Podcast appearances and mentions of sandy pentland

Ethical AI was bedeutet eine ethische KI und wer entscheidet das | Mario TrußWas bedeutet eigentlich eine ethische KI? Welche Faktoren sind dabei wichtig und wer entscheidet das? Darüber spricht Christian Krug, der Host des Podcasts „Unf*ck Your Data“ mit Mario Truß, Technical Training Consultant bei AdobeDer europäische AI Act versucht die Entwicklung von künstlicher Intelligenz auf eine ethische Grundlage zu stellen. Doch beinhaltet dieser mehr Wünsche und Vorstellungen als klare Regeln. Dies ist jetzt Aufgabe der einzelnen Länder.Dabei ist noch nicht einmal der Begriff der Ethical AI korrekt abgegrenzt oder definiert. Er überschneidet sich auch teilweise mit Trustworthy, responsible oder human-centered AI. Denn all diese Faktoren, wie Sicherheit, Datenschutz, Transparenz, Fairness oder Genauigkeit spielen hier hinein.Genau diese Begriffe lassen aber auch immer einen Interpretationsspielraum, damit die Entwickler*innen eben auch wissen, was sie beachten müssen. Und wie dies dann auch in einem Produkt getestet werden kann.Dafür ist aber ein interdisziplinäres Verständnis von Ethik und Technik notwendig. Link zum Paperhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064091▬▬▬▬▬▬ Profile: ▬▬▬▬Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Mario: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariotruss/Zum LinkedIn-Profil von Christian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-krug/Unf*ck Your Data auf Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unfck-your-data▬▬▬▬▬▬ Buchempfehlung: ▬▬▬▬Buchempfehlung von Mario: Building The New Economy – Data As A Capital (MIT; Sandy Pentland and mehr)Alle Empfehlungen in Melenas Bücherladen: https://gunzenhausen.buchhandlung.de/unfuckyourdata▬▬▬▬▬▬ Hier findest Du Unf*ck Your Data: ▬▬▬▬Zum Podcast auf Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ow7ySMbgnir27etMYkpxT?si=dc0fd2b3c6454bfaZum Podcast auf iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/unf-ck-your-data/id1673832019Zum Podcast auf Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vdW5mY2steW91ci1kYXRhLw?ep=14Zum Podcast auf Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/FnT5kRSjf2k54iib6▬▬▬▬▬▬ Kontakt: ▬▬▬▬E-Mail: christian@uyd-podcast.com

Is AI older than you think? Exploring AI Governance challenges and solutions from centralization concerns to data ownership and community empowerment. This episode is sponsored by Cboe DigitalIn this week's episode of "Money Reimagined," – host Michael Casey sits down with MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland to discuss data ownership, data control, crypto, and AI technologies as they reshape the landscape of digital innovation, offering new possibilities and problems concerning security considerations that affect humanity now. Links | Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO Following In-Principle AgreementSriram Krishnan: AI, Crypto and EntrepreneurshipThe Creator Economy, AI and Future of Web3 Professor Alex 'Sandy' PentlandOverview ‹ Data Provenance for AI Overview ‹ The Atlas of Opportunity — MIT Media Lab Overview ‹ Safe Paths — MIT Media Lab From our sponsors:Do you have a trusted partner for your crypto trading? Cboe Digital will introduce financially settled margin futures on Bitcoin and Ether on January 11th, 2024 with physically delivered contracts to follow. Listed and cleared on Cboe's U.S. regulated exchange and clearinghouse, and complemented by a liquid crypto spot market for greater ease and access. We invite you to learn more about this and all applicable risk disclosures at cboedigital.com/coindesk.-Money Reimagined has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “The News Tonight ” by Shimmer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is AI older than you think? Exploring AI Governance challenges and solutions from centralization concerns to data ownership and community empowerment. This episode is sponsored by Cboe DigitalIn this week's episode of "Money Reimagined," – host Michael Casey sits down with MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland to discuss data ownership, data control, crypto, and AI technologies as they reshape the landscape of digital innovation, offering new possibilities and problems concerning security considerations that affect humanity now. Links | Sam Altman to Return as OpenAI CEO Following In-Principle AgreementSriram Krishnan: AI, Crypto and EntrepreneurshipThe Creator Economy, AI and Future of Web3 Professor Alex 'Sandy' PentlandOverview ‹ Data Provenance for AI Overview ‹ The Atlas of Opportunity — MIT Media Lab Overview ‹ Safe Paths — MIT Media Lab From our sponsors:Do you have a trusted partner for your crypto trading? Cboe Digital will introduce financially settled margin futures on Bitcoin and Ether on January 11th, 2024 with physically delivered contracts to follow. Listed and cleared on Cboe's U.S. regulated exchange and clearinghouse, and complemented by a liquid crypto spot market for greater ease and access. We invite you to learn more about this and all applicable risk disclosures at cboedigital.com/coindesk.-Money Reimagined has been produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and our executive producer is Jared Schwartz. Our theme song is “The News Tonight ” by Shimmer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 5: Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Alex (Sandy) Pentland. Sandy is a professor at the MIT Media lab, is on the advisory board for the UN Secretary General, UN Foundation, Consumers Union, and OECD, co-led the World Economic Forum leading to GDPR, and has delivered keynote addresses for OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan. He has co-founded a long list of companies (for example https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2pBQ1Y1RnU4eTVjUzlTc2JPX1JjQ01nbWYtd3xBQ3Jtc0trY1Y3WGxzQ2NMUW50bDJoem5kalN2eTh0b0FIeFQ2OHQwLW1aQUlGSm1yV3ZfRU9mbUV2YTBianE4bUhvdFlFb1ZRSjNOVWdVQkM0THVpM1RhMG0yRjJpRGwySnJ4TTREOHZyZ1p6TUkwNWlRZXZmRQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fcogitocorp.com%2F (https://cogitocorp.com/), https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXgxYWlZd2gxOFkxaS1LQU9UYldVOHBRX1lfd3xBQ3Jtc0ttMUZ5YXlseElVNkl6ZFBKTGhkUjRGY2JMVlJyeG0yVlFYUDlEeFN1M1hZR1ItZUNUUXRKbjBQY0ZNMkZJbEdEZURaa1JXZlhqYUpla2JOemVZZWxCVE5CS2doeEhIM3pLYWxzSmJJUGhhd2RxM193VQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ginger.com%2F (https://www.ginger.com/), and https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazlPMzE5OVRBRmR0bG5qUllzT3dFNm1nVlhaQXxBQ3Jtc0tsdERQWWh2Tm1fZ2VUUW01dTEyREhoeTAxSUl1QlFUTVBGMG4xd0dLbjVRNVdFVEhnMjFCZ2VXNUt6clNhVERHV2tPY2l0MWdFVmtRM05EUWlFaWxCSU4xYkpRTjhZVjlFZ25WSGxUTktyWGVVSzM2VQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.endor.com%2F (https://www.endor.com/)). He is the author of several books, the two discussed in this podcast are Social Physics (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWZTWlFVcW9TU25fZXlvVGdfV2FlY1hrLXluZ3xBQ3Jtc0ttQi1TLUZqX2RIRFRJTVo3Qlk2TUY3OXZkdWg2MlJBMVh3enZpTFBtdUtTb2RBMnlfRFpOODdHTjkyVDZDZFNsR2hjQS1BUXBheG1qdFlmdkZvWFFFUGxBUXhPSmJqaVlCSWFHV0o0OHhET1pOdVBUcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Physics-Spread-Lessons-Science-dp-1594205655%2Fdp%2F1594205655%2Fref%3Dmt_other%3F_encoding%3DUTF8%26me%3D%26qid%3D (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Physics...)) and Building the New Economy (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDVfZF9LYVFTbGxHS3RPajVVaHQyWnBlYU1qd3xBQ3Jtc0ttRGdBUV9SNTBlTTRId3hhREhvWjFiQWMyTW9zUGpHeFRTaHJfclVDSC1oSmdZbnZCT0p6Y0hHaTF6RkdQOUR1dEp4V2ZmTk9VOEZlcFNmcGxvM2V2X1lXX01LLWFOb1ZoS3cwQnNHaHNkNkVibHZRZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBuilding-New-Economy-Data-Capital%2Fdp%2F026254315X (https://www.amazon.com/Building-New-E...)) which was published in October 2021. We did not have enough time to cover in the breadth nor depth necessary to really understand all of his ideas, so I highly encourage you to read his books (social physics is also available as an audiobook), or watch some of his great video content available online, for example: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbm9kbjhwd2N1ZmNQek5CU0I1MG12SXA2RzF2Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuY3JVUGFGUUJ2ZDF4R21oWFVpZzd1dlJhZkUtVHFqdG1NTFI4Q0FCc2ZuaE5HY2NzMDE4aU5DclZNWV9wdTZ0LVJ3RXRENGw3S3h0UlE5UjBOVjhlX194SGZJZkVHVjByZjFOOVAyX3ZaSEQxMlZDUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.media.mit.edu%2Farticles%2Fre-building-the-economy-alex-sandy-pentland-tedxmit%2F (https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/re...) REFERENCE LINKS: Paper discussing social physics as spin glass: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnVibXZKeGVRODBxUFVGWFhNWWVtVWV3UGc1Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuSTlzaUY0RUY1Z3FwOW5wRDgtb3FFa096WmU0RXRuWmxXLUxldFJNZm9kT0djWGFCZFNiNUR1NEk1NXNkd0lua2xzcUFidVBaZVZvclBqN2lzSk9EbVpXd053VVdEYVZSay0tY3drdFlxZXFDUlhMNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1008.1357 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1357) Crowd sourced rare disease website:...

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

Welcome to the second episode of our Measurementality series in partnership with IEEESA! Our topics today are children and sustainability.  We interview Sandy Pentland of MIT and Baroness Beeban Kidron of the 5Rights Foundation.   Focusing on the key goal of our series, "defining what counts in the algorithmic age," guests will discuss issues like data privacy for children, data agency for all, and how metrics like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and other human rights oriented metrics are being utilized in the design of Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS).  

In this episode, we talk with Alex “Sandy" Pentland, who is one of the most cited web scholars at the crossroads of web science, network science, and computational social science. He's a professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, directs the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, and heads MIT's Human Dynamics Group, among other accomplishments. His work has pioneered organizational engineering, wearable computing, modern biometrics, and more. In this conversation, Sandy brings insight to how data is the “new resource.” He talks about issues of data and privacy, as well as why people should have more control over their data. He also discusses what he learned in his study of signals and the mobile web, why wearable devices have a social dimension, and how the web can help respond to COVID-19. And he tells us the power of blockchain as the web evolves from not just a communication medium but also toward a transaction medium. To hear about this or more, listen to this episode! Click here for this episode's transcript, and click here for this episode's show notes.

My Future Business Interview with CHRISTOPHER BISHOP #futurist #jobs #christopherbishop Hi, and welcome to the show! On today's My Future Business Show I have the pleasure of spending time with workplace futurist, TEDx speaker, LinkedIn Learning instructor and former IBMer CHRISTOPHER BISHOP. Christopher writes and speaks at universities and corporate settings about emerging technologies including AI, crypto assets, blockchain, augmented and virtual reality and robotics. He is also a nonlinear, multimodal careerist who has had eight careers so far – including touring rock musician (played with Robert Palmer), jingle producer (sang on the first Kit Kat TV commercial “Gimme A Break”) and Web site project manager (developed Johnson & Johnson's first corporate Web site). Chris also spent 15 years at IBM in a variety of roles including business strategy consultant and communications executive driving social media adoption and the use of virtual worlds for training and events. Based on this atypical career path, Chris developed a program called “How to succeed at jobs that don't exist yet” to give today's learners insight into how to navigate the new world of work. He has shared this perspective at various universities including Baruch, Columbia, Duke, Queens College, Stern School of Business at NYU, Texas A&M and Union College. Chris recently recorded a live-action course for LinkedIn Learning called “Future-proofing your data science career” – which went live in April 2020. In addition, Chris co-authored a white paper last year with MIT Media Lab professor Sandy Pentland titled Blockchain+AI+Human”, describing the business possibilities as well as the powerful socio-cultural implications of connecting AI and blockchain. Here are some of the additional resource links Christopher shared for your use... Course on LinkedIn Learning - "Future proofing your data science career" TEDxTimesSquare talk on "Openness" Web site - https://improvisingcareers.com/ My LinkedIn profile Thought leaders to follow Ravin Jesuthasan - global thought leader, futurist, author - Willis Towers Watson Thomas Malone - MIT Sloan School of Management - professor, author Alain Dehaze - CEO, Adecco Gerd Leonhard - futurist, speaker Books to check out The Future of Work - Thomas Malone MORE - Philip Coggan Rise and Fall of Nations - Ruchir Sharma Other ANTENNA channels BBC Click - a weekly TV show Bloomberg Technology - daily TV show and web site Futurism - web site and app Espresso - daily news from The Economist - app available on the App Store (iOS) or Google Play (Android) This is an amazing content-rich call, filled with fresh perspectives that will get you thinking about how to navigate the future world you live and work in. To access “How to succeed at jobs that don't exist yet”, or to contact Christopher directly, click the link below. Thanks again Christopher, for being my guest on The My Future Business Show! Rick Nuske PS: To get in front of your best audience and stay there, click the book your interview button below. Thanks for joining us on the show today, and if you liked this call, support the show by clicking on our big red YouTube subscribe button below, and share us with your friends. 

The little glowing rectangles we all carry in our pockets can reveal a lot about us. But MIT's artificial intelligence pioneer Sandy Pentland tells us we can learn a lot without revealing any personally identifiable data. We'll learn how to leverage the power of the smartphone for good.   Will Big Data Affect Government Policies? https://ftr.bz/EP02/pod  What our smartphones reveal about our social habits: https://ftr.bz/socialhabits/pod

Esta semana dedicamos Blink a OpenMind, la comunidad de conocimiento de BBVA,  Contamos con Beatriz Rose y Dory Gascueña responsable y editora de esta plataforma, que nos contaron en qué consiste y nos hablaron del último libro publicado “¿Hacia una nueva Ilustración? Una década trascendente”. En el libro participan grandes especialistas, como el físico José Manuel Sánchez Ron, el cosmólogo Martin Rees, expertos en datos y robótica del MIT como Sandy Pentland y Daniela Rus o en inteligencia artificial como Ramón López de Mántaras. Además nos hacemos eco de la celebración del día del libro que tuvo lugar en Ciudad BBVA bajo el paraguas de Openmind: además de entregar ejemplares de los libros publicados, se organizó una donación de libros con la ONG ‘Otro mundo es necesario’, una venta de rosas a beneficio de la fundación Juan XXIII Roncalli y un escaparate de empleados de BBVA que han publicado libros. Todos los capítulos de BBVA Podcast los podrás encontrar en las siguientes plataformas: iVoox, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast y en bbva.com.

We’re taking a short break in Season 2 to bring you to Davos, Switzerland, where Jeff attended the World Economic Forum 2019. During his time in Davos, Jeff had the opportunity to speak at a special event hosted by Sandy Pentland, leader of the MIT Connection Science Lab, on the convergence of human and machine. The event, ‘Blockchain+AI+Human=Magic,’ explored the opportunities presented by the convergence of these technologies - along with the best of humans. Over the next week, we’ll share our conversations with a wide range of thought leaders who attended this MIT event. You can watch Jeff’s talk on the future of tax enterprise solutions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwH5nayK10I  Have a question for Jeff? Find him on Twitter @JeffreySaviano Want to be a guest on the podcast? Reach out to @JenHemmerdinger on Twitter

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

What if you knew that four social signals would improve your ability to win a sale, negotiate salary, bring a team together, been seen as a leader or even get a date? They can. Tune in to hear what the signals are and how they work.

Katz is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and pioneer. She built the first open innovation platform for HP, re-architected the way a UN agency does business and designed a behaviour change platform with Intel that connected mobiles, big screens and data.  She now heads up beep: the Behavioural Empowerment Enterprise Platform. By 2028, beep will improve the life of 500 million employees, add $1 trillion to the global economy and support 20% of positive impact towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. beep is in raising a seed round now and is EIS pre-approved.  A visible voice in the digital transformation, innovation and behaviour change arena, she keynotes at global conferences including TED, SXSW and the Chief Strategy Officer Summit.  She believes doing good is good business and is a proud ambassador for the Burning Man Foundation.  Highlights of this episode include: * How to get large companies to be less rubbish at innovation * What does it mean to do digital transformation? * How to create transformational change in large organisations? * Key takeaways from working with the UN and connecting 6.5k leaders to 10k students * Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on social physics * Dan Ariely and behaviour change * What is The Burning Man? * How to implement large scale change toward SDGs * Global Sustainability Network tackling modern slavery * How BEEP works Useful Links: We Are Beep - [https://wearebeep.com/](https://wearebeep.com/) Dan Ariely - [http://danariely.com/](http://danariely.com/) Alex 'Sandy' Pentland - [https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sandy/overview/](https://www.media.mit.edu/people/sandy/overview/) Burning Man - [https://burningman.org/](https://burningman.org/) Global Sustainability Network - [http://gsngoal8.com/](http://gsngoal8.com/) Chapters: [01:00] What is Katz background? [01:45] Creating the first open innovation competition for HP in 2003 [05:00] Working with the UN [04:00] Intrapreneur change agents  [06:30] Lessons from changing the UN [10:22] How to create change in large organisations [13:00] Importance of ownership and making people care [13:00] Sandy Pentland and social physics experiments 300x altruism [14:50] Dan Ariely’s predictably irrational  [15:40] 80% Failed transformation projects costing us $11Trillion every year [18:18] What is Burning Man [21:42] How to help large organisation [26:21] Tools for organisations to be empowered [30:53] Global Sustainability Network solving SDG 8.7 to end modern slavery [33:32] Reaching out to enlightened CEOs Connect with JP Dallmann on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/JPDallmann), or [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/). How to incorporate SDGs into your business - [Fast Forward 2030](http://fastforward2030.com/) Find talent and careers with impact - [Realchangers](https://www.realchangers.com/) Impact Leaders is produced and published by Woon Tan of [Podcast Publishing](http://podcastpublishing.help/)

Professor Sandy Pentland is the modern pioneer of what's called ‘Social Physics' - the analysis of human interactions using so called Big Data. Mining data - from credit cards, electronic ticketing and mobile phones - we can now take a reading of the city, its pulse. Sandy Pentland tells us why some cities are richer and more successful than others. Presented by David Edmonds (Image: Busy city scene at night, Credit: Getty Images)

Matt Lynch joins Sustainable Nation to discuss: Sustainability programs and initiatives at the University of Hawaii Hawaii's ambitious renewable energy future and UH's contributions Reimagining organizational design for sustainability The Hawaii Sustainability in Higher Education Summit Recommendations and advice for sustainability leaders Matt's Final Five responses:   What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I'll give the same advice that my grandma gave me: you have two ears and one mouth for a reason. I would say cultivate and practice the skill-set of active listening, and then related to that is go seek out a mentor that can help you with dynamic group process and the skill-set of developing a group design, processes that can facilitate productive meetings. I think if I was to boil down the job description of sustainability professionals, one of the, the minimum qualifications would be something along the lines of the ability to design an agenda that does not result in death by meeting. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability and regenerative development? I really think that this emergent, I don't know what to call it, I don't know if it's a practice or a lexicon, but there's this sense that we're getting from the field - the leading edge of practitioners are all talking about the need to look at, reimagine our sort of organizational design and the ways that we navigate these organizations. So I've heard different language for it. I think Leith Sharp and her group are using the term "Flow State Organizations;" they've connected with Janine Benyus who is focused on the biomimicry world, and are now coming up with additional terms. Locally, I've heard it referred to as a "network based organization," and I think that this tinkering with our human operating systems is by far the most exciting thing, another exciting piece in the field of sustainability right now. What is one book you'd recommend sustainability professionals read? Hard to go with one. I'm going to say Social Physics, a book by Sandy Pentland who is a mathematician using big data to study behavioral science at MIT. It's really transformed my understanding of how we make decisions individually and as a group. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really helped you in the work that you do? This is specific to higher ed, but there's a great green schools list that has been in existence for over 10 years, you know when emails lists were a thing, and this has survived because of its utility - and outside of Higher Ed, I've actually have been a long time subscriber to a newsletter called Thoughts from the Frontline and it's published by a hardcore republican hedge fund analyst. I find his financial and geopolitical analysis to be fascinating. He called the mortgage market meltdown. It is not that norm of what a sustainability professional might be paying attention to. So it gives me this completely alternative viewpoint that I can bring back into this practice and I continue to find that a really valuable resource. Finally, where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work that you're doing at UH? In our sustainability website is http://www.hawaii.edu/sustainability/and we're starting to focus on developing a larger social media presence as well so you can find us there well.

Governments around the world are increasingly turning to advanced technologies, big data sets, and analytic tools to improve their decisions. Blockchain is just one advanced technology that is assisting governments with identity verification and fraud prevention. EY Global Tax Innovation Leader Jeff Saviano and Sandy Pentland, the MIT Toshiba professor and one of the most cited scientists in the world, discuss government advanced technology adoption trends.

Dr. Ben Waber is the CEO and co-founder of Humanyze. He is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab, previously worked as a senior researcher at Harvard Business School, and received his Ph.D. from MIT for his work with Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human Dynamics group. Waber’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as Wired, The Economist, and NPR. He has consulted for industry leaders such as LG, McKinsey & Company, and Gartner on technology trends, social networks, and organizational design. His book, People Analytics, was published by the Financial Times Press in 2013.

ALEX "SANDY" PENTLAND is a professor at MIT, and director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs. He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General. He is the author of Social Physics, and Honest Signal. The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/alexsandypentland-the-human-strategy

Steve Holyer shares why he works as Product Owner coach (amongst other things) and the importance of allowing teams to find how they best have fun together. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com for information on our training, coaching and consultancy services A short description of "Agile" and why Steve coaches Scrum Product Owners. The ever-changing role of the Product Owner. Working with distributed agile teams and what happens when they start to play hard during retrospectives. How retrospectives help teams work better together. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen. https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Retrospectives-Making-Teams-Great/dp/0977616649/ Working collocated and working distributed. When retrospectives get hacked. Finding out what "fun at work" means for your team and working within that. Pilar mentions "The Science of Great Teams", a study by Sandy Pentland. How this playful team continues to work together. www.coachingcocktails.com Creating a live community meet-up online, using Zoom. The virtual fish bowl. Pilar mentions another recent episode from this podcast with Paul Thoresen. Twitter @zurcherart www.pobydesign.com

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from tiny white Lego.   Sandy Pentland built them. These dioramas use all sorts of data, from foot traffic to investment dollars to tweets, so cities--and the people living in them--can be improved in ways they’ve never been before. A few doors down is Rosalind Picard’s office. She met a young man who just could not tell if his boss was happy or furious. And it kept getting him fired. He was on his 20th job. So she built him a glasses-mounted camera that reads facial expressions, matching what it sees against a huge database of faces. Problem solved. That’s the promise of big data. It can smooth social interactions. Solve sticky municipal problems. Cure cancer, slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us. This week, as we get ready for our big project on privacy, Note to Self looks at the good that can come from all the data we share. IF people are good, and make good choices. Except we’re often not good. And we make bad choices. So, what then? Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from tiny white Lego.   Sandy Pentland built them. These dioramas use all sorts of data, from foot traffic to investment dollars to tweets, so cities--and the people living in them--can be improved in ways they’ve never been before. A few doors down is Rosalind Picard’s office. She met a young man who just could not tell if his boss was happy or furious. And it kept getting him fired. He was on his 20th job. So she built him a glasses-mounted camera that reads facial expressions, matching what it sees against a huge database of faces. Problem solved. That’s the promise of big data. It can smooth social interactions. Solve sticky municipal problems. Cure cancer, slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us. This week, as we get ready for our big project on privacy, Note to Self looks at the good that can come from all the data we share. IF people are good, and make good choices. Except we’re often not good. And we make bad choices. So, what then? Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from tiny white Lego.   Sandy Pentland built them. These dioramas use all sorts of data, from foot traffic to investment dollars to tweets, so cities--and the people living in them--can be improved in ways they’ve never been before. A few doors down is Rosalind Picard’s office. She met a young man who just could not tell if his boss was happy or furious. And it kept getting him fired. He was on his 20th job. So she built him a glasses-mounted camera that reads facial expressions, matching what it sees against a huge database of faces. Problem solved. That’s the promise of big data. It can smooth social interactions. Solve sticky municipal problems. Cure cancer, slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us. This week, as we get ready for our big project on privacy, Note to Self looks at the good that can come from all the data we share. IF people are good, and make good choices. Except we’re often not good. And we make bad choices. So, what then? Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from tiny white Lego.   Sandy Pentland built them. These dioramas use all sorts of data, from foot traffic to investment dollars to tweets, so cities--and the people living in them--can be improved in ways they’ve never been before. A few doors down is Rosalind Picard’s office. She met a young man who just could not tell if his boss was happy or furious. And it kept getting him fired. He was on his 20th job. So she built him a glasses-mounted camera that reads facial expressions, matching what it sees against a huge database of faces. Problem solved. That’s the promise of big data. It can smooth social interactions. Solve sticky municipal problems. Cure cancer, slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us. This week, as we get ready for our big project on privacy, Note to Self looks at the good that can come from all the data we share. IF people are good, and make good choices. Except we’re often not good. And we make bad choices. So, what then? Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

In a room at The MIT Media Lab, you can find the dreamscape of small children everywhere. Giant cities, in perfect detail, constructed entirely from tiny white Lego.   Sandy Pentland built them. These dioramas use all sorts of data, from foot traffic to investment dollars to tweets, so cities--and the people living in them--can be improved in ways they’ve never been before. A few doors down is Rosalind Picard’s office. She met a young man who just could not tell if his boss was happy or furious. And it kept getting him fired. He was on his 20th job. So she built him a glasses-mounted camera that reads facial expressions, matching what it sees against a huge database of faces. Problem solved. That’s the promise of big data. It can smooth social interactions. Solve sticky municipal problems. Cure cancer, slow climate change. But the data has to come from somewhere. And that somewhere is us. This week, as we get ready for our big project on privacy, Note to Self looks at the good that can come from all the data we share. IF people are good, and make good choices. Except we’re often not good. And we make bad choices. So, what then? Support Note to Self by becoming a member today at NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.    

For Alex “Sandy” Pentland, one of the best-known and widely cited computational social scientists in the world, these are halcyon days for his field.  One of the creators of the MIT Media Lab and currently the director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs, Pentland studies ‘social physics,’ which takes a data-centric view of culture and society. In this Social Science Bites podcast, he tells interviewer Dave Edmonds about the origins of social physics in the barren days before the advent of widespread good data and solid statistical methods and how it blossomed as both a field and for Pentland’s own research. Now, with both plentiful data and very sophisticated statistics, “we can revisit this vision of understanding society, understanding culture, as an alive, evolving animal using these modern techniques.” The key change, he explains, has been in the amount and the diversity of data -- even if that’s a scary thought from a privacy point of view, “But from a social science point of view it’s Nirvana. For the very first time you can look at complicated, real-time continuous interaction of many different groups carrying out real activities.” Pentland’s own experimental trajectory reflects those advances, with his early work mediated as much by what was lacking (a good way to deal statistically with language) as what was at hand. This led him to study how much of an individual’s behavior was due to older, pre-language signaling and how much due to more modern linguistic structure. But with time and computational advances, his work ramped up to study how groups of people interact, even up to the scale of a city. That in turn created some fascinating and widely cited insights, such as the more diverse a city’s social ties the more successful, i.e. rich, e city will be. Some of the methodology involved in doing computational social science is also explored in the podcast, as Pentland describes giving an entire community new mobile phones as one part of the data-gathering process (with privacy protecting institutional controls, he notes) even as “we pestered them with a million questionnaires of standard social science things” during the same study period. Pentland is well-known in both the public and private spheres as a leading big data researcher, with Forbes recently dubbing him one of the "seven most powerful data scientists in the world." In addition to his work at MIT, he chairs the World Economic Forum’s Data Driven Development council and has co-founded more than a dozen data-centered companies such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance and the Institute for Data Driven Design. Among his disparate honors are as a 2012 best-article award from the Harvard Business Review,  winning the DARPA Network Challenge run as a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the internet, and being honored for his work on privacy by the group Patient Privacy Rights.

In today's episode, Pilar looks at the components of Emotional Intelligence, she covers three phenomena we see in the workplace related to emotions and she introduces the emotional capabilities of high-performing teams. A little bit of history. Some of you might remember Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence hitting the bookshelves in 1996. What a revelation – how we navigate the emotional aspect of life is just as important as how we use our intellect.The book was followed by Working with Emotional Intelligence, as well as Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, co authored with Richard Boyazis. If you are interested in the subject, might want to check out one of those. I’ve dipped in and out of them. One of the reasons I thought I’d share my thoughts about this topic here is that just the term itself, just the fact that it has made our way into our vocabulary of desirable professional competencies, means that we acknowledge that we all have emotions, and that it’s how we operate with them that allows to work better or worse. (Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts)  Long gone are the days when we were expected to leave our emotions out of the office door (or computer, if you are working away from your colleagues) – we are humans, let’s celebrate that.   I’ve been struggling with how to tackle this topic – defining emotional intelligence is all very well, but how does it help us? And how does it help us as managers and how does it help us to create the best conditions in which a team can operate, which, for me, is at the heart of 21st Century management. So I’ve decided to structure my thoughts in three parts: The components that make up emotional intelligence, or EI, then a couple of terms that I’ve come across over the years – sometimes it’s nice to have names for those elusive things that surround emotions – and finally, I’ll share some research on self-managed, outstanding teams, which shows some of what we might want to look out for, encourage, facilitate and even role-model. A little bit of a definition of emotional intelligence, as defined by Daniel Goleman (The term Emotional Intelligence was actually first used in 1989 by two American academic psychologists: John D Mayer and Peter Salovey.) but I’m going to stick with Goleman as he’s more palatable, this is a coffee break podcast after all, emotional intelligence is the cluster of skills that allow us to understand and regulate our own emotions and those of others.     Let’s start with the four components of of EI then.   Self-awareness This is the basis of all leadership practice and indeed, the basis of all successful human interaction.   I imagine you can see how in all human interactions it’s desirable to be aware of how we’re feeling and of how we’re coming across. But let’s go a bit further.   It’s not just about seeing or feeling that an emotion is brewing up (and it could be happiness, I have a feeling that when we talk about emotions at work we’re always looking at those that might get in the way – joy, excitement, they’re also emotions…   So, acknowledging the emotional aspect of communication is something key in our interaction with others; understanding where they might be coming from is the next step.   If you really want to know yourself, understanding where emotions come from can be uncomfortable. I’m not even thinking of going into some deep analysis (although you can do that, of course) but it’s thinking “Hey, doing this is making me really happy” or “Mmm having coffee with that person has left me inspired” or “You know what, that conversation made me really angry, probably because…” Fill in the blanks. When we’re leading a team or a project, it’s tempting to design a process or to shape the group’s process to suit our own tendencies. You might decide to continue running weekly meetings because it makes you feel connected to the team or it makes you feel in control. However, maybe what the team needs at the moment is daily progress reports on tasks, short bursts of information that are best shared online. Or maybe the project requires people working from different locations and actually, a weekly meeting is too unproductive. Revise your current processes to see who you’re serving: the task? The project? The team? Or yourself? Are you actually designing a team process that suits your individual emotional needs? That was self-awareness.   It’s also worth looking at this with your team – are you serving an emotional collective need with your processes or are you best serving the project or task? I suppose we can then move onto: Self-Management – this is a natural progression and I don’t really think we can move onto self-management without having addressed Self-Awareness. Makes sense – you can’t manage what you’re not aware of. Self-management is not just about managing your emotions, it’s also about keeping yourself in check, acting with integrity, staying adaptable – making sure that you don’t get in the way of your own opportunities or that you don’t get in the way of others. (As an aside, any time I start talking about management, I want to ditch everything I’ve ever thought, said and written and replace it with Just get out of the way… But that would be a very short podcast – and a very short career as a consultant…) So, if we strive to have healthy levels of EI, we need self-awareness and we need self-management. Now let’s start looking outwards. Another component of EI is social awareness and that includes empathy. This is not easy and it’s where management meets anthropology meets psychology. (And it’s why if you don’t like people or are not curious about their behaviour you really should delegate all people management responsibilities to someone else…) Empathy is really about standing in someone else’s shoes. It’s about understanding where they are coming from – and this builds up with time. Sometimes we think we understand someone because we have been in a similar situation – but then, are we just reflecting on how WE felt or are we really understanding how they’re dealing with it? This social awareness is key to understand what’s going on in your team, in your organisation and with your customers – and it takes time to develop. Curiosity and asking questions before assuming you know the answers will help… (Small ad here, check out episode 2 from this podcast, on Creating a Coaching Culture). And from social awareness, we can move onto relationship management, which is essential if you are running a team. And if you are not great at it, if you’re not great at bringing people together, instigating change or collaborating, then make sure somebody in your team is – I never said we can all do everything… and yet, in a moment, I’ll share with you what successful teams do to see whether there is anything you can tap into, even if your own natural tendency is not to facilitate teamwork.   So, emotional intelligence is composed of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management.   Now, I promised I’d introduce some terms here, which are just worth noting. And it will be interesting to see whether, now that you’ve come across them, whether you can identify some of these phenomena in the workplace.   The first is Emotional Contagion – and this is, exactly what is says on the tin. The ability of emotions to go from one person to the other, for emotions to be contagious – which is why it’s so important to be self-aware and to then self-manage. Don’t underestimate how these emotions can spread not just in person, but also through video and even through writing. If you want a little bit more psychology about the reasons behind emotional contagion, check out episode from 23 June 2016 in the Two Guys in Your Head   podcast.   In a nutshell, we have been designed to try to understand what people are feeling. So, when we’re with someone else, we absorb slightly another person’s emotions, to see whether we can understand what we’re feeling. It’s like putting on someone else’s shoes and then walking in them, to give us a sense of what they feel. And of course, as we absorb the emotion, we start to embody it. And this is the theory behind emotional contagion.   So you can see how we might not realise that we are in a terrible mood and then we come into contact with others and bang, the mood spreads. Soon, nobody in our team wants to talk to each other – or the other way round, we might be lucky and our happiness can spread everywhere!   But, this doesn’t mean that we supress our emotions or that we constantly have to check what emotions we’re displaying, because that can lead to, get ready for another term. Emotional labor. This is basically the psychological effort of holding back one’s emotions at work or of displaying emotions we don’t really feel. Maybe when something makes us very upset, or when we try and help someone out of a terrible mood by saying things that, well, we might not really feel but that we think can help that person out of the pits. And finally, one other term: emotional dissonance. This occurs when we are constantly having to display an emotion when we feel another one – when the waitress smiles at you even though she’s feeling terrible; when you have to contain your frustration when a client send you yet another last minute request and reply to them, yes, of course, what a great idea. Or even, when we are really happy because we’ve just got promoted while the rest of the team has just found out they have to go back to square one in their design process.   What should we do if we come across any of these in ourselves? Full disclaimer here, this is just my opinion and I’m not a trained psychologist, but if you are experiencing any of this, first, acknowledge it, then dissect it, why is it happening? Is it necessary? Then come up with some strategies that might help you – either talking to someone in or out of work; writing down your experiences or reminding yourself that you are human - I find this kind of dissection of negative emotional experiences often helps… Right, finally I’d like to share with you some emotional competencies of high performing teams, as identified by Vanessa Drukat where she analysed 150 teams at a huge American polyester plant and then compared the ten outstanding teams with others doing the same job.   Now these were self-managed teams, which means that we’re not taking into account the effectiveness of a manager or official leader. While I’m not saying that management as a profession should disappear – if I were, I would have titled this podcast differently – I do think that the main responsibility of a manager is to create or help create or remove barriers to an environment that will help people do their best work. So, in looking at the characteristics of self-managed teams, we can begin to understand what contributes to healthy team emotion.   What Drukat found was the following. These teams showed the following emotional competencies: and I’m going to quote directly from Goleman’s Working with Emotional Intelligence - Empathy or interpersonal understanding Cooperation and a unified effort Open communication, setting explicit norms and expectations and confronting underperforming team members A drive to improve, so that the team paid attention to performance feedback and sought to learn to do better Self-awareness in the form of evaluating their strengths and weaknesses as a team Initiative and taking a proactive stance toward solving problems Self-confidence as a team Flexibility in how they went about their collective tasks Organisational awareness Building bonds with other teams   Before we continue, just to say that the teams didn’t show ALL of these, but a combination of some. And with relation to the last two points, Organisational awareness and building bonds with other teams, remember the more recent research by Sandy Pentland into high performance teams, in the first episode of this podcast? One of the characteristics was that they often came into contact with members from other teams.     Some of these competencies are very difficult to nurture and all of them need plenty of time and patience. But for example, take “Initiative and taking a proactive stance toward solving problems” – what can you as a manager do to encourage this? Or take Flexibility in how they went about their collective tasks – what are the barriers to this? How about Self-awareness in the form of evaluating their strengths and weaknesses as a team – what processes can you suggest that will help to do this?   If your team is not located in the office, then you must absolutely review your communication processes to see whether there is anything that you need to start thinking about. Look specifically for examples where you can find empathy or lack of amongst team members (and yourself!) and have a look at how open communication is affecting team norms. (I’m assuming you have open communication because virtual teams, ironically, tend to have more open communication as it’s the best way of staying aligned…) So, my management challenge over today’s cup of coffee is for you to have a look at this list and think about how your team measures against them. Or better still, why not share this with your team in your next team strategy meeting? (What, you don’t hold them…) Have a look at the list, see how you compare and then pick a couple of items and see whether there is anything you can do to nurture those competencies in the team. Or maybe even just observe your team over the next few weeks and then go back to the list.   Following on from today’s theme, why not have a look at Daniel Goleman’s Focus , the hidden driver of excellence (don’t you just love this subtitles…) There he goes deeper into why self-awareness matters, he of course taps into plenty of science and he covers other essential skills such as developing empathy and social sensitivity. Aren’t those two wonderful phrases to leave you with today?

This is Commonplace, an audio journal for inquisitive minds. Taking after the historical practice of keeping a "commonplace book," I am seeking to promote the flow of important ideas and lessons that I gather in my personal studies and conversations. Pentland, Social PhysicsCreativity is a romantic notion. Many people think of it as an elusive inspiration. Writers wait for the moment when a muse might speak to them, sending a new idea out of the ether. I believe we can de-mystify creativity; it is much more mundane than that. Sandy Pentland shares an oft-referenced quotation from Steve Jobs: // Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty, because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. (George Beahm, ed. I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, 2011; quoted in Alex Pentland, Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science, 26) // Humans don't create ex nihilo. Everyone must work with building materials. We gather them through personal experience, reading, and listening to others. From that milieu our subconscious begins to work. I lack hard scientific evidence for this, but I believe our brains are "connection machines." They naturally search for patterns and order in the raw data they receive. We don't need to follow Kant to recognize there's something to this. If that's true, then we can jumpstart creativity through exploration. Study different fields. Study different thinkers and traditions. Compare and contrast. Look for connections. Interact with many other creative people. Start your own salon or informal symposium, especially with those espousing diverse views. Gather together to hash out ideas. The more exposure you have to different ideas and so-called problems, the more grist you provide for your creativity mill.

Smart home company, Nest has launched Nest Cam, its new security camera (you can read the details of the product here). Nora Young and Cathi Bond talk use cases, smart homes, and riff on the Internet of Things and our data future. Nora mentions Sandy Pentland and the New Deal on Data (read more here) and concerns about security in smart, internet of things-ified cities. Cathi talks about Avakai, a super cool 'smart' toy. It keeps the physicality of traditional toys that get kids playing in nature and using their imaginations, but is also built for our internet connected, modern world.  

Today the focus is on teams – more specifically on communication in teams. My coffee with Lisette focuses on virtual teams and the things you can do to tune in to each other and keep the conversation going. 00:30 Introduction and the opportunity to change the way we work.06:00 Sandy Pentland and team's research into High Performing Teams 16:12 Virtual Coffee with Lisette - Tune-in your virtual team Enjoy! For extensive show notes visit www.wlpodcast.comPilar Orti blogs at www.virtualteamleadership.co.uk

Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, on how big data is revealing the science behind how we work together, based on his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread."