert: I really hope you practice that whole choreography in front of a mirror. Christopher S. Penn: Well, I do that in my talks. Katie Robbert: I know, but I think that. And so thank you for that. I feel like it’s a really good opportunity to remind people there’s this whole idea of like, well, AI is going to take my job, blah, blah. You, the human, still need to have those critical thinking skills. I feel like I’m beyond a broken record at this point. I don’t even know what the next phase of broken. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, it’s just like, record glitter everywhere because it’s so broken. Katie Robbert: That’s a thing. The test example is a really good example of misuse of AI. Like we’re making a bunch of assumptions. We don’t know how students actually use these tools. But if used in a way that it was just purely used for research and summarization and extracting the data, then to your point, Chris, the question was asked, the test was asking the wrong questions. Because how are you going to grade based on subjective questions? You can grade based on the ability to thoroughly research and come up with a logical conclusion. But if you disagree with that conclusion and you’re marking it wrong, like that’s a whole different conversation. Christopher S. Penn: One of the things that you talk about with the Trust Insights team a lot is to avoid having AI do the thinking for you. You talk about this with our marketing reports and things like that. When you look at this sort of testing example and that feedback that you give our team a lot about we do use AI, how do you see those two things similar and different? Katie Robbert: I don’t have a problem with people using AI. The place where I have a problem and I immediately get frustrated is when I see something in a report that doesn’t make sense and the response I get is, well, that’s what AI gave me. And my first thought is, well, where are you in this? Where’s your thinking? Where’s your brain? I want to know your insights, Chris. I want to know your insights. Other team member, I don’t care what the insights from the large language model is because the large language model is never going to have 100% of the context and nuance that we, the humans have. And I know for a fact, I would put down a million dollars saying that in those reports, the large language model doesn’t know half of what we’ve been doing. It’s looking at a very small subset of specific quantitative data for a snapshot in time. It does not have the whole story. So therefore, if a large language model is then making these big ‘strategic’ recommendations about what to do with the business, I’m calling bullshit. Christopher S. Penn: Yep. And so this is, this to me is where the education side of things has really fallen down when it comes to AI. Is it binary, oh, yes, you should use it, or no, you shouldn’t use it? And it’s academic dishonesty if you’re using it’s a tool. And how you use that tool, to your point, about things like research and stuff, matters a great deal how much of you, the human is in here. Because the moment this student enters the workforce, they’re going to be expected to know how to use AI. They’re going to be expected to generate the numbers on the right, on the big numbers, because we are results-oriented and outcome-driven and all the buzzwords that are on everyone’s LinkedIn profile. But that’s in a lot of ways that’s true. That’s what we hire for. We hire for those big numbers. We don’t hire. We don’t necessarily. And ethics is a whole separate discussion. But putting aside ethics, that’s what leaders want. That’s what managers want. Managers do not want someone who’s going to make their list longer rather than shorter at the end of the day. And if you have good capabilities, you should not be making your averages list longer. Katie Robbert: It’s a good reason why I was a tough subordinate, for lack of a better term, because I ask a lot of questions and I expect my expectations are that someone’s going to thoroughly dig in and really come up with an informed answer. And my managers at the time were not doing that. Maybe it’s my expectations. I have a really hard time with the lightweight. Oh, I just looked at one study. So therefore it’s fine. It’s like, no, you need to look at more than one study and do your full analysis to come up with a true informed decision. Emphasis on informed, making decisions. What is it? Decisions without data is distraction. Christopher S. Penn: Data without decisions is distraction. Katie Robbert: Data without decisions. But I also feel like decisions without data is dangerous. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah, absolutely. So here’s two examples. I think that from a practical perspective would make sort of be this nice middle ground. Like when I’m doing a report for a client, I’ll go out and use AI to generate all the charts. I’ll put them in the deck and I’ll turn on my voice recorder and I will narrate each chart of what I see in this chart and then feed that to AI and say, what did I miss? Or what didn’t I see? And usually it doesn’t come up with anything. It will ask me questions. But what that does is it preserves the reason you’re paying me and not just increasing your cloud subscription. That’s one useful use case. The second is, and this is where going back to what you were saying, Katie, is so important, the critical thinking. Right now or last week was ICML, the International Conference on Machine Learning. It was in Seoul, South Korea. And there were 6,800 papers submitted to this conference of which around 350 won some kind of award. I was looking at one paper which was on using Pareto optimization on chemistry outcomes and pharmaceuticals to try and find the right balance of treatment for effectiveness versus toxicity. And when I read this paper, that’s a really cool idea. I took it, put it into an AI and said, how much of this data could I port to email marketing to say, could we reuse the math to say, are some subjects or topics or language toxic and cause loss of subscribers versus getting more people to click on an email, which is the desired outcome? And it gave me a whole long list of things that I’m still working on. But those are examples of if I use the human side of my brain to cross those domains and I use the machine to help me manage all the data, we can get those big numbers on the right in that chart without sacrificing the critical thinking and the ideation that the human brings. Katie Robbert: I’m going to say something that I say a lot. New tech doesn’t solve old problems. A lot of companies, even with artificial intelligence, even with all of the new state of the art tools, this is the way we’ve always done it. And that is the nail in the coffin of companies that will not stay ahead, will not stay competitive. Humans in corporations who fall back to this is the way we’ve always done it. Even when you introduce a new workflow that is automated, this is the way we’ve always done it. That workflow is going to get stale real fast. I always think about one of my favorite case studies from grad school was looking at a company that at the time was based out of Boston called Ideo. Ideo. And their whole mission was to understand human behavior. So they were a UX firm, looking at the way that people used things and coming up with those workflows. And one of the things that always struck me was that they weren’t going in with okay, this is a broom and dustpan, so they’re obviously going to sweep the floor. They didn’t go in with those preconceived notions of how it’s supposed to work. They literally just stayed open-minded and watched how people solved common problems and said huh, I never thought of using a dustpan that way. That’s really interesting. What else can it do? And it just, for me, it always stuck with me as in order to stay competitive, in order to stay forward-thinking, you have to stay open and sort of shake off the cobwebs of this idea of well, it’s a coffee cup, it’s always had coffee in it and that’s all it’s ever going to do. It has to be, oh, this is a coffee cup. Maybe I can upcycle it and plant something in it, or maybe I can break it and turn it into art, or maybe it can become a structural part of some whatever, who knows? I don’t even know. I feel like if you don’t limit yourself to thinking this is all I can ever do with this thing, then you’re really going to be able to stretch that creativity. But that critical thinking. So back to the initial example of the students taking the test. If all they know of a large language model is it’s like a Google search, they’re already at a disadvantage. Christopher S. Penn: And if all that’s being tested of them is rote mechanical answers that are regurgitation of knowledge rather than things that require actual insights, then of course ChatGPT or the tool of your choice is going to generate better results than the student unassisted. But you’re not testing the skills that the modern workforce needs. You are testing the skills that the 1930s needed, right? You need to be an obedient factory worker to come in and make widgets. We have robots for that now. We do not need humans for that. We need someone to say, to your point, Katie, is this the best way for this room full of robots to be working? Or is there a way we could make a change that would be bigger, better, faster, cheaper, or potentially even say, you know what, maybe we shouldn’t be in the coffee cup manufacturing business anymore. Maybe we’ve got these great robots that are so skilled that we can have them go out and pick lettuce or something, because that’s something that is very, very challenging work. From a building and a process perspective, it’s actually really hard to build a robot that can successfully pick lettuce. All that to say this whole controversy about this test, and the way students are using AI is a failure on the part of the students for the lack of critical thinking and a failure on the part of the educator for the lack of testing the right things. Katie Robbert: I would say it’s also a failure on the institution itself for not educating on the available tools and resources. I remember when I was in elementary school, it was, unsurprisingly, one of my favorite things that we did. There was a whole class on how to use the card catalog at the library. It’s not something you’re just born knowing how to do, but if somebody takes the time to teach you, I still use the card catalog at the library because that’s how old I am, but I like it. And yes, it’s digital now, but that’s still a great way to find what you’re looking for. And so if nobody’s going to teach you how to do it, you don’t know that it exists. If you’re someone who’s curious enough to find out on your own, that’s great. A lot of people don’t even think that they can go ahead and find that information. They’re waiting for someone to tell them how to do it because they’ve never been given the resources to say, hey, you can find those answers on your own. You can teach yourself. Some people just, that’s not just how their brain functions. It’s not a weakness or a bad thing. It just is what it is. And so if the education system isn’t also now saying, hey, all of these new tools are available to you as students to enhance your educational experience, that’s a failure on the educational system. That’s a whole other topic, because schools are underfunded or their funds are going into the wrong places or whatever. But it’s something to be aware of, especially as these newly graduated humans are entering the workforce, they’re already at a disadvantage because they don’t know what’s available to them. Christopher S. Penn: Yeah. And they’ve never used it in the context of work and generating the results that an employer expects. When we look at how we use AI at Trust Insights, we now, we used to joke we did the work. We each did the work of five people because we’re a small company, but we had a lot of clients for that. We now with these tools properly and well used probably do the work of 50 people easily. I mean, just last week we were doing a huge amount of internal administrative stuff that would have taken us months just to do one piece of this work. And, we were doing 18, 19 pieces. Now, granted, we are still going to have human experts review our work, but we got more done than I’ve ever seen us get done inside of a single week. Katie Robbert: I would agree with that. I mean, this is the whole. I’ve talked about it on live events. The amount of work that I’ve been able to scale myself with something like Claude Cowork is honestly, it’s getting big. That’s an understatement. Christopher S. Penn: I don’t know. Katie Robbert: I don’t have a better word for it, but. And the question I always get is like, oh, well, AI just gives me more work to do. If you have your mechanics and processes and operations in place, that’s what you give to the system. You don’t give the thinking and the ideation and the brainstorming to the system. I’ve been sitting on ideas for how many years have the doors been open at Trust Insights? Christopher S. Penn: 8. Katie Robbert: I’ve been sitting on things that I want to do. Ideas. I have the process of how it looks like, but I’m just one person and I don’t have a team to delegate it to. So now that’s how we’re scaling things. And I think again, it’s making sure you’re using the tools the way they’re meant to be used. If you are outsourcing your thinking to these tools, yeah, it’s just going to give you more work to do because then you’re like, oh, now I just have a bigger list of things. No, give the list of things that you’ve already thought of to the system. Let the system do it. You continue to create and ideate. Christopher S. Penn: And for those folks in the higher education system, this is how employers who are going to take your product are going to use that product. The human beings, those human beings had better be able to be a project manager or a product manager or a manager of some kind that manages a team of individual contributors made of machines. Because we’re paying for, we want to pay for the critical thinking. We want to pay for the genuinely good new ideas. We do not need to pay for someone that just regurgitates things. A machine can do that perfectly fine. We do not need to pay for somebody that can type. Again, a machine can do that perfectly fine. We need people who think. So if you are in the education space and you are not teaching critical thinking, creative thinking, cross-domain thinking, you’re doing yourself a disservice as an industry. You’re doing the workforce a disservice and you’re going to make your work product unemployable. Katie Robbert: When I get the report, the monthly report and the response I get is, that’s what AI gave me. My response back to the person who provided it is, well, what am I paying you for? And it’s a really cold and harsh comment, but it’s real true. It’s true. Perhaps my delivery is not that direct all the time, but sometimes it is. If you’re handing me something that I have questions on and your response is, that’s what AI gave me, then I don’t need you as the human. I can do this myself and get crappy insights from a large language model. I don’t need someone to push a button for me. Christopher S. Penn: Right, exactly. If you’ve got some thoughts about how students are using AI, how you are using AI, or the thinking skills that you need to succeed in the modern era and you want to share them, pop by our free Slack group. Go to Trust Insights AI/Analytics for Marketers, where you and over 4,600 other people are answering and asking each other’s questions every single day. Well, I got that backwards. Clearly not AI generated today. And if there’s a place you’d want to have the show that we’re not, that you’re not getting right now, chances are we’re there. 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Famously or infamously, in 2002 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that “[A]s we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.” That comment stoked a lot of mockery among his critics, but he was addressing something that all people feel. It is difficult to deal with uncertainty at times when our lives have never felt less certain in a world of increasing change. Now journalist and former IDEO design lead Simone Stolzoff comes to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to discuss his guide to navigating uncertainty, spelled out in his new book How to Not Know. From politics to our careers to our personal lives, we don't know what the future holds. Yet, Stolzoff says, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is declining. Stoloff shares stories of people who have grappled with big problems with no easy answers—such as an economist trying to predict the next market crash, or an island nation facing the existential impact of climate change. How can one be comfortable with ambiguity and the unknown? Join us to hear Stolzoff's answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.Simile est regnum caelorum thesauro abscondito in agro : quem qui invenit homo, abscondit, et prae gaudio illius vadit, et vendit universa quae habet, et emit agrum illum. 45 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum homini negotiatori, quaerenti bonas margaritas. 46 Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.Inventa autem una pretiosa margarita, abiit, et vendidit omnia quae habuit, et emit eam. 47 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum sagenae missae in mare, et ex omni genere piscium congreganti. 48 Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.Quam, cum impleta esset, educentes, et secus littus sedentes, elegerunt bonis in vasa, malos autem foras miserunt. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.Sic erit in consummatione saeculi : exibunt angeli, et separabunt malos de medio justorum, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.et mittent eos in caminum ignis : ibi erit fletus, et stridor dentium. 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.Intellexistis haec omnia? Dicunt ei : Etiam. 52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.Ait illis : Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno caelorum, similis est homini patrifamilias, qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.

 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.Simile est regnum caelorum thesauro abscondito in agro : quem qui invenit homo, abscondit, et prae gaudio illius vadit, et vendit universa quae habet, et emit agrum illum. 45 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum homini negotiatori, quaerenti bonas margaritas. 46 Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.Inventa autem una pretiosa margarita, abiit, et vendidit omnia quae habuit, et emit eam. 47 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum sagenae missae in mare, et ex omni genere piscium congreganti. 48 Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.Quam, cum impleta esset, educentes, et secus littus sedentes, elegerunt bonis in vasa, malos autem foras miserunt. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.Sic erit in consummatione saeculi : exibunt angeli, et separabunt malos de medio justorum, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.et mittent eos in caminum ignis : ibi erit fletus, et stridor dentium. 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.Intellexistis haec omnia? Dicunt ei : Etiam. 52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.Ait illis : Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno caelorum, similis est homini patrifamilias, qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.The daughter of the King of Aragon and the grandniece of St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Elizabeth married Denis, King of Portugal. Becoming a widow, she entered the order of the Poor Clares and died A.D. 1336.

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Bio: Sean Duffy is the Co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, a between-visit care provider that addresses cardiometabolic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, prediabetes, and obesity, as well as musculoskeletal issues. He has dedicated his professional life to bridging technology, design, and care delivery to transform care experiences for patients. As a former MD/MBA candidate at Harvard, he also holds a BS in neuroscience from Columbia University. He has written extensively about digital health and the future of healthcare in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and TechCrunch, among other publications. Prior to Omada, Sean worked at both Google and IDEO.Company: Omada Health (Nasdaq: OMDA) is reverse engineering the way healthcare is delivered in America, putting the space between doctor visits–where health is won or lost–at the center of care. Today's healthcare system poorly serves chronic conditions that require ongoing support outside of the exam room, like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, and musculoskeletal conditions. Omada's virtual-first model combines human-led care teams, connected devices, and AI-enabled technology to deliver personalized care at scale, including support for GLP-1 therapy. Omada has served more than two million members since launch across 2,000+ employers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and health systems. Learn more at omadahealth.com.

HOW TO NOT KNOW: The Value of Uncertainty In A World That Demands Answers, by journalist and teacher Simone Stolzoff, looks at the biases that we lean on to predict the future and the unexpected benefits of surrendering control. A former design lead at the global innovation firm IDEO, Simone Stolzoff’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Geographic and many others.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn the Act of Contrition in Latin (Deus meus, ex toto corde paenitet me) with a complete line-by-line Latin learning guide. In this episode of the Latin Prayer Podcast, we explore one of the most important prayers associated with the Sacrament of Confession. Follow the recurring Latin root peccatum ("sin") through the prayer and discover how its changing forms reveal the movement of the soul from sorrow, to repentance, to firm resolution. Whether you're learning Latin prayers, preparing for Confession, studying Catholic devotions, or deepening your understanding of traditional Catholic spirituality, this guide will help you pray the Act of Contrition with greater understanding. Timestamps 00:00 Introduction: The Thread of Sin in the Act of Contrition 01:00 History of the Act of Contrition 01:50 Deus meus, ex toto corde paenitet me 02:40 Quia peccando non solum poenas 03:20 Sed praesertim quia offendi te 04:10 Ideo firmiter propono 04:45 De cetero me non peccaturum 05:15 Following the Word Peccatum Through the Prayer 05:45 What True Contrition Really Means 06:00 Closing Reflections Help us restore sacred tradition and bring timeless prayers to new ears. Support our mission and gain access to our Latin learning guides, feast day resources, and audio devotionals. Find the Free Latin Learning Guide on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/thelatinprayerpodcast A huge thank you to my Patrons! To follow me on other platforms Click on my LinkTree below. linktr.ee/dylandrego Submit Prayer Requests or comments / suggestions: thelatinprayerpodcast@gmail.com To Support FishEaters.com Click Here (  / fisheaters  ) Join me and others in praying the Holy Rosary every day; here are the Spotify quick links to the Rosary: Joyful Mysteries https://open.spotify.com/episode/1yhn... Sorrowful Mysteries https://open.spotify.com/episode/3P0n... Glorious Mysteries https://open.spotify.com/episode/3t7l... Luminous Mysteries https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vlA... 15 Decade Rosary https://open.spotify.com/episode/2q33... Know that if you are listening to this, I am praying for you. Please continue to pray with me and for me and my family. May everything you do be Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. God Love You! Valete (Goodbye)   This podcast may contain copyrighted material the use of which may not always have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advanced the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church for the promulgation of religious education. We believe this constitutes a "fair use” of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law, and section 29, 29.1 & 29.2 of the Canadian copyright act. Music Credit: 3MDEHDDQTEJ1NBB0

 44 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.Simile est regnum caelorum thesauro abscondito in agro : quem qui invenit homo, abscondit, et prae gaudio illius vadit, et vendit universa quae habet, et emit agrum illum. 45 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum homini negotiatori, quaerenti bonas margaritas. 46 Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it.Inventa autem una pretiosa margarita, abiit, et vendidit omnia quae habuit, et emit eam. 47 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.Iterum simile est regnum caelorum sagenae missae in mare, et ex omni genere piscium congreganti. 48 Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.Quam, cum impleta esset, educentes, et secus littus sedentes, elegerunt bonis in vasa, malos autem foras miserunt. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just.Sic erit in consummatione saeculi : exibunt angeli, et separabunt malos de medio justorum, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.et mittent eos in caminum ignis : ibi erit fletus, et stridor dentium. 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes.Intellexistis haec omnia? Dicunt ei : Etiam. 52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.Ait illis : Ideo omnis scriba doctus in regno caelorum, similis est homini patrifamilias, qui profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.Margaret was born in Hungary, though the Saxon royal stock and was married to Malcom III, King of Scotland. Her long reign of thirty years was illustrious for her inexhaustible charity to the poor. She died A.D. 1093 and is honoured among the Patrons of Scotland.

How design leaders build influence, navigate conflict, and lead across cultures. In this episode, Ekaterina sits down with Julia Whitney, executive coach and former General Manager and Executive Creative Director at the BBC, where she led a 150-person UX and design team.Julia spent over 20 years as a design leader across the UK and US before turning her experience into a coaching practice that helps design leaders at companies like Condé Nast, AWS, the Financial Times, and IDEO perform at their best.Julia is also a teacher at our Executive programme for Design Leaders: https://fla.wiki/4fDlOirWhat you'll learn:► Why self-limiting beliefs about leadership are the hidden barrier for most design leaders► How to build sponsorship at the next level up — and why empathy is the first step► How cultural differences shape communication, hierarchy, and trust — and what to do about it► The four types of workplace conflict and why identifying them early changes everything

About the Guest: Eric Ries has been a force in entrepreneurship and innovation for over twenty years. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of The Lean Startup, The Leader's Guide, and The Startup Way. His ideas have shaped how startups and large companies approach growth, decision-making, and innovation. As a founder, Eric has applied his principles with ventures like The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI research lab; the Lean Startup Co.; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where many of the concepts that became the Lean Startup method were forged. He has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO. Eric lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. What You Will Learn: How to create systems and cultures that encourage experimentation and learning Lessons in influencing and leading without formal authority Why long-term thinking matters for both founders and teams The importance of compounding small, deliberate actions over time Insights on how Lean Startup principles can transform established organizations Join us for a deep dive into leadership, innovation, and the mindset that allows founders and executives to build companies that last. Eric's approach is practical, disciplined, and forward-thinking. Tune in to gain strategies that go beyond theory and into the real-world application of building lasting organizations. Please rate and review this Episode!We'd love to hear from you! Leaving a review helps us ensure we deliver content that resonates with you. Your feedback can inspire others to join our Take Command: A Dale Carnegie Podcast community & benefit from the leadership insights we share.

Too many preps and not enough time? Let's make your planning period actually work for you.Reserve your spot in the Unit Planning Lab here: https://khristenmassic.thrivecart.com/unit/?ref=podcastPlanning for the next school year? If your day is organized by class period, your planning calendar should be too. Grab my Editable Class Period Calendar here: https://khristenmassic.com/secondarycalendarpodGet the Planning Period Reset Toolkit—a free set of quick-start tools to help you protect your time, focus faster, and finally finish something… even during chaotic school days. https://khristenmassic.com/resetShop my Teachers Pay Teachers store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Khristen-Massic-Cte-Teacher-CoachSummer's calling, but before you dash out the classroom door, host Khristen Massic wants you to hit pause—and try a 10-minute end-of-year reset for teachers. This episode of The Secondary Teacher Podcast locks in on a step most teachers skip: actually recording what worked in your classroom before summer vacation nukes the memory of it. Let's face it, secondary teachers juggling multiple preps live in two extremes. You're either mapping out next year before the students' chairs are cold, or you completely shut your teacher brain down until the “oh no, school starts next month” panic hits.Khristen has been in those shoes. She admits she used to mentally check out for weeks, only to return to campus with fuzzy memories about what actually worked during the year. You know the drill—at the start of the year, she'd remember that IDEO shopping cart video lesson being a legendary multi-day event. Reality? It was just four short clips, barely one class period. And every time, the same thing happened: video ended, discussion fizzled (because let's be honest, week one kids don't exactly light up for deep debates), and with too much class time left on the clock, she'd let them get out their phones. Now, with cell phone bans tightening up classroom routines, that's not even an option.The classic mistake? Assuming you'll remember the details come next year. In truth, if you haven't written down exactly what happened—the details, the logistics, what actually worked and why—you're setting yourself up to scramble again. That's why Khristen is flipping the script. Forget a full curriculum overhaul or an all-day reflection session. All you need is a timer and a willingness to spend ten focused minutes jotting down the realities of what went down in your room.The beauty of this 10-minute end-of-year reset for teachers is in keeping it small and honest. Don't try to fix the whole school year in one go. Pick one class, one unit, or one familiar project. Anchoring your reflection on “what worked well enough that I would absolutely use it again?” and “what do I need to remember about how it actually ran?” beats more abstract reflection questions every time. Khristen warns that remembering the logistics—like how long a lesson really takes, or that students won't talk much in the first week—can save you major headaches come August.This approach is especially gold for secondary classroom teachers managing multiple preps at once. You don't have time to micromanage color-coded Google Drives or overhaul your entire resource library every June. What you do need: scattered, real-world notes about what went right (and what tripped you up) so planning in July or August starts where you left off, not from a blank slate.Once you've built some reflection into your routine, there's an easy add-on: Khristen suggests a light system cleanup inspired by a pared-down 5S process. Delete duplicate files, label resources, organize one folder—just enough to clear the cobwebs. Every tiny system reset now will pay off for your future self when the back-to-school madness swings back around.If hearing all this makes you think, “Hey, everyone else seems so on top of things and I'm barely treading water”—guess what, you're not alone. Khristen was the type to check out for half the summer too, and losing track of what made her classroom tick only made the August scramble worse. This episode is your permission slip to ditch perfection and make room for small teacher tips that actually stick.So, if you're a middle or high school teacher balancing way too many preps (or just sick of the annual August amnesia), this episode is for you. The 10-minute end-of-year reset for teachers, paired with bite-sized systems cleanup, is your new secret weapon for work life balance in the secondary classroom. No need to go all-in, just go honest and go small.This year, don't let summer wipe away lessons hard-won. Pause for those 10 deliberate minutes—future you will be damn glad you did.Hit reset, don't regret it.

Most marketers believe they have a great story that nobody is hearing, but the real problem is complexity. In this episode of Content Amplified, Dory Ellis Garfinkle, Chief Marketing Officer at Siegel+Gale, makes the case that the way to break through a world of a million messages is to get radically clear on who you are. She frames the marketer's whole job as one question: how do you make something easy to understand and convey it in a way that is impossible to ignore? She backs it with Siegel+Gale's annual simplicity study, which surveys more than 15,000 people across nine countries: 64% will pay more for simpler brand experiences, 78% are more likely to recommend, brand complexity costs companies $780 billion in unrealized annual revenue, and the simplest brands have outperformed the global stock index by roughly 1,600% since 2009. She walks through the US Army return to "Be all you can be" that drove record Gen Z enrollment, and the CVS "helping people on their path to better health" heart icon that lifted same-store sales 5.5% year over year. Listen for her line on what clarity actually costs.About DoryDory Ellis Garfinkle is a career-long marketer who has spent her work at the intersection of brand and growth. She started agency side at McCann and Draftfcb, then led brand-led growth across transportation tech companies including Zipcar, AAA's venture lab, the design innovation consultancy IDEO, and Lyft. She is now Chief Marketing Officer at Siegel+Gale, a global brand consulting firm, which she describes as coming full circle back to agency life. She believes simplicity is the ethos that wins, and that clarity is not dumbing things down, it is doing the hard work so that your audience just does not have to.Show Notes- Connect with Dory on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doryellis/- Siegel+Gale: https://www.siegelgale.com/Text us what you think about this episode!

Eric Ries is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which is responsible for many of the terms commonly used in tech today, including minimum viable product and the build-measure-learn cycle. And his new book is titled, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great. Over the last two decades, Eric's ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method, is founder of The Long-Term Stock Exchange and Answer.Ai among other companies, and has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO.  In this episode we discuss the following: Things aren't always the way they are because they have to be—they're often that way because someone benefits from them staying that way. And over time, those systems start to feel inevitable, even when they're not. Eric's story about using long-term thinking to build the Long-Term Stock Exchange is an inspiring reminder that change often comes from outside the system, and requires persistence in the face of pressure. I love Eric's perspective on mission primacy. The best organizations aren't built just to maximize profits—they're built around a purpose. They exist to solve a real problem, to create something meaningful. And when the mission comes first, profits aren't the goal—they're the result. And maybe the most practical takeaway is to not set our goals too low. Before all of the great people became the great people, they were just a student, just a worker, just someone trying to figure things out. As Eric said, “If you see the opportunity for real, lasting, profound change, don't shy away. Give it a shot. You never know what you might birth in those moments that feel the darkest, that feel the most impossible.”

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Send us Fan MailAbout This EpisodeEric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup method and author of Incorruptible explores what bold leadership looks like when certainty is impossible, pressure is high, and telling the truth may come at a cost. We talk about learning velocity, the danger of vanity metrics, why governance shapes destiny, and how organizations can build systems rooted in integrity, creativity, and human flourishing. Tune in to hear Eric's take on principled decision-making, smarter innovation, and what it takes to build institutions people can trust. About Eric RiesOver the last two decades, Eric Ries's ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup; The Leader's Guide; and The Startup Way. As a founder, he has put his own ideas into practice with The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab; the Lean Startup Co, which teaches and supports the implementation of Lean Startup; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where the ideas that became the Lean Startup method were forged. On his podcast, The Eric Ries Show, he talks to guests including world-class technologists, thought leaders, and executives working to build profitable companies for the long-term benefit of society. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. Additional ResourcesWebsite: incorruptible.coLinkedIn: @EricRiesInstagram: @ericriesactualSupport the show--------Stay Connected www.leighburgess.comWatch the episodes on YouTube Follow Leigh on Instagram: @theleighaburgessFollow Leigh on LinkedIn: @LeighBurgessSign up for Leigh's bold newsletter

Over the last two decades, Eric Ries's ideas about continuous innovation, long-term thinking, governance, and market reform have reshaped company building and management practices. He is the creator of the Lean Startup method, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup; The Leader's Guide; and The Startup Way.  As a founder, he has put his own ideas into practice with The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE); Answer.AI, an AI R&D lab; the Lean Startup Co, which teaches and supports the implementation of Lean Startup; Virgil, a legal services startup; and IMVU, where the ideas that became the Lean Startup method were forged. On his podcast, The Eric Ries Show, he talks to guests including world-class technologists, thought leaders, and executives working to build profitable companies for the long-term benefit of society. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children. This episode is sponsored by the coaching company of the host, Paul Zelizer. Consider a Strategy Session if you can use support growing your impact business. Resources mentioned in this episode include: Incorruptable site Miyoko Awarepreneurs interview The Lean Startup site Long Term Stock Exchange site Paul's Strategy Sessions Pitch an Awarepreneurs episode  

Have you ever walked into a room and felt like everyone else already knew how to network, how to pitch themselves, how to sound confident, and how to make the right connections? Here is the much-awaited part two of my conversation with Sasha Grinshpun on The Ripple Effect Podcast. We get into the real stuff that so many professionals, founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders are wrestling with right now. - How do you build meaningful connections without feeling fake? - How do you stop being the world's best-kept secret? - How do you turn feedback, rejection, and even those frustrating "nos" into something that actually moves you forward? Sasha brings such a refreshing perspective on authentic networking, career confidence, design thinking, LinkedIn networking, and the entrepreneur mindset. What I love about Sasha is that she does not just talk about career growth and business coaching from theory. She has lived the messy, nonlinear path herself, and she has helped thousands of professionals find the words, confidence, and clarity to take the next step. Sasha Grinshpun is an executive coach, career strategist, facilitator, and founder of Catapult Circles and the LinkedIn Accelerator. Over the last 15-plus years, she has worked with Fortune 500 executives, founders, and accomplished professionals as they navigate their next chapter. Her background spans Yale Economics, Harvard Business School, Monitor Deloitte, and IDEO, giving her a rare mix of strategic rigor, design thinking, and genuine warmth. Sasha is also a leading voice on how AI is changing networking, hiring, professional visibility, and the future of work. Sasha will be launching Networking for Introverts and LinkedIn Accelerator cohorts. She's also building with AI in communities around the world with her AI-in-Action workshops. See catapultcircles.com for more info! If this conversation hits home, I hope you will watch it all the way through. There are a lot of Ripples in this one, and I have a feeling one of them might be exactly what you need to hear right now. Ripple with Sasha Grinshpun Website: https://catapultcircles.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashagrinshpun/ X: https://x.com/catapultcircles Substack: https://sashagrinshpun.substack.com/ Ripple with Steve Harper Instagram: http://instagram.com/rippleon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rippleon X: https://twitter.com/rippleon Website: http://www.ripplecentral.com

I don't think we like to hear it, but there seems to be continual evidence that our culture is growing more risk averse, less willing to try new things, and as a result, becoming stagnant. Another data point on our reported, near all time low of subjective well-being. So I brought on an expert to discuss the issue. Ben Swire is an innovative thought leader on human connection and authentic living. Ben is an award-winning designer, writer, and former Design Lead at the iconic innovation firm IDEO, and he co-founded Make Believe Works where they help people build deeper relationships and discover their authentic purpose through creative activities. Ben has spent much of his time working with people and teams, helping them progress toward the things they really want. Ben says we all want inspiring experiences, meaningful work, and deep relationships. But those generally require risking vulnerability, inviting disappointment, and trusting others. So, we hesitate, settle to remain safe, and stay stuck. So he's worked to lessen the perceptions of risk, and this was why I had him on the show. Ben has a new book, SAFE DANGER: An Unexpected Method for Sparking Connection, Finding Purpose, and Inspiring Innovation. As you will hear, I really honed in on looking at what is really most at risk, and so often it is only our identity. Anxiety about what people might think. I'm not going to cheerlead that everyone quit caring what others think, but I'm definitely working to shine light on the issue and help us see how unfounded the concern often is. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We sit down with Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" to discuss his new book "Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad... and How Great Companies Stay Great" (which launches later this week on May 26) to name the force that pulls great companies off mission and to map concrete ways to build businesses that stay great as they scale. We also get into AI agents, vibe coding risks, and why trust, empathy, and stories can outperform metrics when the stakes are real.• corporations as superorganisms with emergent intelligence and moral character• slow AI vs fast AI and why governance becomes the bottleneck• shareholder primacy as a self-defeating objective function that rewards value destruction• why validated learning cannot be outsourced and how AI should teach, not replace, understanding• how VC incentives can shift toward longer-term fund structures and mission-driven returns• mission-controlled companies and governance fortresses that protect purpose without founder hubris• the Virgin America story and the need for a mission guardian• Devoted Health as an example of operationalized empathy that reduces churn and builds loyalty• performance reviews as story-harvesting systems and the danger of surrogation by metrics• HEB's crisis decision as a compounding trust investmentA company can be wildly successful and still be losing something essential. Eric Ries joins us to explain why, and he doesn't blame a few “bad actors” or a vague culture problem. He names the physics: financial gravity, the invisible pull that bends incentives, board decisions, and leadership behavior toward extraction and short-term wins. Along the way, we talk about his new book and what it takes to protect a mission when the money gets serious.We dig into corporations as “superorganisms” and why organizations function like slow AI, then connect that to fast AI and the rise of autonomous agents inside the enterprise. Eric lays out why shareholder primacy is an objective function that can reward value destruction, how governance “best practices” often fail in the real world, and what mission-controlled structures can look like when you want checks and balances without creating an unaccountable emperor-for-life.Then we go practical and a little spicy: vibe coding, overconfidence, black swans, and what validated learning means when code is generated faster than humans can evaluate it. We also get into trust as a compounding asset, with stories like Virgin America's mission getting liquidated, Devoted Health operationalizing empathy, and HEB proving customer-first values under crisis conditions. Plus, we run Eric through a sci-fi corporate governance lightning round that hits Blade Runner, Murderbot, Alien, and Terminator 2.Eric Ries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eries/Eric Ries is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, advisor, and New York Times bestselling author,  creating the Lean Startup methodology and writing the iconic book The Lean Startup, which has sold over a million copies worldwide.  His highly anticipated new book, "Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad...and How Great Companies Stay Great" releases May 26: https://www.amazon.com/Incorruptible-Good-Companies-Great-Stay/dp/B0FWZZBPZBEric is a partner at Unshackled Ventures and also the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE).  Eric is also the co-founder of the AI R&D lab Answer.AI, a former entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and IDEO, and the host of his own podcast, The Eric Ries Show.Website: https://www.position2.com/podcast/Rajiv Parikh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivparikh/Email us with any feedback for the show: sparkofages.podcast@position2.com

00:00 – Intro & Jed's welcome 01:20 – How Backstory Branding was born from client feedback 02:33 – Jed's non-traditional background vs. the usual MBA crowd 04:52 – Why founders struggle to accept bold brand strategy 06:50 – Branding is not a crap shoot 08:26 – How strong brands multiply SaaS exit value 12:13 – The four phases of the Backstory Brand Wheel 13:46 – The DemoChimp → Consensus rebrand story ($110M raise) 16:36 – Jed's IDEO days, patents & human-centred design 20:10 – Why marketing leadership churn destroys brand equity 23:27 – Final thoughts & where to find Jed Connect with me on:All my linksBecome a guestSign up for RiversideGet Descript #DigitalMarketing #Branding #PersonalBranding #MarketingInsights #SocialMediaStrategy Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

En la 1472-a E_elsendo el la 20.05.2026 ĉe www.pola-retradio.org: • En la hodiaŭa redakcia interparolo Gabi kaj Barbara „enrigardas” la pollingvan komikson „Ideo” de Jacek Świdziński, kiu estis eldonita en aprilo. Nun daŭras serio de aŭtoraj renkontiĝoj en diversaj polaj urboj, pri kio informas foto akompananta la programinformon el la provizoj de Bjalistoka Kulturcentro/Centro Ludoviko Zamenhof. • En la komenca kulturkroniko – post la prezento de memorigindaj datoj el 20.05 – ni informas pri lanĉota komence de junio Muzeo de Igor Mitoraj en Pietrasanta; pri unika trovaĵo en Pollando, bizanca pendo-seruro el la epoko de krucmilitoj; pri elementoj de la jam fama Trezoro el Środa Śląska laŭvican fojon pruntitaj al la muzeo en la ĉeĥa Prago. • En la E-komunuma segmento ni informas pri du kongresoj, kiuj okazos en Graz antaŭ la 111-a UK: IKUE-kongreso – https://mallonge.net/77aIKUEkongreso. Pri la 1-a Virina Kongreso, kiu en la Dua Bulteno aperas kiel A2. • Muzike ni proponas reaŭskulti kune fragmenton de la kanto de Ĵomart kaj Nataŝa „Granda Urbo” el ilia Arĝenta Albumo. • En unuopaj rubrikoj de nia paĝo eblas konsulti la paralele legeblajn kaj aŭdeblajn tekstojn el niaj elsendoj, kio estas tradicio de nia redakcio ekde 2003. • La elsendo estas aŭdebla en Jutubo ĉe la adreso: https://www.youtube.com/results?q=pola+retradio&sp=CAI%253D Interalie pere de Jutubo, konforme al individua bezono, eblas rapidigi aŭ malrapidigi la parolritmon de la sondokumentoj; eblas transsalti al ajna serĉata fragmento de la elsendo.

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This one felt personal. If you've ever walked into a room and felt like everyone else had it figured out, or you've ever watched somebody get an opportunity and thought, "Wait, how did that happen for them?" then you're going to connect with this conversation. It was such an honor to have Sasha Grinshpun on The Ripple Effect Podcast. Sasha is an executive coach, career strategist, and facilitator who has spent more than 15 years helping people get honest about what they actually want and how they'll get there. She has worked with Fortune 500 executives, founders, and professionals navigating major career transitions, helping them turn the conversations they've been rehearsing in their heads into the ones that open real doors. Sasha's background is anything but ordinary. Yale Economics, Harvard Business School MBA, Monitor Deloitte strategy consulting, IDEO design thinking, and now the founder of Catapult Circles and the LinkedIn Accelerator. She brings a rare mix of strategy, warmth, and straight talk to the questions so many of us are quietly carrying. A lot of us were taught to keep our heads down, do good work, and trust that people will notice. But if you've lived long enough, you know it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes the missing piece is not talent. It is connection. It is trust. It is learning how to show up, be curious, and build meaningful relationships without feeling fake or salesy. Sasha has such a great way of talking about relationships, personal branding, LinkedIn networking, AI career advice, and the future of work in a way that feels simple and doable. Especially now, when AI is changing professional visibility, hiring, networking, and how people get found or overlooked, this conversation feels incredibly timely. There are a few moments in this episode that made me stop and think, and I think they'll do the same for you. So grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and watch this one all the way through. You might hear exactly what you need today. Good news. If you learned a lot from this conversation, part two is coming soon. Stay tuned! Ripple with Sasha Grinshpun Website: https://catapultcircles.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashagrinshpun/ X: https://x.com/catapultcircles Substack: https://sashagrinshpun.substack.com/ Ripple with Steve Harper Instagram: http://instagram.com/rippleon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rippleon X: https://twitter.com/rippleon Website: http://www.ripplecentral.com

How IDEO uses play to solve real business problems. In this interview, Ekaterina sits down with Michelle Lee, IDEO Partner and Executive Managing Director of IDEO San Francisco. Michelle Lee began her career as an aerospace engineer, working on satellites, wondering why it took so long to launch one. A friend's room full of toys changed everything. What followed was a winding path through the toy industry: an internship at IDEO in 2004, a startup she spun out and left, and a return to lead the Play Lab. Over two decades, she brought over 250 products to market with Hasbro, Mattel, and Sesame Workshop, and today, she is Partner and Executive Managing Director of IDEO's San Francisco studio.In a recent conversation with Future London Academy, Michelle shared what she's learned about creativity, leadership, ambiguity, and why play is one of the most underestimated tools in business.What you'll learn:► Why play is a serious business tool, not a frivolous one► How to design a non-linear career by following curiosity rather than chasing titles► How to move from individual contributor into leadership without losing the craft► Why clients are partners, not customers, and how generosity builds trust► How to prove the ROI of design, play, and creativity using IDEO's POWER framework► How to use AI as a sparring partner without losing your creativity

Welcome to Our Agile Tales as we start off this new season with Rich Sheridan, founder, CEO and chief story teller at Menlo Innovations.Aside from founding and leading Menlo Innovations, Rich is also the author of the bests-selling books, Joy Inc. and Chief Joy Officer, whose message is that joy is essential to productivity and profitability in the workplace. Rich recounts his journey from early programming success and a rapid rise to VP to feeling despondent amid chaotic, late, over-budget software delivery, which sparked a search for better ways to organize people. He defines workplace joy as externally focused delight in serving end users, distinct from perks or simple happiness. He describes an “aha” moment when his eight-year-old daughter observed that no one could make decisions without him, revealing a hero-based organization, and a “click” moment in 1999 influenced by Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained, IDEO's Nightline segment, and meeting his co-founder, James Goebel.Rich details early resistance to pair programming, how experiments and a “Java factory” open-room approach shifted behavior, and how the internet bubble burst led him to found Menlo Innovations in 2001. He explains how IBM tours and a conference invitation launched his storytelling and how Edison's Menlo lab inspired Menlo's name, concluding that the risk of change was less than the risk of staying the same.Key topics and timestamps:00:00 Welcome to Our Agile Tales00:22 Meet Rich Sheridan02:30 From Programmer to Burnout05:53 Defining Joy at Work08:21 Aha Moment Leadership Shift10:36 Click Moment XP and IDEO12:53 Pairing Experiment Begins15:54 Java Factory Culture Change19:19 Menlo Innovations Is Born20:59 Joyful Workdays No Overtime22:38 Tour Guide to Storyteller28:04 Risk of Change vs Staying30:05 ClosingAbout Rich SheridanRich Sheridan is the CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations and the best-selling author of Joy Inc. and Chief Joy Officer. He has spent years traveling across four continents and nearly 20 countries, helping organizations rethink not just how they work, but how it feels to be part of them. His core message is simple: joy isn't optional—it's essential to productivity, profitability, and real team energy.Rich's ideas have been featured in Forbes, Inc., NPR, and Harvard Business Review. What sets him apart is that he's been living these principles for over 20 years at Menlo, the company he co-founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan—now known worldwide for its uniquely joyful culture.Follow Rich Sheridan at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/menloprezMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comVisit us at https://www.ouragiletales.com/about

Guest Ashley Jablow (Jab-lo, pronouns: she/her) is the founder of Wayfinders Collective and creator of Life Design School, a creative studio for people in career and life transition. A seasoned facilitator, speaker, coach, and design strategist, Ashley blends design thinking and innovation, emotional intelligence, and creative tools to spark clarity and action for teams and individuals navigating change. She's also the artist and author of 100 Days of Designing My Life, a guided journal series for reflection and reinvention, and the creator of "The Little Deck of Sweet Reflections", an intuitive card deck to inspire your creativity, connect with your inner wisdom, and reflect on who you are becoming. Summary In this conversation, Ashley reflects on the pivotal career transitions that shaped her work as a coach, facilitator, and innovation practitioner. She describes several moments of feeling "stuck," including graduating from business school without a job, working in prestigious roles at IDEO and the White House during the Barack Obama administration, and later being unexpectedly laid off from what she believed was her dream job. Rather than viewing those experiences as failures, Ashley explains how they became turning points that led her toward coaching and helping others navigate difficult transitions. A central theme of the discussion is the relationship between reflection and action. Ashley argues that meaningful change requires both deep self-understanding and practical movement forward. Drawing from her background in coaching and design thinking, she describes how innovation, creativity, and human-centered leadership intersect. For her, reflection without action leads nowhere, while action without reflection risks solving the wrong problem. The conversation also explores leadership development, trust, vulnerability, and the challenge leaders face in shifting from doing the work themselves to empowering others. Ashley emphasizes that the "people stuff" — culture, trust, communication, and values — must be addressed before productive organizational change can happen. She closes with an important reminder: when people feel stuck, creativity, play, and joy are not distractions but essential pathways to movement and renewal. Ultimately, our conversation highlights the grit, interdependence, and adaptability required to survive in the historic West. A key takeaway Being stuck is not a dead end but often the beginning of transformation. Real progress comes from pairing honest self-reflection with concrete action, while staying grounded in humanity, trust, and joy. References / Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyjablow/ https://www.instagram.com/ashleyjablow/ The Power of Onlyness by Nilofer Merchant

Why does the architecture profession's investment in human capital development still lag so far behind its investment in technology and tools?In this episode of Practice Disrupted, host Evelyn Lee is joined by Laura Weiss, an architect who stepped away from traditional practice thirty years ago to focus on the human systems that make design possible. With a decade-long tenure at IDEO as a practice director and associate partner, where she co-led the original service design practice, and experience as a principal at Korn Ferry, Laura brings a precise, unsentimental perspective to the profession. Now an ICF-certified coach and mediator returning to teach at Yale, she explores why the quality of the conversations we have is the ultimate determinant of a firm's success.The conversation centers on Laura's framework of the "five conversations" essential for the growth of people, firms, and projects. She breaks down the mechanics of why feedback often collapses in creative organizations and why conflict avoidance is a "leadership strategy" that inevitably leads to higher long-term costs. Laura challenges the industry to rethink its approach to leadership, moving away from the "worker bee" mentality toward a more holistic understanding of agency and influence within the "spider web" of organizational systems."Organizations or systems are like spider webs. You touch one part of it and the whole thing can move. So anyone that thinks, 'I'm just a worker bee,' think a little bit more creatively. If you lean into your own personal sense of power and agency, it will come." - Laura WeissThis episode is a masterclass in the "soft" systems that drive "hard" results. Laura provides a roadmap for architects to reclaim their power, navigate the discomfort of difficult feedback, and build a more resilient professional culture. Whether you are a firm leader looking to evolve your leadership style or a young professional seeking to understand your own influence, this discussion offers a framework for navigating the complex human dynamics of practice.Guest:Laura Weiss is an architect, leadership coach, and facilitator. She spent a decade at IDEO as a Practice Director and Associate Partner, where she helped pioneer the service design practice. She has served as a Principal at Korn Ferry and is currently an ICF-certified coach and mediator. Laura is also a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture, where she teaches on leadership and organizational development.This episode is especially for you if:✅ You want to understand why conflict avoidance in leadership is a strategy that always costs more than it saves.✅ You are curious about why feedback systems often fail in creative environments and how to fix them.✅ You are interested in the "five conversations" framework for fostering growth in people, firms, and projects.✅ You want to learn how to view your firm as a "spider web" of influence where every individual has agency.✅ You are looking for ways to elevate the profession's investment in human capital to match its investment in technology.What have you done to take action lately? Share your reflections with us on social and join the conversation.

Kayse Gehret is a visionary leader in the healing arts with more than three decades of experience guiding individuals toward profound mind-body-spirit transformation. As the founder of Microdosing for Healing and the Microdosing for Healing Podcast, she is a sought-after educator, professional trainer, and guide specializing in the safe, intentional use of microdosing for trauma healing, personal growth, and conscious living. A Reiki Master, certified yoga instructor, hypnotherapist, and practitioner of energy medicine, intuition medicine, astrology, Human Design, and the Enneagram, Kayse weaves ancient wisdom with modern psychedelic science. She serves as an educator for Psychedelics Today's VITAL professional facilitator program and has taught for the Microdosing Institute, Entheonation's Plant Spirit School, and multiple psychedelic therapy associations. Before launching her microdosing platform, Kayse founded Soulstice Mind & Body Studio in Northern California and built a thriving global healing arts practice serving corporate leaders, professional athletes, musicians, and luxury clients (St. Regis, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, IDEO, and the NBA). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Health Magazine, and numerous industry publications. She is also the author of Body/Work: Careers in Massage Therapy. Today Kayse offers 1:1 guidance, group immersions, the Microdosing Professional Program mastermind, and facilitator certification training—empowering healers, therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals to integrate microdosing ethically and effectively while igniting their clients' innate healing potential. Passionate about building conscious community and sustainable, heart-centered businesses, Kayse helps people discover their true path and purpose through the powerful intersection of holistic healing and microdosing.https://www.microdosingforhealing.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.Subscribe now at YouTube.com/@RefocusedNetworkThank you for your time. 

This might be the first you're hearing of it, but we feel very strongly you should listen to a new episode of Did I Do That?! Rinee Shah (Executive Creative Director at Hatch) sits down with Sean to talk about her design mistakes… as well as chinchilla celebrations, ceremonial cream cheese tastings, and Sleepytime satanic panics.Rinee Shah is a creative director and illustrator, based in Portland, Oregon. She is a 2023 Ad Age 40 Under 40 honoree and is currently Executive Creative Director at Hatch. In the last few years, she's led creative for Oatly in North America, created an episodic video series for Spotify, creative directed Snapchat's first global TV campaign, led prototype-building product design sprints for Kodak and published three illustrated books. Her illustration clients include The New York Times, NY Mag, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Inside Hook, BuzzFeed News, O Magazine, Apple, IDEO, and Simon & Schuster.You can find Rinee's work online at rineeshah.com, and on Instagram as @rineeshah. You can get her latest book with David Roth, LOL 101: A Kid's Guide to Writing Jokes, from Chronicle Books directly, or from tons of other booksellers including Amazon, Powells, or a local retailer near you via Bookshop.com)! You can find her previous book, The Made-Up Words Project, on her website, Amazon, and many more places!I have given us a mission, listeners! Let's get Justin Hager of the Partanna Mission Spicy Pepper Olive Oil his accolades: please go and review this good can design anywhere you can review the product itself and let them know that it is Sleepytime Tea hell. Maybe if we're lucky, we can get a very weird collaboration going! A few places I've found it that offer reviews: Amazon; Partanna Foods' own page for the Mission Spicy Pepper Olive Oil; Best Sicily, whatever that is; and probably others, though Zupan's is disappointingly not among them. That said, you can probably go in there and just tell somebody you think the design is sick!This episode was recorded Saturday, March 21, 2026 in the Rat's Nest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

En la 1465-a E_elsendo el la 15.04.2026 ĉe www.pola-retradio.org: • En la komenco de la elsendo – post historifoliaj datoj – ni referencas al la pasinta hieraŭ 109-a mortodatreveno de Ludoviko Zamenhof kaj memorigas pri la baldaŭa 100-a datreveno (18.04) de la bone konata tomboŝtono en la varsovia Juda Tombejo starigita de la tutmonda esperantistaro (18.0.1926). Lige kun la nunjara datreveno ni informas krome pri la aperinta popularscienca komikso „Ideo” de Jacek Świdziński dediĉita al Esperanto kaj ĝia aŭtoro. Tiun elsendoparton akompanas fragmente la poemo de Zamenhof “Ho, mia kor' kantita de Ĵomart kaj Nataŝa kaj ĝia tute freŝa registro fare de boliviaj esperantistoj aperinta en jutubo ĉe la profilo de Wayne’s Music World. • Hodiaŭ ni donas apartan atenton al la preparoj al la 111-a UK kaj laborvizito de reprezentantoj de la Kongresa Fako en Graz kaj renkontiĝo kun Loka Kongresa Komitato. Al Petro Baláž kaj Dorota Rodzianko kunlabore akompanis Maciej Jaskot, en kies sonmaterialo pri la preparoj rakontas Ewald Schick, Marta Wojciechowska-Desplantes kaj Norina Schantl. • En aktualaĵoj ni informas pri ĉiam pli multnombre laborantaj en Pollando emeritoj kaj pri la unua mikroarbaro en Katowice. • Nian programinformon akompanas foto de la kovrilpaĝo de la komikso „Ideo”, kiu estis farita de grafikistino el la Bjalistoka KulturCentro. • En unuopaj rubrikoj de nia paĝo eblas konsulti la paralele legeblajn kaj aŭdeblajn tekstojn el niaj elsendoj, kio estas tradicio de nia redakcio ekde 2003. La elsendo estas aŭdebla en Jutubo ĉe la adreso: https://www.youtube.com/results?q=pola+retradio&sp=CAI%253D Interalie pere de Jutubo, konforme al individua bezono, eblas rapidigi aŭ malrapidigi la parolritmon de la sondokumentoj; eblas transsalti al ajna serĉata fragmento de la elsendo.

In today’s episode of THE MENTORS RADIO, Host Tom Loarie talks with Ben Swire, former Design Lead at IDEO, about the power of creative work, “safe danger”, the importance of staying inspired and more. It’s the ultimate toolkit for those who crave meaning and purpose in every aspect of their life. Guest Mentor Ben Swire shows us the way to achieve it. Most of us have a “wish list” for our lives: we want inspiring experiences, deep relationships, and work that truly matters. But there is a massive chasm between that list and our reality. As Joseph Campbell once noted, the rewards we seek are not “easy pickings”—they require sacrifice, struggle, and the courage to be vulnerable. Our guest today, Ben Swire, has found an unexpected way to bridge that chasm. Ben is the founder of Make Believe Works and the author of Safe Danger. A former Design Lead at IDEO, Ben was famously told that his most important job wasn’t just to be a designer, but to stay inspired. Today, Ben uses a suite of creative activities to help leaders move past “forced achievement” to find their authentic soul. In this episode, we discuss why creativity is the “oven mitt” that allows us to handle the heat of our own pain, why AI may be flattening our diversity of ideas, and how one small, creative risk can change your life. You will learn about “Safe Danger,” the creative risks that transform teams, and why your most important job as a leader is to simply staying inspired.   LISTEN TO the radio broadcast live on iHeart Radio, or to “THE MENTORS RADIO” podcast any time, anywhere, on any podcast platform – subscribe here and don't miss an episode! SHOW NOTES BEN SWIRE: BIO: https://thementorsradio.com/ben-swire/ BOOKS: Safe Danger: An Unexpected Method for Sparking Connection, Finding Purpose, and Inspiring Innovation, by Ben Swire WEBSITES: MakeBelieveWorks.com BenjaminSwire.com

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First up, record producer turned neuroscientist Susan Rogers on This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You. And stick around because later in the show, IDEO's Michael Hendrix will reveal what musical minds can teach all of us about innovation, collaboration, and creative reinvention. Sponsored By: Shopify — Start your $1/month trial at ⁠shopify.com/daily⁠ Notion — Try Custom Agents now at ⁠notion.com/daily 

You can find more from Josh and his book here:⁠www.joshdavisphd.com/dads⁠What does it take to be a present, resilient father while also succeeding as a leader? In this powerful episode of The Self Esteem and Confidence Mindset, we sit down with Josh Davis—dad of three, co-author of USA Today bestseller "The Difference That Makes the Difference," former Ivy League professor, NLP master practitioner, and founder of the Science-Based Leadership Institute—to explore the mindset skills that help fathers be present, bounce back from setbacks, and build meaningful connections with their kids and partners.Josh brings unique expertise from teaching in "last chance" public high schools to guiding executives at Goldman Sachs and IDEO. He shares science-backed strategies using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and leadership principles that help fathers develop the emotional intelligence, resilience, and confidence to show up fully for their families while navigating the pressures of modern life.

Investors spend 90 seconds on your pitch deck. Most founders waste the first 30. So how do you grab their attention fast? And what separates the startups that raise millions from the ones investors dismiss in the first 30 seconds? In this episode of Insight Out, I sit down with Carl Fudge, founder of Presentation Mode, to break down the anatomy of pitch decks that raise capital. Carl combines psychology, strategy, and design, drawing from experience at McKinsey, IDEO, and venture-backed startups to help founders cut through investor noise. Carl explains why most founders misunderstand storytelling. A pitch is not a fairy tale. It's an argument. Investors are reviewing hundreds of opportunities and funding only a few, so founders must present a compelling case backed by both narrative and evidence. We explore why the first three slides can determine whether an investor keeps reading, why traction should never be buried deep in the deck, and how frameworks like Insight–Tension–Action transform scattered information into a persuasive story. Carl also discusses the role of visual design in storytelling, the credibility signals investors look for, and how domain expertise strengthens a founder's narrative. From Spotify's origin story to Apple's iconic marketing philosophy, Carl shares vivid examples of what makes ideas stick. If you're raising capital or trying to communicate a bold idea, this conversation will change how you think about pitching your vision. In this episode, we discuss: [00:00] Introduction to Carl Fudge [02:07] Story as argument, not fairy tale [08:37] The lightbulb moment: becoming "the pitch deck guy" [11:15] The Friday night email that changed everything [18:37] Why the first three slides decide your fate [22:05] Different types of hooks and how to choose the right one [24:47] The personal story hook (and the promotion that wasn't) [28:01] The insight/fact hook (and playing to FOMO) [31:13] The shift hook (AI and security) [39:30] Threading emotion without becoming fluffy [40:48] Why facts alone fail (the telephone game) [45:28] The three-step process for crafting story [49:02] Spotify case study [53:24] The Tesla/PayPal mafia effect [57:30] The role of design in storytelling [01:02:00] Presentation Mode: what they do and how to work with them [01:04:16] Closing remarks Notable Quotes [02:18] “Out of every 100 pitch decks an investor sees, maybe one or two get funded.” – Carl [18:56] “ An investor's kind of only looking at a deck for about 90 seconds. So you just don't have that much time.” – Carl [19:03] “ What absolutely must be true is that you have found a way to capture their attention In that first 30 seconds.” – Carl [19:26] “ I don't think you can necessarily win a pitch in the first three slides, but I think you can sure as hell lose one.” – Carl [38:30] “ You don't have to agree with the conclusion. But as a founder, your job is to lay out your point of view unequivocally to to leave no room for doubt” – Carl [57:55] “ Design doesn't matter as much as story. However, I would also say that design is highly fundamental to elevating stories” – Carl Resources and Links Carl Fudge Website: https://www.presentationmode.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-fudge-storytelling Billy Samoa Saleebey LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/billysamoa/ Email: ⁠billy@podify.com⁠ and ⁠saleebey@gmail.com⁠  Insight Out  Website: ⁠https://www.insightoutshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 416 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Colin Raney, Co-Founder & CEO of Ray. Here's a "did you know - fun fact” for you. Studies show that 90 minutes of strength training a week adds four years to your lifespan! Who knew??? At least I didn't, until I was doing research for this podcast. I have to admit, I have a pretty good workout routine while I'm home between cardio and lifting dumbbells, but when I'm traveling… forget about it. For whatever reason, I just have a mental block where I'm just not motivated to work out. This is just one of the many great use cases for how Ray helps. It is an AI native fitness app that behaves more like a personal trainer as it changes and adapts based on what the consumer needs by continuously learning from your feedback, preferences, and performance. Ray's co-founders are Colin and Rich Miner, who is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of the Android operating system. The company is backed by Founder Collective, True Ventures, and other angel investors. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * Colin's background story growing up in Texas and how he got his career started in software engineering and then product management. * Going back to business school at Carnegie Mellon and how he fell in love with design. * How he landed at IDEO and later ran the firm's Cambridge studio. * Joining Formlabs as CMO in the early days of the company and the story of the launch of the Form 2 printer. * Meeting TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, the founders of PillPack and later joining as the company's CMO… plus the full story to their acquisition by Amazon for a reported $1B. * All the details about Ray and a demo of the product. * His thoughts around branding and consumer marketing in the era of AI. * And so much more!