Podcasts about mbti

范姊辛苦了！范姊這段時間忙進忙出，真的很需要好好休假充電一番，所以換媒樂蒂代班主持，但媒樂蒂好緊張啊！如果大家對媒樂蒂有任何批評指教都歡迎留言喔～ 除了十二星座、MBTI，現在連你習慣講「居然」還是「竟然」都成為判斷人個性的標籤了？但柚子因為不常使用這兩個詞所以屬於第三勢力？「辣個男人」黃仁勳旋風來台，遠東集團老闆徐旭東說他穿搭過時，這番話意外勾起很多人被長輩說教的回憶？館長在直播中宣告將親赴中國開直播，證明中國並非大家想的那樣危險，大家怎麼看這件事呢？近日許多中國籍人士在台灣街頭開直播引發討論，除了統戰疑慮，直播禮儀也是個大問題？ 留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/ckoh7hg5k053b0888d62mkdtq/comments 追蹤《#范琪斐的美國時間》掌握全球脈動

Join us this week as we dive into a powerful conversation with Maggie Albrow, a special education teacher who brings a unique perspective to autism. Diagnosed herself and raising two children on the spectrum, she shares practical parenting strategies that anyone can use to better understand their child's needs, whether or not they have autism. We'll explore how her ISTJ personality shapes her approach and dive into her son's ISTP traits, showing how personality and autism intersect to create unique parenting paths. Plus, we'll break down the differences between high-functioning autism and a naturally withdrawn personality, offering valuable insights for parents looking to support and connect with their kids on a deeper level." My son Nathan demonstrated some symptoms when he was younger but as an adult he graduated magna cum laude with a pre med degree and  he is about to take the MCAT exam to get into med school. Here are some of those symptoms: Highly repetitive behaviors, such as hand-flapping, rocking, or repeating specific phrases. Unusual responses to sensory input, such as covering ears in noisy environments or fascination with particular textures. Limited eye contact or unusual speech patterns (e.g., very literal or highly scripted language). Difficulty with reciprocal social interactions, like sharing enjoyment or showing empathy in conventional ways. Many people on the autism spectrum tend to score as introverts (I types) on MBTI. Introversion doesn't cause or correlate with autism directly, but the inclination toward internal processing can align with certain experiences of autistic individuals, who may feel overstimulated by social interactions or need time alone to recharge. Social and Communication Challenges: People with autism may find it difficult to interpret social cues, understand nonverbal communication, or initiate and maintain conversations. Fe in backseat, especially INTPs. Repetitive Behaviors and Routines: Many individuals engage in repetitive behaviors, have strong preferences for routines, and may experience distress if these routines are disrupted. Si SJ Sensory Sensitivities: Many experience sensory sensitivities, reacting strongly to sights, sounds, textures, or smells that others may not notice or be affected by. Si, Se How often do sensory issues show up in autism and how do you handle these sensitivities? Intense Interests or Focused Hobbies: People with autism often develop deep interests in specific subjects or activities, sometimes with an exceptional level of detail or knowledge. NT Type 5 Set up a FREE Chat: https://wendygossett.as.me/ChatwithWendy Take my FREE child temperament test:  https://wendygossett.com/child-inner-drive-assessment-product/ Request a FREE Adult Temperament/Enneagram/Instincts Test: https://wendygossett.com/ Website: Wendy Gossett.com Get FREE resources on my website: https://wendygossett.com/ or email me at WendyGossett.com Facebook Podcast Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565445936367 Book: Your Child's Inner Drive:Parenting by Personality from Toddlers to Teens on Amazon or  https://wendygossett.com/product/your-childs-inner-drive-parenting-by-personality-for-toddlers-to-teens/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaOCjoDyOk4_gS1KCncLvQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendy.gossett/?next=%2F Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/wendygossett Wendy Gossett helps parents understand their children by using temperament psychology and neuroscience. She has over 10,000 hours of experience in education, both in the classroom and corporate sector. Even though she holds a Master's degree in education, she struggled to understand her neurodivergent and oppositional kids.  Inspired by her experience using Myers Briggs and the Enneagram with business teams, she spent over a decade researching temperament pattens to help family teams. She is a best-selling author and host of the Not So Normal Parenting podcast. Her podcast is entitled Not So Normal Parenting because not only are she and her kids neurodivergent but some of her life experiences, such as driving off a cliff her wedding night and going viral for embarrassing her seventeen-year old son by dancing on a snowy and jammed interstate, fall into that category. In addition to being talked about by Hoda Kotb, the BackStreet Boys, and Princess Kate, even U2 singer Bono mentioned the incident in his autobiography. Because Wendy herself has struggled as a helicopter parent, a cranky parent and an embarrassing parent, she wants to help other parents struggle……..a little bit less!  

In this episode, we're taking you behind the scenes of our time at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) conference. Sarah Wallace sits down with fellow facilitator Brenda Brown to reflect on the highlights, hot topics, and meaningful moments from the event.We unpack how the Enneagram continues to stand out as a powerful, memorable tool for personal growth and team development — especially when using it with other assessments like MBTI and DiSC. We also talk about what makes it so effective: its flexibility, its emotional depth, and yes… the fun it brings to the learning experience.From conversations at our booth to breakout session insights, this episode gives you a front-row seat to what L&D professionals are saying, what they're asking for, and why the Enneagram is more relevant than ever in today's workplace.Have a request for a future episode? Drop a text here!

這一集我們討論了什麼是功能醫學、過敏原與身體失衡的關係、賀爾蒙如何影響情緒與代謝，以及甲基化與個性傾向的潛在關聯。 ▹ ▹ 追蹤看更多 訂閱最新消息 » https://str.network/rnbrian Instagram » https://www.instagram.com/brianptseng/ Facebook » https://www.facebook.com/brianstandup YouTube » ｜曾博恩：https://www.youtube.com/@brianptseng ｜博恩站起來：https://www.youtube.com/@StandupBrian ⠀ 小額贊助支持本節目： https://open.firstory.me/user/ckyjmnkp0166d0830od1kznfj 本節目由【月城南廣告】業務代理及製作

Peter is a facilitator, trainer, keynote speaker and coach who through presentations, workshops, seminars, coaching and consulting helps leaders, teams and organizations better engage and align staff to business drivers and the organization's mission. Peter helps leaders develop the self-awareness, self-mastery and interpersonal skills that enable sustainable high performance and high functioning teams. Through experiential learning and a practical down to earth style, clients learn to implement behaviors that lead to greater individual, team and organizational effectiveness. Peter's focus includes: preventing executive derailment, transformational leadership and creating high performing teams. His approach focuses on clients creating self reinforcing and sustainable positive movement leading towards personal and professional breakthroughs and sustainable organizational effectiveness. Peter is a certified Peoplemap™ Trainer. He is also Everything DISC and MBTI certified. He has served as Vice President of Client Relations and Program Development for The Leadership Trust. Before joining the Trust, he was employed by the Center for Creative Leadership, where he helped customize executive development and training programs for major businesses and corporations. Peter also taught Psychology at Vance Granville Community College. Currently Peter facilitates seminars on Leadership and High Performing Teams at UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University Medical Center and The International Coaching Federation. He has recently been the Keynote Speaker for the Georgia University System's Staff Council Conference.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-x-zone-radio-tv-show--1078348/support.

感情中有個常見問題：為什麼在一起久了，對方就變了？ 在責怪對方變了之前，也許可以先想想，我們自己有沒有變？ 兩人渴望被愛的方式，有沒有不同？ - 《MBTI我，和我的愛情說明書》是MBTI 國際認證講師雪力的新書，本書帶我們看懂16型人格的戀愛邏輯，邀請我們更認識自己與伴侶，找到適合彼此的相處之道。 - 本集邀請雪力對談，我們將聊到大多數人對MBTI的誤解、在看MBTI之前應該先思考什麼、如何善用本書，以及怎麼跳脫框架，看待每人的不同。 . 來賓｜雪力（MBTI 國際認證講師） 主持｜林子榆（誠品職人） . ▍ 邊聽邊讀 《MBTI我, 和我的愛情說明書》 https://eslite.me/7jkapd 《MBTI我, 和我的愛情說明書》(限量親簽版) https://eslite.me/7jkarj 《MBTI我, 和我的使用說明書》 https://eslite.me/7jkatb 《雪力人生說明套書: MBTI我, 和我的使用說明書+MBTI我, 和我的愛情說明書》(2冊合售) https://eslite.me/7jkauv -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Send us a Message!In this episode, we explore the truth and reality behind personality tests and psychometrics. As great of a tool as psychometrics are (learning styles, communication preferences, etc.) they are only good for the single purpose that they are designed for.Our prescription for this episode is to avoid commercial adaptations of academically validated assessments, most are bad science. If you want something that will actually work, reach out to us!You can reach out to us to talk more about psychometrics and resources, just reach out to us at info@roman3.ca or through our LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/roman3Don't forget to sign up for our New Quarterly Newsletter that launched this fall!About Our Hosts!James is an experienced business coach with a specialization in HR management and talent attraction and retention. Coby is a skilled educator and has an extensive background in building workforce and organizational capacity. For a little more on our ideas and concepts, check out our Knowledge Suite or our YouTube Channel, Solutions Explained by Roman 3.

[One-Time Only - Valencia Spain] — Earn a Certificate in Personality Profiling — Profiler Training is a 5-Day Immersive Event Coupled with Deep-Dive Online Course Material to Help You Calibrate and Master the Skill of Being a Personality Profiler. We're hosting two live Personality Profiler Trainings this year: Denver, Colorado & Valencia, Spain. —> Learn More About Personality Profiler Training

「父母總是惦記著他們沒能給予的，孩子卻總想著他們沒能得到的。」#AV悄悄話 記得這是我看完《苦盡柑來遇見你》印象最深的一句話。 這部戲除了寬植跟愛純的美好感情之外，讓我最動容也最印象深刻的就是從祖輩、父輩、再到我們這輩，刻畫了三代的寄望還有生長背景的差異，讓我第一次從第三視角去真正的理解自己的爸媽。 有時候爸媽把我們照顧的太好，忘記用除了孩子的視角去看他們。爸媽也是人，有著他們背負的故事、有著他們原生的生長背景、有著他們自己成長過程中所感悟的，是我們身為孩子所不知道的。 本期AV【EP195 誰看誰落淚《苦盡柑來遇見你》你看到的是親情、愛情、還是人生？】 ✔️本期內容簡單分為： 1. 《苦盡柑來遇見你》親情 2. 《苦盡柑來遇見你》愛情 - AV來了開始徵集聽眾朋友們的戀愛問題啦！ 可以透過：

*本集音質欠佳，無法接受者請勿收聽謝謝* 更多ChaCha: https://www.instagram.com/whatsupchacha 這集聽完後如果你覺得Susie的經驗對你有幫助，別錯過這次與她進行Virtul Coffee Chat的機會！ Susie將選出5位聽眾進行25分鐘免費Coffee Chat。快來報名這個難得的交流機會吧！ 結果會寄信公布！ 報名截止日期：5/09/2025, 23:59pm (EDT) 報名連結： https://forms.gle/KVwc3MfGRZKz3vBy8 更多Susie: https://www.instagram.com/susieq.yes/ -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

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In this powerful second installment, Victoria peels back more layers of the Myers Briggs personality framework. This episode takes us to the next level with Myers Briggs. With humour, heart, and honesty, Victoria and Heather also reveal their own results (spoiler alert: one of them is among the rarest types in the world) and explore how their personality insights influence how they show up in work and life. Whether you're a coach, a team leader, or someone seeking more self-awareness, this episode offers both relatable stories and practical frameworks.Timestamps00:00 – How are we feeling?03:00 – DISC personalities as fictional TV moms05:00 – Myers Briggs recap: what the 4-letter codes mean06:30 – Breakdown of the 4 MBTI groups: Analysts, Diplomats, Sentinels, Explorers07:10 – Deep dive into “Commanders” (ENTJ): bold leaders, Gordon Ramsay energy08:30 – Deep dive into “Advocates” (INFJ): rare visionaries, empathetic justice-seekers10:00 – Deep dive into “Logisticians” (ISTJ): structured, dependable, Hermione types11:50 – Deep dive into “Entrepreneurs” (ESTP): rule-breakers, action-takers13:00 – Heather and Victoria reveal their own types: ISTJ and INFJ16:30 – How personality shows up in stress, reliability, and empathy20:00 – Emotional insight: balancing structure with compassion22:00 – How knowing your type helps with leadership, boundaries, and burnout23:00 – Free resource: Find your type at 16personalities.com24:00 – Closing thoughts + how to work with VictoriaNotable Quotes"I don't consider myself great at anything, but I do consider myself reliable, trustworthy, and dependable." – Heather"Sometimes I feel like you're hard on yourself… but your unwavering commitment is your superpower." – Victoria"If I see a situation where someone is unfairly judged, it really wears on me. That sense of justice is wired in me." – Victoria"We're growing as people." – Both hosts, in unison ❤️Resources & TakeawaysTake the Test: 16Personalities.com – Discover your Myers-Briggs typeReflection Prompt: What part of your personality shows up strongest under stress?If you're interested in learning more about team building, coaching, strategic hiring and onboarding, let's connect!discoverwhatworks@gmail.comhttps://pod.link/1614071253https://discoverwhatworks.org/https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaDISChttps://www.instagram.com/discoverwhatworks/https://www.linkedin.com/in/discoverwhatworks

This took us 84 years to edit, but please enjoy this super long episode to make up for it.There are basically three episodes in one: we talk about our concert experience, the MVs, and the possible end of the streaming era (with some fun MBTI thrown in at the end). Enjoy!Our socials:Instagram: @girlzwithfunpodTwitter:@girlzwithfunpodFacebook: Girlz With Fun Podcast

Can an app really save your relationship? Kate Mason reunites with couple's therapists and authors Helen Robertson and Shahn Sorekli to unpack their groundbreaking relationship toolkit — a dynamic duo of a book, The Eight Love Links, and an innovative app designed to bring couples closer. With humor, warmth, and depth, they delve into the “why” and “how” behind their five-year journey of development, explore the psychology and practicality of their methods, and highlight how small changes can lead to meaningful, lasting improvements in love and connection. Whether you're deep in love or just trying to get through dinner without a fight, this conversation is full of insights, intimacy, and plenty of laughs.Listen For06:34 – How the My Love Your Love app actually works12:47 – The Eight Love Links framework explained18:02 – The ‘Me in We' link and self-awareness24:15 – Deep Connections and the power of shared goalsLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickConnect with guest: Shahn Sorekli & Helen RobertsonInstagram | TikTok | 8 Love Links Website | My Love Your Love Website | Couples Therapy Contact | Email Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

這一集我們討論了大眾對於MBTI常見的迷思、分類的細節以及正確的應用（包含職場與戀愛） MBTI®國際認證講師、組織心理學教練 雪力 首本戀愛邏輯解讀專書《MBTI 我，和我的愛情說明書》 帶你看懂 16 型人格從「熱戀期」到「穩定期」的戀愛邏輯！ 4/25網路預購，5/1出版上市❤️ 新書預購： 【親簽版】https://tinyurl.com/28sp6w2q 【一般版】https://tinyurl.com/2d9ax59h ▹ ▹ 追蹤看更多 訂閱最新消息 » https://str.network/rnbrian Instagram » https://www.instagram.com/brianptseng/ Facebook » https://www.facebook.com/brianstandup YouTube » ｜曾博恩：https://www.youtube.com/@brianptseng ｜博恩站起來：https://www.youtube.com/@StandupBrian ⠀ 本節目由【月城南廣告】業務代理及製作

Dr. Dario Nardi talks about the 4 brain-based subtypes of the ESFP personality type.☆Check out Dario Nardi!☆Decode Your Personality: Go Beyond Myers-Briggs With 64 Brain-Based Subtypes: https://www.amazon.ca/Decode-Your-Personality-Myers-Briggs-Brain-Based/dp/B0CMJ5W5DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28Z0X3NUWUI0C&keywords=go+beyond+dario&qid=1704488749&sprefix=go+beyond+dario%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1Radiance House: https://radiancehouse.sellfy.store/☆Check out the videos that were mentioned!☆Dario on Analytic & Holistic Functions (Yin and Yang): https://youtu.be/Vv6Xv1pxKW0Linda Berens Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-945qwbNZwABwmsEYxEgItIynPPTtCmlDario Nardi 4 Subtypes (Dominant Creative Normalizing Harmonizing) Interview: https://youtu.be/qOSUE_Ga9xU☆Check out what I'm up to!☆Hi there! I'm Joyce, a certified MBTI® Master Practitioner, Enneagram Coach, Jungian Typology Expert, Master NLP Practitioner, and Gallup® CliftonStrengths Coach.WONDERING WHICH ONE OF THE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES YOU ARE?Book a session to get my take on your type. I'd love to help guide you on your type-discovery journey!Here is my scheduling link to arrange a time with me:https://calendly.com/joycemengcoachingI charge $85 for a typing session. Another colleague of mine certified by Personality Hacker will work alongside me and we will give you our independent assessments of you.Want to go deeper? For $97, you can purchase a typing session with 1 hour of additional coaching with me.Or maybe you know your personality type already and are seeking some type-based coaching? As a trained coach, I can help you apply type concepts to all areas of your life for lasting change. The coaching session rate is $75 per hour for a bundle of 3. :)By purchasing a session, you will help support the Type Talks channel and gain personalized mentorship and guidance from an experienced industry expert with over 12 years of experience.If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at joycemeng22@gmail.comFor those of you who are interested, I am also launching a website and releasing a typology book next year! Here's a link to my coaching website if you'd like to learn more about me and the services I offer: https://www.joycemengcoaching.com/Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyceMeng22Like the show? Buy me a coffee! (it means the world to me): https://ko-fi.com/joycemengShow your support by becoming a monthly patron! https://ko-fi.com/joycemeng/tiersWant to know when the next Type Talks video is premiering? Join our Discord community for the latest updates! (Inactive now, looking for moderators) https://discord.gg/ksHb7fmMcm#ESFP #INTJ #16Types #DarioNardi #neuroscience #16personalities #MBTI

「因為我知道我自己要什麼」#AV悄悄話 雖然身為水瓶座的我，對於人生的部分我很P，因為知道一切很多時候有些事情是強求不來的，我享受命運還有時間帶我走到的每一個角落，都是驚喜、探險、是我人生不期而遇的journey。 然而，對於工作以及當下的事物，我是絕對相反的大J人（聽完Vivi男友Sean的故事以後可能變中J人

Ever feel like your relationship is more “meh” than magic? Kate dives deep into the real, raw, and relatable side of love with clinical psychologists and couple therapists Helen Robertson and Shahn Baker Sorekli. Kate chats with the duo—who just so happen to be partners in both business and life—about the myths of the perfect relationship, what happens after the honeymoon phase fades, and why kindness beats grand gestures every time. With over 34 years of combined experience, Helen and Shahn unpack the power of empathy, how to rebuild trust, and what to do when only one partner wants to work on the relationship. With laughs, heart, and some hard truths, this honest conversation will leave you rethinking what it really takes to make love last.Listen For05:30 – When the Cracks Start to Show10:30 – Relationships Need Servicing Too15:10 – Willingness vs. Willfulness in Therapy22:00 – Can Relationships Survive Betrayal?Leave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickConnect with guest: Shahn Sorekli & Helen RobertsonInstagram | TikTok | 8 Love Links Website | My Love Your Love Website | Couples Therapy Contact | Email Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

別看貓咪平常一副高冷、面癱、看不透的樣子，其實牠們也分成「7大體質」喔！

Earn a Certificate in Personality Profiling — Profiler Training is a 5-Day Immersive Event Coupled with Deep-Dive Online Course Material to Help You Calibrate and Master the Skill of Being a Personality Profiler. We're hosting two live Personality Profiler Trainings this year: Denver, Colorado & Valencia, Spain. —> Learn More About Personality Profiler Training ------------------------------ Who This Training Is Designed For: Life coaches, therapists, or professionals who want deeper insight tools Entrepreneurs, HR professionals, or leaders who want to better understand people Growth-minded individuals who want more than surface-level personality type memes This isn't just a course — Profiler Training is a hands-on, in-person experience with in-depth training, live demonstrations, and real-time personality profiling practice.  You'll be learning inside a supportive ecosystem that connects you with like-minded people and keeps you on track with your growth every step of the way.     If you've ever wanted to truly understand people — like, really understand them — Personality Profiling is where it starts.  —> Learn More About Personality Profiler Training     You've always had a hunch there's more going on beneath the surface.  Why people do what they do. Why some conversations click — and others fall apart. Why certain patterns keep showing up in your relationships, your clients, your team… maybe even in you. Now imagine being able to actually see those patterns in real time. To get an almost X-ray–like insight into someone's mind — and know what makes them tick. That's what we teach you at Personality Profiler Training.     What You'll Learn in Personality Profiler Training: How to accurately identify someone's personality type in conversation How to read cognitive function patterns like Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, and Intuition How to apply profiling to coaching, leadership, relationships, and personal growth How to interpret and use the Car Model (our proprietary visual model of type) You Will Walk Away With: A Foundational Certificate in Personality Profiling Real personality profiling experience from live practice sessions A deep understanding of the real system behind the 16 types (the Jungian roots) A toolset you can use to help others (or yourself) with clarity and confidence  —> Learn More About Personality Profiler Training What People Say: “This training gave me a skillset I use every day in my coaching practice.” – R.G. “The profiling certificate opened doors and gave me confidence to charge for what I do.” – P.A.   If you're ready to take your understanding of personality to a whole new level — and earn a certificate that reflects your skill — this is your chance.  Whether you join us in Denver or Valencia, you'll walk away with powerful tools, deep insight, and a supportive community that gets it.  Personality Profiler Training could be the next right step for your growth journey.  —> Learn More About Personality Profiler Training  

Ever asked yourself, “Why do I really drink?” Kate sits down with award-winning podcaster and author Victoria Vanstone for a no-holds-barred conversation about her 25-year journey with alcohol, identity, anxiety, and ultimately, sobriety. From teenage mischief to mummy wine culture, Victoria unpacks the emotional roots of her drinking, the societal pressures that glamorize alcohol, and the transformation that came with finally letting it go. Full of humour, heart, and hard truths, this episode invites listeners to reconsider what “normal” drinking looks like—and whether it's truly serving them. Listen For04:45 – Teenage Beginnings: Party Culture and the Need to Belong13:56 – The Moment She Knew: “I Think I Need Help”18:27 – Sober Curious: The Gentle Reframe That Helps People Start26:31 – How Sobriety Made Her a Better MomLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickConnect with guest: Victoria VanstoneInstagram | Sober Awkward Instagram | Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | TikTok | Podcast | Book Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

Learn More: https://PersonalityHacker.com/flow Join us for a free workshop: what if you could look at someone — talk to them for a few minutes — and start to really understand how their mind is wired? Not just their vibe… but their values & their decision-making process. --------- Joel Mark Witt shares a very personal message highlighting the power and deep insights to be gained from Personality Profiler Training & understanding the Personality Flow Question. Profiler Training is a 5-Day Immersive Event Coupled with Deep-Dive Online Course Material to Help You Calibrate and Master the Skill of Being a Personality Profiler. We've taught over 650+ students around the world the methodology, tools, and skills that can set you apart. Learn More: https://PersonalityHacker.com/flow

In this episode, I share the pivotal moment that changed everything for me: discovering my personality type through the MBTI framework. Far from boxing me in, it offered language, understanding, and a sense of belonging I never knew I needed. This is not about labels or excuses but about insight and responsibility for we introverts. I further explore why knowing your type is just the starting point, not the full story. I challenge the idea of hiding behind introversion and invite you to see your personality as one piece of your self-awareness puzzle. This episode is for anyone ready to move beyond 'that's just the way I am' and step into choice, growth, and owning both strengths and struggles.   *** Key Points *** Personality tests aid initial understanding Introversion is not excuse Self-awareness builds choice #PersonalityTests #Introverts #SelfAwareness   *** Resources *** Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast.

Ever felt like you're just winging it through motherhood? Kate chats with Victoria Vanstone, the mom of three and author of Mumming: A Year of Trying and Failing to Be a Better Parent. They dive into the chaotic and imperfect journey of motherhood, the pressures of parenting in the age of Pinterest-perfect moms, and the relatable struggles of feeling like a failure.Victoria shares her experience with sobriety, how it reshaped her parenting, and why it's okay to embrace the messiness of life with kids. Listen For05:33 - What's the most surprising part of motherhood?14:36 - Parenting red flags: Snacks as bribery and paying kids to go to bed19:16 - Traveling with kids without devices: A parenting challenge23:22 - The chaos of parenting is real—finding balance in imperfectionLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickConnect with guest: Victoria VanstoneInstagram | Sober Awkward Instagram | Website | LinkedIn | Facebook | TikTok | Podcast | Book Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

本集金句 「當一個人的陰影越大，內心充滿業力的時候，不管到哪裡都是否定自我的地獄。」 「只用別人的語言來定義自己，會一直活在焦慮跟不安裡。」 「重新積極的自我定位，不一定會立刻長出自信，但能夠用疼惜的眼光，溫柔看待自己。」 「我們的不自信，是因為我看我自己的眼光都是充滿了批判，充滿了否定。」 想在職場中更出色嗎？走進MBTI世界，從性格出發，輕鬆提升競爭力。66堂音頻與影片課程，幫助你認識自己，學會應對挑戰與壓力，開啟你的職場新篇章。 課程詳情 https://iiispace.teachable.com/p/training11 哇賽專屬優惠碼wow300 可折扣300元（2025/4/2-2025/7/2） 推薦閱讀：《你這麼好，為什麼沒自信？》 https://bit.ly/4jdYtlU 本集重點 。冒牌者症候群-早期創傷的自我詛咒 。因為先生一句:「米心沒有透」而崩潰 。積極定義內在小女孩，慢慢長出自信 。感恩日記、建設性支持、自我地圖練習 。很愛自己了，也可以去疼惜別人 。從MBTI看性格困惑&生涯迷惘 點亮心燈，贊助支持哇賽心理學：https://portaly.cc/onyourpsy/support 留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/ck7t2fz77qu7g0873ln5hz5cl/comments 若你覺得我們節目不錯，請記得要訂閱哦。也歡迎來跟我們聊聊 https://portaly.cc/onyourpsy -- 主談人：心理師Nana、吳姵瑩諮商心理師 Powered by Firstory Hosting

In this highly anticipated episode of DISCovering You, Victoria explores Myers-Briggs! Kicking things off with a clever twist—comparing DISC as manicure styles. From there, she unpacks the origins of MBTI, how it compares to DISC, and what those mysterious four letters actually mean. With warmth, wit, and real-life stories, Victoria walks us through key parts of the MBTI test and reflect on what it reveals about our personalities. Plus, Victoria and Heather make bold predictions about each other's MBTI types — to be revealed in Part 2!Timestamps:00:00 – Welcome and emotional check-in02:45 – DISC types as manicure styles!04:00 – DISC vs. Myers-Briggs: Key distinction05:00 – Brief history of MBTI and how it works06:00 – The four MBTI dimensions explained (Energy, Mind, Nature, Tactics)08:30 – 5 Sample MBTI questions + Victoria & Heather's responses14:45 – Introduction to MBTI's 4 personality groups15:30 – How MBTI categories align with DISC profiles18:00 – Predicting each other's Myers-Briggs types21:15 – Call to action: Guess their types before Part 2!22:00 – How to work with VictoriaNotable Quotes:"Everything is about DISC, Heather. Come on." – VictoriaResources Mentioned:

What if rock bottom was actually the start of something incredible? Kate Mason sits down with Justina Tomkinson—a fierce, resilient single mum who turned hardship into an unlikely recipe for raising kind, capable, and fiercely independent kids. From losing her home and marriage to rebuilding a life with nothing but grit and determination, Justina shares how she raised three thriving children through emotional, financial, and personal adversity. Her story is raw, real, and packed with wisdom on how to raise kids who can handle life—without sugarcoating the struggle. Whether you're a parent, a dreamer, or just someone who needs a reminder that hard times can lead to something remarkable, this episode is one to remember.Listen For05:54 – Cold Hands, Warm Heart: A Child's Perspective18:52 – No Teenage Trouble: The Racehorse Parenting Strategy24:31 – Raising Neurodivergent Kids with Firm Love32:01 – Why Emotional Closeness Matters MostLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickConnect with guest: Justina TomkinsonInstagram | Website | Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

「有時候，命運給你的未必是你想要的，但它可能正是你需要的。」 今天我們要來聽一個青蛙王子的「性別反轉版」故事，聊聊用「不確定性」開場的人生，接下來會走到哪裡。 MBTI人格的功能分成第一至第四功能 三個王子的選擇：現實物質滿足、社會秩序結構、陰影與內在女性象徵 當你願意在害怕中停下來，可能會抽出一絲絲的智慧 面對內在本能，不能毫無界線讓它四處亂竄 學會等待，學會接受曾經被我們視為缺點的部分，人生可能才會開始轉變 -- - - - -

"Healthy leaders help their teams become more healthy” Connect With Our SponsorsGreyFinch - https://greyfinch.com/jillallen/MyOrthoVA - https://www.myorthova.com/get-startedSmileSuite - http://getsmilesuite.com/ RSVP for the Provide AAO  Happy Hour - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5SXhZalSUVDY421Af7TcmOBiiECec4OIOIjRjyQJAX1qW8Q/viewform SummaryIn this conversation, Jill and Kimberly Collins explore the significance of personality tests, particularly the Enneagram and MBTI, in enhancing self-awareness and emotional intelligence among leaders and teams. They discuss how these tools can be utilized to improve personal effectiveness, identify triggers, and create a psychologically safe workplace. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of healthy leadership in fostering a supportive environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas and learning from mistakes. In this conversation, Kimberly Collins and Jill discuss the importance of establishing boundaries to prevent burnout, the significance of psychological safety in the workplace, and the role of active listening and emotional intelligence in effective leadership. They explore how leaders can repair relationships and foster a supportive environment, as well as the need for ongoing self-reflection and personal growth in leadership roles. The discussion emphasizes the necessity of equipping team members with the tools they need to succeed as they transition into leadership positions. Connect With Our Guest Enneagram Reflections- https://www.enneagramreflections.com/ Takeaways Personality typing systems help describe and categorize patterns of thought, behavior, and emotion.The ultimate goal of personality tests is to improve self-awareness and emotional intelligence.Healthy leaders contribute to the psychological safety of their teams.Emotional intelligence requires active practice and intentional learning.Triggers can serve as valuable information for personal growth.Understanding one's triggers can lead to better self-regulation and communication.Creating psychological safety does not require extra effort but rather healthy boundaries and structure.Leaders should focus on their own health to positively impact their teams.Personality tests can help identify areas of least satisfaction and improve relationships.Compassion is essential when addressing triggers and emotional responses. Delegating tasks is essential to prevent burnout.Clear communication and expectations foster psychological safety.Active listening is crucial for effective team dynamics.Emotional intelligence is key for leaders to respond productively.Repairing relationships strengthens team bonds.Promoting individuals without proper training can lead to challenges.Self-awareness is vital for effective leadership.Understanding team dynamics enhances leadership effectiveness.Coaching and mentoring are essential for developing leaders.Regular self-reflection can improve personal and professional growth.Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Personality Tests02:48 The Role of Personality Tests in Leadership06:03 Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness08:57 Identifying Triggers and Blind Spots11:58 Creating Psychological Safety in Teams 19:52 Establishing Boundaries to Prevent Burnout20:40 The Importance of Psychological Safety21:57 Active Listening and Communication22:49 Emotional Intelligence in Leadership24:27 The Power of Repairing Relationships27:00 Developing Next-Level Leadership Skills34:11 Encouraging Self-Reflection and Growth Are you ready to start a practice of your own? Do you need a fresh set of eyes or some advice in your existing practice?Reach out to me- www.practiceresults.com.     If you like what we are doing here on Hey Docs! and want to hear more of this awesome content, give us a 5-star Rating on your preferred listening platform and subscribe to our show so you never miss an episode.    New episodes drop every Thursday!    Episode Credits: Hosted by Jill AllenProduced by Jordann KillionAudio Engineering by Garrett Lucero

NT personality types—ENTP, INTJ, INTP, and ENTJ—are known for their sharp intellect, fierce independence, and big-picture thinking. But when it comes to friendship, their strengths can also be their biggest struggles. In this episode, we break down how NTs approach relationships using the TRUE framework: Trust, Respect, Understanding, and Encouragement. You'll learn: ✅ Why NTs need mental stimulation to feel connected ✅ What makes them loyal (and what pushes them away) ✅ Why emotions can feel like a foreign language ✅ How NTs support friends in practical—but often overlooked—ways Whether you're an NT yourself or have one in your life, this episode offers clarity, humor, and powerful takeaways to strengthen your friendships with the thinkers and strategists of the world.     Set up a FREE Chat: https://wendygossett.as.me/ChatwithWendy Take my FREE child temperament test:  https://wendygossett.com/child-inner-drive-assessment-product/ Request a FREE Adult Temperament/Enneagram/Instincts Test: https://wendygossett.com/ Website: Wendy Gossett.com Get FREE resources on my website: https://wendygossett.com/ or email me at WendyGossett.com Facebook Podcast Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565445936367 Book: Your Child's Inner Drive:Parenting by Personality from Toddlers to Teens on Amazon or  https://wendygossett.com/product/your-childs-inner-drive-parenting-by-personality-for-toddlers-to-teens/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaOCjoDyOk4_gS1KCncLvQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendy.gossett/?next=%2F Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/wendygossett Wendy Gossett helps parents understand their children by using temperament psychology and neuroscience. She has over 10,000 hours of experience in education, both in the classroom and corporate sector. Even though she holds a Master's degree in education, she struggled to understand her neurodivergent and oppositional kids.  Inspired by her experience using Myers Briggs and the Enneagram with business teams, she spent over a decade researching temperament pattens to help family teams. She is a best-selling author and host of the Not So Normal Parenting podcast.   Her podcast is entitled Not So Normal Parenting because not only are she and her kids neurodivergent but some of her life experiences, such as driving off a cliff her wedding night and going viral for embarrassing her seventeen-year old son by dancing on a snowy and jammed interstate, fall into that category. In addition to being talked about by Hoda Kotb, the BackStreet Boys, and Princess Kate, even U2 singer Bono mentioned the incident in his autobiography.   Because Wendy herself has struggled as a helicopter parent, a cranky parent and an embarrassing parent, she wants to help other parents struggle……..a little bit less!

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Ever wonder why certain behaviors of your child can trigger an emotional response that feels more about you than them?Family therapist Lisa Taylor joins Kate Mason to discuss how unresolved childhood experiences shape our responses to parenting. They explore the impact of the "child within" on how we react to our own children's big emotions and provide practical tips to better understand ourselves in the heat of parenting challenges. Lisa's three C parenting model—Courage, Connection, and Curiosity—offers a transformative way to respond more consciously to both our children and ourselves. Listen For:4:48 The discovery of personal triggers in relationships and parenting 12:08 How unresolved childhood issues influence parental reactions17:30 The importance of nurturing the child within us22:33 The three C's of parenting: Courage, Connection, CuriosityLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickGuest: Lisa Taylor, Family Therapist I Coach | Facilitator | EducatorWebsite | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Email Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

Chufue and I discussed how Ti users want others to make fully informed decisions, just as they want to make fully informed decisions for themselves. ☆Check out what I'm up to!☆Hi there! I'm Joyce, a certified MBTI® Master Practitioner, Enneagram Coach, Jungian Typology Expert, Master NLP Practitioner, and Gallup® CliftonStrengths Coach.WONDERING WHICH ONE OF THE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES YOU ARE?Book a session to get my take on your type. I'd love to help guide you on your type-discovery journey!Here is my scheduling link to arrange a time with me:https://calendly.com/joycemengcoachingI charge $85 for a typing session. Another colleague of mine certified by Personality Hacker will work alongside me and we will give you our independent assessments of you.Want to go deeper? For $97, you can purchase a typing session with 1 hour of additional coaching with me.Or maybe you know your personality type already and are seeking some type-based coaching? As a trained coach, I can help you apply type concepts to all areas of your life for lasting change. The coaching session rate is $75 per hour for a bundle of 3. :)By purchasing a session, you will help support the Type Talks channel and gain personalized mentorship and guidance from an experienced industry expert with over 12 years of experience.If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at joycemeng22@gmail.comFor those of you who are interested, I am also launching a website and releasing a typology book next year! Here's a link to my coaching website if you'd like to learn more about me and the services I offer: https://www.joycemengcoaching.com/Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyceMeng22Like the show? Buy me a coffee! (it means the world to me): https://ko-fi.com/joycemengShow your support by becoming a monthly patron! https://ko-fi.com/joycemeng/tiersWant to know when the next Type Talks video is premiering? Join our Discord community for the latest updates! (Inactive now, looking for moderators) https://discord.gg/ksHb7fmMcm#ISTP #INTP #ENTP #ESTP #INFJ #16Types #16personalities #MBTI #personalitytypes #latin

Do you have a friend who craves deep, meaningful conversations, champions your dreams, and feels emotions with unmatched intensity? If so, you might have an NF (Intuitive Feeler) friend! Known for their depth, passion, and emotional intelligence, NFs (ENFJ, INFJ, ENFP, INFP) are the visionaries, dreamers, and counselors of the friendship world. But with their high expectations, sensitivity, and desire for novelty, friendships with NFs can be both deeply rewarding and occasionally challenging. In this episode, we break down the NF friend using the TRUE framework (Trust, Respect, Understanding, Encouragement) to explore: ✅ Why NFs form soul-level connections but can struggle with feeling unseen or lonely. ✅ How their idealism and deep emotions impact friendships—for better or worse. ✅ Their love for novelty and growth—and how boredom can create restlessness. ✅ How to be a great friend to an NF—and what they need in return. If you're an NF, this episode will help you understand your friendship patterns and challenges. If you have an NF in your life, you'll gain insight into what makes them such inspiring and devoted friends. Set up a FREE Chat: https://wendygossett.as.me/ChatwithWendy Take my FREE child temperament test:  https://wendygossett.com/child-inner-drive-assessment-product/ Request a FREE Adult Temperament/Enneagram/Instincts Test: https://wendygossett.com/ Website: Wendy Gossett.com Get FREE resources on my website: https://wendygossett.com/ or email me at WendyGossett.com Facebook Podcast Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565445936367 Book: Your Child's Inner Drive:Parenting by Personality from Toddlers to Teens on Amazon or  https://wendygossett.com/product/your-childs-inner-drive-parenting-by-personality-for-toddlers-to-teens/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaOCjoDyOk4_gS1KCncLvQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendy.gossett/?next=%2F Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/wendygossett Wendy Gossett helps parents understand their children by using temperament psychology and neuroscience. She has over 10,000 hours of experience in education, both in the classroom and corporate sector. Even though she holds a Master's degree in education, she struggled to understand her neurodivergent and oppositional kids.  Inspired by her experience using Myers Briggs and the Enneagram with business teams, she spent over a decade researching temperament pattens to help family teams. She is a best-selling author and host of the Not So Normal Parenting podcast.   Her podcast is entitled Not So Normal Parenting because not only are she and her kids neurodivergent but some of her life experiences, such as driving off a cliff her wedding night and going viral for embarrassing her seventeen-year old son by dancing on a snowy and jammed interstate, fall into that category. In addition to being talked about by Hoda Kotb, the BackStreet Boys, and Princess Kate, even U2 singer Bono mentioned the incident in his autobiography.   Because Wendy herself has struggled as a helicopter parent, a cranky parent and an embarrassing parent, she wants to help other parents struggle……..a little bit less!

Renovating a home isn't just about knocking down walls and picking out paint colours—it's a crash course in personality dynamics! Kate Mason takes us inside her family's renovation adventures, where each temperament plays a unique role in the chaos and creativity of home improvements. From her own spontaneous enthusiasm as a Sanguine to her husband Paul's take-charge Choleric energy, and her children's mix of meticulous Melancholic planning and easygoing Phlegmatic patience, Kate explores how our natural tendencies shape the way we approach big projects. Listen For:05:21 – Kate the Sanguine: Big Ideas, Short Attention Span11:41 – The Melancholic Perfectionist: When Every Detail Matters17:33 – How Each Personality Can Avoid Renovation Burnout19:30 – What Your Renovation Style Says About YouLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickContact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

Nick and Jon try their hand at pop psychology and apply some Myers Briggs personality types (MBTI) to some of the biggest X-Men. Between articles about ESTJ and INFP and everything in between, let's figure out Professor X's personality. What about Cyclops? Storm? Beast? Do you agree? What are you letters? Write in a tell us!

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Ever feel like every conversation with a certain someone turns into a debate? Or wonder how to navigate the tricky shift from parenting young kids to respecting your adult child's independence? Kate Mason dives into two major family dynamics: the clash between thinkers and feelers in communication and the importance of setting boundaries when kids grow up and move out. She explores why thinkers crave logic and facts while feelers prioritize emotional connection—and how these differences can make conversations feel frustrating or dismissive. She tackles the dos and don'ts of parental boundaries, sharing hilarious and eye-opening stories about unannounced visits, spare keys, and the surprising reactions of her own adult children.Listen For:3:58 – Feelers vs. Thinkers: Why Does Everything Have to Be a Debate?12:57 – The Big Move: When Your Kids Finally Leave the Nest17:44 – Adult Kids Set Boundaries… And Get a Reality Check20:22 – House Keys, Privacy, and When to Step Back as a ParentLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickContact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

你做過 MBTI 16型人格測驗嗎？你是哪種類型？身邊的同事又是哪種類型？無論你是否認同這類型的測驗，無可否認地，每個人的特質、個性，都影響了自身的職涯選擇。 . 對於不愛社交的 I人而言，離開都市去種田，會比較快樂嗎？青年農民盧傳期說：「I人來種田，可能會很辛苦。除了和植物對話，農業生活其實更看重人際之間的互助合作。」作為台北長大的都市小孩，盧傳期放棄房仲工作的百萬年薪，孤身到雲林學習耕種。在地方創生、ESG等觀念尚未普及的年代，他只想用行動證明：如果一個農業小白能闖出一片天，就代表年輕人投入農業是有希望和未來的。 . 在這集節目裡，盧傳期分享了「農夫的一天」最真實的樣貌。有別於兒時「開心農場」的想像，真正的農業生活必須累積技術、與人社交、互助分享。在台北出生長大、家中無人務農，盧傳期卻一步步學習栽培技能、調整種植策略。邁入社群年代，看他如何與其它年輕人攜手，從土地看見台灣的未來！ . ▍ #迷誠品Podcast EP434｜#放送觀點 年輕人為何離開都市去種田？青年農民從土地學到的事(生命轉彎處特企04) 來賓｜盧傳期（青年農民） 主持｜李承軒（誠品職人） ▍ 延伸聆聽 EP433｜放棄高薪裸辭賣漢堡，餐飲小白的創業學習之旅｜放送觀點(生命轉彎處) https://solink.soundon.fm/episode/f92fb2da-4a76-46e9-8faf-2aa85ae07786 –-- 迷誠品網站｜https://meet.eslite.com/ 迷誠品YouTube｜https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBWpXCsYqhbY1cDBwqUrHw 誠品人FB｜https://www.facebook.com/eslite.member/ 誠品IG｜https://www.instagram.com/eslite_global/ -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

Is Dieting a Waste of Time?Kate Mason welcomes back Dr. Nick Fuller from the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney to debunk diet myths and explore a smarter, science-backed approach to weight loss. Instead of restrictive diets that ultimately backfire, Dr. Fuller introduces his Interval Weight Loss method—a structured yet flexible program that works with your body's natural rhythms, rather than against them. He shares practical strategies for sustainable weight loss, including the importance of eating bigger meals earlier in the day, incorporating movement into daily life, and breaking the emotional connection to processed foods. Listen For:05:16 – The Science Behind Interval Weight Loss09:05 – No More Food Guilt – How to enjoy all foods without deprivation21:40 – The Power of Intermittent Breaks26:12 – Preventing Weight CreepGuest: Nick FullerNick's Books | Recent Book | Family Recipes | Adult Weight Management | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | XMore About Nick FullerDr Fuller brings together a diversity of skills having held positions in both the industry and academic sectors. His current position as Clinical Trials Director within the Department of Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital involves working with government and industry to identify and develop cost-effective treatments for the treatment and management of obesity and metabolic disease.

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Have you ever felt like diets just don't work—no matter how hard you try? You're not alone.Kate Mason welcomes back Dr. Nick Fuller from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre to discuss why dieting often fails us and how our biology is actually working against rapid weight loss.Dr. Fuller shares groundbreaking insights on why restrictive diets lead to long-term weight gain, how our bodies protect a "set point" weight, and why interval weight loss—losing weight in small, controlled phases—is the key to sustainable success.If you're tired of yo-yo dieting and ready for a science-backed approach to weight management, this conversation might just change your life.Listen For:05:16 – Shocking diet stats – The average woman tries 61 diets by age 4508:03 – Yo-yo dieting is making you heavier15:40 – Eight biological barriers to weight loss – How your body fights dieting21:26 – How interval weight loss works – A sustainable way to lose weightGuest: Nick FullerNick's Books | Recent Book | Family Recipes | Adult Weight Management | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | XMore About Nick FullerDr Fuller brings together a diversity of skills having held positions in both the industry and academic sectors. His current position as Clinical Trials Director within the Department of Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital involves working with government and industry to identify and develop cost-effective treatments for the treatment and management of obesity and metabolic disease.

Bio: Dan Barker is an award-winning leadership expert and Senior HR Business Partner with 20 years of experience, specializing in MBTI, Gallup Strengths, and Change Management. He founded IDA Leadership Lab to drive organizational growth through workshops and chairs the Bonneville Youth Development Coalition, focusing on youth and community development. A member of the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe, Dan advocates for indigenous rights and cultural preservation, enriching his work as a leadership consultant and speaker.Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-barker-mhrm-79719340/ Website: https://idaleadershiplab.com/Quote: "True empathy comes from that ability to put yourself in someone's shoes, not for me to just be able to tell you I understand what it's like."Episode Highlights: Dan shares his unique journey from growing up in Northern Wisconsin and dealing with cultural transitions to becoming a leading figure in leadership development and community advocacy. He highlights the importance of preserving his Native American roots as a member of the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe and integrating those values into his leadership practices. His focus on empathy, progression, and blending diverse cultures and heritages offers invaluable insights for fostering inclusive environments.Childhood Incidents: Dan, a naturally aggressive child, joined football in seventh grade but quit due to the sport's physical demands. His dad encouraged him to view the challenge as a chance for growth. As an adult, Dan recalls the difficulty of moving from Idaho Falls to Boise during junior high, transitioning from a close-knit community to a larger, unfamiliar school, which left him feeling isolated during a critical period.Influential Groups: Having grown up in Idaho, the religious-based culture influenced Dan's view of culture and drew him closer to his indigenous culture. It also opened him up to realizing there's an outsider factor.Cultural Influence: Dan reflects on his family's heritage, emphasizing the importance of both the Kadat and Balange lines. His great-grandmother grew up near the Bad River Reservation on Lake Superior, maintaining a strong Indigenous connection. Dan's mother humorously notes that her grandmother, fluent in Ojibwe, didn't pass it down, possibly due to using it for private conversations among her siblings.Dan married someone from a different culture, and blending their backgrounds was initially challenging. Over time, they successfully merged their cultures, creating unique family traditions and identities.Temperament and Personality: Dan believes that over the years, his empathy and compassion have evolved. He believes that when he was young, he lacked the social awareness to help him develop these two qualities.Cultural Epiphanies: Dan remembers joining Cub Scouts, which was organized by the LDS Church. Meetings were held at homes or churches, often including prayers. At one event, his father noticed Dan folding his arms during prayer, an LDS practice, and corrected him, explaining their family prayed differently. As a child, Dan saw this as a division between "us and them," but as an adult, he understands it reflected cultural differences—his family attended church, just not the LDS Church.Soapbox Moment: Dan's principle is always to leave a place better than you found it. He believes if we do that, it sits well with our environmental factors and how we orient ourselves in the various work that we do and also with our families. He also encourages us to give back to our communities.Support the show

Have you ever hesitated to ask, “Are you okay?” because you weren't sure how to handle the answer?Kate Mason sits down with mediator and conflict resolution expert Kate Russell to explore emotional intelligence, the complexities of meaningful check-ins, and how to support someone who might be struggling. They discuss whether emotional intelligence is innate or learned, the challenges of Australia's Are You Okay? Day, and practical strategies for navigating tough conversations with empathy and confidence. Kate Russell shares powerful insights on how even a simple act of kindness can interrupt negative thought patterns and potentially change lives. Listen For:06:47 – Emotional Intelligence: Are We Born With It or Can We Build It?14:19 – How Personality Impacts the Way We Offer and Receive Support19:01 – The Power of Interruption: How a Simple Question Can Save a Life29:17 – Three Simple Ways to Check in Without Overcomplicating ItLeave a rating/review for this podcast with one clickGuest: Kate RussellWebsite | LinkedIn  Contact Kate:Email | Website | Kate's Book on Amazon | LinkedIn | Facebook | X 

Dr. Dario Nardi talks about the 4 brain-based subtypes of the ESFJ personality type.☆Check out Dario Nardi!☆Decode Your Personality: Go Beyond Myers-Briggs With 64 Brain-Based Subtypes: https://www.amazon.ca/Decode-Your-Personality-Myers-Briggs-Brain-Based/dp/B0CMJ5W5DX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28Z0X3NUWUI0C&keywords=go+beyond+dario&qid=1704488749&sprefix=go+beyond+dario%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1Radiance House: https://radiancehouse.sellfy.store/☆Check out the videos that were mentioned!☆Dario on Analytic & Holistic Functions (Yin and Yang): https://youtu.be/Vv6Xv1pxKW0Linda Berens Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-945qwbNZwABwmsEYxEgItIynPPTtCmlDario Nardi 4 Subtypes (Dominant Creative Normalizing Harmonizing) Interview: https://youtu.be/qOSUE_Ga9xU☆Check out what I'm up to!☆Hi there! I'm Joyce, a certified MBTI® Master Practitioner, Enneagram Coach, Jungian Typology Expert, Master NLP Practitioner, and Gallup® CliftonStrengths Coach.WONDERING WHICH ONE OF THE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES YOU ARE?Book a session to get my take on your type. I'd love to help guide you on your type-discovery journey!Here is my scheduling link to arrange a time with me:https://calendly.com/joycemengcoachingI charge $85 for a typing session. Another colleague of mine certified by Personality Hacker will work alongside me and we will give you our independent assessments of you.Want to go deeper? For $97, you can purchase a typing session with 1 hour of additional coaching with me.Or maybe you know your personality type already and are seeking some type-based coaching? As a trained coach, I can help you apply type concepts to all areas of your life for lasting change. The coaching session rate is $75 per hour for a bundle of 3. :)By purchasing a session, you will help support the Type Talks channel and gain personalized mentorship and guidance from an experienced industry expert with over 12 years of experience.If you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at joycemeng22@gmail.comFor those of you who are interested, I am also launching a website and releasing a typology book next year! Here's a link to my coaching website if you'd like to learn more about me and the services I offer: https://www.joycemengcoaching.com/Connect with me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoyceMeng22Like the show? Buy me a coffee! (it means the world to me): https://ko-fi.com/joycemengShow your support by becoming a monthly patron! https://ko-fi.com/joycemeng/tiersWant to know when the next Type Talks video is premiering? Join our Discord community for the latest updates! (Inactive now, looking for moderators) https://discord.gg/ksHb7fmMcm#ESFJ #INTJ #16Types #DarioNardi #neuroscience #16personalities #MBTI

Bundle tickets for AIE Summit NYC have now sold out. You can now sign up for the livestream — where we will be making a big announcement soon. NYC-based readers and Summit attendees should check out the meetups happening around the Summit.2024 was a very challenging year for AI Hardware. After the buzz of CES last January, 2024 was marked by the meteoric rise and even harder fall of AI Wearables companies like Rabbit and Humane, with an assist from a pre-wallpaper-app MKBHD. Even Friend.com, the first to launch in the AI pendant category, and which spurred Rewind AI to rebrand to Limitless and follow in their footsteps, ended up delaying their wearable ship date and launching an experimental website chatbot version. We have been cautiously excited about this category, keeping tabs on most of the top entrants, including Omi and Compass. However, to date the biggest winner still standing from the AI Wearable wars is Bee AI, founded by today's guests Maria and Ethan. Bee is an always on hardware device with beamforming microphones, 7 day battery life and a mute button, that can be worn as a wristwatch or a clip-on pin, backed by an incredible transcription, diarization and very long context memory processing pipeline that helps you to remember your day, your todos, and even perform actions by operating a virtual cloud phone. This is one of the most advanced, production ready, personal AI agents we've ever seen, so we were excited to be their first podcast appearance. We met Bee when we ran the world's first Personal AI meetup in April last year.As a user of Bee (and not an investor! just a friend!) it's genuinely been a joy to use, and we were glad to take advantage of the opportunity to ask hard questions about the privacy and legal/ethical side of things as much as the AI and Hardware engineering side of Bee. We hope you enjoy the episode and tune in next Friday for Bee's first conference talk: Building Perfect Memory.Show Notes* Bee Website* Ethan Sutin, Maria de Lourdes Zollo* Bee @ Personal AI Meetup* Buy Bee with Listener Discount Code!Timestamps* 00:00:00 Introductions and overview of Bee Computer* 00:01:58 Personal context and use cases for Bee* 00:03:02 Origin story of Bee and the founders' background* 00:06:56 Evolution from app to hardware device* 00:09:54 Short-term value proposition for users* 00:12:17 Demo of Bee's functionality* 00:17:54 Hardware form factor considerations* 00:22:22 Privacy concerns and legal considerations* 00:30:57 User adoption and reactions to wearing Bee* 00:35:56 CES experience and hardware manufacturing challenges* 00:41:40 Software pipeline and inference costs* 00:53:38 Technical challenges in real-time processing* 00:57:46 Memory and personal context modeling* 01:02:45 Social aspects and agent-to-agent interactions* 01:04:34 Location sharing and personal data exchange* 01:05:11 Personality analysis capabilities* 01:06:29 Hiring and future of always-on AITranscriptAlessio [00:00:04]: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of SmallAI.swyx [00:00:12]: Hey, and today we are very honored to have in the studio Maria and Ethan from Bee.Maria [00:00:16]: Hi, thank you for having us.swyx [00:00:20]: And you are, I think, the first hardware founders we've had on the podcast. I've been looking to have had a hardware founder, like a wearable hardware, like a wearable hardware founder for a while. I think we're going to have two or three of them this year. And you're the ones that I wear every day. So thank you for making Bee. Thank you for all the feedback and the usage. Yeah, you know, I've been a big fan. You are the speaker gift for the Engineering World's Fair. And let's start from the beginning. What is Bee Computer?Ethan [00:00:52]: Bee Computer is a personal AI system. So you can think of it as AI living alongside you in first person. So it can kind of capture your in real life. So with that understanding can help you in significant ways. You know, the obvious one is memory, but that's that's really just the base kind of use case. So recalling and reflective. I know, Swyx, that you you like the idea of journaling, but you don't but still have some some kind of reflective summary of what you experienced in real life. But it's also about just having like the whole context of a human being and understanding, you know, giving the machine the ability to understand, like, what's going on in your life. Your attitudes, your desires, specifics about your preferences, so that not only can it help you with recall, but then anything that you need it to do, it already knows, like, if you think about like somebody who you've worked with or lived with for a long time, they just know kind of without having to ask you what you would want, it's clear that like, that is the future that personal AI, like, it's just going to be very, you know, the AI is just so much more valuable with personal context.Maria [00:01:58]: I will say that one of the things that we are really passionate is really understanding this. Personal context, because we'll make the AI more useful. Think about like a best friend that know you so well. That's one of the things that we are seeing from the user. They're using from a companion standpoint or professional use cases. There are many ways to use B, but companionship and professional are the ones that we are seeing now more.swyx [00:02:22]: Yeah. It feels so dry to talk about use cases. Yeah. Yeah.Maria [00:02:26]: It's like really like investor question. Like, what kind of use case?Ethan [00:02:28]: We're just like, we've been so broken and trained. But I mean, on the base case, it's just like, don't you want your AI to know everything you've said and like everywhere you've been, like, wouldn't you want that?Maria [00:02:40]: Yeah. And don't stay there and repeat every time, like, oh, this is what I like. You already know that. And you do things for me based on that. That's I think is really cool.swyx [00:02:50]: Great. Do you want to jump into a demo? Do you have any other questions?Alessio [00:02:54]: I want to maybe just cover the origin story. Just how did you two meet? What was the was this the first idea you started working on? Was there something else before?Maria [00:03:02]: I can start. So Ethan and I, we know each other from six years now. He had a company called Squad. And before that was called Olabot and was a personal AI. Yeah, I should. So maybe you should start this one. But yeah, that's how I know Ethan. Like he was pivoting from personal AI to Squad. And there was a co-watching with friends product. I had experience working with TikTok and video content. So I had the pivoting and we launched Squad and was really successful. And at the end. The founders decided to sell that to Twitter, now X. So both of us, we joined X. We launched Twitter Spaces. We launched many other products. And yeah, till then, we basically continue to work together to the start of B.Ethan [00:03:46]: The interesting thing is like this isn't the first attempt at personal AI. In 2016, when I started my first company, it started out as a personal AI company. This is before Transformers, no BERT even like just RNNs. You couldn't really do any convincing dialogue at all. I met Esther, who was my previous co-founder. We both really interested in the idea of like having a machine kind of model or understand a dynamic human. We wanted to make personal AI. This was like more geared towards because we had obviously much limited tools, more geared towards like younger people. So I don't know if you remember in 2016, there was like a brief chatbot boom. It was way premature, but it was when Zuckerberg went up on F8 and yeah, M and like. Yeah. The messenger platform, people like, oh, bots are going to replace apps. It was like for about six months. And then everybody realized, man, these things are terrible and like they're not replacing apps. But it was at that time that we got excited and we're like, we tried to make this like, oh, teach the AI about you. So it was just an app that you kind of chatted with and it would ask you questions and then like give you some feedback.Maria [00:04:53]: But Hugging Face first version was launched at the same time. Yeah, we started it.Ethan [00:04:56]: We started out the same office as Hugging Face because Betaworks was our investor. So they had to think. They had a thing called Bot Camp. Betaworks is like a really cool VC because they invest in out there things. They're like way ahead of everybody else. And like back then it was they had something called Bot Camp. They took six companies and it was us and Hugging Face. And then I think the other four, I'm pretty sure, are dead. But and Hugging Face was the one that really got, you know, I mean, 30% success rate is pretty good. Yeah. But yeah, when we it was, it was like it was just the two founders. Yeah, they were kind of like an AI company in the beginning. It was a chat app for teenagers. A lot of people don't know that Hugging Face was like, hey, friend, how was school? Let's trade selfies. But then, you know, they built the Transformers library, I believe, to help them make their chat app better. And then they open sourced and it was like it blew up. And like they're like, oh, maybe this is the opportunity. And now they're Hugging Face. But anyway, like we were obsessed with it at that time. But then it was clear that there's some people who really love chatting and like answering questions. But it's like a lot of work, like just to kind of manually.Maria [00:06:00]: Yeah.Ethan [00:06:01]: Teach like all these things about you to an AI.Maria [00:06:04]: Yeah, there were some people that were super passionate, for example, teenagers. They really like, for example, to speak about themselves a lot. So they will reply to a lot of questions and speak about them. But most of the people, they don't really want to spend time.Ethan [00:06:18]: And, you know, it's hard to like really bring the value with it. We had like sentence similarity and stuff and could try and do, but it was like it was premature with the technology at the time. And so we pivoted. We went to YC and the long story, but like we pivoted to consumer video and that kind of went really viral and got a lot of usage quickly. And then we ended up selling it to Twitter, worked there and left before Elon, not related to Elon, but left Twitter.swyx [00:06:46]: And then I should mention this is the famous time when well, when when Elon was just came in, this was like Esther was the famous product manager who slept there.Ethan [00:06:56]: My co-founder, my former co-founder, she sleeping bag. She was the sleep where you were. Yeah, yeah, she stayed. We had left by that point.swyx [00:07:03]: She very stayed, she's famous for staying.Ethan [00:07:06]: Yeah, but later, later left or got, I think, laid off, laid off. Yeah, I think the whole product team got laid off. She was a product manager, director. But yeah, like we left before that. And then we're like, oh, my God, things are different now. You know, I think this is we really started working on again right before ChatGPT came out. But we had an app version and we kind of were trying different things around it. And then, you know, ultimately, it was clear that, like, there were some limitations we can go on, like a good question to ask any wearable company is like, why isn't this an app? Yes. Yeah. Because like.Maria [00:07:40]: Because we tried the app at the beginning.Ethan [00:07:43]: Yeah. Like the idea that it could be more of a and B comes from ambient. So like if it was more kind of just around you all the time and less about you having to go open the app and do the effort to, like, enter in data that led us down the path of hardware. Yeah. Because the sensors on this are microphones. So it's capturing and understanding audio. We started actually our first hardware with a vision component, too. And we can talk about why we're not doing that right now. But if you wanted to, like, have a continuous understanding of audio with your phone, it would monopolize your microphone. It would get interrupted by calls and you'd have to remember to turn it on. And like that little bit of friction is actually like a substantial barrier to, like, get your phone. It's like the experience of it just being with you all the time and like living alongside you. And so I think that that's like the key reason it's not an app. And in fact, we do have Apple Watch support. So anybody who has a watch, Apple Watch can use it right away without buying any hardware. Because we worked really hard to make a version for the watch that can run in the background, not super drain your battery. But even with the watch, there's still friction because you have to remember to turn it on and it still gets interrupted if somebody calls you. And you have to remember to. We send a notification, but you still have to go back and turn it on because it's just the way watchOS works.Maria [00:09:04]: One of the things that we are seeing from our Apple Watch users, like I love the Apple Watch integration. One of the things that we are seeing is that people, they start using it from Apple Watch and after a couple of days they buy the B because they just like to wear it.Ethan [00:09:17]: Yeah, we're seeing.Maria [00:09:18]: That's something that like they're learning and it's really cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:09:21]: I mean, I think like fundamentally we like to think that like a personal AI is like the mission. And it's more about like the understanding. Connecting the dots, making use of the data to provide some value. And the hardware is like the ears of the AI. It's not like integrating like the incoming sensor data. And that's really what we focus on. And like the hardware is, you know, if we can do it well and have a great experience on the Apple Watch like that, that's just great. I mean, but there's just some platform restrictions that like existing hardware makes it hard to provide that experience. Yeah.Alessio [00:09:54]: What do people do in like two or three days that then convinces them to buy it? They buy the product. This feels like a product where like after you use it for a while, you have enough data to start to get a lot of insights. But it sounds like maybe there's also like a short term.Maria [00:10:07]: From the Apple Watch users, I believe that because every time that you receive a call after, they need to go back to B and open it again. Or for example, every day they need to charge Apple Watch and reminds them to open the app every day. They feel like, okay, maybe this is too much work. I just want to wear the B and just keep it open and that's it. And I don't need to think about it.Ethan [00:10:27]: I think they see the kind of potential of it just from the watch. Because even if you wear it a day, like we send a summary notification at the end of the day about like just key things that happened to you in your day. And like I didn't even think like I'm not like a journaling type person or like because like, oh, I just live the day. Why do I need to like think about it? But like it's actually pretty sometimes I'm surprised how interesting it is to me just to kind of be like, oh, yeah, that and how it kind of fits together. And I think that's like just something people get immediately with the watch. But they're like, oh, I'd like an easier watch. I'd like a better way to do this.swyx [00:10:58]: It's surprising because I only know about the hardware. But I use the watch as like a backup for when I don't have the hardware. I feel like because now you're beamforming and all that, this is significantly better. Yeah, that's the other thing.Ethan [00:11:11]: We have way more control over like the Apple Watch. You're limited in like you can't set the gain. You can't change the sample rate. There's just very limited framework support for doing anything with audio. Whereas if you control it. Then you can kind of optimize it for your use case. The Apple Watch isn't meant to be kind of recording this. And we can talk when we get to the part about audio, why it's so hard. This is like audio on the hardest level because you don't know it has to work in all environments or you try and make it work as best as it can. Like this environment is very great. We're in a studio. But, you know, afterwards at dinner in a restaurant, it's totally different audio environment. And there's a lot of challenges with that. And having really good source audio helps. But then there's a lot more. But with the machine learning that still is, you know, has to be done to try and account because like you can tune something for one environment or another. But it'll make one good and one bad. And like making something that's flexible enough is really challenging.Alessio [00:12:10]: Do we want to do a demo just to set the stage? And then we kind of talk about.Maria [00:12:14]: Yeah, I think we can go like a walkthrough and the prod.Alessio [00:12:17]: Yeah, sure.swyx [00:12:17]: So I think we said I should. So for listeners, we'll be switching to video. That was superimposed on. And to this video, if you want to see it, go to our YouTube, like and subscribe as always. Yeah.Maria [00:12:31]: And by the bee. Yes.swyx [00:12:33]: And by the bee. While you wait. While you wait. Exactly. It doesn't take long.Maria [00:12:39]: Maybe you should have a discount code just for the listeners. Sure.swyx [00:12:43]: If you want to offer it, I'll take it. All right. Yeah. Well, discount code Swyx. Oh s**t. Okay. Yeah. There you go.Ethan [00:12:49]: An important thing to mention also is that the hardware is meant to work with the phone. And like, I think, you know, if you, if you look at rabbit or, or humane, they're trying to create like a new hardware platform. We think that the phone's just so dominant and it will be until we have the next generation, which is not going to be for five, you know, maybe some Orion type glasses that are cheap enough and like light enough. Like that's going to take a long time before with the phone rather than trying to just like replace it. So in the app, we have a summary of your days, but at the top, it's kind of what's going on now. And that's updating your phone. It's updating continuously. So right now it's saying, I'm discussing, you know, the development of, you know, personal AI, and that's just kind of the ongoing conversation. And then we give you a readable form. That's like little kind of segments of what's the important parts of the conversations. We do speaker identification, which is really important because you don't want your personal AI thinking you said something and attributing it to you when it was just somebody else in the conversation. So you can also teach it other people's voices. So like if some, you know, somebody close to you, so it can start to understand your relationships a little better. And then we do conversation end pointing, which is kind of like a task that didn't even exist before, like, cause nobody needed to do this. But like if you had somebody's whole day, how do you like break it into logical pieces? And so we use like not just voice activity, but other signals to try and split up because conversations are a little fuzzy. They can like lead into one, can start to the next. So also like the semantic content of it. When a conversation ends, we run it through larger models to try and get a better, you know, sense of the actual, what was said and then summarize it, provide key points. What was the general atmosphere and tone of the conversation and potential action items that might've come of that. But then at the end of the day, we give you like a summary of all your day and where you were and just kind of like a step-by-step walkthrough of what happened and what were the key points. That's kind of just like the base capture layer. So like if you just want to get a kind of glimpse or recall or reflect that's there. But really the key is like all of this is now like being influenced on to generate personal context about you. So we generate key items known to be true about you and that you can, you know, there's a human in the loop aspect is like you can, you have visibility. Right. Into that. And you can, you know, I have a lot of facts about technology because that's basically what I talk about all the time. Right. But I do have some hobbies that show up and then like, how do you put use to this context? So I kind of like measure my day now and just like, what is my token output of the day? You know, like, like as a human, how much information do I produce? And it's kind of measured in tokens and it turns out it's like around 200,000 or so a day. But so in the recall case, we have, um. A chat interface, but the key here is on the recall of it. Like, you know, how do you, you know, I probably have 50 million tokens of personal context and like how to make sense of that, make it useful. So I can ask simple, like, uh, recall questions, like details about the trip I was on to Taiwan, where recently we're with our manufacturer and, um, in real time, like it will, you know, it has various capabilities such as searching through your, your memories, but then also being able to search the web or look at my calendar, we have integrations with Gmail and calendars. So like connecting the dots between the in real life and the digital life. And, you know, I just asked it about my Taiwan trip and it kind of gives me the, the breakdown of the details, what happened, the issues we had around, you know, certain manufacturing problems and it, and it goes back and references the conversation so I can, I can go back to the source. Yeah.Maria [00:16:46]: Not just the conversation as well, the integrations. So we have as well Gmail and Google calendar. So if there is something there that was useful to have more context, we can see that.Ethan [00:16:56]: So like, and it can, I never use the word agentic cause it's, it's cringe, but like it can search through, you know, if I, if I'm brainstorming about something that spans across, like search through my conversation, search the email, look at the calendar and then depending on what's needed. Then synthesize, you know, something with all that context.Maria [00:17:18]: I love that you did the Spotify wrapped. That was pretty cool. Yeah.Ethan [00:17:22]: Like one thing I did was just like make a Spotify wrap for my 2024, like of my life. You can do that. Yeah, you can.Maria [00:17:28]: Wait. Yeah. I like those crazy.Ethan [00:17:31]: Make a Spotify wrapped for my life in 2024. Yeah. So it's like surprisingly good. Um, it like kind of like game metrics. So it was like you visited three countries, you shipped, you know, XMini, beta. Devices.Maria [00:17:46]: And that's kind of more personal insights and reflection points. Yeah.swyx [00:17:51]: That's fascinating. So that's the demo.Ethan [00:17:54]: Well, we have, we can show something that's in beta. I don't know if we want to do it. I don't know.Maria [00:17:58]: We want to show something. Do it.Ethan [00:18:00]: And then we can kind of fit. Yeah.Maria [00:18:01]: Yeah.Ethan [00:18:02]: So like the, the, the, the vision is also like, not just about like AI being with you in like just passively understanding you through living your experience, but also then like it proactively suggesting things to you. Yeah. Like at the appropriate time. So like not just pool, but, but kind of, it can step in and suggest things to you. So, you know, one integration we have that, uh, is in beta is with WhatsApp. Maria is asking for a recommendation for an Italian restaurant. Would you like me to look up some highly rated Italian restaurants nearby and send her a suggestion?Maria [00:18:34]: So what I did, I just sent to Ethan a message through WhatsApp in his own personal phone. Yeah.Ethan [00:18:41]: So, so basically. B is like watching all my incoming notifications. And if it meets two criteria, like, is it important enough for me to raise a suggestion to the user? And then is there something I could potentially help with? So this is where the actions come into place. So because Maria is my co-founder and because it was like a restaurant recommendation, something that it could probably help with, it proposed that to me. And then I can, through either the chat and we have another kind of push to talk walkie talkie style button. It's actually a multi-purpose button to like toggle it on or off, but also if you push to hold, you can talk. So I can say, yes, uh, find one and send it to her on WhatsApp is, uh, an Android cloud phone. So it's, uh, going to be able to, you know, that has access to all my accounts. So we're going to abstract this away and the execution environment is not really important, but like we can go into technically why Android is actually a pretty good one right now. But, you know, it's searching for Italian restaurants, you know, and we don't have to watch this. I could be, you know, have my ear AirPods in and in my pocket, you know, it's going to go to WhatsApp, going to find Maria's thread, send her the response and then, and then let us know. Oh my God.Alessio [00:19:56]: But what's the, I mean, an Italian restaurant. Yeah. What did it choose? What did it choose? It's easy to say. Real Italian is hard to play. Exactly.Ethan [00:20:04]: It's easy to say. So I doubt it. I don't know.swyx [00:20:06]: For the record, since you have the Italians, uh, best Italian restaurant in SF.Maria [00:20:09]: Oh my God. I still don't have one. What? No.Ethan [00:20:14]: I don't know. Successfully found and shared.Alessio [00:20:16]: Let's see. Let's see what the AI says. Bottega. Bottega? I think it's Bottega.Maria [00:20:21]: Have you been to Bottega? How is it?Alessio [00:20:24]: It's fine.Maria [00:20:25]: I've been to one called like Norcina, I think it was good.Alessio [00:20:29]: Bottega is on Valencia Street. It's fine. The pizza is not good.Maria [00:20:32]: It's not good.Alessio [00:20:33]: Some of the pastas are good.Maria [00:20:34]: You know, the people I'm sorry to interrupt. Sorry. But there is like this Delfina. Yeah. That here everybody's like, oh, Pizzeria Delfina is amazing. I'm overrated. This is not. I don't know. That's great. That's great.swyx [00:20:46]: The North Beach Cafe. That place you took us with Michele last time. Vega. Oh.Alessio [00:20:52]: The guy at Vega, Giuseppe, he's Italian. Which one is that? It's in Bernal Heights. Ugh. He's nice. He's not nice. I don't know that one. What's the name of the place? Vega. Vega. Vega. Cool. We got the name. Vega. But it's not Vega.Maria [00:21:02]: It's Italian. Whatswyx [00:21:10]: Vega. Vega.swyx [00:21:16]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:29]: Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega. Vega.Ethan [00:21:40]: We're going to see a lot of innovation around hardware and stuff, but I think the real core is being able to do something useful with the personal context. You always had the ability to capture everything, right? We've always had recorders, camcorders, body cameras, stuff like that. But what's different now is we can actually make sense and find the important parts in all of that context.swyx [00:22:04]: Yeah. So, and then one last thing, I'm just doing this for you, is you also have an API, which I think I'm the first developer against. Because I had to build my own. We need to hire a developer advocate. Or just hire AI engineers. The point is that you should be able to program your own assistant. And I tried OMI, the former friend, the knockoff friend, and then real friend doesn't have an API. And then Limitless also doesn't have an API. So I think it's very important to own your data. To be able to reprocess your audio, maybe. Although, by default, you do not store audio. And then also just to do any corrections. There's no way that my needs can be fully met by you. So I think the API is very important.Ethan [00:22:47]: Yeah. And I mean, I've always been a consumer of APIs in all my products.swyx [00:22:53]: We are API enjoyers in this house.Ethan [00:22:55]: Yeah. It's very frustrating when you have to go build a scraper. But yeah, it's for sure. Yeah.swyx [00:23:03]: So this whole combination of you have my location, my calendar, my inbox. It really is, for me, the sort of personal API.Alessio [00:23:10]: And is the API just to write into it or to have it take action on external systems?Ethan [00:23:16]: Yeah, we're expanding it. It's right now read-only. In the future, very soon, when the actions are more generally available, it'll be fully supported in the API.Alessio [00:23:27]: Nice. I'll buy one after the episode.Ethan [00:23:30]: The API thing, to me, is the most interesting. Yeah. We do have real-time APIs, so you can even connect a socket and connect it to whatever you want it to take actions with. Yeah. It's too smart for me.Alessio [00:23:43]: Yeah. I think when I look at these apps, and I mean, there's so many of these products, we launch, it's great that I can go on this app and do things. But most of my work and personal life is managed somewhere else. Yeah. So being able to plug into it. Integrate that. It's nice. I have a bunch of more, maybe, human questions. Sure. I think maybe people might have. One, is it good to have instant replay for any argument that you have? I can imagine arguing with my wife about something. And, you know, there's these commercials now where it's basically like two people arguing, and they're like, they can throw a flag, like in football, and have an instant replay of the conversation. I feel like this is similar, where it's almost like people cannot really argue anymore or, like, lie to each other. Because in a world in which everybody adopts this, I don't know if you thought about it. And also, like, how the lies. You know, all of us tell lies, right? How do you distinguish between when I'm, there's going to be sometimes things that contradict each other, because I might say something publicly, and I might think something, really, that I tell someone else. How do you handle that when you think about building a product like this?Maria [00:24:48]: I would say that I like the fact that B is an objective point of view. So I don't care too much about the lies, but I care more about the fact that can help me to understand what happened. Mm-hmm. And the emotions in a really objective way, like, really, like, critical and objective way. And if you think about humans, they have so many emotions. And sometimes something that happened to me, like, I don't know, I would feel, like, really upset about it or really angry or really emotional. But the AI doesn't have those emotions. It can read the conversation, understand what happened, and be objective. And I think the level of support is the one that I really like more. Instead of, like, oh, did this guy tell me a lie? I feel like that's not exactly, like, what I feel. I find it curious for me in terms of opportunity.Alessio [00:25:35]: Is the B going to interject in real time? Say I'm arguing with somebody. The B is like, hey, look, no, you're wrong. What? That person actually said.Ethan [00:25:43]: The proactivity is something we're very interested in. Maybe not for, like, specifically for, like, selling arguments, but more for, like, and I think that a lot of the challenge here is, you know, you need really good reasoning to kind of pull that off. Because you don't want it just constantly interjecting, because that would be super annoying. And you don't want it to miss things that it should be interjecting. So, like, it would be kind of a hard task even for a human to be, like, just come in at the right times when it's appropriate. Like, it would take the, you know, with the personal context, it's going to be a lot better. Because, like, if somebody knows about you, but even still, it requires really good reasoning to, like, not be too much or too little and just right.Maria [00:26:20]: And the second part about, well, like, some things, you know, you say something to somebody else, but after I change my mind, I send something. Like, it's every time I have, like, different type of conversation. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. And I'm like, oh, I want to know more about you. I think that's something that I found really fascinating. One of the things that we are learning is that, indeed, humans, they evolve over time. So, for us, one of the challenges is actually understand, like, is this a real fact? Right. And so far, what we do is we give, you know, to the, we have the human in the loop that can say, like, yes, this is true, this is not. Or they can edit their own fact. For sure, in the future, we want to have all of that automatized inside of the product.Ethan [00:26:57]: But, I mean, I think your question kind of hits on, and I know that we'll talk about privacy, but also just, like, if you have some memory and you want to confirm it with somebody else, that's one thing. But it's for sure going to be true that in the future, like, not even that far into the future, that it's just going to be kind of normalized. And we're kind of in a transitional period now. And I think it's, like, one of the key things that is for us to kind of navigate that and make sure we're, like, thinking of all the consequences. And how to, you know, make the right choices in the way that everything's designed. And so, like, it's more beneficial than it could be harmful. But it's just too valuable for your AI to understand you. And so if it's, like, MetaRay bands or the Google Astra, I think it's just people are going to be more used to it. So people's behaviors and expectations will change. Whether that's, like, you know, something that is going to happen now or in five years, it's probably in that range. And so, like, I think we... We kind of adapt to new technologies all the time. Like, when the Ring cameras came out, that was kind of quite controversial. It's like... But now it's kind of... People just understand that a lot of people have cameras on their doors. And so I think that...Maria [00:28:09]: Yeah, we're in a transitional period for sure.swyx [00:28:12]: I will press on the privacy thing because that is the number one thing that everyone talks about. Obviously, I think in Silicon Valley, people are a little bit more tech-forward, experimental, whatever. But you want to go mainstream. You want to sell to consumers. And we have to worry about this stuff. Baseline question. The hardest version of this is law. There are one-party consent states where this is perfectly legal. Then there are two-party consent states where they're not. What have you come around to this on?Ethan [00:28:38]: Yeah, so the EU is a totally different regulatory environment. But in the U.S., it's basically on a state-by-state level. Like, in Nevada, it's single-party. In California, it's two-party. But it's kind of untested. You know, it's different laws, whether it's a phone call, whether it's in person. In a state like California, it's two-party. Like, anytime you're in public, there's no consent comes into play because the expectation of privacy is that you're in public. But we process the audio and nothing is persisted. And then it's summarized with the speaker identification focusing on the user. Now, it's kind of untested on a legal, and I'm not a lawyer, but does that constitute the same as, like, a recording? So, you know, it's kind of a gray area and untested in law right now. I think that the bigger question is, you know, because, like, if you had your Ray-Ban on and were recording, then you have a video of something that happened. And that's different than kind of having, like, an AI give you a summary that's focused on you that's not really capturing anybody's voice. You know, I think the bigger question is, regardless of the legal status, like, what is the ethical kind of situation with that? Because even in Nevada that we're—or many other U.S. states where you can record. Everything. And you don't have to have consent. Is it still, like, the right thing to do? The way we think about it is, is that, you know, we take a lot of precautions to kind of not capture personal information of people around. Both through the speaker identification, through the pipeline, and then the prompts, and the way we store the information to be kind of really focused on the user. Now, we know that's not going to, like, satisfy a lot of people. But I think if you do try it and wear it again. It's very hard for me to see anything, like, if somebody was wearing a bee around me that I would ever object that it captured about me as, like, a third party to it. And like I said, like, we're in this transitional period where the expectation will just be more normalized. That it's, like, an AI. It's not capturing, you know, a full audio recording of what you said. And it's—everything is fully geared towards helping the person kind of understand their state and providing valuable information to them. Not about, like, logging details about people they encounter.Alessio [00:30:57]: You know, I've had the same question also with the Zoom meeting transcribers thing. I think there's kind of, like, the personal impact that there's a Firefly's AI recorder. Yeah. I just know that it's being recorded. It's not like a—I don't know if I'm going to say anything different. But, like, intrinsically, you kind of feel—because it's not pervasive. And I'm curious, especially, like, in your investor meetings. Do people feel differently? Like, have you had people ask you to, like, turn it off? Like, in a business meeting, to not record? I'm curious if you've run into any of these behaviors.Maria [00:31:29]: You know what's funny? On my end, I wear it all the time. I take my coffee, a blue bottle with it. Or I work with it. Like, obviously, I work on it. So, I wear it all the time. And so far, I don't think anybody asked me to turn it off. I'm not sure if because they were really friendly with me that they know that I'm working on it. But nobody really cared.swyx [00:31:48]: It's because you live in SF.Maria [00:31:49]: Actually, I've been in Italy as well. Uh-huh. And in Italy, it's a super privacy concern. Like, Europe is a super privacy concern. And again, they're nothing. Like, it's—I don't know. Yeah. That, for me, was interesting.Ethan [00:32:01]: I think—yeah, nobody's ever asked me to turn it off, even after giving them full demos and disclosing. I think that some people have said, well, my—you know, in a personal relationship, my partner initially was, like, kind of uncomfortable about it. We heard that from a few users. And that was, like, more in just, like— It's not like a personal relationship situation. And the other big one is people are like, I do like it, but I cannot wear this at work. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Because, like, I think I will get in trouble based on policies or, like, you know, if you're wearing it inside a research lab or something where you're working on things that are kind of sensitive that, like—you know, so we're adding certain features like geofencing, just, like, at this location. It's just never active.swyx [00:32:50]: I mean, I've often actually explained to it the other way, where maybe you only want it at work, so you never take it from work. And it's just a work device, just like your Zoom meeting recorder is a work device.Ethan [00:33:09]: Yeah, professionals have been a big early adopter segment. And you say in San Francisco, but we have out there our daily shipment of over 100. If you go look at the addresses, Texas, I think, is our biggest state, and Florida, just the biggest states. A lot of professionals who talk for, and we didn't go out to build it for that use case, but I think there is a lot of demand for white-collar people who talk for a living. And I think we're just starting to talk with them. I think they just want to be able to improve their performance around, understand what they were doing.Alessio [00:33:47]: How do you think about Gong.io? Some of these, for example, sales training thing, where you put on a sales call and then it coaches you. They're more verticalized versus having more horizontal platform.Ethan [00:33:58]: I am not super familiar with those things, because like I said, it was kind of a surprise to us. But I think that those are interesting. I've seen there's a bunch of them now, right? Yeah. It kind of makes sense. I'm terrible at sales, so I could probably use one. But it's not my job, fundamentally. But yeah, I think maybe it's, you know, we heard also people with restaurants, if they're able to understand, if they're doing well.Maria [00:34:26]: Yeah, but in general, I think a lot of people, they like to have the double check of, did I do this well? Or can you suggest me how I can do better? We had a user that was saying to us that he used for interviews. Yeah, he used job interviews. So he used B and after asked to the B, oh, actually, how do you think my interview went? What I should do better? And I like that. And like, oh, that's actually like a personal coach in a way.Alessio [00:34:50]: Yeah. But I guess the question is like, do you want to build all of those use cases? Or do you see B as more like a platform where somebody is going to build like, you know, the sales coach that connects to B so that you're kind of the data feed into it?Ethan [00:35:02]: I don't think this is like a data feed, more like an understanding kind of engine and like definitely. In the future, having third parties to the API and building out for all the different use cases is something that we want to do. But the like initial case we're trying to do is like build that layer for all that to work. And, you know, we're not trying to build all those verticals because no startup could do that well. But I think that it's really been quite fascinating to see, like, you know, I've done consumer for a long time. Consumer is very hard to predict, like, what's going to be. It's going to be like the thing that's the killer feature. And so, I mean, we really believe that it's the future, but we don't know like what exactly like process it will take to really gain mass adoption.swyx [00:35:50]: The killer consumer feature is whatever Nikita Beer does. Yeah. Social app for teens.Ethan [00:35:56]: Yeah, well, I like Nikita, but, you know, he's good at building bootstrap companies and getting them very viral. And then selling them and then they shut down.swyx [00:36:05]: Okay, so you just came back from CES.Maria [00:36:07]: Yeah, crazy. Yeah, tell us. It was my first time in Vegas and first time CES, both of them were overwhelming.swyx [00:36:15]: First of all, did you feel like you had to do it because you're in consumer hardware?Maria [00:36:19]: Then we decided to be there and to have a lot of partners and media meetings, but we didn't have our own booth. So we decided to just keep that. But we decided to be there and have a presence there, even just us and speak with people. It's very hard to stand out. Yeah, I think, you know, it depends what type of booth you have. I think if you can prepare like a really cool booth.Ethan [00:36:41]: Have you been to CES?Maria [00:36:42]: I think it can be pretty cool.Ethan [00:36:43]: It's massive. It's huge. It's like 80,000, 90,000 people across the Venetian and the convention center. And it's, to me, I always wanted to go just like...Maria [00:36:53]: Yeah, you were the one who was like...swyx [00:36:55]: I thought it was your idea.Ethan [00:36:57]: I always wanted to go just as a, like, just as a fan of...Maria [00:37:01]: Yeah, you wanted to go anyways.Ethan [00:37:02]: Because like, growing up, I think CES like kind of peaked for a while and it was like, oh, I want to go. That's where all the cool, like... gadgets, everything. Yeah, now it's like SmartBitch and like, you know, vacuuming the picks up socks. Exactly.Maria [00:37:13]: There are a lot of cool vacuums. Oh, they love it.swyx [00:37:15]: They love the Roombas, the pick up socks.Maria [00:37:16]: And pet tech. Yeah, yeah. And dog stuff.swyx [00:37:20]: Yeah, there's a lot of like robot stuff. New TVs, new cars that never ship. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking like last year, this time last year was when Rabbit and Humane launched at CES and Rabbit kind of won CES. And now this year, no wearables except for you guys.Ethan [00:37:32]: It's funny because it's obviously it's AI everything. Yeah. Like every single product. Yeah.Maria [00:37:37]: Toothbrush with AI, vacuums with AI. Yeah. Yeah.Ethan [00:37:41]: We like hair blow, literally a hairdryer with AI. We saw.Maria [00:37:45]: Yeah, that was cool.Ethan [00:37:46]: But I think that like, yeah, we didn't, another kind of difference like around our, like we didn't want to do like a big overhypey promised kind of Rabbit launch. Because I mean, they did, hats off to them, like on the presentation and everything, obviously. But like, you know, we want to let the product kind of speak for itself and like get it out there. And I think we were really happy. We got some very good interest from media and some of the partners there. So like it was, I think it was definitely worth going. I would say like if you're in hardware, it's just kind of how you make use of it. Like I think to do it like a big Rabbit style or to have a huge show on there, like you need to plan that six months in advance. And it's very expensive. But like if you, you know, go there, there's everybody's there. All the media is there. There's a lot of some pre-show events that it's just great to talk to people. And the industry also, all the manufacturers, suppliers are there. So we learned about some really cool stuff that we might like. We met with somebody. They have like thermal energy capture. And it's like, oh, could you maybe not need to charge it? Because they have like a thermal that can capture your body heat. And what? Yeah, they're here. They're actually here. And in Palo Alto, they have like a Fitbit thing that you don't have to charge.swyx [00:39:01]: Like on paper, that's the power you can get from that. What's the power draw for this thing?Ethan [00:39:05]: It's more than you could get from the body heat, it turns out. But it's quite small. I don't want to disclose technically. But I think that solar is still, they also have one where it's like this thing could be like the face of it. It's just a solar cell. And like that is more realistic. Or kinetic. Kinetic, apparently, I'm not an expert in this, but they seem to think it wouldn't be enough. Kinetic is quite small, I guess, on the capture.swyx [00:39:33]: Well, I mean, watch. Watchmakers have been powering with kinetic for a long time. Yeah. We don't have to talk about that. I just want to get a sense of CES. Would you do it again? I definitely would not. Okay. You're just a fan of CES. Business point of view doesn't make sense. I happen to be in the conference business, right? So I'm kind of just curious. Yeah.Maria [00:39:49]: So I would say as we did, so without the booth and really like straightforward conversations that were already planned. Three days. That's okay. I think it was okay. Okay. But if you need to invest for a booth that is not. Okay. A good one. Which is how much? I think.Ethan [00:40:06]: 10 by 10 is 5,000. But on top of that, you need to. And then they go like 10 by 10 is like super small. Yeah. And like some companies have, I think would probably be more in like the six figure range to get. And I mean, I think that, yeah, it's very noisy. We heard this, that it's very, very noisy. Like obviously if you're, everything is being launched there and like everything from cars to cell phones are being launched. Yeah. So it's hard to stand out. But like, I think going in with a plan of who you want to talk to, I feel like.Maria [00:40:36]: That was worth it.Ethan [00:40:37]: Worth it. We had a lot of really positive media coverage from it and we got the word out and like, so I think we accomplished what we wanted to do.swyx [00:40:46]: I mean, there's some world in which my conference is kind of the CES of whatever AI becomes. Yeah. I think that.Maria [00:40:52]: Don't do it in Vegas. Don't do it in Vegas. Yeah. Don't do it in Vegas. That's the only thing. I didn't really like Vegas. That's great. Amazing. Those are my favorite ones.Alessio [00:41:02]: You can not fit 90,000 people in SF. That's really duh.Ethan [00:41:05]: You need to do like multiple locations so you can do Moscone and then have one in.swyx [00:41:09]: I mean, that's what Salesforce conferences. Well, GDC is how many? That might be 50,000, right? Okay. Form factor, right? Like my way to introduce this idea was that I was at the launch in Solaris. What was the old name of it? Newton. Newton. Of Tab when Avi first launched it. He was like, I thought through everything. Every form factor, pendant is the thing. And then we got the pendants for this original. The first one was just pendants and I took it off and I forgot to put it back on. So you went through pendants, pin, bracelet now, and maybe there's sort of earphones in the future, but what was your iterations?Maria [00:41:49]: So we had, I believe now three or four iterations. And one of the things that we learned is indeed that people don't like the pendant. In particular, woman, you don't want to have like anything here on the chest because it's maybe you have like other necklace or any other stuff.Ethan [00:42:03]: You just ship a premium one that's gold. Yeah. We're talking some fashion reached out to us.Maria [00:42:11]: Some big fashion. There is something there.swyx [00:42:13]: This is where it helps to have an Italian on the team.Maria [00:42:15]: There is like some big Italian luxury. I can't say anything. So yeah, bracelet actually came from the community because they were like, oh, I don't want to wear anything like as necklace or as a pendant. Like it's. And also like the one that we had, I don't know if you remember, like it was like circle, like it was like this and was like really bulky. Like people didn't like it. And also, I mean, I actually, I don't dislike, like we were running fast when we did that. Like our, our thing was like, we wanted to ship them as soon as possible. So we're not overthinking the form factor or the material. We were just want to be out. But after the community organically, basically all of them were like, well, why you don't just don't do the bracelet? Like he's way better. I will just wear it. And that's it. So that's how we ended up with the bracelet, but it's still modular. So I still want to play around the father is modular and you can, you know, take it off and wear it as a clip or in the future, maybe we will bring back the pendant. But I like the fact that there is some personalization and right now we have two colors, yellow and black. Soon we will have other ones. So yeah, we can play a lot around that.Ethan [00:43:25]: I think the form factor. Like the goal is for it to be not super invasive. Right. And something that's easy. So I think in the future, smaller, thinner, not like apple type obsession with thinness, but it does matter like the, the size and weight. And we would love to have more context because that will help, but to make it work, I think it really needs to have good power consumption, good battery life. And, you know, like with the humane swapping the batteries, I have one, I mean, I'm, I'm, I think we've made, and there's like pretty incredible, some of the engineering they did, but like, it wasn't kind of geared towards solving the problem. It was just, it's too heavy. The swappable batteries is too much to man, like the heat, the thermals is like too much to light interface thing. Yeah. Like that. That's cool. It's cool. It's cool. But it's like, if, if you have your handout here, you want to use your phone, like it's not really solving a problem. Cause you know how to use your phone. It's got a brilliant display. You have to kind of learn how to gesture this low range. Yeah. It's like a resolution laser, but the laser is cool that the fact they got it working in that thing, even though if it did overheat, but like too heavy, too cumbersome, too complicated with the multiple batteries. So something that's power efficient, kind of thin, both in the physical sense and also in the edge compute kind of way so that it can be as unobtrusive as possible. Yeah.Maria [00:44:47]: Users really like, like, I like when they say yes, I like to wear it and forget about it because I don't need to charge it every single day. On the other version, I believe we had like 35 hours or something, which was okay. But people, they just prefer the seven days battery life and-swyx [00:45:03]: Oh, this is seven days? Yeah. Oh, I've been charging every three days.Maria [00:45:07]: Oh, no, you can like keep it like, yeah, it's like almost seven days.swyx [00:45:11]: The other thing that occurs to me, maybe there's an Apple watch strap so that I don't have to double watch. Yeah.Maria [00:45:17]: That's the other one that, yeah, I thought about it. I saw as well the ones that like, you can like put it like back on the phone. Like, you know- Plog. There is a lot.swyx [00:45:27]: So yeah, there's a competitor called Plog. Yeah. It's not really a competitor. They only transcribe, right? Yeah, they only transcribe. But they're very good at it. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:33]: No, they're great. Their hardware is really good too.swyx [00:45:36]: And they just launched the pin too. Yeah.Ethan [00:45:38]: I think that the MagSafe kind of form factor has a lot of advantages, but some disadvantages. You can definitely put a very huge battery on that, you know? And so like the battery life's not, the power consumption's not so much of a concern, but you know, downside the phone's like in your pocket. And so I think that, you know, form factors will continue to evolve, but, and you know, more sensors, less obtrusive and-Maria [00:46:02]: Yeah. We have a new version.Ethan [00:46:04]: Easier to use.Maria [00:46:05]: Okay.swyx [00:46:05]: Looking forward to that. Yeah. I mean, we'll, whenever we launch this, we'll try to show whatever, but I'm sure you're going to keep iterating. Last thing on hardware, and then we'll go on to the software side, because I think that's where you guys are also really, really strong. Vision. You wanted to talk about why no vision? Yeah.Ethan [00:46:20]: I think it comes down to like when you're, when you're a startup, especially in hardware, you're just, you work within the constraints, right? And so like vision is super useful and super interesting. And what we actually started with, there's two issues with vision that make it like not the place we decided to start. One is power consumption. So you know, you kind of have to trade off your power budget, like capturing even at a low frame rate and transmitting the radio is actually the thing that takes up the majority of the power. So. Yeah. So you would really have to have quite a, like unacceptably, like large and heavy battery to do it continuously all day. We have, I think, novel kind of alternative ways that might allow us to do that. And we have some prototypes. The other issue is form factor. So like even with like a wide field of view, if you're wearing something on your chest, it's going, you know, obviously the wrist is not really that much of an option. And if you're wearing it on your chest, it's, it's often gone. You're going to probably be not capturing like the field of view of what's interesting to you. So that leaves you kind of with your head and face. And then anything that goes on, on the face has to look cool. Like I don't know if you remember the spectacles, it was kind of like the first, yeah, but they kind of, they didn't, they were not very successful. And I think one of the reasons is they were, they're so weird looking. Yeah. The camera was so big on the side. And if you look at them at array bands where they're way more successful, they, they look almost indistinguishable from array bands. And they invested a lot into that and they, they have a partnership with Qualcomm to develop custom Silicon. They have a stake in Luxottica now. So like they coming from all the angles, like to make glasses, I think like, you know, I don't know if you know, Brilliant Labs, they're cool company, they make frames, which is kind of like a cool hackable glasses and, and, and like, they're really good, like on hardware, they're really good. But even if you look at the frames, which I would say is like the most advanced kind of startup. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was one that launched at CES, but it's not shipping yet. Like one that you can buy now, it's still not something you'd wear every day and the battery life is super short. So I think just the challenge of doing vision right, like off the bat, like would require quite a bit more resources. And so like audio is such a good entry point and it's also the privacy around audio. If you, if you had images, that's like another huge challenge to overcome. So I think that. Ideally the personal AI would have, you know, all the senses and you know, we'll, we'll get there. Yeah. Okay.swyx [00:48:57]: One last hardware thing. I have to ask this because then we'll move to the software. Were either of you electrical engineering?Ethan [00:49:04]: No, I'm CES. And so I have a, I've taken some EE courses, but I, I had done prior to working on, on the hardware here, like I had done a little bit of like embedded systems, like very little firmware, but we have luckily on the team, somebody with deep experience. Yeah.swyx [00:49:21]: I'm just like, you know, like you have to become hardware people. Yeah.Ethan [00:49:25]: Yeah. I mean, I learned to worry about supply chain power. I think this is like radio.Maria [00:49:30]: There's so many things to learn.Ethan [00:49:32]: I would tell this about hardware, like, and I know it's been said before, but building a prototype and like learning how the electronics work and learning about firmware and developing, this is like, I think fun for a lot of engineers and it's, it's all totally like achievable, especially now, like with, with the tools we have, like stuff you might've been intimidated about. Like, how do I like write this firmware now? With Sonnet, like you can, you can get going and actually see results quickly. But I think going from prototype to actually making something manufactured is a enormous jump. And it's not all about technology, the supply chain, the procurement, the regulations, the cost, the tooling. The thing about software that I'm used to is it's funny that you can make changes all along the way and ship it. But like when you have to buy tooling for an enclosure that's expensive.swyx [00:50:24]: Do you buy your own tooling? You have to.Ethan [00:50:25]: Don't you just subcontract out to someone in China? Oh, no. Do we make the tooling? No, no. You have to have CNC and like a bunch of machines.Maria [00:50:31]: Like nobody makes their own tooling, but like you have to design this design and you submitEthan [00:50:36]: it and then they go four to six weeks later. Yeah. And then if there's a problem with it, well, then you're not, you're not making any, any of your enclosures. And so you have to really plan ahead. And like.swyx [00:50:48]: I just want to leave tips for other hardware founders. Like what resources or websites are most helpful in your sort of manufacturing journey?Ethan [00:50:55]: You know, I think it's different depending on like it's hardware so specialized in different ways.Maria [00:51:00]: I will say that, for example, I should choose a manufacturer company. I speak with other founders and like we can give you like some, you know, some tips of who is good and who is not, or like who's specialized in something versus somebody else. Yeah.Ethan [00:51:15]: Like some people are good in plastics. Some people are good.Maria [00:51:18]: I think like for us, it really helped at the beginning to speak with others and understand. Okay. Like who is around. I work in Shenzhen. I lived almost two years in China. I have an idea about like different hardware manufacturer and all of that. Soon I will go back to Shenzhen to check out. So I think it's good also to go in place and check.Ethan [00:51:40]: Yeah, you have to like once you, if you, so we did some stuff domestically and like if you have that ability. The reason I say ability is very expensive, but like to build out some proof of concepts and do field testing before you take it to a manufacturer, despite what people say, there's really good domestic manufacturing for small quantities at extremely high prices. So we got our first PCB and the assembly done in LA. So there's a lot of good because of the defense industry that can do quick churn. So it's like, we need this board. We need to find out if it's working. We have this deadline we want to start, but you need to go through this. And like if you want to have it done and fabricated in a week, they can do it for a price. But I think, you know, everybody's kind of trending even for prototyping now moving that offshore because in China you can do prototyping and get it within almost the same timeline. But the thing is with manufacturing, like it really helps to go there and kind of establish the relationship. Yeah.Alessio [00:52:38]: My first company was a hardware company and we did our PCBs in China and took a long time. Now things are better. But this was, yeah, I don't know, 10 years ago, something like that. Yeah.Ethan [00:52:47]: I think that like the, and I've heard this too, we didn't run into this problem, but like, you know, if it's something where you don't have the relationship, they don't see you, they don't know you, you know, you might get subcontracted out or like they're not paying attention. But like if you're, you know, you have the relationship and a priority, like, yeah, it's really good. We ended up doing the fabrication assembly in Taiwan for various reasons.Maria [00:53:11]: And I think it really helped the fact that you went there at some point. Yeah.Ethan [00:53:15]: We're really happy with the process and, but I mean the whole process of just Choosing the right people. Choosing the right people, but also just sourcing the bill materials and all of that stuff. Like, I guess like if you have time, it's not that bad, but if you're trying to like really push the speed at that, it's incredibly stressful. Okay. We got to move to the software. Yeah.Alessio [00:53:38]: Yeah. So the hardware, maybe it's hard for people to understand, but what software people can understand is that running. Transcription and summarization, all of these things in real time every day for 24 hours a day. It's not easy. So you mentioned 200,000 tokens for a day. Yeah. How do you make it basically free to run all of this for the consumer?Ethan [00:53:59]: Well, I think that the pipeline and the inference, like people think about all of these tokens, but as you know, the price of tokens is like dramatically dropping. You guys probably have some charts somewhere that you've posted. We do. And like, if you see that trend in like 250,000 input tokens, it's not really that much, right? Like the output.swyx [00:54:21]: You do several layers. You do live. Yeah.Ethan [00:54:23]: Yeah. So the speech to text is like the most challenging part actually, because you know, it requires like real time processing and then like later processing with a larger model. And one thing that is fairly obvious is that like, you don't need to transcribe things that don't have any voice in it. Right? So good voice activity is key, right? Because like the majority of most people's day is not spent with voice activity. Right? So that is the first step to cutting down the amount of compute you have to do. And voice activity is a fairly cheap thing to do. Very, very cheap thing to do. The models that need to summarize, you don't need a Sonnet level kind of model to summarize. You do need a Sonnet level model to like execute things like the agent. And we will be having a subscription for like features like that because it's, you know, although now with the R1, like we'll see, we haven't evaluated it. A deep seek? Yeah. I mean, not that one in particular, but like, you know, they're already there that can kind of perform at that level. I was like, it's going to stay in six months, but like, yeah. So self-hosted models help in the things where you can. So you are self-hosting models. Yes. You are fine tuning your own ASR. Yes. I will say that I see in the future that everything's trending down. Although like, I think there might be an intermediary step with things to become expensive, which is like, we're really interested because like the pipeline is very tedious and like a lot of tuning. Right. Which is brutal because it's just a lot of trial and error. Whereas like, well, wouldn't it be nice if an end to end model could just do all of this and learn it? If we could do transcription with like an LLM, there's so many advantages to that, but it's going to be a larger model and hence like more compute, you know, we're optim

Douglas Vincent; the third member of the Douglas Vincent DID System returns to continue his discussion with Mike, where they nerd out about Star Wars! This week, in part 2, Doug gives his thoughts on the Sequel Trilogy, noting his favourite film of the three and then following this, they talk about Canon and Legends comics & books, including Aphra and the many crossover events in the 2020 main Star Wars run. Towards the end, Doug talks about lessons within Skeleton Crew (no spoilers) and addresses people's thoughts about characters some believe have DID traits. If you missed part 1, Doug & Mike started by speaking about Douglas' first experience with Star Wars and recalling memories of his childhood, including watching half a recording of Empire Strikes Back on VHS! The conversation then lead into the modern era, as Doug explained his experiences with the Prequel Trilogy, plus the duo discussed “The Dark Years” of Star Wars (when barely anything was being released), followed by the steady release of books and comics following the Heir To The Empire trilogy. For an in-depth introduction to Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder), listen to episode 235 of GCC, from June 2024 where Mike spoke with Leyna: https://pod.fo/e/2430ed   And in episode 248, Mike speaks with Louise who continues the DID discussion and shows how the MBTI personality test helped the alters of their system: https://pod.fo/e/2806aa Leyna was also on Tony Farina's Indie Comics Spotlight, talking about the Elle(s) comic in August 2024: https://open.spotify.com/episode/49lI4Jg6LXMRIcs6fcMtb4?si=-vpeJ5ieQw2cupsuZM-OGQ DID Resources: https://did-research.org - https://did-research.org/did/history/index.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4959824 Find Douglas, Leyna & Louise on X: @dougvincent1138 and subscribe to their Substack here: https://substack.com/@dougvincent1138 The last episode of GCC saw the return of Gough of Beernuts Productions for his yearly visit and prior to that were some Clone Wars Conversations and an interview with Charles Soule & Ryan Browne regarding their new comic series Lucky Devils! If you want to support the show and get bonus content & early access, please support on Patreon for at least one exclusive bonus episode every week: www.patreon.com/GenuineChitChat Star Wars: Skeleton Crew has now finished and Mike discussed episodes each week with a variety of guests; listen on the podcast feed of Comics In Motion: https://pod.fo/e/29e526, or watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tRGqIoEl0 Mike's Recent Guest Spots: Mike appeared on Spider-Dan & The Secret Bores for their top 5 small cast movies, listen here: https://pod.fo/e/289237  Mike recently appeared on JAC's Back To The Filmography podcast, tune in here:  https://pod.fo/e/28e32e Mike also appeared on Spider-Dan's pod with Megan, talking Princess Diana in Spencer: https://pod.fo/e/2916c6  Find all of Mike's social media & other links at https://linktr.ee/GenuineChitChat  Don't forget to share and review the podcast, it helps more than you know!

Send us a textDoes your personality influence your calling? You know, those personality tests everyone's taking… can they tell us anything about how God might use us in His kingdom?This isn't just about Myers-Briggs letters or Strengthsfinder results. It's about understanding how God uniquely crafted you AND how He calls you. We've seen plenty of ministry books trying to crack this code, but what does Scripture actually say about it?We're breaking down: • God's blueprint for our calling • When natural wiring meets divine purpose • Biblical keys for discerning your calling • Why getting this right changes everything • Real talk about personality tests in the churchWe'll dive into the modern psychological application of the Munus Triplex—as seen in the works of theologians like John Frame and Vern Poythress and also the APEST model popularized by Allen Hirsh.Whether you roll your eyes at personality tests or you've got your MBTI in your social media bio, this episode will challenge you to think biblically about God's calling on your life. Join us as we navigate this intersection of personality and purpose - no personality quiz required!