Podcasts about Signal fire

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how the real wound in our lives, is waiting for an apology from our childhood that cannot, and will never come.

Tyler Knott Gregson dives into online experts, algorithms, and outsourcing ourselves. What happens when we no longer trust ourselves?

Jimmy connects with June Russell (Director, Glynwood Grains and Staples program), Brigid Meints (Barley Breeder at Oregon State University), and Lane Selman ( Professor of Practice at Oregon State University, Founder of the Culinary Breeding Network). The crew come together to discuss the Naked Barley Project, the Variety Showcase, regional grains, barley's place in history, Mendelian genetics, and much more!Further information about the Variety Showcase:Variety ShowcaseAugust 30th , 2026at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and FarmingCold Spring, New York3-7pmPURPOSEThis public event is designed to build community among plant breeders, seed growers, farmers, chefs, bakers, distillers, retailers, and consumers interested in the local food system. Attendees have the unique experience to taste new and in-development vegetable, fruit, and grain cultivars. We will engage in conversation, share opinions, and take part in breaking down the walls between eaters and breeders. More about VSPlant breeders and researchers from our various research projects from across the country, (mostly university plant research and breeding programs such as Cornell, U. Vermont, U. Wisconsin) will have tables featuring different kinds of wheat, barley, rye, buckwheat, oats, corn, beans etc. Many of our baker partners will be there, such as Signal Fire, Brooklyn Granary & Mill, Mel the Bakery and She Wolf. There will also be all kinds of vegetables such as radicchio, peppers, tomatoes and something called greasy beans! Everything featured is a research or new to market variety bred for flavor or other culinary qualities. Other names that may be familiar to folks who will be here, Alex Raij, Evan Hanczor, Mona Talbot, Mike Anthony, Suzy Cupps and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses 30 years of being a photographer, the lessons he's learned, and the number one that stands out the most: Everyone just gets more beautiful.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the long arc of a personal project, and how it's the project itself, not the end result, that defines you.

Tyler Knott Gregson writes his own Declaration of Independence, in the language of the original.

State Farm recently made headlines by flying thousands of its agents to Las Vegas for what turned out to be a dramatic announcement. Behind the Pink concert and Jimmy Fallon selfies, CEO quietly told 19,000 agents he was tearing up their contracts. Anyone staying past 2027 would face lower commissions, lost deferred compensation, and eliminated health benefits. The move signals a massive shift in how one of America’s most storied insurance companies sees its future, and it raises serious questions about what happens when a legacy distribution model collides head-on with a technology-driven competitor. This is just one of the topics that Pirates Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon and Bri Clark discuss on this episode of Pirate Street Journal. Each week, the Category Pirates pick three headlines worth paying attention to and break down the category underneath. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go.   State Farm Built an Empire on Agents, Now It’s Cutting Them State Farm is a 104-year-old company built by one Illinois farmer and a network that grew to serve towns too small for anyone else to bother with. That agent network was the moat, the community trust, and the competitive advantage all rolled into one. For decades, agents generated millions in gross revenue through a subscription-like model where selling a homeowner’s policy meant locking in years of recurring premiums. This year, Progressive took the personal auto crown that State Farm had held since World War Two. Progressive sells more than half its auto policies direct, with no agent, powered by AI. State Farm’s response was to bolt an AI initiative onto the same announcement that gutted its agent program, which is a move that many see as too little, too late.   The Real Opportunity State Farm Is Missing Not all agents are created equal, and this is where State Farm’s leadership may be making its biggest error. There are proactive agents who see disruption as opportunity and reactive ones who are already a cost liability. The CEO’s sweeping contract changes treat both groups the same, when the smarter play would be identifying and doubling down on the proactive agents who are the true super consumers of the agent ecosystem. The same logic applies to policy holders. Insurance is a category that can be Money-balled. Some consumers genuinely love insurance, actively seek coverage, and represent enormous lifetime value. Cutting costs to chase switchers who only care about price is a race to the bottom. State Farm should instead be finding ways to use AI to make its best agents more effective and its best customers more loyal, not abandoning the human relationships that made it dominant in the first place.   The Jevons Paradox and What It Means for State Farm A critical lesson from the technology world applies directly to what State Farm is navigating. When AI began generating code, experts predicted the end of software engineering jobs. New data from Signal Fire, which tracked millions of employees across 80 million companies, shows engineers now represent 55% of all new hires at the biggest tech companies, up from 46% in 2019. AI did not kill the job. It made people who do the job more valuable. The same principle could apply to insurance agents. AI handling the routine, administrative, and analytical parts of an agent’s work should free those agents to do what humans do best, which is build trust. Humans love humans, and in a category as personal as insurance, that truth matters enormously. State Farm’s leadership would be wise to remember that the agent on Main Street is not just a cost line. That agent is often the only reason a customer stayed loyal through decades of competing offers. To hear about the other topics in this week’s The Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter.   We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Tolkein, Middle Earth, Lord of the Rings, and what we're losing in this world of ours.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Summer Solstice, and how what we save can end up saving us in the end. The light, the love, the positivity we need to survive Winter.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses why in a world designed to reward distance, the coolest thing you can do is simple...Care.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Buddhism and how much his life changed when he stopped killing things, any things, and placing any life below his own.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses empathy and how it's not having the memory of that shared pain, it's the imagination when you don't.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses The Neverending Story, and how it lands different as an adult, and shows how the true villain in this world is the emptiness of a life without imagination.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Inner Nature, and how it's so much better to honor yours, to be alive in the mud, than aiming at some palace, all wrapped in silk, but dead on the inside.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how the Golden Rule meant well, but fell short, because it assumes sameness. Dive in.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how negativity is hard-wired to perform better and spread further than positivity and dares to ask: What if we're NOT all bad?

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Time, and how it's the only thing we cannot get more of. How we should treasure our aging, our bodies, our short time with those we love.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks about how if you hear hoofbeats, you should think horses, not zebras. How we humans always imagine the worst, when it so rarely is.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how we can all stop subsidizing the behaviors we no longer want to endure, how we can stop watering our weeds.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Pride, and how it's rapidly become a status symbol. How the rich don't close their curtains, an article from The Atlantic.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Muses, and how they not only shape our art, they shape our entire soul.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the myth of Perfection, and how quantity, while demonized, can actually create the best quality.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Vanilla Sky, and how a single line helped re-arrange his entire life.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses travel, and how 16 years of constant motion has taught him so much about how he wishes to travel going forward. Slower is better.

In Defense of Shame. Tyler Knott Gregson discusses shame, both healthy and unhealthy, and how he thinks healthy shame is disappearing with negative consequences.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses grief, and sorrow, and the importance of your presence, not your perfection, when someone is hurting.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the entitlement of assuming that happiness is owed to us all, and not something to be built on our own.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses verdigris, and about the stunning beauty in creating art with colors, with tools, that are never meant to last.

Tyler Knott Gregson interviews The Word Witch, Kate Belew, for an amazing conversation about life, poetry, magic, witchcraft, intention, and more.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks about Lemony Snicket and the wisdom in not waiting to be ready to live your life, but living it now, anyway.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses smartphones, social media, and the true curse that they have uncovered: Entitlement.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks about mental health, and the film Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Tyler Knott Gregson kicks off the new year speaking about loss, grief, and how to be prepared to go forward anyway, no matter what comes.

As we tip into New Years Eve and a new year beginning, Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the weight of all we will, and should, leave unfinished. We must let go to move forward.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Winter Solstice, and how we can use this to find grace in what we are, what we were, what we wish to be, in all that fading light.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks of the quiet abuse that comes from conditional love, and how dangerous it is to be loved, or to love, this way.

Tyler Knott Gregson proclaims that The Goonies might be the most perfect film ever made. And backs it up. Goonies NEVER SAY DIE!

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses his Autism, and how he has 400 people living within him, all are him, all are not, and the beautiful noise this makes.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how others always wish our grieving to end, how they wish us to let it go, how they wish us to find gratitude for what remains, when we've lost what we lost.

Tyler Knott Gregson dives into loss, and how the biggest lesson he learned from the loss of his friend was simple: Be NOT Forgettable. Be you, be memorable, be unique.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses a life well lived, and all the things we trade for money. Most, we probably shouldn't.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses his weird Autistic language, Knottish, that he has created for himself, and those he loves.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses Autistic life advice, and how sometimes you learn lessons in bizarre places: This time, from YouTubers.

Tyler Knott Gregson jumps into part 2 of the interview with his wife, about what it feels like, and truly IS, to love someone on the Autism Spectrum.

Tyler Knott Gregson interviews his wife, Sarah Linden Gregson, about what it's like to TRULY love someone on the Autism Spectrum. Part 1 of 2.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses our shrinking social circles as we age, and how that is entirely ok. We are built to have our social circles shrink and tighten, whilst the depth increases. This is ok.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks about the sacred art of silliness, and how we take ourselves far too seriously, far too often.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses how all great religions could, and SHOULD, be reduced down to only their 3 simplest beliefs.

Tyler Knott Gregson talks about love, and how it doesn't always begin like they show in movies, that it doesn't always start with grand romantic things, sometimes it begins in whispers, in tiny moments.

Tyler Knott Gregson discusses the consequences of 15 years of nearly constant travel, and how all things begin to blend and feel unreal.