Podcast appearances and mentions of kevin ashton

When we first started this podcast in 2015, we began with a simple premise: "We are human beings, and human beings tell stories." But how has that happened? What has that meant for humanity? And to what extent has technology transformed our relationship with stories? In today's episode, Jacke talks to MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton about his new book, The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art, which traces the history of human storytelling through eight great revolutions, helping us to see the power of stories and their importance to humankind. PLUS Ilya Vinitsky and James H. MacGavran III (The Graphomaniac: A Literary Historical Discussion of Dmitry Khvostov as a Reprieve from Teaching, the Vanity of Worldly Affairs, and Melancholy Reflections Brought On by the Loss of a Front Tooth, Together with the Current Cultural and Political Situation) stop by to discuss their choices for the last books they will ever read. The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gabrielruizbernal.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Help support the show at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/literature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠historyofliterature.com/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Conway Jr. Hour 2 (4.6) The Foosh was mentioned on the “Petros and Money” show. They were teasing him about his pizza and cake consumption. How dare they. The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train will be launching a new daily route between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. Burbank Airport is set to reopen in October. How will this impact Valley traffic? Our guest calling in is Chef Kevin Ashton, the sorority chef who’s cooking up a storm on social media at the Pi Beta Phi house, University of Nevada, Reno! He’s raised daughters and is up for a Webby award. Timmy C is such a fan that for a million years he would take Chef Kev over George Clooney as a guest on KFI! What’s Chef's advice? Avoid the red food coloring. The fellas then discuss their favorite clips they love to watch on YouTube. Mark prefers sports to cooking feeds. Anyone for tennis? Meanwhile, Timmy enjoys watching Russians go about their daily lives. OK, weirdos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tim Conway Jr. Hour 2 (4.1) Tim Conway Jr. covers a wild mix of stories, starting with Kevin Ashton’s surprising career turn from restaurant chef to working in a sorority house. Then, headlines heat up with reports that Rams star Puka Nacua is in rehab after an alleged drunken New Year’s Eve incident. Tim also talks with trumpet player Tatianna Tate and Timmy Trumpet for a high-energy twist. Plus, the GLP-1 craze is now hitting America’s farms and restaurants hard, with fruits and vegetables reportedly rotting as people eat less, while Wegovy rolls out a new subscription plan. Las Vegas is changing the game with all-inclusive hotel pricing, and in one of the night’s most terrifying stories, Uber riders escape just seconds before a huge fireball erupts. #PukaNacua #BreakingNews #TimConwayJr #Wegovy #Ozempic #GLP1 #Uber #LasVegas #Fireball #Rams #NFLNews #RestaurantNews #TimmyTrumpet #ViralNews #MustListen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mischke interviews Kevin Ashton, the author of "The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Send us Fan MailIn this episode of FUTUREPROOF., we sit down with Kevin Ashton—the technologist who coined the term Internet of Things and helped usher in the smartphone era—to talk about something even more foundational than AI.Stories.In his new book, The Story of Stories, Kevin traces a million-year arc—from the first fires where early humans gathered, to the invention of writing and printing, to electricity, electronics, and the smartphone. His thesis is provocative: language did not create stories. Stories created language.Every major storytelling revolution has followed a simple pattern: it increases the number of people who can tell stories—and the number of people who can hear them.For the first time in history, anyone can tell stories to everyone.But there's a catch.While AI cannot understand meaning, algorithms now determine which stories we see, amplifying bias, shaping belief, and influencing behavior at scale. The power of storytelling has never been more democratized—or more intermediated.We explore: Why storytelling is innate, not cultural  The eight great revolutions of human communication  Why machines can generate content but not meaning  The risks of algorithmic amplification  The role of critical thinking in a post-scarcity information world  Whether the next storytelling revolution is technological—or cognitive This conversation isn't about nostalgia. It's about understanding the oldest human technology in a moment when the newest one is accelerating everything.If we think in stories—and we always will—the question becomes: Who shapes the stories that shape us?

“The shortest distance between you and me is a story.” — Colum McCannIn 1932, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking if humanity could cure its “lust for hatred.” Freud said no. Mankind's instinct for death and destruction could not be eliminated. That said, the Viennese doctor went on, the desire to end war should never be abandoned. What was needed was a “mythology of the instincts” and a “community of feeling.” In other words: a story. The book sold 2,000 copies. By 1933, the Nazis had seized power and the two men had fled into exile.Colum McCann — National Book Award-winning novelist, author of Let the Great World Spin and American Mother — has spent the last dozen years trying to build Freud's community of feeling. His organisation, Narrative Four, now operates in 35 countries with 1,200 school partners and 285,000 participants. The method is deceptively simple: two strangers exchange personal stories, then retell each other's story in the first person. Overpowered by empathy, they realise they're not so different.At 21, Colum McCann bought a typewriter thinking he'd be the next Kerouac and produced a foot and a half of gibberish. He then went on the road and spent eighteen months cycling across America. Everyone he met wanted to tell him their story. That's his story, but not where it ends. Five Takeaways•       Einstein Asked Freud If Stories Could Prevent War: In 1932, Einstein wrote to Freud asking if humanity could cure its “lust for hatred.” Freud said no — but added that the desire to end war should never be abandoned. What was needed was a “mythology of the instincts” and a “community of feeling.” Basically: storytelling. The book sold 2,000 copies. By 1933, Hitler was in power.•       You Tell My Story, I Tell Yours: That's the Narrative Four method. Pairs of strangers exchange personal stories, then retell each other's story in the first person to the group. Something fires in the brain — dopamine, memory, imagination, empathetic engagement. It's been done 285,000 times in 35 countries. Oxford and Ohio State confirmed it: polarisation drops dramatically.•       South Bronx Kids Met Eastern Kentucky Kids. They Were Terrified: One group Black and immigrant, the other white or Cherokee. One urban, one rural. One blue, one red. Put them in a room and they're terrified of each other — until they tell a personal story. Not a didactic story, not a political argument. Something that opens up the rib cage. Then they realise they're not so different.•       Yesterday Was Big Tobacco's Moment for Social Media: The landmark court verdict on Facebook and YouTube addiction dropped the same day we recorded this conversation. McCann's son has been saying for years that social media will be the cigarettes of the future. Social media promised everyone a platform for their stories. What it delivered was isolation, loneliness, and the epidemic of kids who say “I don't have a story.”•       Stories Can Do Anything. They Can Never Take Them Away: McCann bought a typewriter at 21, thought he'd be the next Kerouac, produced a foot and a half of gibberish, and spent eighteen months cycling across America instead. He learned that everyone has a story and a deep desire to tell it. Books may go the way of opera. AI may recombine what we've already written. But they can never take away stories. About the GuestColum McCann is the author of eight novels, three collections of stories, and two works of non-fiction. Born in Dublin, he is the recipient of the US National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Prize, and an Oscar nomination. He is the president and co-founder of Narrative Four, a global non-profit that uses storytelling to build empathy and community. He lives in New York.References:•       Narrative Four — the global story exchange organisation. Get involved, become a facilitator, or get your school on board.•       Episode 2840: What Came First: Stories or Language? — Kevin Ashton on the story before the word. McCann watched it and agrees.•       Episode 2844: Was St. Francis of Assisi the First Silicon Valley Critic? — Dan Turello on agency, embodiment, and why Dante wrote without being able to edit.•       Episode 2846: How to Be Agreeably Disagreeable — Julia Minson on disagreeing better. McCann's method is the narrative version of Minson's science.About Keen On AmericaNobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,800 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting.WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters:(00:00) - Introduction: Kevin Ashton, Bob Dylan, and why stories never end (02:09) - The shortest distance between you and me is a story (04:04) - How Narrative Four began: Lisa Consiglio and a question in Aspen (05:03) - The story exchange: I tell your story, you tell mine (06:41) - 35 countries, 285,000 participants, 1,200 school partners (07:59) - South Bronx meets Eastern Kentucky: terrified until they tell a story (09:11) - Radical empathy and the New York Times Magazine (10:38) - Belfast and Limerick: afraid they'd start a war (14:21) - Oxford and Ohio State: polarisation dramatically reduced (15:01) - Yesterday's Big Tobacco moment for social media (18:24) - Einstein, Freud, and the mythology of the instincts (22:45) - Can science measure the value of a story? (26:38) - Can machines tell stories? AI and the novelist's fear (29:33) - Dylan's “Key West”: that's my story, but not where it ends (33:47) - Citizen assemblies and the political power of stories (36:05) - The bicycle journey: eighteen months across America at 21 (39:41) - How to get involved: narrative4.com

“We read so as not to feel alone.” — C.S. Lewis (possibly)Dan Turello is a cultural historian of medieval Italy, a much published photographer, and the author of the new Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans. I'm sceptical. Especially the promise (or illusion) of better humans. But Turello's definition of technology goes back further than most — all the way to the original fig leaf. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, the first thing they did, he reminds us, was cover their bodies. Technology, then, in Turello's framing, is everything that extends beyond the human body. Clothing is technology. Double-entry bookkeeping is technology. The iPhone is just the latest chapter of our technology story that began at the beginning.His most surprising argument is that our current tech anxiety has medieval roots. St. Francis of Assisi was what he calls a trust-fund kid “avant la lettre” — his father being a wealthy 13th century silk merchant at a time when northern Italy was Silicon Valley. Francis sold some of his dad's silk, gave the money away, stripped naked before a bishop, and founded a counterculture movement. The first tech backlash, Turello suggests, wasn't against AI. It was against double-entry bookkeeping. Dante, writing a generation later, idealised an earlier, simpler Florence — what scholars call “paleolithic chic.” No makeup, no ornate clothing, no fleeing to immoral cities. Sound familiar?On AI, Turello goes a bit Saint Francis on us. Large language models, he fears, generate material without lineage — you can't trace where the ideas came from, can't triangulate the sources, can't validate against reality. Technology is about power, Turello argues — about who controls the storyline. Making us better humans, then, requires recovering a sense of agency. Thus he argues that we should stop outsourcing our thinking, our writing, our photography to machines. Dante wrote the entire Divine Comedy without Claude. These days, we can barely write an email without a little help from our friends at ChatGPT. Machiavelli donned the robes of the past to think and write. We might try putting ours on too. But then isn't that a tech solution too? Five Takeaways•       St. Francis Was a Trust-Fund Kid Who Invented Counterculture: His father was a wealthy silk merchant in 13th-century Italy, at the dawn of Europe's commercial revolution. Francis sold his father's silk, gave the money away, stripped naked before a bishop, and founded an order that rejected the mechanisms of early capitalism. The first tech backlash wasn't against AI. It was against double-entry bookkeeping.•       Technology Is Everything Beyond the Naked Human Body: Turello's definition goes back to Genesis. When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden, the first thing they did was cover their bodies. Fig leaves are technology. Clothing is technology. The iPhone is just the latest iteration of a metaphysical problem that's been destabilising us since the Fall.•       Dante Wrote the Divine Comedy Without Being Able to Edit: He penned an entire macrocosm of the medieval world from memory, without the ability to rewrite in any meaningful way. Turello thinks Dante would be concerned that we're losing our memories, our ability to tell a coherent narrative for our lives, and that our existence has become too fragmented. We can barely write an email without ChatGPT.•       LLMs Generate Material Without Lineage: Technology is about power — about who controls the storyline. Large language models produce text without traceable sources, without verifiable origins, without lineage. You can't triangulate where the ideas came from. That's not intelligence. That's a crisis of provenance.•       Agency Still Matters: Turello's hope for humanity is that we recover a sense of agency — the belief that our choices, friendships, relationships, and communities are ours to shape. The alternative is technological determinism: the machine decides. Machiavelli donned the robes of the past to think and write. We might try putting ours on too. About the GuestDan Turello is a writer, cultural historian, and photographer. A Technology and Humanity Fellow at Florida Atlantic University's Center for Future of Mind, AI & Society, his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans is published by Columbia University Press.References:•       Connection: How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans by Dan Turello (Columbia University Press, 2026) — the book under discussion.•       Episode 2840: What Came First: Stories or Language? — Kevin Ashton on storytelling preceding language, a natural companion.•       Episode 2839: Have Our iPhones Eaten Our Brains? — Nelson Dellis on memory, cognitive atrophy, and outsourcing our minds.•       Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction — referenced in the conversation on technology and power.About Keen On AmericaNobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,800 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting.WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters:(00:00) - Introduction: has technology made you a better human? (03:22) - The iPhone vs. the decisive moment: Bresson and photography (05:39) - The orange cushion: an ode to imperfection (06:27) - St. Francis of Assisi: the first tech critic (07:22) - 800 years of tech anxiety: from double-entry bookkeeping to AI (11:27) - Žižek, capitalism, and the love-hate relationship with technology (13:50) - Fig leaves to iPhones: technology as everything beyond the naked body (15:00) - Marinetti, Svevo, and the mammoth: technology as relationship (17:54) - Walter Benjamin, The Matrix, and who controls the storyline (20:51) - Bresson's decisive moment vs. Nietzsche's blow it up (22:25) - Agency under attack: reclaiming embodied experience (25:47) - Machiavelli donning the robes of the past (28:44) - Nost...

Tim Conway Jr. Hour 4 (3.20) Tip Tap TalkBack Time with Timmy! Our listeners are full of fabulous thoughts and saucy suggestions! How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it! Sorry for the TalkBack joke spoiler, but it’s too good to not share! We don’t know who listeners love more — Tim Conway, or the Junior version? Tippy-Tappy Talkback Timmy is a huge fan of Kevin Ashton, aka the Sorority Chef, so check him out on YouTube. Tim is fussy about his food, which you wouldn’t guess, judging by the amount of fast food he consumes. What makes him fussy? It’s gotta be hotter than hell — unlike holy water. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Nobody's reality is more or less real.” — Kevin AshtonIt's the chicken and egg question. What came first: stories or language? For Kevin Ashton, the answer is stories. In his new book, The Story of Stories, Ashton argues that rather than inventing stories with language, we invented language to tell stories. Stories, for Ashton, predate language. They are what makes us human.300,000 years ago, Ashton argues, humans sat around night fires needing to talk about things they couldn't point to — the past, the future, the Gods. So they created language. Grunts got grammatical. And the grammar had a structure that hasn't changed since: character, chronology, consequence. Every sentence in every one of the world's 7,000 languages is built upon the need to tell stories. Every conversation you've ever had contains a narrative. Even this one.I asked Ashton whether this makes reality itself just another narrative and him just another postmodernist. Our brains construct reality, he explained, in the same way a graphic user interface constructs a desktop. Our dog sees a different rainbow to the one we see. But, in contrast with our dog, we tell stories about that rainbow.Ashton is a technologist who first coined the term “Internet of Things”. But on AI, he is surprisingly critical. A large language model is a more complicated toaster, he says. It can produce language that fits the format of a story — character, chronology, consequence — because it's digested millions of words. But it can't produce meaning. We humans, in contrast, are made meaningful by our stories. That's why you are reading this now. Five Takeaways•       We Invented Language to Tell Stories, Not the Other Way Around: Ashton's central claim is that storytelling preceded and caused the evolution of language. A million years ago, humans around night fires needed to talk about things they couldn't point to — the past, the future, the gods. Grunts became grammar. The structure hasn't changed since: character, chronology, consequence. Every sentence in every one of the world's 7,000 languages is built on this need to narrate.•       Nobody's Reality Is Real: Our brains construct reality the way a graphic user interface constructs a desktop — useful, not true. Your dog sees a different rainbow than you do. Whose is real? Both. Neither. Ashton isn't a postmodernist — he's arguing that our story-shaped brains are the lens through which all experience is filtered, and there is no stepping outside it.•       The Bible Hitched a Ride on Writing: The world's great religions spread because they were among the first stories to exploit writing as a distribution technology. The Bible is just a word for book. Scripture is a word for writing. Where those texts travelled, those religions still dominate today. Homer is an oral tradition frozen by the alphabet. The oldest surviving story in the world is Noah's flood, and it comes from Southern Iraq, not Greece.•       A Large Language Model Is a More Complicated Toaster: Ashton is brutally dismissive of AI. A machine can produce something that fits the format of a story because it's digested millions of them. But it can't produce meaning. Machines are inherently meaningless. We anthropomorphise them because that's what our story-shaped brains do — we named our cars, now we're naming our chatbots.•       We Humans Are Made Meaningful by Our Stories: Ashton's own life is the proof: a Birmingham DJ who learned Norwegian in nightclubs, fell for Ibsen, marketed lipstick for Procter & Gamble, and accidentally invented the Internet of Things because mascara kept going out of stock. No algorithm would have written that life. No machine could have lived it. That's why you're reading this now. About the GuestKevin Ashton is a technologist and author who coined the term “the Internet of Things” and co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT. His previous book, How to Fly a Horse, was named Porchlight's Business Book of the Year. The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art is published by Harper. He lives in Austin, Texas.References:•       The Story of Stories by Kevin Ashton (Harper, 2026) — the book under discussion.•       How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton — his previous book on the secret history of invention.•       Episode 2836: Is Elon Human? — the Musk episode, in which we discussed AI, the scientific method as secular religion, and whether machines can think.•       Episode 2839: Have Our iPhones Eaten Our Brains? — Nelson Dellis on memory, AI slop, and cognitive atrophy — a natural companion to today's conversation.About Keen On AmericaNobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,800 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting.WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters:(00:00) - Introduction: technology tells good stories about itself (01:46) - Language was invented to tell stories, not the other way around (04:47) - If stories are our water, how do you get outside them? (06:40) - Character, chronology, consequence: the Lego brick of narrative (07:07) - Hyper-realism and the graphic user interface of reality (09:05) - Nobody's reality is real — your dog sees a different rainbow (12:35) - Darwin, Einstein, and science as storytelling (14:32) - True stories, true crime, and the O.J. Simpson test (17:15) - The Bible as storytelling technology (21:49) - Socrates vs. Plato: speech, writing, and the Reformation (23:49) - The Internet of Stories: from campfire to smartphone (25:05) - Were the Greeks really better storytellers? No. (28:49) - Favourite storytellers: Pynchon, McCarthy, Dead Space (30...

What do the campfire, printing press, motion picture, and smartphone have in common? They're all storytelling technologies. Each one gave us a new medium through which to transmit tales, reshaping how we think, what we believe, and who holds power. And we may be on the brink of the most disruptive one yet. In his new book, The Story of Stories, Kevin Ashton traces the million-year arc from fireside gossip to the screen in your pocket. Now, with AI-generated imagery and displays approaching the resolution of the human eye, we're heading somewhere new: a world where we may not be able to tell the difference between a story and reality. Watch The Next Big Idea on YouTube! You can find our episodes ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Rufus on ⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠, subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠, or send us an email at ⁠⁠podcast@nextbigideaclub.com⁠⁠. We love getting fan mail. Sponsored By: Bitdefender — Get 30% off your plan at ⁠bitdefender.com/idea⁠ Fabric — Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family at ⁠meetfabric.com/nbi⁠ Factor — Head to ⁠⁠factormeals.com/idea50off⁠⁠ and use code idea50off to get 50% off your first box Granola — Get three months free at ⁠granola.ai/idea⁠ Shopify — Start your $1/month trial at ⁠⁠⁠⁠shopify.com/nbi⁠⁠⁠

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There’s an argument to be made that every technology advance in communication – from cave paintings to fake AI movie trailers – is at its root an attempt to tell stories. Our first night-fires created the earliest audiences for spoken stories. In time, the development of rhyme, song, and other mnemonic devices allowed those spoken stories to be preserved for generations; pictures drawn on cave walls turned preservation into permanence, telling stories we still experience thousands of years later; writing enabled storytellers to spread tales to faraway places; the Chinese invented printing with moveable metal type around 700 AD; the Toltecs independently invented it at about the same time; 750 years later Gutenberg independently invented it again, adding a converted wine press to create the mass production of mass communication. Over time, printing presses increased the number of storytellers and the size of their audiences by many orders of magnitude, a trend which led us to great revolutions, and electric, then electronic, then digital storytelling and all our storytelling tools of today—and tomorrow’s. Today’s guest is Kevin Ashton, author of “The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art.” We see how humans alone possess the desire to share our hopes and beliefs, to understand and connect with others, to process events that have come before and anticipate events that will come next. That innate urge to communicate has impacted every aspect of human history, and it is so ingrained in the fabric of our existence that language did not come to being so that we could tell stories—stories gave us language. Human storytelling has led to innovations in astronomy, entertainment, technology, and beyond, and brought about revolutions, religions, political movements, and so much more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The debate is heating up over nonstick cookware as the California governor prepares to sign or veto a bill banning the use of forever chemicals in cookware. Also, a chat with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson on their new thriller, "A House of Dynamite." Plus, honoring a veteran and his service dog  who have made it their mission to help others. And, sorority Chef Kevin Ashton is live in Studio 1A making two dishes perfect for game day. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are going back to college and telling the tale of two Greek life chefs on TikTok. Kevin Ashton gained almost 5 million followers after posting recipes and behind-the-scenes footage of his life as a sorority house chef at the University of Nevada, Reno. Beloved by students who review his meals on their accounts, Ashton has brought a new spotlight onto the less glamorous side of Greek life. In contrast, pastry chef Grant Grocost has found an audience taking his followers into the messy frat house he cooks for at the University of Tennessee. Both chefs have gained traction from fans who create videos comparing the two and specifically their relationships to the students they cook for. But is the beef between Kevin and Grant, or between TikTok and Greek life? This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay, with production assistance from Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are going back to college and telling the tale of two Greek life chefs on TikTok. Kevin Ashton gained almost 5 million followers after posting recipes and behind-the-scenes footage of his life as a sorority house chef at the University of Nevada, Reno. Beloved by students who review his meals on their accounts, Ashton has brought a new spotlight onto the less glamorous side of Greek life. In contrast, pastry chef Grant Grocost has found an audience taking his followers into the messy frat house he cooks for at the University of Tennessee. Both chefs have gained traction from fans who create videos comparing the two and specifically their relationships to the students they cook for. But is the beef between Kevin and Grant, or between TikTok and Greek life? This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay, with production assistance from Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are going back to college and telling the tale of two Greek life chefs on TikTok. Kevin Ashton gained almost 5 million followers after posting recipes and behind-the-scenes footage of his life as a sorority house chef at the University of Nevada, Reno. Beloved by students who review his meals on their accounts, Ashton has brought a new spotlight onto the less glamorous side of Greek life. In contrast, pastry chef Grant Grocost has found an audience taking his followers into the messy frat house he cooks for at the University of Tennessee. Both chefs have gained traction from fans who create videos comparing the two and specifically their relationships to the students they cook for. But is the beef between Kevin and Grant, or between TikTok and Greek life? This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay, with production assistance from Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are going back to college and telling the tale of two Greek life chefs on TikTok. Kevin Ashton gained almost 5 million followers after posting recipes and behind-the-scenes footage of his life as a sorority house chef at the University of Nevada, Reno. Beloved by students who review his meals on their accounts, Ashton has brought a new spotlight onto the less glamorous side of Greek life. In contrast, pastry chef Grant Grocost has found an audience taking his followers into the messy frat house he cooks for at the University of Tennessee. Both chefs have gained traction from fans who create videos comparing the two and specifically their relationships to the students they cook for. But is the beef between Kevin and Grant, or between TikTok and Greek life? This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay, with production assistance from Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pippa speaks to Kevin Ashton, the chairperson of the SA Legion and one of their volunteers Marina Hall, about plans to commemorate VE Day in Cape Town on 10 May. The South African Legion is the organization dedicated to the welfare of military veterans and their families in South Africa.  Lunch with Pippa Hudson is CapeTalk’s mid-afternoon show. This 2-hour respite from hard news encourages the audience to take the time to explore, taste, read and reflect. The show - presented by former journalist, baker and water sports enthusiast Pippa Hudson - is unashamedly lifestyle driven. Popular features include a daily profile interview #OnTheCouch at 1:10pm. Consumer issues are in the spotlight every Wednesday while the team also unpacks all things related to health, wealth & the environment. Listen live weekdays between 13:00 and 15:00 (SA Time) to Lunch with Pippa Hudson broadcast on CapeTalk https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk Find all the catch-up podcasts here https://www.primediaplus.com/capetalk/lunch-with-pippa-hudson/show-podcasts/lunch-with-pippa-hudson/ Subscribe to the CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://buff.ly/DuRPegJ CapeTalk on TikTok: https://buff.ly/sNxD0BK CapeTalk on Instagram: https://buff.ly/xys1K8k CapeTalk on X: https://buff.ly/oTSJLZD CapeTalk on YouTube: https://buff.ly/9rXttCD See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages The book I'm writing at the moment is about relationships. I'm neither a relationship expert nor a psychotherapist, but they do say you should write so that you can teach what you need to know. This means I've been reading some of the big names: Esther Perel, John Gottman, and most recently, Terry Real, who has a brand new book out called Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship. A phrase often used as part of this book's marketing that chimed deeply with me is this: ‘At a time when toxic individualism is rending our society at every level, Us provides the tools to find our way back to each other through authentic connection and fierce intimacy.' It's a big question – how much are we our own person, and how deeply must we connect?  Kevin Ashton's latest book is called How to Fly a Horse, and, if nothing else, that's a title that will get you curious. Kevin is also the guy who named the Internet of Things, and he's been a key player in its evolution. Before any idea becomes a big deal, though, it starts as a crackpot's mad imaginings. Even though the IoT was an idea that nobody really got, it was one that Kevin couldn't get rid of, and he had a self-created sense of urgency that said, ‘If I don't act on this now, I never will.' Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast  Kevin reads two pages from ‘Finding the Mother Tree' by Suzanne Simard. [reading begins at 19:50] Hear us discuss:  What it takes to cross the threshold: “Life is too short to get wrapped up in doing things just because you want the glory.” [24:57] | Knowing when it's time to move on: “Don't be a cliche.” [27:43] | “It's okay to move on from one thing before you move on to another.” [34:57] | What we can learn from trees: “Trees are intelligent.” [35:07]

"Design research" means different things to different people. This episode illuminates the three faces of design research: research for, into, and through design.https://designdisciplin.com/the-three-faces-of-design-research# Related Books, Links, and Resources- Christopher Frayling speaking at the Research Through Design 2015 Conference: https://vimeo.com/129775325- Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley: https://geni.us/creative-confidence- Design Research Through Practice by Ilpo Koskinen et al.: https://geni.us/design-research-thr- Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler: https://geni.us/designing-brand- Detail in Typography by Jost Hochuli: https://geni.us/detail-in-typography- Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann: https://geni.us/grid-systems- How To by Michael Bierut: https://geni.us/how-to-dd- How to Fly A Horse by Kevin Ashton: https://geni.us/how-to-fly-a-horse- Making and Breaking the Grid by Timothy Samara: https://geni.us/making-and-breaking- Research in Art and Design by Christopher Frayling: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/384/3/frayling_research_in_art_and_design_1993.pdf- The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman: https://geni.us/art-of-innovation- The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman: https://geni.us/ten-faces- Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton: https://geni.us/thinking-with-type-dd# Connect with Design Disciplin- Website: http://designdisciplin.com​- Podcast: http://podcast.designdisciplin.com​- Instagram: https://instagram.com/designdisciplin/​- Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdisciplin/​- YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCtXM3JdnERaNOiFKaHZJL_w- Bookstore: http://designdisciplin.com​/bookstore# Episode Bookmarks00:00 Intro04:32 Research in Art and Design by Christopher Frayling06:30 Research for Design12:53 Research into Design15:31 Research through Design20:20 Closing Remarks

Håkan Lidbo is a musician, artist, innovator, designer, and founder of the Rumtiden Idea Lab, an unconventional creative workspace in Stockholm.The work of Håkan and his collaborators stretches across music, art, installations, games, robots, software, public installations, and more. It's quite difficult to define exactly what they do, which is a testament to their vision: "bringing totally new ideas into the world that weren't here before."Håkan himself is wildly prolific (he has released more than 350 records and held a world record for the fastest-releasing musical artist in the early 2000s) and an embodiment of innovation. I sat down with him to talk about how he's able to place himself outside conventional structures and traditions while thriving as a productive and creative leader.http://designdisciplin.com/hakan-lidbo# Related Books, Links, and Resources- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://geni.us/antifragile-dd- Change by Design by Tim Brown: https://geni.us/change-by-design- Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley: https://geni.us/creative-confidence- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda: https://geni.us/creative-selection-dd- Elektron Music Machines: http://elektron.se/- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari: https://geni.us/homo-deus-dd- How To by Michael Bierut: https://geni.us/how-to-dd- How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton: https://geni.us/how-to-fly-a-horse- Reason Studios (formerly Propellerhead Software): https://www.reasonstudios.com/- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: https://geni.us/sapiens-dd- Simone Giertz: https://www.simonegiertz.com/- Teenage Engineering: https://teenage.engineering/- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson: https://geni.us/almanack- The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley: https://geni.us/art-of-innovation- The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: https://geni.us/bed-of-procrustes- The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley: https://geni.us/ten-faces- Zoom H1N (Håkan's voice recorder): https://geni.us/zoom-h1n# Connect with Design Discipline- Website: http://designdisciplin.com​- Podcast: http://podcast.designdisciplin.com​- Instagram: https://instagram.com/designdisciplin/​- Twitter: https://twitter.com/designdisciplin/​- YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCtXM3JdnERaNOiFKaHZJL_w- Bookstore: http://designdisciplin.com​/bookstore# Connect with Håkan Lidbo- Personal Website: https://www.hakanlidbo.com/- Website for Rumtiden: https://www.rumtiden.com/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/hakanlidbo- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hakan_lidbo/# Episode Bookmarks00:00:00 What does Håkan Lidbo do?00:04:29 The Structure of Rumtiden00:12:26 Håkan's Story00:28:08 From Art to Platform00:35:05 Learning Imagination00:41:40 "Design"00:55:14 Books00:56:24 Places and Tools00:57:47 Lego01:02:21 Swedish Synthesizers01:06:14 Collaboration and Singing Tunnels01:12:54 Failure and Art01:16:34 Inspirations01:22:02 Closing

During this episode, You Me and Your Top Three host and CGS Advisors CEO, Gregg Garrett, takes a short pause from interviewing guests to reflect on 2019 and the evolution of IoT. Gregg speaks about three main topics: 1) observations from working in IoT and the ever-connecting world, 2) how this year has been a tipping point for the connecting world and the mindset many leaders have as they drive their companies through this disruptive potential, and 3) doubling down on integration and how 2020 will really require some different types of development skills. Show Highlights Segment 1: IoT Overview 1:04        The evolving IoT industry. (Kevin Ashton.) 3:32        The past: IoT was mostly driven by technology integrators. 5:04        “I started to see the difficulty of the connected product....it wasn’t only a promise, it was now a cost.” 5:43        The present: Can anything not be ‘connected’? Segment 2: The Evolving World 10:00      “We’ve reached this tipping point.” 11:21      It is no longer about the connected product; it is now about the connected enabled experience. 12:48      “I believe the number one most importance capability to compete in this ever-connecting world for companies....is the ability to develop connections.” 14:00      A challenge: Build meaningful, business-oriented relationships over points on the journey.  Additional Information Contact Gregg Garrett: Gregg’s LinkedIn Gregg’s Twitter Gregg’s Bio Contact CGS Advisors: Website LinkedIn

Aqui explicaremos como 3 frases simples podem mudar a sua visão sobre a criatividade, e vamos recomendar livros e apps incríveis sobre a criatividade :) Livros recomendados sobre o tema de hoje: A história secreta da criatividade - Kevin Ashton. Compre Aqui O caminho do artista - Julia Cameron. Compre Aqui Criatividade S.A - Ed Catmull. Compre Aqui

Internet of Things, che tradotta letteralmente significa “internet delle cose”, è stata utilizzata per la prima volta da Kevin Ashton, ricercatore del MIT (Massachussets Institute of Technology). Con il termine IoT si indica nello specifico un complesso di tecnologie che consentono di collegare a internet qualunque dispositivo di uso quotidiano, con l’obiettivo di controllare e comunicare delle informazioni (anche tra dispositivi diversi) per poi farli agire in maniera “intelligente”. Per un funzionamento efficiente di questi dispositivi sarà dunque opportuno avere a disposizione una connessione che risponda adeguatamente agli alti requisiti richiesti dagli smart device, e a questo proposito è consigliabile optare per una delle tariffe internet per la casa che prevedono un uso illimitato della rete.Cresce a dismisura il mercato delle Smart HomeTra i segmenti che hanno registrato una crescita maggiore troviamo quello delle Smart Home, che ha segnato un +52% nell’arco di un solo anno. Il mercato della domotica, infatti, ha raggiunto precisamente il valore di 380 milioni di euro in Italia, soprattutto grazie al grande successo degli smart speaker (ossia gli assistenti vocali come Google Home e Amazon Echo): attualmente questi rappresentano infatti il 16% del valore di mercato (60 milioni di euro all’incirca), superando ogni aspettativa.

物聯網這個名詞在近幾年就一直出現在各大媒體上，有些是從技術面介紹物聯網背後的科技原理，有些是從投資面解析物聯網如何帶動整個產業鏈。而在這集節目中，科技酷宅要從生活需求這個角度切入，與你分享科技達人實際上已經在使用的物聯網應用有哪些。 1982年，美國卡內基梅隆大學打造了一架可以偵測飲料存貨的自動販賣機，堪稱是物聯網概念最早的一次嘗試，之後在1995年無論是Bill Gates的《未來之路》或是1999年Kevin Ashton在麻省理工學院進行的RFID實驗，都似乎已經勾勒出物聯網具體的應用方式，只不過在當時還缺少無線網路與智慧型載具這兩大關鍵。 因此，近年來隨著無線網路從4G朝向5G邁進，以及使用廣泛的智慧型手機、相關的各種智慧家電、智慧型載具，物聯網已經從原本的概念，具體化成為正在迅速發展中的科技產業，並且實際進入到生活場景中為消費者提供各式各樣前所未有的服務。 物聯網有哪些有趣的應用？你覺得真的有需要這些物聯網科技嗎？歡迎加入科技酷宅 Kisplay x 林小旭 的深入討論嘍。

In this episode, Brian talks with Peter Yobo who is an Innovation Strategies Consultant and former USC Trojan football player. Peter grew up over seas in Ghana and has an incredibly story of coming to the U.S. and starting his own business. Follow Peter on Twitter @PeterYobo Follow Yobo on Instagram PeterYobo You will learn about... Peter's unique journey from South Africa to Southern California Peter's passion for USC and how he prepared for going to the University long before he was ever accepted How Peter learned life lessons from going up against NFL All-Pro Tyrone Smith each day in practice at USC What Peter believes to be the 4 traits of successful people How to add value to those you know and those who follow you   PODCAST TRANSCRIPTION Yobo: I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. There was this obsession. Cain: Hey how are you doing? Brian Cain your Peak Performance Coach here with the Peak Performance Podcast. Today our guest is Peter Yobo. Peter is an innovation strategies consultant with the Yobo Group where he helps professional athletes and celebrities leverage their brand so that they can make more money off of their brand. For example, did you realize that Steph Curry last year made 10 million dollars off the court by selling $2 emojis that people use in social media and on their cell phone? I didn't know that. That blew me away. Peter is going to share with us some of the other things out there that people are doing to help leverage their brand. First, Peter, thank you for joining us on the podcast. Would you take us and our listeners through your journey from where you grew up and your experience with athletics to where you are right now leading the Yobo Group? Yobo: Brian, thank you. Thanks for that awesome introduction. It's a great opportunity to be here on the podcast and share my story. My story starts in New Jersey actually. I was born in New Jersey (New Brunswick). I lived in New Jersey for three years then my mom moved us back to Ghana, West Africa, where my family is originally from. Growing up as a kid I was that kid who couldn't sit still. I was always running around having fun and breaking things, breaking bones. I couldn't sit still in class. I had teachers say “this kid is not going to amount to anything, he is always in trouble.” The funny thing though is I always got good grades. I was the kid who never studied but some way somehow I had this visual memory so I was able to remember answers to questions because I would remember what my professor was wearing the day he spoke about it. So it was just this funny thing because I would throw these teachers for a loop. I was so stubborn and caused trouble all the time but then on the other hand I was doing very well in school and very well in sports. My mom right after high school, she was like “Peter we need to figure out if you're going to go to high school in the US or in London or here in Ghana.” Something had happened about a year before that question came. I was watching a clip of US running back Reggie Bush. I think it was the 2005 Rose Bowl. [Stayed in bounds, airborne, touchdown, Reggie Bush] Yobo: I was pumped. I was excited. I just loved the whole atmosphere I saw in the coliseum. I said “I am going to go to that school.” Well guess what? It cost $56,000 per year to attend USC. I don't know how I'm going to pay for that, how much more to just even attend four years. So a lot of folks started saying “Peter it might serve you well to not even focus on that, that is too big of a goal, that is too lofty.” So what I did was every day during lunch I was so enamored, I was just attracted to the school - and today I realize what I was doing but then I didn't understand it. I was so attracted to it that every day at lunch I was so excited I needed to go sit behind - we had about 2-3 computers in our computer lab that had internet and I would sit down and had my buddies go pick up my lunch. I would just go on the USC website. I remember it like it was yesterday, www.USC.edu. All I would do was look at the pictures. I would look at the pictures and I would imagine myself walking on campus high-fiving folks, talking to buddies, and experiencing USC. I did that from Ghana. From West Africa. From a small little computer lab in my high school. I did that every day. Every lunch break (apart from the weekends). Every day. There was this obsession with having to go to USC. So fast-forward. I decided “hey mom I want to take the SAT.” I took the SAT. I did decently well. I moved to the US. I took a year off. I honestly couldn't afford to just jump into school so I took a year off and I became a California resident. I was living in the San Jose area, the Silicon Valley area, and I just figured “you know what, I'm a California resident now, I finally made enough money to buy my car, I'm just going to go to San Jose State University.” Just something that is cheap. I'm an American citizen so I don't have to pay that much. Everything is taken care of. So I did that for a year and a half. I grew restless. Today I understand why. I was being drawn to my purpose, my destiny. I was just restless. I was restless, I was struggling, and finally I decided to transfer. I was going to go to UC Riverside for basketball. All my other applications - I mean I mailed it, I did everything right, wrote all the right essays - then it comes to USC. I was like “you know what I'll just apply, I probably won't get in, it's probably too expensive.” I literally would say if I can get that application back that would have been the most heartfelt - I didn't hold anything back. I wasn't trying to be professional. I just said what I cared about. I spoke as if I was speaking to a friend. A month or two later I got a packet - “Peter, welcome to the Trojan family.” Some way somehow an internship with PWC and a few other scholarships made it easy and financially affordable to go to USC. I started off playing - in fact this is where it gets crazy. I walk on campus for orientation and I'm walking and I look to my left and I'm standing right in front of the USC Floral Gardens. That is the picture I had been seeing day after day after day about three years ago. Mind blown. I am here. I am high-fiving folks. I am living that story. I went on to do track and field. Coaches saw me thinking “oh my goodness who is this big guy out there doing track, come play football.” So I walked on, played two years of football at USC - best experience ever. Mind blowing experience. In fact going to USC was a mind blowing experience. Since then I've graduated. I've been planning to go pro. Well I attempted to go to the Canadian Football League but that didn't work out. I would say I didn't have enough years or the freakish athletic genes to make that leap. Then I did about five years working for Price Waterhouse Cooper (PwC) in innovation and technology consulting. Then about a month and a half ago I decided to go out on my own full time. Like you said I work with athletes and celebrities, high net worth individuals, but we also do a lot of work with companies. We do a lot of work for small to midsized businesses ranging from 10-100 million dollars. Our goal is very simple. We fight for the company's future. We help companies fight for their future. What we've started to realize is a lot of companies, a lot of athletes, celebrities, individuals, they do what they have to be today to make money. But we look at the Fortune 500s and they are investing money in R&D, investing money in their future, and they're fighting for that because that is what keeps them with the competition or ahead of the competition. Our goal is to come in and be that arm for companies and celebrities and athletes and high net worth individuals. We become that innovation, that research and development arm allowing them to see into the future, build strategies to get there, and then execute on doing that. That is my story. Cain: Peter, it sounds like you have been doing this your entire life. I can only imagine sitting in a computer lab in Ghana looking at USC wanting to go play football there and then all of a sudden you made that happen. Did they have football in Ghana? Yobo: No. The closest I came to playing football was rugby when I was maybe 9 years old. Cain: So the first time you ever put on a football helmet was when you put on your USC Trojans helmet? Yobo: This is true. Let me preface that. It was I put on my helmet and I had lined up across from Tyron Smith. Tyron Smith of the Cowboys. He woke my butt every single day, every single day, and it was so frustrating because in Ghana I was the guy - basketball, swimming, soccer, you name it. Every sport I played I was the athlete, I was my high school's athlete of the year, all of that. Then I came to the US and this guy, Tyron Smith, is huge and the coach says “just get around him and go tackle the quarterback.” I was playing DM at the time. Every single snap this guy punished me. But that is what taught me what the game of football meant. I started to realize just running and just going hard is not going to make me successful. I need to have the right techniques. I need to have the right moves. I need to go in the gym and get bigger, get stronger. I'll tell you what after three months going against Tyron Smith I probably put on about 30 pounds and maybe even shaved off a second or two on my forwarding time. Because you're going up against someone who knows he is going pro. He knows this is just the audition for the job he is going for and he means business. I said “man sometimes you need to have some pride in yourself, you can't be on your back every single day,” so I had to develop, I had to learn the game, and I did very fast. Cain: That is unbelievable. Was Pete Carroll the head coach there when you were there? Yobo: No it was Lane Kiffin. Cain: Lane Kiffin. Okay. Excellent. So you got to go there, you played USC Trojan football. Matt Barkley was the quarterback there I assume at that time? Is that right? Yobo: He was, yep. Cain: Unbelievable. What are some of the things that you noticed with these guys that you're playing in one of the greatest universities of the country, you're playing in the Pac-12, one of the best leagues in the country, what are some of the characteristics that you noticed in those athletes at USC or the guys that you work with now in helping them leverage their brand that are characteristics that our listeners are going to want to develop so that they can become more successful? Ultimately, Peter, probably what I'm asking you is when you look in the mirror what are the characteristics that you see that made you successful? Yobo: That is a great question. The same competitive edge that I had at USC, even though I didn't go pro I know I can list a full on hundreds and hundreds of folks who I went to USC with who have the same drive be it at their job, be in their business. I think having that edge, being able to have that edge - when I say “edge” if you imagine if you see a lion, when the lion is hunting down the gazelle there is a look in the lion's eye that says “this is dinner, this has to happen,” and there is a look in the gazelle's eye that says “I must disappoint.” Those looks are different because the determination that you have when you say “this must happen,” you leave room for multiple scenarios. I might escape. I might escape hurt. I might not escape. But when it has to happen there is one vision. So that is what I saw with the athletes. When I got to USC I got there for education. I came to this country for education. But the reason I tried out for the CFL was because you're in an environment where everyone has one goal and that is to be successful and go pro. They have the vision. I think that is the point. You need to have the vision. Folks like Matt Barkley, you will not see him at parties every night. He is at home resting, rehabbing, getting ready. Tyron Smith, even if you saw him at parties he wasn't drinking. They had that vision and they knew exactly what they had to do. So step one, have the vision. Step two, have the strategy. Know exactly what needs to happen. What steps do I need to take? Don't go here, do this. How do you manage a brand this way? Do XYZ. I saw folks who knew exactly where they were going and then they had the method or the map, the plan of action. A lot of that comes from surrounding yourself with the right people, talking to the right people. Then the last thing is just that edge. You need to have that competitive edge that says “I've seen the vision, I know exactly what to do, I will put in the work, nothing will stop me, I am going to get it.” I see some of these guys today and they don't entertain conversation with people who kind of - when I say “entertain conversation” if I surround myself with folks who are not hunting, who are not out and ready for the hunt, I may lose my desire to hunt. I think that is what you see a lot of. So surround yourself with the right people, having those three things in mind, having a vision, having a strategy and methods to get that you can find from people around you and mentors and people who have been there, then just having that grit, that competitive fire to go get it. Cain: Man that is outstanding. I love it. Absolutely love it. Peter, tell me about some of the things that you notice. You mentioned earlier that athletes work today to get paid today whereas the Fortune 500 companies are projecting into the future of what they're trying to do there. Can you talk a little bit more about some of the maybe strategies for the people that are listening to this that might be on the treadmill of paycheck to paycheck that are trying to set themselves up for the future? What are some things that you find that can be easily implemented and are useful for those people that are just trying to kind of get it going? Yobo: I'll use athletes (given we're talking about athletes) and then I'll talk about just regular folks who are working regular jobs. The key thing that athletes have is an audience. If you played college ball, if you are playing college ball and you have a following of about 200,000 people or even 20,000 people and you realize that every time you post something you get about 2,000 likes, that means you are about converting at 10%. What people don't realize is that is an opportunity to serve that audience. There is something about you that they like. There is something about you that adds value to them be it they're living vicariously through you, them just enjoying seeing your feats and having special access to you. That is something where I think a lot of athletes are losing out right there because you are leaving a lot of money on the table. I was consulting with an athlete from the Rams just recently. This guy has about 180,000 followers on just Instagram. Just one platform. On that platform every time he posts a picture he gets about I would say maybe 5,000 likes. He has nothing to offer them. When I say “nothing to offer them” it's not saying you have to sell, sell, sell, but you're either offering a free workout program - there are people who are giving you their eyes and their attention and that comes with responsibility. You have to serve them in some shape or form. Sure they like seeing your picture but what else can you give them that adds value? Once you realize what you can give them that adds value you start to prep yourself for when you retire or you're done playing. If you at practice for a couple years and you used to be the number one guy when you were in college and you still have a lot of a following and an audience how can you leverage that? When people come to you and say “hey here are my new clothes will you wear them for free and put them up online and I will give you clothes whenever you want?” Sure. Take the clothes. But ask them for 5% ownership of the company. Say “look I will get you out to XYZ number of people, you're not paying for marketing, you're giving me equity, and we're going to get your brand out there.” There are a lot of different strategies that a lot of athletes can use. Athletes are always getting stuff for free. Always. But they get so excited that they are getting stuff for free that they forget that there is an opportunity in that to become an owner. That is where I would say most of these really successful people who have been successful is they're owners. They're not just waiting for the paycheck. If you're waiting for a paycheck guess what? It's an owner who is paying you. He can fire you whenever he wants. So for regular people who are working regular jobs here is my thing; you have an expertise. You have an expertise. A lot of people are trading that expertise multiplied by their time in exchange for cash. They go and do that every single day. Where we are going in the workforce is that in the next couple of years - I think by 2020 50% of the workforce will be freelancers. At the same time 50% of the workforce will be Millennials. Same Millennial school. They love to fly, travel, work from home. That is what driving this freelance economy. Here is where people need to start thinking differently. You are the business. Even if you are working in a business you need to start seeing yourself as a business. If you see yourself as the business what you can then do is start building your brand. You can decide to create a podcast (just like you're doing, Brian.) They can have a podcast that says “you know what I am going to interview XYZ people in this specific industry.” I am going to position myself as an expert so in the future when people start looking up “oh I'm looking for a freelancers somewhere in the world to hire” I am the one who is popping up first because I have dominated all time, I've dominated space. What people will begin to see is that if you can begin to present yourself as an expert people will come to you. If they hear someone interview you on a podcast and you're able to share that expertise - even if you're the guy who is doing IT for a midsized company learn everything you must about what you do. Find ways to get out there. Just because you are an employee doesn't mean you can't go and be a guest on a podcast. Go to places. Write guest articles. What you are doing is you are laying bread crumbs. People will find that and they will come to you and ask you for help when the time is right. But they need to know that you are an expert and they need to know where to find you. Cain: My next question was going to kind of revolve around you and your success. What are some of the things that you do? You've talked about the three steps - having a vision, having the strategy, getting the competitive edge from doing the work and going to get it - but are there things that you do like a morning routine that might involve meditation or exercise or goal setting or how you plan out the time of your day? Are there certain routines that you have, Peter, that you feel like really make you successful? Yobo: Oh yeah. Definitely. I would say I start off the day by 4:00 AM I'm up. People ask me “why are you waking up at 4:00 AM? Do you even sleep?” I actually do sleep. I go to bed at 9:00 PM so I get seven hours of sleep. The reason I wake up at 4:00 is everyone who could bother me or interrupt me or distract me is probably still in bed so I get a lot of work done. What I do when my eyes first open is I prime myself for the day. I just say some thank yous to god then I envision what they day needs to look like. I have to do XYZ and I see the successes. I see successes. I prime myself. I just shoot up prayers for folks that I love, my wife, my family, my friends. I'm a Christian so I read the Bible. I get in about 20-30 minutes there. Then I hit the emails. So I'm doing a lot of the stuff that I can do during the day earlier. Then I hit the gym. I need to hit the gym. When I hit the gym the blood is just running. Again that edge. I just feel like I'm ready to go. I've got a sweat in. Then the key thing for me each and every day is what I call my standup. My standup is an agile term. There is a thing called Agile Software Delivery. Standup is when you take 15 minutes, you look at what successes and wins you had yesterday as well as losses and then you plan what you need to do today and you take a look at any obstacles you may have and plan to mitigate those risks or obstacles. I do that then I jump into my day. I jump into my day. I think another key thing that I try and do too is for example before we talk I need to get in peak state. I need to get in peak state where I'm powerful and ready to go. So any time I have an opportunity to go serve someone I can't take myself in not ready to perform. It's just like an athlete. He has to psych himself up, get ready. I make sure if I have anything important to do - an interview that I'm giving or that I'm receiving - any opportunity, walking to a business meeting, walking to a deal with a client, I need to get ready. I need to get that athletes edge. I just go with a peak state. I have a few rituals that I do. It's just pretty much what I would do before I'd go play a game. Just some jumping, kicking, getting ready to go. I'd say those are it. Those are the key things that I do. Then I come home 7:00 and shut it down. I hang out with my wife and relax and try and wind down. I'm sure you know that the entrepreneur's mind is always going and it's hard to turn it off and when you do turn it off it's hard to turn it back on which is why I have that morning routine. Cain: It's always on man. I think the hardest piece for entrepreneurs is not necessarily getting it going but it's turning it off at night and showing up in other aspects of your life. A friend of mind talks about having double energy. You've got to have double energy when you walk out of the house to go dominate the day in your entrepreneurial life but you've got to have double energy also when you come back in the house and your wife and your kids or your husband and your kids are there waiting for you. Peter, you mentioned getting into a state. As you talked about it I heard it sounded like you clapped your hands in the background. Have you been to a Tony Robbins event and learned about putting yourself in a state? Is that something that you picked up there? Yobo: I have. I picked it up reading. So I read about 10 books a month. I picked it up but I also went to Tony Conference in 2012 and that is where I saw it delivered in a very succinct way. So yes, I would say that is where I solidified my “get in the state.” Cain: That is awesome. We had another podcast episode guest who works in real estate, Jamie Amon, and he has been a Tony Robbins student. He talked a lot about getting himself into a state. He had a very similar morning routine to you. I think that's fabulous that some of our guests are having that consistent routine. One of the things we talk a lot about at the seminars that I do or in the podcasts with all of our guests is the importance of having a morning routine and a structure that helps you get going in the day. I love the waking up at 4:00 in the morning, getting up and getting your own personal work done while everyone else is sleeping. They're not going to be pulling at you. But you read 10 books a month? What are some of the books that you are going through? What are some of the books that have made the biggest impact on you? Yobo: Oh man. I have the three core books that I recommend to everyone - any and every one - The Alchemist, The Richest Man In Babylon, and As The Man Thinketh. Those are the top three. If you're not a reader, if you're not someone who is consciously aware what you want to do and who you want to be read that book to start. Just to start. Think And Grow Rich is another one that has had a huge impact. Definitely The Bible. I feel like that is where I get most - I read that all the time. There is just so much. The way I see it is they are all these books that were printed in the past 120 years but then you've got this book that has been here for 2,000 years. So a lot of stuff I've learned I've picked up there. Boy, what are a few other ones? There is one that I am getting ready to read by Peter Diamandis (I think is his name) called Abundance. I'm getting ready to read that. I'm currently reading How To Fly A Horse which is on innovation. A fantastic book. I couldn't tell you the author though unfortunately [Kevin Ashton]. Another two books from Ryan Holiday that have blown my mind, The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego Is The Enemy. Those two books have just been fantastic. Great for where I'm at. The other one was The Firm. I believe it's called The Firm. It's a book on how McKinsey (the consulting firm) was started. That book probably is what caused me to start consulting for them. I could have just done this on my own. I could have just had a small shop and worked with these celebrities, worked with individuals. I'd bring all the money to myself. I make a lot of money. I'd still be happy and still be comfortable. But that books talks about just the team and for lack of a better word I will use the word “swag” that the McKinsey consultants walk into CEO board rooms with just because we know we have the best people and we are going to deliver the best offering, the best work. I just thought “hmm what if I could bring together a group of folks,” a very small group of folks who have that same drive who are able to go in and demand respect because we are the best at what we do and we provide the results. That book has definitely been the most instrumental in the past couple of years. Cain: That's awesome. I appreciate you sharing that reading list. Peter, I know your time is precious. Thank you so much for taking time out of your hectic schedule to join us here on the Peak Performance Podcast. My last question for you is this: what is it that you know now that you wish you knew when you were younger? I guess the question is what do you know now you wish you knew then? People always say “well when is ‘then?'” Then would be let's say when you were the college football player, when you were just getting going as a freshman in college. What do you know now you wish you knew back then that maybe would have made you more successful? Yobo: Start now. I tell everyone start now. There is a power in being able to create. That is what we are doing right now. We're creating a podcast episode. But a lot of people - it will surprise you how many people in college, how many people all over the world, do not know that this was once an idea for you. It may have been an idea years ago or months ago but you created it. You created this podcast we're recording and now you're going to deliver it. You created it. Start now. Start creating. If you have ideas of things you want to do, things that excite you, start. You will fail, yes, but failing is awesome because then you know what not to do. So definitely start now. If I had known that years ago I would have been more intentional with what I'm doing now. I would have been more intentional with my time at USC. No regrets but I think there could have been a couple more wins. I wanted another. Cain: Yeah there have been a lot of wins in your life. I'm absolutely amazed at your story from the computer labs of Ghana to the USC Trojans to now helping people of high net worth athletes and celebrities even capitalize and get more out of their brand. Peter, thank you so much for taking time to be on the podcast. For our listeners go and learn more at www.PeterFYobo.com. Follow him on Twitter at @PeterYobo. Peter, thanks again. We'll definitely get you back here. Absolutely incredible. Thank you so much. Yobo: Awesome. Thank you for having me.

Hoy tenemos el placer de contar con César García (@elsatch ) como invitado. Un referente de la Cultura Maker y el IoT en España. Es el creador del podcast La Hora Maker y es un verdadero placer haberle entrevistado.Gracias a su dedicación divulgativa, hemos podido comprender ciertos aspectos de la Cultura Maker como los FabLabs y Maker Faire. Cofundador del MakeSpace Madrid y Profesor del Programa de Innovación en la Economía Digital (PSIED), tiene un amplio historial a sus espaldas relacionado con el Mundo Maker y el IoT.Pero, ¿qué es la Cultura Maker?La Cultura Maker o el Movimiento Maker, se basa en lo más primitivo de la esencia humana. Hacer las cosas por nosotros mismos. Es algo, que con el tiempo se ha ido diluyendo a lo largo de la historia.Cada vez disponemos de menos tiempo para crear cosas y hacerlas por nosotros mismos. Pero siempre tenemos ese gusanillo dentro y esa sensación de satisfacción, cuando uno hace las cosas por si mismo.Antiguamente nuestros abuelos hacían prácticamente de todo, jabón, mermeladas, comidas ricas ricas e incluso cultivaban su propia comida. Todo esto poco a poco se ha ido perdiendo en favor de las cosas ya echas.Cada vez hay más comida preparada y productos químicos. Todos los hogares está repletos de ellos. La Cultura Maker, no solo se centra en la tecnología, es un movimiento que pretende rescatar la esencia humana, la esencia del hazlo tu mismo.Precisamente el significado DIY (Do It Yourself, Hágalo usted mismo) es ese, intentar en la medida de lo posible, ser autosuficientes.Cultura Maker y tecnologíaQuizás el mayor exponente de la Cultura Maker dentro de la tecnología sea Arduino, algo de lo que hablamos mucho en este blog. También con circuitos, programación y electrónica podemos crear tecnología nosotros mismos.Gracias al open hardware y el open software, somos capaces de crear tecnología y no ser unos meros consumidores.La Cultura Maker y la tecnología, son dos términos que se gustan y dan rienda suelta a nuestras ideas y proyectos. Un ejemplo lo podemos ver con los dispositivos del IoT o Internet of Things. También hablamos mucho de esto en este blog.César nos da su visión. Nos introduce en el concepto de programación ubicua. Un término que se utiliza desde hace mucho tiempo dentro de la Cultura Maker y que actualmente está en desuso. En Xeros Parc estuvieron investigando qué ocurre cuando la computación no es una pantalla o un teclado y es el entorno que nos rodea.Para César, el IoT es un rebranding, algo que se lleva estudiando muchos años en el MIT, desde que Kevin Ashton introdujo este término en la primera década de este siglo. Coincide conmigo que el hito que se produjo en el año 2008, cuando los dispositivos conectados superaron a la población mundial, fue importante.Todavía queda mucho por hacer y, como hablamos en el podcast, solo cuando el IoT afecte a las personas de la calle como tu y yo, será una realidad. Es igual que lo que se produjo con los ordenadores personales, los teléfonos inteligentes y muchas tecnologías que a día de hoy nos parecen comunes, pero que hace unos años eran de ciencia a ficción.El Movimiento Maker y el IoTSin duda alguna, si hay algún movimiento que puede impulsar el IoT, ese será la Cultura Maker. Gracias al abaratamiento de la tecnología y, lo más importante, la eliminación de barreras, la tecnología ya no avanza de la mano de las grandes empresas.Ahora avanza de la mano de la gente cotidiana, de la gente de la calle. Nos reunimos en espacios como FabLabs o Makespace. Compartimos y nos complementamos entre nosotros e incluso tenemos plataformas de colaboración comunitaria a través del crowdfunding.Además de Arduino, existen otros ejemplos donde podemos ver que el IoT será una realidad y algo cotidiano en nuestro día a día. Poder incorporar un procesador a prácticamente cualquier cosa y no solo eso. Hace unos años, añadir conectividad a un objeto era caro. Hoy en día, gracias al ESP8266, podemos hacerlo por menos de 3€.Lo mismo que está ocurriendo con la Computación Física en la Cultura Maker, está ocurriendo con el IoT dentro del movimiento. La eliminación de barreras de acceso ha convertido a esta placa microcontroladora en el máximo exponente en este área.César nos habla de un portal donde podemos ver dispositivos y objetos conectados en tiempo real, Thingful. Se trata de un motor de búsqueda para el IoT.Es el IoT una tecnología del futuroCuando realmente seamos capaces de ver el IoT en nuestro día a día, será cuando las iniciativas de Smart Cities (Ciudades Inteligentes) sean una realidad. Mezclar datos obtenidos de nuestras ciudades, ya sean abiertos o cerrados, y que se integren con automatizaciones, es el gran reto del futuro.Disponer de cruces de semáforos inteligentes, sistema de riego automáticos o gestión de alumbrado público automatizado. Estos son solo algunos retos del futuro para el IoT y para la Cultura Maker. Uno de los congresos más importantes a nivel mundial se celebra en Barcelona, el Smart City Congres. Es un referente y pretende mostrar los avances tecnológicos en esta materia.Pero todo esto sigue una trayectoria progresiva. En contra de las previsiones, los usuarios están paulatinamente renovando sus electrodomésticos por otros que ya disponen de conectividad. Comenzamos con las televisiones inteligentes y, poco a poco, los demás electrodomésticos empiezan a integrar estas funcionalidades.Existen cuatro retos a los que nos tenemos que enfrentar la Cultura Maker, para instaurar la era del IoT dentro de nuestras vidas.#1. PrivacidadSi hay algo que define plenamente el IoT, son los datos. ¿Qué pasa con esos datos? Tenemos derecho a saber si son tratados o no por empresas de terceros y que uso hacen de ellos.#2. SeguridadAnte todo, seguridad. Ya no solo estamos hablando de acceder de forma fraudulenta a los datos. Ahora ponemos en peligro la integridad de nuestros hogares. Cerraduras automáticas, persianas motorizadas y controladas desde el móvil, cámaras de seguridad, etc...#3. PrecioYa hemos visto que el precio de los componentes y de los procesadores se abarata. En contra de lo que podamos pensar, un objeto con el adjetivo conectado o inteligente, puede duplicar y hasta triplicar su precio.#4. La parte socialMuchas veces pensamos que la tecnología es la solución cuando realmente es parte del problema. Todo depende de según se emplee. Google Glass es un claro exponente. Aunque tuviera varios problemas tecnológicos, el gran problema era social. Ver a alguien que te mira a la cara con unas gafas de este tipo, es un poco raro.

Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency specializing in helping pharmaceutical, device and pharmacy clients gain access to patients by creating and leveraging partnerships with other health care organizations. For twenty years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all the patient. 00:00 What makes a problem an excellent problem. 00:45 Two Case Studies: The Luggage Conundrum & The Smart Phone Problem 02:12 “What the Hell is Water?” - David Foster Wallace 03:00 The problem with the iPhone - Kevin Ashton 04:30 Being able to ask, “Why doesn't this work?” 04:45 What defines a problem - Good Problems, Better Problems, Best Problems. 05:25 A good problem: Solves a particular problem in a superior way. 05:40 A better problem: Peter Thiel says, a better problem to solve is one that is unique and troublesome. 06:00 The best problem: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, says “It's seeing the invisible problem, not just the obvious problem.” 06:50 The Three Must-Haves to solving an Excellent Problem. 07:20 Problems that disrupt people's lives, not industries. 08:30 “It's very difficult to solve a philosophy - that's not a problem.” 09:00 Where Excellent Problems can be found. 09:15 “The best place to look for problems is where no one else is looking.” - Peter Thiel 09:20 “The best place to find excellent problems is by asking customers the right question and finding the answers in their answers.” - Steve Jobs 09:45 “If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have told me a faster horse.” - Henry Ford 10:00 “Great creators know that the best step forward is often a step back.” - Kevin Ashton 10:30 The Pros and Cons to expertise. 10:50 The value of the beginners mind. 11:00 “Rookie Smarts” by Liz Wiseman 14:15 Be a Grand Master. 15:30 The big difference between confidence and certainty.

Concerns about ebooks “killing” publishing are just the latest in a centuries-long tradition of worrying unnecessarily about the end of reading. The rise of ebooks and, not by coincidence, big data, will be good for reading, writing, publishing, and bookselling, or at least for the people who learn to embrace them. Everyone else is right to be worried. Kevin Ashton draws on his experience as a bookseller, author, marketer, and leader of the “Internet of Things,” to provide guidance and reassurance to help you survive the coming Ebookalypse. Presented by Kevin Ashton (How to Fly a Horse) at Tech Forum 2015 / BookNet Canada / March 12, 2015 booknetcanada.ca/technology-forum

Innovation is hard work, says the British-born author and entrepreneur Kevin Ashton. He was a pioneer of what is now called the Internet of Things, adding communications ability to millions of objects through his insightful work with sensors.

An article by Kevin Ashton proposes that saying "no" to things is vital to the creative process.  Anthony and Jeff wonder why they have such a hard time saying "no" and what that might mean about them.    Like the show? Want early episodes and extra content? Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/wehaveconcerns   Hey! If you're enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen. Here's the iTunes link: http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns   Jeff on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffcannata Anthony on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acarboni   Article submitted by Amber Hinden:   http://kevinjashton.com/2013/03/18/creative-people-say-no/

As I struggle with a difficult decision, I find some more interesting perspectives on saying no and why it can be a good thing. My guest post on running a small business for the Small is Beautiful blog: http://smallisb.com/blog/superhero-syndrome/ Gary Dunstan's excellent podcast on how saying no is actually saying yes to what's important: https://soundcloud.com/gary-dunstan/20110725-150549 Creative People Say No - a fascinating article on Medium by Kevin Ashton: https://medium.com/thoughts-on-creativity/bad7c34842a2 Tommy's interview on Clear-Minded Creative: http://www.clearmindedcreative.com/water-of-life-interview-with-rob-st-john-and-tommy-perman/ Feedback from Jessica and Margaret on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clearmindedcreative/posts/698013553577798

Welcome back to this weeks show, where we talk, tarps, tripods and fishing. This week we meet Jed Yarnold and discuss tarpoligy, Vic Soloman who tells us about the new Manfrotto carbon fiber tripods and Kevin Ashton about the practicalities of using a sea kayak as a fishing platform. Plus of course, our What's On Diary and the chance to win one of the remaining VIP 10 pairs of tickets we have to give away for The Outdoors Show.