Podcasts about User experience

Welcome to Nerd Alert, a series of special episodes bridging the gap between marketing academia and practitioners. We're breaking down highly involved, complex research into plain language and takeaways any marketer can use.In this episode, Elena and Rob reveal how perceived brand simplicity creates higher consumer expectations that backfire when failures occur. They explore why simple brands face harsher judgment than complex ones when things go wrong.Topics covered: [01:00] "Keep It Simple: Consumer Perceptions of Brand Simplicity and Risk"[02:00] Simplicity versus vagueness in marketing[03:00] How simple brands create lower risk perceptions[04:00] YouTube TV's confusing interface betrays simple expectations[05:00] Mental simplicity equals fewer moving parts[06:00] The white couch analogy for brand disappointment  To learn more, visit marketingarchitects.com/podcast or join our newsletter at marketingarchitects.com/newsletter. Resources: Light, N., & Fernbach, P. M. (2024). Keep it simple? Consumer perceptions of brand simplicity and risk. Journal of Marketing Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222437241248413 Get more research-backed marketing strategies by subscribing to The Marketing Architects on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 

In this episode of The Cookbook, host Iris Goldfeder welcomes Julie Lord, president of FRC Global and Alltherm, to discuss her journey in the steel industry, the importance of women in leadership, and the evolution of empathy in business. They explore the challenges and triumphs of being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated field, the significance of authenticity in leadership, and the value of creating community and connection. Julie shares her entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing the importance of self-discovery and resilience. The conversation also touches on mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and the power of leading with empathy. Chapters 00:01 Welcome to The Cookbook 02:52 Life Journeys and Transitions 05:55 Finding Your Voice and Standing Out 08:40 Brand Strategy and Business Alignment 11:33 The Importance of Company Culture 14:33 Navigating Client Relationships 17:26 The Challenges of Entrepreneurship 20:10 The Debate on Rebranding 23:12 Cultural Adaptation in Business 26:11 User Experience and Brand Positioning 28:55 Niche Marketing and Differentiation 31:58 Closing Thoughts and What Lights Your Fire

In this episode, Pete and Tyler discuss the success of a local news publisher who has implemented a new subscription model through the Paywall Project. This episode covers the publisher's initial challenges, the transition to a more effective paywall strategy, and the significant growth in email list and revenue.

Tanja Heyken ist zu Gast bei Dominique, um gemeinsam auf das Thema „Designprinzipien“ zu schauen und was diese im Alltag von Produktteams tatsächlich bewirken können. Tanja bringt ihre doppelte Perspektive als UX-Professional und Product Owner mit, die sie bei Checkmk täglich lebt. Ihr Ziel ist es Entscheidungsprozesse zu vereinfachen, Konsistenz schaffen und die User Experience verbessern, ohne dafür jedes Mal von vorne zu diskutieren. Designprinzipien versteht sie dabei als konkrete, nutzerzentrierte Leitplanken. Sie helfen Teams, bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen – auch dann, wenn gerade niemand aus UX oder Product dabei ist. Die wichtige Grundlage dafür sind Daten: Wer mit Designprinzipien arbeiten möchte, sollte die Perspektive der Nutzer:innen ernst nehmen. Tanja empfiehlt den UEQ+ als kompaktes Instrument, um herauszufinden, welche Eigenschaften den Nutzenden wichtig sind und wie das Produkt aktuell wahrgenommen wird. Daraus lassen sich Designprinzipien ableiten, die zur Realität der Nutzer:innen passen, nicht nur zu den Annahmen im Team. Doch wie kommt man von ersten Erkenntnissen zu Prinzipien, die im Alltag wirklich nützlich sind? Für Tanja beginnt alles mit einem interdisziplinären Workshop. Entscheidend sind UX, Product, Entwicklung, Support, Sales; also möglichst viele Sichtweisen an einen Tisch holen, um gemeinsames Verständnis zu schaffen. Ziel ist nicht die perfekte Formulierung im ersten Anlauf, sondern die Entwicklung von sogenannten Proto-Prinzipien, die sich dann im Team schrittweise verfeinern und gegen reale Entscheidungen testen lassen. Dieser iterative Prozess sichert nicht nur Qualität, sondern stärkt auch die Akzeptanz im Unternehmen. Designprinzipien müssen einfach und greifbar sein. Drei bis fünf gut formulierte Prinzipien lassen sich besser merken und leben als zwölf ambitionierte. Spotify zeigt, wie es geht: Relevant, Human, Unified. Auch bei Figma sieht man, wie Eigenschaften wie „Thoughtful“ oder „Approachable“ Orientierung bieten können. Entscheidend ist aber nicht nur die Kürze, sondern das gemeinsame Verständnis dahinter: Was bedeutet z. B. „Human“ konkret im Produkt? Welche Sprache, welche Gestaltung, welche Entscheidungen zahlen darauf ein? Damit Designprinzipien im Alltag wirken, braucht es mehr als ein PDF oder einen Eintrag im Wiki. Prinzipien müssen kontinuierlich sichtbar gemacht werden, etwa durch Beispiele in Reviews, durch Argumentation im Daily oder durch Verankerung im Onboarding neuer Teammitglieder. Designprinzipien sind keine Regeln, sondern Orientierung. Sie ersetzen kein User Research, kein Testing, keine Interviews, aber sie geben Teams Sicherheit in Entscheidungen, die jeden Tag getroffen werden müssen. Die große Stärke von Designprinzipien liegt darin, dass sie helfen, auch in wachsenden Teams mit immer mehr Beteiligten eine konsistente UX sicherzustellen. Die Verknüpfung zu anderen Artefakten in der Produktentwicklung, etwa der Produktvision, dem Product Goal oder Sprintziel ist auch sehr spannend. Selbst wenn Designprinzipien keine direkten Bestandteile von Scrum sind, lassen sie sich gut als tägliche Entscheidungshilfe für alle, die das Produkt gestalten, in diese Strukturen einbetten. Wer Designprinzipien im Team etablieren möchte, sollte aber auch nicht zu perfektionistisch starten, sondern lieber loslegen, lernen und iterieren. Denn die besten Prinzipien entstehen nicht auf dem Papier, sondern in der echten Zusammenarbeit. Referenzen: - Unter https://ueqplus.ueq-research.org/ gibt es mehr Infromationen zum UEQ+ - Ein ähnliche sKonzept ist die UX Vision. Unter https://produktwerker.de/ux-vision/ findet ihr eine dazu passende Folge.  Tanja steht euch natürlich für weitere Fragen zur Verfügung. Ihr erreicht si am besten unter https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanja-heyken-7a9406124/.

Hodlbod brings a unique perspective, bridging the old and the new, with a focus on a healthier relationship between users and the digital world.Hodlbod on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsm3u0w6 His Book: https://building-nostr.coracle.social Coracle: https://coracle.socialFlotilla: https://flotilla.social/His other apps: https://stuff.coracle.social EPISODE: 170BLOCK: 907160PRICE: 858 sats per dollar(00:00:01) Tesla's Bitcoin Holdings and Opportunity Costs(00:01:11) Happy Bitcoin Friday(00:03:01) Guest Introduction: Hodlbod(00:04:20) Challenges of Streaming and Notifications(00:06:30) Decentralized Technology and Social Media(00:10:04) Push Notifications and Privacy Concerns(00:15:00) Reforming Technology and Social Media(00:20:00) Decentralization and Political Dynamics(00:25:00) Nostr's Adoption and Future Prospects(00:33:00) Nostr's Unique Protocol and Challenges(00:40:00) AI's Role in Development and Vibe Coding(00:50:00) Micro Apps vs. Holistic Experiences on Nostr(01:00:00) Social Media Addiction and User Experience(01:10:00) Group Chats and Community Building(01:20:00) Signal's Influence and Privacy Concerns(01:30:00) Monetization and Sustainability on Nostr(01:50:00) Nostr's Development and Future Directions(02:00:00) Book Release: Building NostrVideo: https://primal.net/citadelsupport dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donate nostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/stream odell nostr account: https://primal.net/odell dispatch nostr account: https://primal.net/citadel ten31 x account: https://x.com/ten31funds youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CitadelDispatch podcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/CitadelDispatch stream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/ rock the badge: https://citadeldispatch.com/shop learn more about me: https://odell.xyz

We've heard it before – hacker tactics are not changing, but the hackers are getting a lot smarter in how they deploy their time-tested attacks.Additionally, honing in on the human element of cybersecurity is nothing new. We've spoken with numerous guests about getting buy-in, improving training, and how creating a cyber-receptive culture is key in getting any cybersecurity plan to stick.But Dave Taku, Head of Product Management and User Experience at RSA, and our guest for this episode, offers some unique takes on how these two key variables are intersecting to create new challenges in industrial cybersecurity. He also discusses recent findings found in RSA's ID IQ Research report. Watch/listen as we discuss:How attacks are focusing more on humans than networks or systems.Evolving hacking strategies like prompt bombing that's focused on stealing credentials or bypassing logins.The role AI can play in establishing ways to improve employee training and address the biggest threat to OT security - people.Ways to manage remote access without sacrificing identity security best practices.Strategies that make zero trust and other identity security tools more user-friendly.How AI is helping manufacturers establish priorities in achieving asset visibility.As a go-to podcast for our listeners, we want to help you align your brand with our expertise. By sponsoring our podcast, your brand will build trust, and your message will stand out to an audience searching for tools to assist their cybersecurity efforts. Click Here to Become a Sponsor.Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson Discover how technology is reshaping our lives and livelihoods.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyTo catch up on past episodes, you can go to Manufacturing.net, IEN.com or MBTmag.com. You can also check Security Breach out wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon and Overcast. If you have a cybersecurity story or topic that you'd like to have us explore on Security Breach, you can reach me at jeff@ien.com.

Can Microsoft Edge really change your mind about web browsing? After years of skepticism and critique, I've taken a fresh look at Edge, and you might be as surprised as I was to discover the improvements it has undergone. Join Paul, on an unexpected journey as we explore how Edge's new WebUI 2.0 interface and performance enhancements are transforming it into a speedier, more user-friendly option. Microsoft has been working behind the scenes to trim the unnecessary and boost the essential, making Edge not just another browser, but a viable, competitive choice for everyday use. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

We break down Century Games' Tasty Travels, the new merge hit muscling into a category long dominated by Travel Town and Microfun. Tasty Travels is not just a clone. It's a polished, high-velocity merge machine, doubling the ARPDAU of Travel Town and already scaling toward $200,000 daily revenue, with a launch playbook built on AI, altered gameplay, and relentless creative iteration. We explore why Century's approach to UA and live ops could make them a serious threat to every top-grossing merge game and why nobody wants to go head-to-head against them.What's inside:Insane UA and CreativesOnboarding and PaceEvents, Live Ops, and MonetizationMarket Impact!Clone Wars and CopycatsKey Takeaway:Tasty Travels is not just another merge game. It's Century Games' statement that nobody is safe from a studio that can outspend, outclone, and out-iterate the entire category.Get our MERCH NOW: 25gamers.com/shop--------------------------------------PVX Partners offers non-dilutive funding for game developers.Go to: https://pvxpartners.com/They can help you access the most effective form of growth capital once you have the metrics to back it.- Scale fast- Keep your shares- Drawdown only as needed- Have PvX take downside risk alongside you+ Work with a team entirely made up of ex-gaming operators and investors---------------------------------------Vibe. Vibe is the leading Streaming TV ad platform for small and medium-sized businesses looking for actionable advertising campaign performance.https://www.vibe.co/---------------------------------------For an ever-growing number of game developers, this means that now is the perfect time to invest in monetizing direct-to-consumer at scale.Our sponsor FastSpring:Has delivered D2C at scale for over 20 yearsThey power top mobile publishers around the worldLaunch a new webstore, replace an existing D2C vendor, or add a redundant D2C vendor at fastspring.gg.---------------------------------------This is no BS gaming podcast 2.5 gamers session. Sharing actionable insights, dropping knowledge from our day-to-day User Acquisition, Game Design, and Ad monetization jobs. We are definitely not discussing the latest industry news, but having so much fun! Let's not forget this is a 4 a.m. conference discussion vibe, so let's not take it too seriously.Panelists: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Jakub Remia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠r,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Felix Braberg, Matej Lancaric⁠Youtube: https://youtu.be/IreEye1zjF0Join our slack channel here: https://join.slack.com/t/two-and-half-gamers/shared_invite/zt-2um8eguhf-c~H9idcxM271mnPzdWbipgChapters00:00 Introduction to Tasty Travels04:14 Gameplay Mechanics and Features07:15 Comparative Analysis with Travel Town10:06 User Experience and Game Economy13:22 Event Structures and Engagement16:15 Innovative Elements and User Acquisition Strategies21:13 Introduction to UA Play and Gameplay Mechanics24:15 Live Operations and Monetization Strategies27:14 Ad Monetization in Merge Games31:16 Revenue Insights and Market Trends37:46 Future Predictions and Competitive Landscape40:17 Exploring Creative Strategies in Gaming43:26 The Role of User Acquisition in Game Success46:42 Innovations in Game Design and User Engagement51:51 Competitive Landscape in the Gaming Industry---------------------------------------Matej LancaricUser Acquisition & Creatives Consultant⁠https://lancaric.meFelix BrabergAd monetization consultant⁠https://www.felixbraberg.comJakub RemiarGame design consultant⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubremiar---------------------------------------Please share the podcast with your industry friends, dogs & cats. Especially cats! They love it!Hit the Subscribe button on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple!Please share feedback and comments - matej@lancaric.me

Can Microsoft Edge really change your mind about web browsing? After years of skepticism and critique, I've taken a fresh look at Edge, and you might be as surprised as I was to discover the improvements it has undergone. Join Paul, on an unexpected journey as we explore how Edge's new WebUI 2.0 interface and performance enhancements are transforming it into a speedier, more user-friendly option. Microsoft has been working behind the scenes to trim the unnecessary and boost the essential, making Edge not just another browser, but a viable, competitive choice for everyday use. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Can Microsoft Edge really change your mind about web browsing? After years of skepticism and critique, I've taken a fresh look at Edge, and you might be as surprised as I was to discover the improvements it has undergone. Join Paul, on an unexpected journey as we explore how Edge's new WebUI 2.0 interface and performance enhancements are transforming it into a speedier, more user-friendly option. Microsoft has been working behind the scenes to trim the unnecessary and boost the essential, making Edge not just another browser, but a viable, competitive choice for everyday use. Host: Paul Thurrott Download or subscribe to Hands-On Windows at https://twit.tv/shows/hands-on-windows Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Industrial Talk is onsite at Xcelerate 2025 and talking to Austin Anderson, Product Owner, Condition Monitoring at Fluke Reliability about "Azima's Powerful AI Vibration Platform". Scott MacKenzie hosts the Industrial Talk podcast, highlighting industry innovations and trends. He introduces Austin Anderson, who discusses Azima's diagnostic system and its integration with Fluke Reliability. Anderson explains the standardization of data collection over 15 years, emphasizing the importance of accurate data for reliability. He details the integration of Azima's AI with human analysts for 85% accuracy and the development of a user-friendly interface. The conversation also covers the future of Azima, including expansion into oil analysis and thermography, and the importance of efficient data storage and management. Anderson can be contacted via LinkedIn for more information. Action Items [ ] Rebuild the Azima user interface to make it more user-friendly and easily accessible. [ ] Integrate Azima's data and insights with Fluke's other reliability solutions, such as alignment and balancing, to provide an end-to-end connected reliability offering. [ ] Enhance the Azima platform to include additional reliability data sources beyond just vibration, such as oil analysis and thermography. [ ] Develop a solution that can automatically translate Azima's problem identifications into work orders in the customer's CMMS (e.g., eMaint). Outline Introduction and Overview of Industrial Talk Podcast Scott MacKenzie introduces the Industrial Talk podcast, emphasizing its focus on industrial innovations and trends. Scott highlights the free ebook and workbook available on Industrial Talk, which expands on five elements of successful companies: educate, collaborate, innovate, invest in culture, and communicate effectively. Scott MacKenzie thanks listeners for their support and celebrates industrial professionals for their boldness, bravery, and problem-solving skills. Introduction of Austin Anderson and Azima Scott MacKenzie introduces Austin Anderson, who will discuss the product Azima. Austin Anderson shares his background, mentioning his three-year tenure with Azima and his role in developing the diagnostic system. Scott MacKenzie inquires about the accuracy of the data stored in Azima, to which Austin explains the standardized method of data collection and its relevance over the years. Austin discusses his background in vibration analysis and his previous work with the Navy, highlighting his expertise in the field. Strategic Path and User Experience of Azima Austin outlines the strategic path for Azima, focusing on making reliability engineers superstars and providing useful insights for top-level executives. Scott MacKenzie asks about the integration of Azima with Fluke Reliability, and Austin explains the goal of making the platform user-friendly and value-added. Austin describes the end-to-end connected reliability solution offered by Fluke Reliability, including hardware, software, and alignment and balancing services. Scott and Austin discuss the importance of user experience and the redesign of the user interface to make it more accessible and user-friendly. Data Accuracy and Integration with Fluke Reliability Scott MacKenzie inquires about the accuracy of the diagnostic system, and Austin explains that AI can achieve 85% accuracy, with the remaining 15% covered by human analysts. Austin discusses the integration of Azima with Fluke Reliability's x5...

This is a preview of one of our premium Design Better episodes. To listen to the whole episode, head over to our Substack and subscribe: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/rhiannon-bell We all rely on search—sometimes dozens of times a day—to make sense of the world around us. But behind that simple white box is a vast, dynamic system that has to understand not just language, but intent, context, and trust. In this episode, we talk with Rhiannon Bell, VP of User Experience for Google Search, about how they navigate the complexity of designing one of the most widely used products on the planet. Rhi shares how their background in writing and storytelling shapes their approach to UX, why designing for information-seeking behavior is fundamentally different from transactional design, and how teams at Google are rethinking trust, transparency, and delight in an age of generative AI. We also dig into what it means to lead with curiosity, and how bringing a sense of play into product development can open up entirely new possibilities. Bio As the VP of UX for Google Search, Rhiannon Bell leads a team of talented Designers, Researchers and Content Strategists who are responsible for all of Google Search experiences. They have over 20 years experience in product development, working with diverse and global products such as NerdWallet, BBC, and Zynga.Rhiannon's mission is to build responsibly toward an AI-powered future, using user research, creative direction, and user-centric product development. They are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology to solve user pain points, raising the quality bar on execution, and driving home the consumer-centric view within any product organization. They are also an active investor and advisor in the design and AI space, supporting visionaries who are shaping our world. *** Premium Episodes on Design Better This is a premium episode on Design Better. We release two premium episodes per month, along with two free episodes for everyone. Premium subscribers also get access to the documentary Design Disruptors and our growing library of books: You'll also get access to our monthly AMAs with former guests, ad-free episodes, discounts and early access to workshops, and our monthly newsletter The Brief that compiles salient insights, quotes, readings, and creative processes uncovered in the show. Upgrade to paid

How is Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) evolving? How does user experience fit in? Today on The Cloud Gambit, Cory O'Daniel, Co-Founder & CEO of Massdriver, lends his experience as a coder, architect, and founder to help us answer these questions. Cory also discusses what it was like building and funding a startup in the 2021-2022 market, the... Read more »

This week on The Data Stack Show, John chats with Paul Blankley, Founder and CTO of Zenlytic, live from Denver! Paul and John discuss the rapid evolution of AI in business intelligence, highlighting how AI is transforming data analysis and decision-making. Paul also explores the potential of AI as an "employee" that can handle complex analytical tasks, from unstructured data processing to proactive monitoring. Key insights include the increasing capabilities of AI in symbolic tasks like coding, the importance of providing business context to AI models, and the future of BI tools that can flexibly interact with both structured and unstructured data. Paul emphasizes that the next generation of AI tools will move beyond traditional dashboards, offering more intelligent, context-aware insights that can help businesses make more informed decisions. It's an exciting conversation you won't want to miss.Highlights from this week's conversation include:Welcoming Paul Back and Industry Changes (1:03)AI Model Progress and Superhuman Domains (2:01)AI as an Employee: Context and Capabilities (4:04)Model Selection and User Experience (7:37)AI as a McKinsey Consultant: Decision-Making (10:18)Structured vs. Unstructured Data Platforms (12:55)MCP Servers and the Future of BI Interfaces (16:00)Value of UI and Multimodal BI Experiences (18:38)Pitfalls of DIY Data Pipelines and Governance (22:14)Text-to-SQL, Semantic Layers, and Trust (28:10)Democratizing Semantic Models and Personalization (33:22)Inefficiency in Analytics and Analyst Workflows (35:07)Reasoning and Intelligence in Monitoring (37:20)Roadmap: Proactive AI by 2026 (39:53)Limitations of BI Incumbents, Future Outlooks and Parting Thoughts (41:15)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, customer data infrastructure that enables you to deliver real-time customer event data everywhere it's needed to power smarter decisions and better customer experiences. Each week, we'll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com.

In this website audit episode, I chat with Joie and Mark from Comeiro Mediation. We walk through their current site together, uncovering simple navigation fixes and call-to-action strategies that will guide more visitors to their contact page. You'll hear real-time feedback on everything from hero section messaging to strategic button placement that transforms browsers into paying clients. YOU WILL LEARN:How simplifying navigation improves your website's usability.  Why concise messaging on your homepage matters.  Tips for using calls to action effectively to guide website visitors.  The importance of maintaining consistent information across Google profiles and your site.  How to incorporate testimonials for social proof without overwhelming users.

In this design-driven episode of That Will Nevr Work, Maurice Chism is joined by UX/UI expert and startup advisor Mary Borysova to explore one of the most critical (and often misunderstood) pieces of launching a successful startup:Product design.Mary breaks down the process of turning ideas into intuitive, user-friendly, and scalable products that don't just function—they delight. From wireframes to feedback loops, she shares her step-by-step insights on how early-stage founders can avoid costly design mistakes and focus on solving real problems for real people.Whether you're building your MVP or refining your next release, this conversation will shift how you think about design—and its power to make or break your product.

Personalisierte Werbung macht eine besser User Experience! Ist massiv verkürzt, hilft aber dabei, Geld zu sparen, das man sonst womöglich Meta überwiesen hätte. Außerdem will die Mehrheit der Deutschen mehr Durchsetzung von Gesetzen gegenüber US-Konzernen und X legt sich mit Frankreich an. Popcornemoji einfügen! ➡️ Mit der "Haken Dran"-Community ins Gespräch kommen könnt ihr am besten im Discord: [http://hakendran.org](http://www.hakendran.org⁠) Kapitelmarken, KI-generiert 00:00 Hallo Markus! 00:52 Instagram - Geld oder Werbung! 05:43 Metas Haltung zum EU AI Act 08:26 Sicherheitslücken bei Meta AI 09:53 X vs. Frankreich 15:25 Politische Allianzen und Metas Board 16:53 Die Abhängigkeit der US-Regierung von SpaceX 21:09 Wir wollen Regulierung! 25:50 Die Zukunft der Digitalregulierung und die Macht der Lobbyisten 28:30 Herausforderungen für die Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter 31:15 Faktenchecks bei Google verschwinden 33:40 Sicherheitslücke bei Microsofts SharePoint 38:30 IShowSpeed 42:46 Funktionen und Emotionen

In this episode of the Investor Fuel podcast, host Michelle Kesil interviews Eric, the CEO of Lookbook Link, a service designed to help real estate agents manage and present their information effectively. Eric discusses the challenges agents face with content management, the importance of user experience, and how Lookbook Link addresses these issues. He shares insights on the genesis of the idea, the importance of feedback, and the need for simplicity in technology. The conversation also touches on building relationships and establishing credibility in the real estate industry.   Professional Real Estate Investors - How we can help you: Investor Fuel Mastermind:  Learn more about the Investor Fuel Mastermind, including 100% deal financing, massive discounts from vendors and sponsors you're already using, our world class community of over 150 members, and SO much more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/apply   Investor Machine Marketing Partnership:  Are you looking for consistent, high quality lead generation? Investor Machine is America's #1 lead generation service professional investors. Investor Machine provides true ‘white glove' support to help you build the perfect marketing plan, then we'll execute it for you…talking and working together on an ongoing basis to help you hit YOUR goals! Learn more here: http://www.investormachine.com   Coaching with Mike Hambright:  Interested in 1 on 1 coaching with Mike Hambright? Mike coaches entrepreneurs looking to level up, build coaching or service based businesses (Mike runs multiple 7 and 8 figure a year businesses), building a coaching program and more. Learn more here: https://investorfuel.com/coachingwithmike   Attend a Vacation/Mastermind Retreat with Mike Hambright: Interested in joining a “mini-mastermind” with Mike and his private clients on an upcoming “Retreat”, either at locations like Cabo San Lucas, Napa, Park City ski trip, Yellowstone, or even at Mike's East Texas “Big H Ranch”? Learn more here: http://www.investorfuel.com/retreat   Property Insurance: Join the largest and most investor friendly property insurance provider in 2 minutes. Free to join, and insure all your flips and rentals within minutes! There is NO easier insurance provider on the planet (turn insurance on or off in 1 minute without talking to anyone!), and there's no 15-30% agent mark up through this platform!  Register here: https://myinvestorinsurance.com/   New Real Estate Investors - How we can work together: Investor Fuel Club (Coaching and Deal Partner Community): Looking to kickstart your real estate investing career? Join our one of a kind Coaching Community, Investor Fuel Club, where you'll get trained by some of the best real estate investors in America, and partner with them on deals! You don't need $ for deals…we'll partner with you and hold your hand along the way! Learn More here: http://www.investorfuel.com/club   —--------------------

Send us a textLara Schmoisman and Don Allen, CIO/CISO of Moda Operandi, discuss the evolution of e-commerce, the impact of AI on user experience and SEO, and strategic technology adoption for competitive advantage.We'll talk about:The surprising truth about SEO today—and why organic reach is (almost) a myth.Why a "compelling website" is now just "table stakes" in e-commerce.The strategic shift: when to build bespoke tech and when to buy off-the-shelf solutions.How AI is revolutionizing product tagging and SEO for high-fashion platforms.The biggest challenge of migrating to new platforms—it's not the tech, it's the people.The key difference between physical and online stores: dynamic personalization.Moda Operandi's marketplace strategy: leveraging it for hard-to-store items and new designers.For more information, visit Don Allen' LinkedIn.Subscribe to Lara's newsletter.Also, follow our host Lara Schmoisman on social media:Instagram: @laraschmoismanFacebook: @LaraSchmoismanSupport the show

In this episode of The Cookbook, host Iris Goldfeder engages with Beatrice Gutknecht, exploring the intricacies of branding, entrepreneurship, and the importance of aligning business strategies with company culture. They discuss personal journeys, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the significance of standing out in a crowded market. The conversation delves into the debate on rebranding, cultural adaptation in business, and the necessity of user experience in brand positioning. Beatrice shares her insights on niche marketing and the importance of understanding client needs, culminating in a discussion about what truly lights their fires in their professional lives. Chapters 00:01 Welcome to The Cookbook 02:52 Life Journeys and Transitions 05:55 Finding Your Voice and Standing Out 08:40 Brand Strategy and Business Alignment 11:33 The Importance of Company Culture 14:33 Navigating Client Relationships 17:26 The Challenges of Entrepreneurship 20:10 The Debate on Rebranding 23:12 Cultural Adaptation in Business 26:11 User Experience and Brand Positioning 28:55 Niche Marketing and Differentiation 31:58 Closing Thoughts and What Lights Your Fire

In this episode of Crypto 101, Brendan interviews Sam Williams, founder of Arweave and AO. They discuss Sam's journey into the crypto space, the creation of Arweave as a permanent storage solution, and the transition to AO, a decentralized supercomputer. The conversation explores the future of user experience in crypto, the significance of trustless services, and the potential for blockchain technology to disrupt various industries. Sam shares insights on the challenges of building in the crypto space, the importance of scalability, and his ambitious vision for the future of cyberspace.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Sam Williams and His Journey03:58 The Birth of Arweave: A Permanent Storage Solution07:15 Exploring AO: The Decentralized Supercomputer11:28 The Future of User Experience in Blockchain14:37 Understanding AO: A New Web Standard20:17 Parallel vs. Decentralized Computing22:29 The Macro Vision for Crypto's Future30:03 Trustless Services: The Future of Cyberspace33:25 Advice for Builders in the Crypto Space37:57 Ambitious Predictions for the Future of BlockchainEfani Sim Swap Protection: Get $99 Off: http://efani.com/crypto101Check out Gemini Exchange: https://gemini.com/cardCheck out Plus500: https://plus500.comGet immediate access to my entire crypto portfolio for just $1.00 today! https://www.cryptorevolution.com/cryptnation-directGet your FREE copy of "Crypto Revolution" and start making big profits from buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrency today: https://www.cryptorevolution.com/freeMERCH STOREhttps://cryptorevolutionmerch.com/Subscribe to YouTube for Exclusive Content:https://www.youtube.com/@crypto101podcastFollow us on social media for leading-edge crypto updates and trade alerts:https://twitter.com/Crypto101Podhttps://instagram.com/crypto_101Guest Link:https://x.com/samecwilliams?lang=enhttps://x.com/ArweaveEco*This is NOT financial, tax, or legal advice*Boardwalk Flock LLC. All Rights Reserved  ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Fog by DIZARO https://soundcloud.com/dizarofrCreative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/Fog-DIZAROMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/lAfbjt_rmE8▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Our Sponsors:* Check out Gemini Exchange: https://gemini.com/card* Check out Plus500: https://plus500.com* Check out Plus500: https://plus500.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join us this episode as The Team chats with Project Manager, Designer, Researcher, and World Traveler Alissa Cook. We'll discuss the benefits of taking a service-driven gap year after design school, using design expertise to understand the user in any situation, and really accepting experiences that open your eyes to all that design can be. Alissa demonstrates how stepping away from a traditional design path and following personal interests really shaped the unique design career she has today. Mark talks about umbrella thieves, we are not up for a Webby Award, also Impact Statements are super helpful!Host, Producer, & Editor - Mark CelaHost, Director, & Script Writer - Kristen PericleousHost, Social Media Manager, Social Media Content Creator, & Editor - Dan LawsonHost, Website Director - Lauren DeMarks

Pensar estrategicamente em UX Design é fundamental para garantir que as soluções entreguem valor tanto para o usuário quanto para o negócio. Neste episódio, conversei com Gabriel Pinheiro, Head de Design e autor dos livros UX Estratégicoe Estratégia Jungle. Falamos sobre como aplicar a estratégia de UX na prática, a importância de conectar design à visão da empresa e como priorizar iniciativas mesmo diante de recursos limitados. Um papo direto com quem entende do assunto. Senta o dedo no play e compartilhe pra fortalecer os corres.LinkedIn Gabriel https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-pinheiro-macielUXConf BR 2025: A mais importante conferência sobre User Experience e Design do Brasil https://www.sympla.com.br/evento/uxconf-br-2025/2227896?afid=104607Workshop PDI Design: Construa o Plano da Sua Própria Jornada https://www.sympla.com.br/evento-online/workshop-pdi-design-o-seu-plano-com-proposito-na-carreira-em-ux-produto-e-tecnologia/3004941News do Papo ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://papodeux.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://instagram.com/papodeux/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@papodeux⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Alyssa Iyer, Director of Product for AML Prevention at Lynx Tech, discusses how Daily Adaptive Models (DAMs) are revolutionizing fraud detection by rapidly adapting to evolving money laundering tactics, significantly outperforming traditional rule-based systems. She highlights the challenge of fragmentation in complex transaction ecosystems and the strategic shift institutions are making by combining supervised and unsupervised AI models to gain a holistic view of risk and maintain a balance between robust security and seamless user experience.Greetings with Alyssa (1:15)Daily Adaptive Models (DAMs): The Edge Against Money Laundering(2:45)Comprehensive Money Laundering Detection (5:35)Detecting Mules Before Funds Are Lost (7:15)Lending Supervised and Unsupervised AI (8:35)Navigating the Fragmented Transaction Ecosystem (11:55)Analyzing Bank Approaches to Money Laundering Prevention (13:10)Building Trust: Proactive Compliance for Startups (14:40)Balance Between Security vs. User Experience (16:50)Key Trends Shaping Anti-Money Laundering's Future (17:00)

In dieser Folge spricht Carsten Bange mit Julia Pogorzelski von Wacker über User Adoption als Schlüsselfaktor für kulturellen Wandel und erfolgreiche Digitalisierung.

Could transparency and control requirements be seamlessly integrated within delightful customer journeys? How has a famously design-led company (Airbnb) mastered Privacy User Experience? Ansuman Acharya serves as a Principal Product Manager at Airbnb, where he leads the design and development of cutting-edge privacy experiences that safeguard the trust of millions across the globe. With a foundation in privacy technology and user-centric design, he artfully bridges engineering depth with ethical product leadership. His 11-year journey at Microsoft, spanning Hyderabad, India and Bellevue, WA shaped his multidisciplinary expertise across enterprise and consumer domains spanning commerce, collaboration/productivity and healthcare tech. Ansuman holds a Master's from the University of Washington's Foster School in Information Systems and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from NIT Rourkela in India. References: Ansuman Acharya on LinkedIn Airbnb: privacy choices USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect Defining Privacy UX (UserTesting)

This week on The AI Report, Liam Lawson is joined by Eric Sui—indie hacker, AI builder, and creator of Agents Playbook—to talk about designing with agents instead of apps.Eric breaks down how he moved from casual GPT-3 experimentation to building structured AI workflows that solve real problems. They dig into agent UX, why many AI tools fall short, and how indie builders can actually move faster by thinking in systems.Also in this episode: • Why agents are more than just automations • How no-code stacks can launch powerful workflows • Lessons from “building in public” on Twitter • How to find product ideas in your own frustration • The future of indie AI projects and agent-led designWhether you're trying to build smarter tools or just want to understand how agents are reshaping what software can do, this episode is packed with insight.Subscribe to The AI Report:https://theaireport.beehiiv.com/subscribeJoin the community:https://www.skool.com/the-ai-report-community/aboutChapters:(00:00) Intro to Eric Sui(01:12) Hacking on GPT-3 Before It Was Popular(03:05) Where AI Products Go Wrong(04:56) User Experience for Agents(06:29) Thinking in Systems, Not Features(08:15) How LLMs Shift the Tool Paradigm(09:53) Launching With No-Code + GPT(11:27) Product Validation as Self-Therapy(13:10) Getting Better Feedback Faster(14:52) Public Building as a Strategy(16:47) Twitter Feedback Loops(19:01) Starting From Zero Audience(20:45) Workflow Design and Mental Models(22:39) How to Think With Agents(24:26) Indiehacking, Investment, and Staying Lean(26:11) Staying Close to Your Problem Space(27:53) Teaching Builders Through Agents Playbook(29:45) What's Next for Eric(31:22) Where to Connect

Join us for an insightful episode of The Product Podcast with Jon Noronha, Co-founder of Gamma, an AI-first platform revolutionizing how people create presentations, documents, and websites. Starting in 2020 during the height of shelter-in-place, Gamma has achieved remarkable growth, reaching over 50 million users with a lean team of just 30 people. Most impressively, they went from less than a year of runway to cash-flow positive in just 3 months after pivoting to AI, with 80% of their revenue coming from outside the U.S. - all without a sales team.In this episode, Jon breaks down Gamma's unconventional approach to building AI products, challenging traditional notions of team structure and go-to-market strategy. He shares insights on why they prioritize UX designers over PMs, how they achieved rapid international growth without localization, and their strategic decision to focus on the application layer rather than building their own AI models.What you'll learn:- How Gamma evolved from a presentation tool into a full-blown AI content platform- Why they bet on a design-first team structure with 7 UX designers and no traditional PMs- The technology behind their AI implementation and multi-model approach- How they achieved profitability in 3 months through pure product-led growth- Their strategy for reaching 50M+ users with a team of just 30 peopleEpisode Chapters:(00:00) Gamma's Evolution: From Presentations to AI Platform(15:00) Unconventional Team Structure: Why Designers > PMs(20:00) Product-Led Growth: Zero to 50M Users Without Sales(25:00) AI Integration Strategy: Focusing on User Experience(30:00) International Growth: 80% Revenue Outside USKey Takeaways

You click on a link in an email—as one does. Suddenly you see a message from your organization, “You've been phished! Now you need some training!” What do you do next? If you're like most busy humans, you skip it and move on.Researcher Ariana Mirian (and co-authors Grant Ho, Elisa Luo, Khang Tong, Euyhyun Lee, Lin Liu, Christopher A. Longhurst, Christian Dameff, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker) uncovered similar results in their study “Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice.” The solution? Ariana suggests focusing on a more effective fix: designing safer systems.In the episode we talk about:Annual cybersecurity awareness training doesn't reduce the likelihood of clicking on phishing links, even if completed recently. Employees who finished training recently show similar phishing failure rates to those who completed it months ago. The study notes, “Employees who recently completed such training, which has significant focus on social engineering and phishing defenses, have similar phishing failure rates compared to other employees who completed awareness training many months ago.”Phishing simulations combined with training (where companies send out fake phishing emails to employees and, for those who click on the links, lead those employees through training) had little impact on whether participants would click phishing links in the future. Ariana was hopeful about interactive training but found that too few participants engaged with it to draw meaningful conclusions. The type of phishing lure (e.g., password reset vs. vacation policy change) influenced whether users clicked. Ariana warned that certain lures could artificially lower click rates.Ultimately, Ariana suggests focusing on designing safer systems—where the burden is taken off the end users. She recommends two-factor authentication, using phishing-resistant hardware keys (like YubiKeys), and blocking phishing emails before they reach users.This quote from the study stood out to me: “Our results suggest that organizations like ours should not expect training, as commonly deployed today, to substantially protect against phishing attacks—the magnitude of protection afforded is simply too small and employees remain susceptible even after repeated training.”This highlights the need for safer system design, especially for critical services like email, which—and this is important—inherently relies on users clicking links.Ariana Mirian is a senior security researcher at Censys. She completed her PhD at UC San Diego and co-authored the paper, “Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice.”G. Ho et al., "Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice," in 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), San Francisco, CA, 2025, pp. 37-54, doi: 10.1109/SP61157.2025.00076.

Today's guest is Ritesh Dalal, Founder and CEO at Intellective. Founded in 2016, Intellective are a global ServiceNow partner organization comprised of specialized, experienced and result-oriented professionals that have one common purpose: build delightful products that wow users. Using certified product offerings and deep expertise in Employee Experience, Service Portal and Custom Apps, they help you improve self service and realize more value from ServiceNow. It's their mission to "Consumerize the Enterprise."Ritesh's expertise in ServiceNow Mobile, Employee Experience and Integrations has enabled organizations to centralize their applications, providing clear visibility and improvement opportunities. His approach to agile development and project management ensures that Intellective delivers customized solutions that drive significant value for their customers. Under his leadership, the Intellective team has successfully developed innovative ServiceNow products that reduce development time and costs.In the episode, Ritesh discusses:0:00 His experience blending design and tech to enhance ServiceNow experience2:13 Transforming ServiceNow UX with unique, productized solutions at Intellective6:39 How Paramount unified global intranet using Intellective's ServiceNow tools9:29 An insight into their remote team blending UX, design and ServiceNow expertise11:56 Evolving from consulting to product, now a bold unified solution14:02 Building exciting impactful, large-scale ServiceNow solutions

Summary   In this episode, Wayne Marcel interviews Vig from Coinplus, discussing the evolution of cryptocurrency, the challenges of adoption, and the innovative solutions Coinplus offers to simplify the user experience. Vig shares his journey into the crypto space, the importance of education, and how Coinplus aims to make crypto accessible for everyone, including through gifting options. The conversation highlights the need for user-friendly solutions in the crypto world and the potential for future developments and partnerships. Learn more about Coinplus: https://coinplus.com/    Takeaways   Vig's journey into crypto began in 2017 during the first bull run. The media industry is being disrupted by blockchain technology. Coinplus aims to simplify the onboarding process for new crypto users. Education is crucial for responsible crypto investment. Many users make mistakes due to complex user interfaces. Gifting Bitcoin can encourage new users to engage with crypto. User experience should not overwhelm new users with technical details. Coinplus uses innovative technology to enhance security and usability. Partnerships can help expand the reach of crypto solutions. The future of crypto involves making it more accessible and user-friendly.   Chapters   00:00 Introduction to Crypto Journey 02:54 Vig's Background and the Birth of Coinplus 06:39 Challenges in Crypto Adoption 11:43 The Importance of Education in Crypto 17:23 Innovations in Coinplus Wallet 23:05 Introduction to Coinplus Bitcoin Card 24:26 User Experience and Backup Solutions 27:12 Partnership with FIO and Gifting Options 30:52 Product Variants and Market Strategy 32:02 Onboarding Challenges in Crypto 33:55 Innovative Gifting Solutions 36:05 The Importance of Bitcoin Education 39:06 Future Plans and Social Media Strategy

What does modern cybersecurity look like when you're leading a federally regulated financial institution serving Canadians from coast to coast? In this episode, recorded at Cisco Live last month, I sat down with Shawn Spurko, VP of Information and Cybersecurity at Innovation Federal Credit Union. Based in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but now operating across the country, Shawn Spurko has played a key role in building a security posture that treats laptops as offices and supports a workforce no longer tethered to physical locations. Shawn Spurkoshares his journey from service desk and web design to becoming a cybersecurity leader, and offers a refreshingly grounded view of how to approach regulation, zero trust, and digital maturity. He explains how Innovation CU's move from a provincial to a federal charter transformed their compliance obligations and how solutions like Cisco Secure Access enabled them to scale security seamlessly for a hybrid workforce. We explore why transparent, user-friendly security is no longer optional and how mature implementations of SWG, ZTNA, DLP, and management tunnels are quietly solving problems before users even notice them. Shawn Spurkoalso opens up about the practical realities of working with tools that are constantly evolving, and how his team reviews every new feature not just for capability but for how it maps to regulatory controls like Canada's OSFI B-13. This episode is a masterclass in modern cyber strategy, but it's also a reminder that the goal isn't complexity, it's making things work, everywhere, all the time. So, as the cybersecurity landscape continues to shift and regulators tighten expectations, how are you designing systems that work for both users and auditors? And what lessons can we all learn from financial services as we navigate this new world of anywhere access?

Your Makeup Might Be Hurting the Planet. Here's How One Brand Is Fixing It.The beauty industry creates billions of pieces of waste every year, most of which never get recycled. But what if your makeup could be completely zero waste, refillable, and designed to last for decades?In this episode, host Ian Peterman sits down with Chris Tarling, founder of Izzy Zero Waste Beauty, to reveal how his brand is building the world's first truly closed-loop, sustainable beauty line. Every mascara, lip product, and skincare jar is returned, sterilized, and reused instead of ending up in the trash.

Discover how to turn decades of data into a competitive edge, build lasting customer relationships beyond the first click, and apply AI in ways that truly drive impact. Joining us is Vineet Mahajan, CTO of US News & World Report, who shares how he's led the 90-year-old brand through a sweeping digital transformation. From rearchitecting infrastructure to deploying semantic search, generative AI, and agentic tools, Vineet explains how his team is reimagining what a legacy institution can become—and what every tech leader can take from that journey.Key Moments:00:00 Meet Vineet Mahajan, CTO of US News & World Report04:45 How to Unlock the True Value of Your Data09:55 Why First-Party Data Is Key to Building Customer Relationships14:32 What Is Semantic Search and How Can Generative AI Improve UX?18:39 How to Overcome Data Cleaning and Structuring Challenges21:18 How to Evaluate Emerging Tech Trends (Like Agentic AI)25:43 How to Lead Change: Data Governance and Digital Transformation32:38 What's Next for US News & World Report and the Future of AI-Driven Strategy -- Brightspot is the leading content management platform built for modern teams. Your content lifecycle - from ideation to archival - moves faster, handling any volume, variety, or velocity with ease. Unlike legacy platforms that demand heavy dev work and struggle with scale, Brightspot is user-friendly, endlessly customizable, and enterprise-ready. Think dynamic, modern experiences, shipped in minutes—not months. Trusted by some of the world's leading tech organizations, Brightspot reduces total cost of ownership, boosts productivity, and gives you the governance, security, and performance your teams need. Visit brightspot.com/ITVisionaries to learn more.---This episode was produced by the team at Mission.org and brought to you by Brightspot.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter  or Bluesky for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcast.Competition ends on 23rd July 2025. The winner will be contacted via Bluesky. Show references:  Sam Mullins, Trustee at SS Great Britainhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sammullins/https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/ Transcriptions:  Paul Marden: What an amazing day out here. Welcome to Skip the Queue. The podcast for people working in and working with visitor attractions, I'm your host, Paul Marden, and today you join me for the last episode of the season here in a very sunny and very pleasant Bristol Dockyard. I'm here to visit the SS Great Britain and one of their trustees, Sam Mullins, who until recently, was the CEO of London Transport Museum. And I'm going to be talking to Sam about life after running a big, family friendly Museum in the centre of London, and what comes next, and I'm promising you it's not pipes and the slippers for Sam, he's been very busy with the SSGreat Britain and with other projects that we'll talk a little more about. But for now, I'm going to enjoy poodling across the harbour on boat number five awaiting arrival over at the SS Great Britain. Paul Marden: Is there much to catch in the water here?Sam Mullins: According to some research, there's about 36 different species of fish. They catch a lot of cream. They catch Roach, bullet, bass car. Big carpet there, maybe, yeah, huge carpet there. And then your European great eel is here as well, right? Yeah, massive things by the size of your leg, big heads. It's amazing. It goes to show how receipt your life is. The quality of the water is a lot better now. Paul Marden: Oh yeah, yeah, it's better than it used to be years ago. Thank you very much. All right. Cheers. Have a good day. See you later on. So without further ado, let's head inside. So where should we head? Too fast. Sam Mullins: So we start with the stern of the ship, which is the kind of classic entrance view, you know. Yeah, coming up, I do. I love the shape of this ship as you as you'll see.Paul Marden: So lovely being able to come across the water on the boat and then have this as you're welcome. It's quite a.Sam Mullins: It's a great spot. Isn't it?Paul Marden: Really impactful, isn't it? Sam Mullins:  Because the amazing thing is that it's going this way, is actually in the dry dock, which was built to build it. Paul Marden: That's amazing. Sam Mullins: So it came home. It was clearly meant to be, you know,Paul Marden:  Quite the circular story.Sam Mullins:  Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Paul Marden:  Thank you. Wow. Look at that view.Sam Mullins: So that's your classic view.Paul Marden:  So she's in a dry dock, but there's a little bit of water in there, just to give us an idea of what's going on. Sam Mullins: Well, what's actually going on in here is, preserving the world's first iron ship. So it became clear, after he'd come back from the Falklands, 1970 came back to Bristol, it became clear that the material of the ship was rusting away. And if something wasn't done, there'd be nothing left, nothing left to show. So the innovative solution is based on a little bit of science if you can reduce the relative humidity of the air around the cast iron hull of the ship to around about 20% relative humidity, corrosion stops. Rusting stops. It's in a dry dock. You glaze over the dock at kind of water line, which, as you just noticed, it gives it a really nice setting. It looks like it's floating, yeah, it also it means that you can then control the air underneath. You dry it out, you dehumidify it. Big plant that dries out the air. You keep it at 20% and you keep the ship intact. Paul Marden: It's interesting, isn't it, because you go to Mary Rose, and you go into the ship Hall, and you've got this hermetically sealed environment that you can maintain all of these beautiful Tudor wooden pieces we're outside on a baking hot day. You don't have the benefit of a hermetically sealed building, do you to keep this? Sam Mullins: I guess the outside of the ship is kind of sealed by the paint. That stops the air getting to the bit to the bare metal. We can go down into the trigger, down whilst rise up.Paul Marden:  We're wondering. Sam, yeah, why don't you introduce yourself, tell listeners a little bit about your background. How have we ended up having this conversation today.Sam Mullins: I'm Sam Mullins. I'm a historian. I decided early on that I wanted to be a historian that worked in museums and had an opportunity to kind of share my fascination with the past with museum visitors. So I worked in much Wenlock in Shropshire. I worked created a new museum in market Harbour, a community museum in Leicestershire. I was director of museums in St Albans, based on, you know, great Roman Museum at Verulamium, okay. And ended up at London Transport Museum in the 90s, and was directed there for a long time.Paul Marden: Indeed, indeed. Oh, we are inside now and heading underground.Sam Mullins: And you can hear the thrumming in the background. Is the dehumidification going on. Wow. So we're descending into thevery dry dock.Paul Marden: So we're now under water level. Yes, and the view of the ceiling with the glass roof, which above looked like a lovely little pond, it's just beautiful, isn't it?Sam Mullins: Yes, good. It sets it off both in both directions, really nicely.Paul Marden: So you've transitioned now, you've moved on from the Transport Museum. And I thought that today's episode, we could focus a little bit on what is, what's life like when you've moved on from being the director of a big, famous, influential, family friendly Museum. What comes next? Is it pipe and slippers, or are there lots of things to do? And I think it's the latter, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yes. Well, you know, I think people retire either, you know, do nothing and play golf, or they build, you know, an interesting portfolio. I wanted to build, you know, something a bit more interesting. And, you know, Paul, there's that kind of strange feeling when you get to retire. And I was retiring from full time executive work, you kind of feel at that point that you've just cracked the job. And at that point, you know, someone gives you, you know, gives you a card and says, "Thank you very much, you've done a lovely job." Kind of, "Off you go." So having the opportunity to deploy some of that long term experience of running a successful Museum in Covent Garden for other organisations was part of that process of transition. I've been writing a book about which I'm sure we'll talk as well that's been kind of full on this year, but I was a trustee here for a number of years before I retired. I think it's really good career development for people to serve on a board to see what it's like, you know, the other side of the board. Paul Marden: I think we'll come back to that in a minute and talk a little bit about how the sausage is made. Yeah, we have to do some icebreaker questions, because I probably get you already. You're ready to start talking, but I'm gonna, I'm just gonna loosen you up a little bit, a couple of easy ones. You're sat in front of the telly, comedy or drama?Sam Mullins: It depends. Probably.Paul Marden: It's not a valid answer. Sam Mullins: Probably, probably drama.Paul Marden: Okay, if you need to talk to somebody, is it a phone call or is it a text message that you'll send?Sam Mullins:  Face to face? Okay, much better. Okay, always better. Paul Marden: Well done. You didn't accept the premise of the question there, did you? Lastly, if you're going to enter a room, would you prefer to have a personal theme tune played every time you enter the room. Or would you like a personal mascot to arrive fully suited behind you in every location you go to?Sam Mullins: I don't know what the second one means, so I go for the first one.Paul Marden: You've not seen a football mascot on watching American football or baseball?Sam Mullins: No, I try and avoid that. I like real sport. I like watching cricket. Paul Marden: They don't do that in cricket. So we are at the business end of the hull of the ship, aren't we? We're next to the propeller. Sam Mullins: We're sitting under the stern. We can still see that lovely, gilded Stern, saying, Great Britain, Bristol, and the windows and the coat of arms across the stern of the ship. Now this, of course, was the biggest ship in the world when built. So not only was it the first, first iron ship of any scale, but it was also third bigger than anything in the Royal Navy at the time. Paul Marden: They talked about that, when we were on the warrior aim the other day, that it was Brunel that was leading the way on what the pinnacle of engineering was like. It was not the Royal Navy who was convinced that it was sail that needed to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah, Brunel had seen a much smaller, propeller driven vessel tried out, which was being toured around the country. And so they were midway through kind of design of this, when they decided it wasn't going to be a paddle steamer, which its predecessor, the world's first ocean liner, the Great Western. A was a paddle steamer that took you to New York. He decided that, and he announced to the board that he was going to make a ship that was driven by a propeller, which was the first, and this is, this is actually a replica of his patent propeller design. Paul Marden: So, this propeller was, is not the original to the show, okay?Sam Mullins: Later in its career, it had the engines taken out, and it was just a sailing ship. It had a long and interesting career. And for the time it was going to New York and back, and the time it was going to Australia and back, carrying migrants. It was a hybrid, usually. So you use the sails when it was favourable when it wasn't much wind or the wind was against. You use the use the engines. Use the steam engine.Paul Marden: Coming back into fashion again now, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, hybrid, yeah.Paul Marden: I can see holes in the hull. Was this evident when it was still in the Falklands?Sam Mullins: Yeah, it came to notice in the 60s that, you know, this world's first it was beached at Sparrow Cove in the Falkland Islands. It had lost its use as a wool warehouse, which is which it had been for 30 or 40 years. And a number of maritime historians, you and call it. It was the kind of key one realised that this, you know, extraordinary, important piece of maritime heritage would maybe not last too many war winters at Sparrow cope had a big crack down one side of the hull. It would have probably broken in half, and that would have made any kind of conservation restoration pretty well impossible as it was. It was a pretty amazing trick to put it onto a to put a barge underneath, to raise it up out of the water, and to tow it into Montevideo and then across the Atlantic, you know, 7000 miles, or whatever it is, to Avon mouth. So it's a kind of heroic story from the kind of heroic age of industrial and maritime heritage, actually.Paul Marden: It resonates for me in terms of the Mary Rose in that you've got a small group of very committed people that are looking to rescue this really valuable asset. And they find it and, you know, catch it just in time. Sam Mullins: Absolutely. That was one of the kind of eye openers for me at Mary rose last week, was just to look at the kind of sheer difficulty of doing conventional archaeology underwater for years and years. You know, is it 50,000 dives were made? Some immense number. And similarly, here, you know, lots of people kind of simply forget it, you know, it's never gonna, but a few, stuck to it, you know, formed a group, fund, raised. This is an era, of course, you know, before lottery and all that jazz. When you had to, you had to fundraise from the public to do this, and they managed to raise the money to bring it home, which, of course, is only step one. You then got to conserve this enormous lump of metal so it comes home to the dry dock in which it had been built, and that has a sort of fantastic symmetry, you know about it, which I just love. You know, the dock happened to be vacant, you know, in 1970 when the ship was taken off the pontoon at Avon mouth, just down the river and was towed up the curving Avon river to this dock. It came beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which, of course, was Brunel design, but it was never built in his time. So these amazing pictures of this Hulk, in effect,  coming up the river, towed by tugs and brought into the dock here with 1000s of people you know, surrounding cheering on the sidelines, and a bit like Mary Rose in a big coverage on the BBC.Paul Marden: This is the thing. So I have a very vivid memory of the Mary Rose being lifted, and that yellow of the scaffolding is just permanently etched in my brain about sitting on the carpet in primary school when the TV was rolled out, and it was the only TV in the whole of school that, to me is it's modern history happening. I'm a Somerset boy. I've been coming to Bristol all my life. I wasn't alive when Great Britain came back here. So to me, this feels like ancient history. It's always been in Bristol, because I have no memory of it returning home. It was always just a fixture. So when we were talking the other day and you mentioned it was brought back in the 70s, didn't realise that. Didn't realise that at all. Should we move on? Because I am listening. Gently in the warmth.Sam Mullins: Let's move around this side of the as you can see, the dry dock is not entirely dry, no, but nearly.Paul Marden: So, you're trustee here at SS Great Britain. What does that mean? What do you do?Sam Mullins: Well, the board, Board of Trustees is responsible for the governance of the charity. We employ the executives, the paid team here. We work with them to develop the kind of strategy, financial plan, to deliver that strategy, and we kind of hold them as executives to account, to deliver on that.Paul Marden: It's been a period of change for you, hasn't it? Just recently, you've got a new CEO coming to the first anniversary, or just past his first anniversary. It's been in place a little while.Sam Mullins: So in the last two years, we've had a, we've recruited a new chairman, new chief executive, pretty much a whole new leadership team.One more starting next month, right? Actually, we're in July this month, so, yeah, it's been, you know, organisations are like that. They can be very, you know, static for some time, and then suddenly a kind of big turnover. And people, you know, people move.Paul Marden: So we're walking through what is a curved part of the dry dock now. So this is becoming interesting underfoot, isn't it?Sam Mullins: This is built in 1839 by the Great Western Steamship Company to build a sister ship to the Great Western which was their first vessel built for the Atlantic run to New York. As it happens, they were going to build a similar size vessel, but Brunel had other ideas, always pushing the edges one way or another as an engineer.Paul Marden: The keel is wood. Is it all wood? Or is this some sort of?Sam Mullins: No, this is just like, it's sort of sacrificial.So that you know when, if it does run up against ground or whatever, you don't actually damage the iron keel.Paul Marden: Right. Okay, so there's lots happening for the museum and the trust. You've just had a big injection of cash, haven't you, to do some interesting things. So there was a press release a couple of weeks ago, about a million pound of investment. Did you go and find that down the back of the sofa? How do you generate that kind of investment in the charity?Sam Mullins: Unusually, I think that trust that's put the bulk of that money and came came to us. I think they were looking to do something to mark their kind of, I think to mark their wind up. And so that was quite fortuitous, because, as you know at the moment, you know, fundraising is is difficult. It's tough. Paul Marden: That's the understatement of the year, isn't it?Sam Mullins: And with a new team here and the New World post COVID, less, less visitors, income harder to gain from. Pretty well, you know, all sources, it's important to keep the site kind of fresh and interesting. You know, the ship has been here since 1970 it's become, it's part of Bristol. Wherever you go in Bristol, Brunel is, you know, kind of the brand, and yet many Bristolians think they've seen all this, and don't need, you know, don't need to come back again. So keeping the site fresh, keeping the ideas moving on, are really important. So we've got the dockyard museum just on the top there, and that's the object for fundraising at the moment, and that will open in July next year as an account of the building of the ship and its importance. Paul Marden: Indeed, that's interesting. Related to that, we know that trusts, trusts and grants income really tough to get. Everybody's fighting for a diminishing pot income from Ace or from government sources is also tough to find. At the moment, we're living off of budgets that haven't changed for 10 years, if we're lucky. Yeah, for many people, finding a commercial route is the answer for their museum. And that was something that you did quite successfully, wasn't it, at the Transport Museum was to bring commercial ideas without sacrificing the integrity of the museum. Yeah. How do you do that?Sam Mullins: Well, the business of being an independent Museum, I mean, LTM is a to all sets of purposes, an independent Museum. Yes, 81% of its funding itself is self generated. Paul Marden: Is it really? Yeah, yeah. I know. I would have thought the grant that you would get from London Transport might have been bigger than that.  Sam Mullins: The grant used to be much bigger proportion, but it's got smaller and smaller. That's quite deliberate. Are, you know, the more you can stand on your own two feet, the more you can actually decide which direction you're going to take those feet in. Yeah. So there's this whole raft of museums, which, you know, across the UK, which are independently governed, who get all but nothing from central government. They might do a lottery grant. Yes, once in a while, they might get some NPO funding from Ace, but it's a tiny part, you know, of the whole. And this ship, SS Great Britain is a classic, you know, example of that. So what do you do in those circumstances? You look at your assets and you you try and monetise them. That's what we did at London Transport Museum. So the museum moved to Covent Garden in 1980 because it was a far sighted move. Michael Robbins, who was on the board at the time, recognised that they should take the museum from Scion Park, which is right on the west edge, into town where people were going to be, rather than trying to drag people out to the edge of London. So we've got that fantastic location, in effect, a high street shop. So retail works really well, you know, at Covent Garden.Paul Marden: Yeah, I know. I'm a sucker for a bit of moquette design.Sam Mullins: We all love it, which is just great. So the museum developed, you know, a lot of expertise in creating products and merchandising it. We've looked at the relationship with Transport for London, and we monetised that by looking at TFL supply chain and encouraging that supply chain to support the museum. So it is possible to get the TFL commissioner to stand up at a corporate members evening and say, you know, you all do terribly well out of our contract, we'd like you to support the museum as well, please. So the corporate membership scheme at Transport Museum is bigger than any other UK museum by value, really, 60, 65 members,. So that was, you know, that that was important, another way of looking at your assets, you know, what you've got. Sometimes you're talking about monetising relationships. Sometimes it's about, you know, stuff, assets, yeah. And then in we began to run a bit short of money in the kind of middle of the teens, and we did an experimental opening of the Aldwych disused tube station on the strand, and we're amazed at the demand for tickets.Paul Marden: Really, it was that much of a surprise for you. And we all can talk. Sam Mullins: We had been doing, we've been doing some guided tours there in a sort of, slightly in a one off kind of way, for some time. And we started to kind of think, well, look, maybe should we carry on it? Paul Marden: You've got the audience that's interested.Sam Mullins: And we've got the access through TFL which, you know, took a lot of work to to convince them we weren't going to, you know, take loads of people underground and lose them or that they jump out, you know, on the Piccadilly line in the middle of the service, or something. So hidden London is the kind of another really nice way where the museum's looked at its kind of assets and it's monetised. And I don't know what this I don't know what this year is, but I think there are now tours run at 10 different sites at different times. It's worth about half a million clear to them to the museum.Paul Marden: It's amazing, and they're such brilliant events. So they've now opened up for younger kids to go. So I took my daughter and one of her friends, and they were a little bit scared when the lights got turned off at one point, but we had a whale of a time going and learning about the history of the tube, the history of the tube during the war. It was such an interesting, accessible way to get to get them interested in stuff. It was brilliant.Sam Mullins: No, it's a great programme, and it was doing well before COVID, we went into lockdown, and within three weeks, Chris Nix and the team had started to do kind of zoom virtual tours. We all are stuck at home looking at our screens and those hidden London hangouts the audience kind of gradually built yesterday TV followed with secrets of London Underground, which did four series of. Hidden London book has sold 25,000 copies in hardback, another one to come out next year, maybe.Paul Marden: And all of this is in service of the museum. So it's almost as if you're opening the museum up to the whole of London, aren't you, and making all of that space you're you. Museum where you can do things.Sam Mullins: Yeah. And, of course, the great thing about hidden London programme is it's a bit like a theatre production. We would get access to a particular site for a month or six weeks. You'd sell the tickets, you know, like mad for that venue. And then the run came to an end, and you have to, you know, the caravan moves on, and we go to, you know, go to go to a different stations. So in a sense, often it's quite hard to get people to go to an attraction unless they've got visitors staying or whatever. But actually, if there's a time limit, you just kind of have to do it, you know.Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. Everybody loves a little bit of scarcity, don't they? Sam Mullins: Should we go up on the deck? Paul Marden: That sounds like fun to me.Sam Mullins: Work our way through.Paul Marden: So Hidden London was one of the angles in order to make the museum more commercially sound. What are you taking from your time at LTM and bringing to the party here at the SS Great Britain?Sam Mullins: Well, asking similar, you know, range of questions really, about what assets do we have? Which of those are, can be, can be monetised in support of the charity? Got here, Paul, so we're, we've got the same mix as lots of middle sized museums here. There's a it's a shop, paid admission, hospitality events in the evening, cafe. You know that mix, what museums then need to do is kind of go, you know, go beyond that, really, and look at their estate or their intellectual property, or the kind of experiences they can offer, and work out whether some of that is monetisable.Paul Marden: Right? And you mentioned before that Brunel is kind of, he's the mascot of Bristol. Almost, everything in Bristol focuses on Brunel. Is there an opportunity for you to collaborate with other Brunel themed sites, the bridge or?Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, I think probably the opportunity is to collaborate with other Bristol attractions. Because Bristol needs to. Bristol's having a hard time since COVID numbers here are nowhere near what they were pre COVID So, and I think it's the same in the city, across the city. So Andrew chief executive, is talking to other people in the city about how we can share programs, share marketing, that kind of approach.Paul Marden: Making the docks a destination, you know, you've got We the Curious. Where I was this morning, having coffee with a friend and having a mooch around. Yeah, talking about science and technology, there must be things that you can cross over. This was this war. This feels like history, but it wasn't when it was built, was it? It was absolutely the cutting edge of science and technology.Sam Mullins: Absolutely, and well, almost beyond, you know, he was Brunel was pushing, pushing what could be done. It is the biggest ship. And it's hard to think of it now, because, you know, you and I can walk from one end to the other in no time. But it was the biggest ship in the world by, you know, some way, when it was launched in 1845 so this was a bit like the Great Western Railway. It was cutting edge, cutting edge at the time, as we were talking about below. It had a propeller, radical stuff. It's got the bell, too,Paul Marden: When we were on, was it Warrior that we were on last week at the AIM conference for the first. And warrior had a propeller, but it was capable of being lifted, because the Admiralty wasn't convinced that this new fangled propeller nonsense, and they thought sail was going to lead. Sam Mullins: Yeah. Well, this ship had, you could lift a you could lift a propeller, because otherwise the propeller is a drag in the water if it's not turning over. So in its earlier configurations, it was a, it was that sort of a hybrid, where you could lift the propeller out the way, right, set full sail.Paul Marden:  Right, and, yeah, it's just, it's very pleasant out here today, isn't it? Lovely breeze compared to what it's been like the last few days. Sam Mullins: Deck has just been replaced over the winter. Paul Marden:  Oh, has it really. So say, have you got the original underneathSam Mullins: The original was little long, long gone. So what we have replaced was the deck that was put on in the in the 70s when the ship came back.Paul Marden: Right? You were talking earlier on about the cafe being one of the assets. You've done quite a lot of work recently, haven't you with the team at Elior to refurbish the cafe? What's the plan around that?Sam Mullins: Yeah, we're doing a big reinvestment. You always need to keep the offer fresh anyway, but it was time to reinvest. So the idea is to use that fantastic space on the edge of the dock. It's not very far down to where the floating harbour is really well populated with kind of restaurants and bars and an offer, we're just that 200 meters further along the dock. So perhaps to create an offer here that draws people up here, whether they visit the ship, you know, or not. So it's money, it's monetising your assets. So one of the great assets is this fabulous location on the on the dockside. So with early or we're reinvesting in the restaurant, it's going to go in the auto into after some trial openings and things, Paul, you know, it's going to have an evening offer as well as a daytime offer. And then it's been designed so the lights can go down in the evening. It becomes, you know, an evening place, rather than the museum's all day cafe, yes, and the offer, and obviously in the evenings would similarly change. And I think our ambition is that you should, you should choose this as the place to go out in the evening. Really, it's a great spot. It's a lovely, warm evening. We're going to walk along the dockside. I've booked a table and in the boardwalk, which is what we're calling it. And as you pay the bill, you notice that actually, this is associated with Asus, Great Britain. So, you know, the profit from tonight goes to help the charity, rather than it's the museum cafe. So that's the,Paul Marden: That's the pitch.Sam Mullins: That's the pitch in which we're working with our catering partners, Eli, or to deliver.Paul Marden: Andrew, your CEO and Claire from Eli, or have both kindly said that I can come back in a couple of months time and have a conversation about the restaurant. And I think it would be rude to turn them down, wouldn't it?Sam Mullins: I think you should test the menu really fully.Paul Marden: I will do my best. It's a tough job that I have. Sam Mullins: Somebody has to do this work. Paul Marden: I know, talking of tough jobs, the other thing that I saw when I was looking at the website earlier on was a press release talking about six o'clock gin as being a a partnership that you're investigating, because every museum needs its own tipple, doesn't it?Sam Mullins: Absolutely And what, you know, I think it's, I think what people want when they go to an attraction is they, they also want something of the offer to be locally sourced, completely, six o'clock gym, you know, Bristol, Bristol beers. You can't always do it, but I think, I think it's where you've got the opportunity. And Bristol's a bit of a foodie centre. There's quite a lot going on here in that respect. So, yes, of course, the museum ought to be ought to be doing that too.Paul Marden: I was very kindly invited to Big Pit over in the Welsh Valleys about 8 or 12 weeks ago for the launch, relaunch of their gift shop offering. And absolutely, at the core of what they were trying to do was because it's run by Museums Wales, they found that all of their gift shops were just a bland average of what you could get at any of the museums. None of them spoke of the individual place. So if you went to big pit, the gift shop looked the same as if you were in the centre of Cardiff, whereas now when you go you see things that are naturally of Big Pit and the surrounding areas. And I think that's so important to create a gift shop which has things that is affordable to everybody, but at the same time authentic and genuinely interesting.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I'm sure that's right. And you know I'm saying for you is for me, when I when I go somewhere, you want to come away with something, don't you? Yes, you know, you're a National Trust member and you haven't had to pay anything to get in. But you think I should be supporting the cause, you know, I want to go into that shop and then I want to, I want to buy some of the plants for my garden I just seen, you know, on the estate outside. Or I want to come away with a six o'clock gin or, you know, whatever it might be, there's and I think, I think you're more likely to buy if it's something that you know has engaged you, it's part of that story that's engaged you, right, while you're here. That's why everyone buys a guidebook and reads it afterwards.Paul Marden: Yeah, it's a reminder, isn't it, the enjoyable time that you've had? Yeah, I'm enjoying myself up on the top deck. Sam Mullins:  But should we go downstairs? The bow is a great view. Oh, let's do that. I think we might. Let's just work our way down through.Paul Marden: Take a sniff. Could you travel with these smelly passengers? Oh, no, I don't think I want to smell what it's like to be a cow on board shit. Sam Mullins: Fresh milk. Just mind yourself on these companion, ways are very steep now. This is probably where I get completely lost.Paul Marden: You know what we need? We need a very good volunteer. Don't we tell a volunteer story? COVID in the kitchen. Wow. Sam Mullins: The Gabby.Paul Marden: Generous use of scent. Sam Mullins: Yeah, food laid out pretty much based on what we know was consumed on the ship. One of the great things about the ship is people kept diaries. A lot of people kept diaries, and many have survived, right? You know exactly what it was like to be in first class or in steerage down the back.Paul Marden: And so what was the ship used for? Sam Mullins: Well, it was used, it was going to be an ocean liner right from here to New York, and it was more like the Concord of its day. It was essentially first class and second class. And then it has a founders on a bay in Northern Ireland. It's rescued, fitted out again, and then the opportunity comes take people to Australia. The Gold Rush in the 1850s. Migration to Australia becomes the big kind of business opportunity for the ships. Ships new owners. So there's more people on board that used to it applies to and fro to Australia a number of times 30 odd, 40 times. And it takes, takes passengers. It takes goods. It does bring back, brings back gold from because people were there for the gold rush. They were bringing their earnings, you know, back with them. It also brings mail, and, you know, other. Kind of car goes wool was a big cargo from. Paul Marden: Say, people down and assets back up again.Sam Mullins: People both directions. Paul Marden: Okay, yeah. How long was it taking?Sam Mullins: Well, a good trip. I think it did it in 50 odd days. Bit slower was 60 odd. And the food was like this. So it was steerage. It was probably a bit more basic. Paul Marden: Yeah, yes, I can imagine. Sam Mullins: I think we might. Here's the engines. Let's do the engines well.Paul Marden: Yes. So now we're in the engine room and, oh, it's daylight lit, actually. So you're not down in the darkest of depths, but the propeller shaft and all of the mechanism is it runs full length, full height of the ship.Sam Mullins: Yeah, it runs off from here, back to the propeller that we're looking at. Okay, down there a guy's stoking the boilers, putting coal into into the boilers, 24 hour seven, when the engines are running. Paul Marden: Yes, that's going to be a tough job, isn't it? Yeah, coal is stored in particular locations. Because that was something I learned from warrior, was the importance of making sure that you had the coal taken in the correct places, so that you didn't unbalance the ship. I mean,Sam Mullins: You right. I mean loading the ship generally had to be done really carefully so, you know, sort of balanced out and so forth. Coal is tends to be pretty low down for yes, for obvious reasons.Paul Marden: So let's talk a little bit about being a trustee. We're both trustees of charities. I was talking to somebody last week who been in the sector for a number of years, mid career, interested in becoming a trustee as a career development opportunity. What's the point of being a trustee? What's the point of the trustees to the CEO, and what's the benefit to the trustees themselves? Sam Mullins: Well, let's do that in order for someone in the mid part of their career, presumably looking to assume some kind of leadership role. At some point they're going to be dealing with a board, aren't they? Yes, they might even be doing, you know, occasional reporting to a board at that at their current role, but they certainly will be if they want to be chief executive. So getting some experience on the other side of the table to feel what it's like to be a trustee dealing with chief executive. I think he's immensely useful. I always recommended it to to my gang at the Transport Museum, and they've all been on boards of one sort or another as part of their career development.Sam Mullins: For the chief executive. What's the benefit? Well, the board, I mean, very directly, hold the chief executive to account. Yes, are you doing what we asked you to do? But also the wise chief executive recruits a board that's going to be helpful in some way or another. It's not just there to catch them out. Yeah, it's it's there to bring their experience from business, from IT, from marketing, from other museums into the business of running the place. So here we've got a range of Trustees. We've been we've recruited five or six in the last couple of years qquite deliberately to we know that a diverse board is a good board, and that's diverse in the sense not just a background, but of education, retired, still, still at work, young, old, male, female, you know, you name in.Paul Marden: In all of the directionsSam Mullins:  Yeah. So a diverse board makes better decisions than one that just does group think all the time. It's, you know, it's a truism, isn't it? I think we all kind of, we all understand and understand that now and then, for the trustee, you know, for me, I particularly last couple of years, when the organization has been through huge changes, it's been really interesting to deploy my prior experience, particularly in governance, because governance is what it all comes down to in an organisation. You do learn over the course of your career to deploy that on behalf, you know, this is a great organisation, the story of Brunel and the ship and and, you know, his influence on the railways. And I travel down on the Great Western railways, yeah, the influence of Brunel is, you know, is enormous. It's a fantastic story. It's inspiring. So who wouldn't want to join? You know what in 2005 was the Museum of the year? Yes, I think we'll just go back there where we came. Otherwise, I never found my way.Paul Marden: Back through the kitchen. Sam Mullins: Back through the kitchen. It looks like stew is on the menu tonight. You've seen me at the mobile the rat.Paul Marden: And also the cat up on the shelf. He's not paying a lot of attention to the ratSam Mullins: Back on deck. Paul Marden: Wonderful. Yeah. So the other great endeavor that you've embarked on is writing, writing a book. Tell us a little bit about the book.Sam Mullins: Yeah, I've written a history of transport in London and its influence on London since 2000 since the mayoralty, elected mayoralty was, was started, you know, I was very lucky when I was running the museum where I had kind of one foot in TfL and one foot out. I knew lots of people. I was there for a long time, yes, so it was, it was easy to interview about 70 of them.Paul Marden: Right? I guess you've built trust levels, haven't you? Yeah, I don't mean that you don't look like a journalist walking in from the outside with an ax to grind. Sam Mullins: And I'm not going to kind of screw them to the Evening Standard, you know, tomorrow. So it's a book based on interviews, oral reminiscences. It's very much their story. So it's big chunks of their accounts of, you know, the big events in London. So what was it like to be in the network control room on the seventh of July, 2005 when the bombs went off? What was it like to be looking out for congestion charge the day it started? Yep. What was it like to kind of manage the Olympics?Paul Marden: You know? So you're mentioning these things. And so I was 10 years at British Airways. I was an IT project manager, but as well, I was a member of the emergency planning team. Yeah. So I got involved in the response to September the 11th. I got involved in some of the engagement around seven, seven, there's seminal moments, and I can, I can vividly remember myself being there at that time. But similarly, I can remember being there when we won the Olympics, and we were all sat in the staff canteen waiting to hear whether we'd won the Olympics, and the roar that erupted. There's so many of those things that have happened in the last 25 years where, you know, you've got, it's recent history, but it's real interesting events that have occurred that you can tell stories of.Sam Mullins: Yeah. So what I wanted to get in the book was a kind of sense of what it was like to be, really at the heart of those, those stories. And there are, you know, there are, there are people in TfL who made those big things happen? Yes, it's not a big, clumsy bureaucracy. It's a place where really innovative leadership was being exercised all the way through that 25 years. Yes, so it runs up to COVID, and what was it like when COVID struck? So the book's called Every Journey Matters, and it comes out in November.Paul Marden: Amazing, amazing. So we have, we've left the insides of the ship, and we are now under, what's this part of the ship? Sam Mullins: We're under the bow. There we go, and a bow spread that gets above our heads. So again, you've got this great, hulking, cast iron, black hull, beautifully shaped at the bow. Look the way it kind of tapers in and it tapers in and out.Paul Marden: It's a very three dimensional, isn't it? The curve is, is in every direction. Sam Mullins: Yeah,it's a great, great shape. So it's my sort of, I think it's my favourite spot. I like coming to look at this, because this is the kind of, this is the business, yeah, of the ship.Paul Marden: What have we got running along the front here? These these images in in gold.Sam Mullins: This is a figurehead with Victoria's Coat of Arms only sua Kim Ali points on top with it, with a lion and a unicorn.Paul Marden: It's a really, it's not a view that many people would have ever seen, but it is such an impressive view here looking up, yeah, very, very cool. And to stand here on the on the edge of the dry dock. Sam Mullins: Dry Docks in to our right, and the floating harbor is out to our left. Yeah.Paul Marden: And much going on on that it's busy today, isn't it? Sam Mullins: Yeah, it's good. Paul Marden: So we've done full loop, haven't we? I mean, it has been a whistle stop tour that you've taken me on, but I've loved every moment of this. We always ask our guests a difficult question. Well, for some it's a difficult question, a book recommendation, which, as we agreed over lunch, cannot be your own book. I don't think, I think it's a little unfair Sam Mullins: Or anything I've ever written before.Paul Marden: Yes, slightly self serving, but yeah.Sam Mullins: It would be, wouldn't it look the first thing that comes to mind is, I've actually been reading my way through Mick Herron's Slow Horses series, okay, which I'm a big fan of detective fiction. I love Ian Rankin's Rebus. Okay, I read through Rebus endlessly when I want something just to escape into the sloughhouse series Slow Horses is really good, and the books all have a sort of similar kind of momentum to them. Something weird happens in the first few chapters, which seems very inconsequential and. Suddenly it turns into this kind of roller coaster. Will they? Won't they? You know, ending, which is just great. So I recommend Mick Herron's series. That's that's been the best, not best, fiction I've read in a long time.Paul Marden: You know, I think there's something, there's something nice, something comforting, about reading a series of books where the way the book is structured is very similar. You can, you can sit down and you know what's going to happen, but, but there's something interesting, and it's, it's easy. Sam Mullins: It's like putting on a pair of old slippers. Oh, I'm comfortable with this. Just lead me along. You know, that's what, that's what I want. I enjoy that immensely.Paul Marden: And should we be? Should we be inviting our listeners to the first book in the series, or do they need to start once, once he's got his, got his, found his way? Sam Mullins: Well, some people would have seen the television adaptation already. Well, that will have spoilt the book for them. Gary Oldman is Jackson lamb, who's the lead character, okay, but if you haven't, or you just like a damn good read, then you start with the first one, which I think is called Sloughhouse. They're all self contained, but you can work your way through them. Paul Marden: Well, that sounds very good. So listeners, if you'd like a copy of Sam's book, not Sam's book, Sam's book recommendation, then head over to Bluesky and repost the show notice and say, I want a copy of Sam's book, and the first one of you lovely listeners that does that will get a copy sent to you by Wenalyn. Sam This has been delightful. I hope listeners have enjoyed this as much as I have. This is our first time having a @skipthequeue in real life, where we wandered around the attraction itself and hopefully narrated our way bringing this amazing attraction to life. I've really enjoyed it. I can now say that as a West Country lad, I have actually been to the SS Great Britain. Last thing to say for visitor, for listeners, we are currently midway through the Rubber Cheese Annual Survey of visitor attraction websites. Paul Marden: If you look after an attraction website and you'd like to share some information about what you do, we are gathering all of that data together to produce a report that helps people to understand what good looks like for an attraction website. This is our fourth year. Listeners that are interested, head over to RubberCheese.com/survey, and you can find out a little bit more about the survey and some of the some of the findings from the past and what we're looking for for this year. Sam, thank you so very much.Sam Mullins: Enjoyed it too. It's always good to rabbit on about what you do every day of the week, and being here and part of this really great organisation is huge privilege.Paul Marden: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others to find us. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them to increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcripts from this episode and more over on our website, skipthequeue fm. The 2025 Visitor Attraction Website Survey is now LIVE! Dive into groundbreaking benchmarks for the industryGain a better understanding of how to achieve the highest conversion ratesExplore the "why" behind visitor attraction site performanceLearn the impact of website optimisation and visitor engagement on conversion ratesUncover key steps to enhance user experience for greater conversionsTake the Rubber Cheese Visitor Attraction Website Survey Report

In this episode, Joshua To, VP of Product Design at Meta, shares how AI is reshaping how—and where—we interact with technology. He walks us through Meta's evolving approach to AR and wearables, why notifications are still the killer use case, and how AI is becoming the “brain behind empathy.”We dig into what it means to build interfaces that understand you, why audio might be the future's most underrated platform, and how designing for emotion changes everything—from form factor to function. Joshua also reflects on his path from launching a clothing brand to leading design at Google and Meta, and what those worlds taught him about craft, context, and human-centered systems.This one's for anyone designing AI into the real world—where every interface choice carries weight, and intelligence starts with listening.Key takeaways: Empathy Is the Real Intelligence — Joshua flips the definition of smart tech. It's not just about outputs—it's about understanding you. Context, tone, emotion—that's what great AI will sense and respond to.Design for the Moment, Not the Feed — AR's killer use case isn't games—it's restraint. Joshua shares why the best AI product might just be the one that knows not to ping you. Context-aware computing is the real unlock.Audio Is the Interface to Watch — Forget screens. The most powerful interface might be your ears. From wearables to ambient signals, Joshua explains why audio design is the next big frontier for human-centered AI.AR Isn't a Feature—It's a System of Consideration — Joshua reframes augmented reality as quiet, ambient infrastructure. The real power of AR isn't spectacle—it's subtlety. It helps you move through the world with less friction, not more.LinkedIn: Joshua To | LinkedInWebsite: Home - Joshua ToMeta: Meta Careers00:00 Intro: Fixing Notifications With AI00:54 Meet Josh: VP of Product Design at Meta02:06 From Hoodies to Hardware: Josh's Journey03:53 The Google Experience: From Ads to Product Management10:37 The Evolution of Google Glass and AR19:12 The Role of AI in Josh's Career22:25 Designing the Future: AR, VR, and Attention Management32:49 Contextually Aware Suggestions33:38 Leveraging Generative AI in Design34:52 AI's Role in Concept Art and Storyboarding41:24 AI Tools and Model Capabilities45:54 The Future of AI and Wearables51:58 Reflections and Takeaways

In this podcast episode, host Michelle Frechette  welcomes Felix Arntz, a senior software engineer at Google, about his decade of contributions to the WordPress community. Felix shares insights on effective communication, persistence, and attention to detail in open-source collaboration. He highlights the importance of building relationships, learning from others, and embracing the welcoming nature of the WordPress community. The episode also introduces Felix's new "View Transitions" plugin, designed to enhance user experience. Listeners are encouraged to engage, contribute, and build connections within the WordPress ecosystem.Top Takeaways:Attention to Detail Is a Key Marker of ProfessionalismFelix and Michelle emphasized that small details—like capitalizing the "P" in WordPress—may seem trivial but are taken seriously by seasoned professionals. This attention to detail reflects pride in one's work and often becomes a litmus test for developers and marketers alike when assessing quality and seriousness.Thinking at Scale and Growing Gradually Are Crucial in Open Source Contribution: Felix discussed the importance of thinking at scale, especially when contributing to WordPress core. A feature might work well for a blog with 80 posts but break down on a site with tens of thousands. Additionally, contributors are encouraged to increase scope gradually, starting with bug fixes, so they can build trust, demonstrate commitment, and avoid burnout or disappointment when larger proposals stall.Personal Motivation Can Guide Your Niche in Open Source Work: Felix shared how his contributions to WordPress core initially grew out of real-world problems he encountered during freelance work. This insight reinforces the idea that contributors should follow their authentic interests and pain points when selecting where to focus their energy, making their efforts more sustainable and impactful.Relationships and Community Are the Heart of the WordPress Project: Michelle and Felix agreed that building personal relationships—whether at WordCamps, online, or through collaborative work—is not just rewarding personally, but also essential for project momentum. Felix shared how meeting someone briefly in person changes how online collaboration feels. Michelle told a moving story about how her community connections helped her navigate an inaccessible travel situation, underscoring the tangible power of WordPress friendships.Mentioned in the Show:This Week in WordPressFelix-Arntz.me

The Big Unlock Podcast · Aligning AI Fundamentals with User Experience in Pharma – Podcast with Alicia Abella In this episode, Alicia Abella, AI Product Lead at Novo Nordisk, discusses how she is helping drive responsible AI adoption in the pharmaceutical industry. She shares her early experiences in AI, starting with her PhD research at Columbia University on image processing and natural language processing.  At Novo Nordisk, the current focus is on applying AI to commercialization functions including – marketing, legal, and HR – beyond its traditional use in drug discovery. Alicia highlights key use cases such as generative AI for knowledge search, content generation for marketing campaigns, and traditional AI techniques for deriving insights about healthcare providers. She also emphasizes the importance of applying a product mindset to AI development by evaluating user needs, business value, and compliance from the outset. Alicia notes that adding effective governance can help innovation move in the right direction. She also talks about an internal AI Ambassador Program and emphasizes the importance of designing intuitive AI tools to increase adoption. She concludes by discussing future trends in AI, including contextual intelligence, user-centric design, and the opportunity for AI to enhance, rather than replace human decision-making. Take a listen.

Your firm's site greets visitors long before a proposal or a handshake. In this episode of the PSM Show, co-hosts Damion Morris and Deirdre Booth sit down with content strategist and copywriter Ben Culbreath to unpack what your homepage is really saying—and why that message may be turning prospects or future hires away.   Ben shares field-tested ways to move a reader from “nice photos” to “let's talk,” beginning with a simple litmus test—searching for the word you—and a copy layout known as the F pattern. He explains how clear headlines, client-focused language, and specific calls to action guide visitors through services, culture, and career paths without forcing them to hunt for key details.   The conversation covers: • Positioning your firm through story instead of slogans • Using client interviews to surface authentic phrases that spark attention • Showing the how behind your work to add value and context to price discussions • Turning the careers page into a true recruiting tool that filters fit and boosts retention • Fresh alternatives to the tired “contact us” button that invite low-pressure conversations   Whether your goal is stronger pursuit support, a more magnetic talent funnel, or copy that simply reads like a human wrote it, Ben's advice will help your website start better conversations.   Listen now, then run his quick audits to spot exactly where small edits will create a major impact.

Praveen is the creator and maintainer of Cove Wallet. An open source mobile wallet focused on easy and powerful self custody. We discuss the current features of Cove, future roadmap, and his perspective on balancing tradeoffs when using bitcoin.Praveen on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsy8us3d6u5ynddk7lq7yz365hqqsptzd2923fvkgj4eepsady08uszccr0l Praveen on X: https://x.com/PraveenPereraCove Wallet: https://covebitcoinwallet.com/EPISODE: 165BLOCK: 903685PRICE: 923 sats per dollar(00:00:01) Jack Mallers Intro(00:03:14) Happy Bitcoin Wednesday(00:05:56) Cove Wallet Features and Goals(00:08:22) Technical Aspects of Cove Wallet(00:13:32) Future Plans for Cove Wallet(00:19:05) Node Connectivity and Privacy Features(00:29:01) Cove Wallet and Hardware Wallet Integration(00:36:00) Onboarding and User Experience(00:45:07) Seed Words and Alternative Backups(01:02:02) Collaborative Custody and Security(01:14:45) Future Features and Feedback for Cove Wallet(01:19:03) Bitcoin Industry and Market Thoughts(01:28:08) Custodial vs Self-Custodial Solutions(01:31:56) Closing Remarks and Future PlansVideo: https://primal.net/citadel support dispatch: https://citadeldispatch.com/donatenostr live chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/streamodell nostr account: https://primal.net/odelldispatch nostr account: https://primal.net/citadelyoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@CitadelDispatchpodcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/CitadelDispatchstream sats to the show: https://www.fountain.fm/rock the badge: https://citadeldispatch.com/shopjoin the chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/chatlearn more about me: https://odell.xyz

In this episode of the Experience Strategy Podcast, hosts Aransas Savas, Joe Pine, and Dave Norton discuss the intersection of aging and technology, particularly focusing on how technology can be designed to support cognitive health as we age. They reflect on a personal article by Robert Fabricant in Fast Company that challenges the current approach to technology for the aging population, advocating for ambient adaptive technology that promotes dignity and agency. The conversation explores the need for AI design that accommodates cognitive decline, the importance of contextual awareness in technology, and the potential for transformational technology to enhance the quality of life for older adults. This podcast is brought to by Feedback Now, the world's best solution for real-time feedback. Takeaways: AI Technology should be designed for aging well. Cognitive decline requires specific support. Adaptive technology can enhance dignity in aging. Ideally AI should passively support people in cognitive decline Contextual awareness can improve how people engage with tool. Designing for accessibility benefits everyone. Transformational technology can maintain cognitive function. Data can empower users to understand their health better. The future of technology lies in integration with life systems.   Chapters” 00:00 Introduction to the Experience Strategy Podcast 01:17 Reflections on Aging and Technology 04:12 The Role of Adaptive Technology 12:03 Contextual Experience Design 15:52 Superpowers and Cognitive Support 20:39 The Future of Health Technology 23:54 Designing for Resilience vs. Performance Read More: https://www.fastcompany.com/91350804/why-im-wishing-for-different-technology-on-fathers-day Register for a free pilot program with Feedback Now https://marketing-info.feedbacknow.com/free-pilot Learn more about Stone Mantel https://www.stonemantel.co Sign up for the Experience Strategist Substack here: https://theexperiencestrategist.substack.com    

Connect with Early Riders // Connect with OnrampPresented collaboratively by Early Riders & Onramp Media...Final Settlement is a weekly podcast covering the underlying mechanics of the bitcoin protocol, its ongoing development and funding, and real-world applications of the technology.00:00 - Introduction to the Show and Guests03:22 - Expanding the Conversation: Bitcoin and Capital Markets05:38 - Robinhood's Crypto Push and Tokenization Trends12:00 - Value Accrual in Crypto and Traditional Markets19:57 - User Experience vs. Infrastructure in Crypto24:22 - AI Disruption: Winners and Losers in Venture Capital37:14 - The Rise of AI in Venture Capital40:07 - Understanding Revenue Metrics in Startups42:31 - The Shift in Founder Expectations47:14 - The Unsustainable Venture Capital Game51:43 - The Importance of Sound Money Principles55:33 - The Future of Venture Capital and Bitcoin01:01:30 - The Evolving Landscape of Crypto CustodyIf you found this valuable, please subscribe to Early Riders Insights for access to the best content in the ecosystem weekly.Links discussed:https://x.com/robpetrozzo/status/1939721226697494733https://x.com/amitisinvesting/status/1939716899656679693https://x.com/RobinhoodApp/status/1939709086645232006https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/kalshi-closes-185m-round-as-rival-polymarket-reportedly-seeks-200m/https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.reuters.com/technology/polymarket-nears-200-million-raise-over-1-billion-valuation-source-says-2025-06-24https://x.com/Bruce_Markets/status/1937583818430435410https://x.com/matthew_sigel/status/1940007846680183026https://confluencevcweekly.beehiiv.com/p/yc-ai-agentshttps://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-eng-market-2024https://levelvc.com/this-is-not-your-mothers-alpha/https://x.com/bgurley/status/1932942519802777681https://x.com/MTanguma/status/1940009119886533089https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Srl8Y4pBoKtNVYZBxmfj2TEMYM5tp1mE/viewKeep up with Michael:https://x.com/MTangumahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mtanguma/Keep up with Brian:https://x.com/BackslashBTChttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-cubellis-00b1a660/Keep up with Liam:https://x.com/Lnelson_21https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-nelson1/Keep up with Clay:https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbnorris/https://x.com/ClayNorris10https://confluencevcweekly.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://www.outlaw.vc/

Andrew Camilleri, better known as Kukks, is one of the most prolific contributors to BTCPay Server & an advocate for using bitcoin as money. Recently, he started building Bitcoin Layer 2 applications for Ark Labs & believes in conservative improvements. Time stamps: (00:00:49) Introduction & Andrew's Background (00:01:46) Getting Into Bitcoin & Altcoin Integrations (00:03:02) Focusing on Bitcoin & Monero Plugin (00:04:04) BTCPay Plugins & Community (00:04:22) Bitcoin's Imperfections & Altcoin Use Cases (00:04:55) Pessimism & Stagnation in Bitcoin Development (00:05:16) Introduction to Ark & Its Evolution (00:06:10) Ark's Technical Evolution (00:07:31) Ark's Impact on Developer Morale (00:07:36) What is Ark? (00:09:08) Ark's Virtual Ledger & Dust Problem (00:09:59) Off-Chain Payments & User Experience (00:11:07) Lightning Network vs. Ark (00:13:21) Custodial Lightning & Ark's Broader Goals (00:15:13) Escrow & Multisig Use Cases (00:16:09) Bitcoin's Usability & Fee Volatility (00:16:51) Miners & Second Layer Economics (00:19:08) Drivechains & Network Fragmentation (00:21:38) Rollups, ZK Proofs, and Simplicity (00:25:53) CTV, Musig2, and Soft Forks (00:28:12) OP_CAT, Collider Script, and Efficiency (00:32:38) Cost, Privacy, and Coinjoin (00:36:12) Stablecoins, Payments, and Swapping (00:38:14) Privacy, TumbleBit, and Ark's Superiority (00:41:03) Expiry, Operators, and User Experience (00:44:14) Becoming an Ark Operator (00:47:31) Fedimints, Liquid, and Privacy (00:49:41) Security Against Operator Theft (00:51:31) HODLing, Expiry, and Automation (00:53:37) Payment Finality & Pre-Confirmation (00:57:49) Government Attacks & Decentralization (01:02:51) Ark's User Experience & Wallet Integration (01:05:11) Lightning Interoperability & Partnerships (01:07:48) Arkade OS & Arcade Script (01:13:06) Underrated Use Cases: Escrow & Synthetic Assets (01:18:29) BTCPay Server's Impact & Bitcoin Payment Adoption (01:22:23) Speculation, Regulation, and Medium of Exchange (01:24:20) Litecoin, Extension Blocks, and Privacy (01:26:01) Coinjoin, Amounts, and Privacy Pools (01:29:09) Bitcoin Upgrades, CTV, and Developer Frustration (01:34:27) Soft Fork Politics & Overselling Upgrades (01:41:53) Payments, Credit Cards, and Onboarding (01:44:11) Stablecoins, Speculation, and Fiat Mindset (01:48:48) Taproot Assets, Altcoins, and Control Tokens (01:52:17) Early Bitcoin Days & Escrow (01:54:53) Gaming, Digital Money, and Bitcoin Adoption (01:59:15) Speculative Attack & Fiat Demand (02:00:01) Supercycle Skepticism & Price Predictions (02:02:22) Hard Forks, Big Blockers, and Research Value (02:24:40) NFTs, Ordinals, and Free Market Transactions (02:36:28) BTCPay Plugins & Comparison to LNBits (02:43:14) Zero Conf, RBF, and Payment Risks (02:47:41) Ark's Future: Liquidity & Decentralization (02:49:25) Testing Ark & Reference Wallet (02:51:00) Browser Wars & Internet Evolution (02:56:26) Scaling Bitcoin Payments & Libra Comparison (02:58:10) Tipping, Custodial Wallets, and Ark's SDK (03:02:12) HODL Culture vs. Spending (03:06:07) Optimism, Pessimism, and User Adoption (03:08:13) Lightning's Complexity & Ark's Simplicity (03:11:18) Competition Among Layer 2s (03:14:13) Ark's Launch, Operators, and Liquidity (03:16:08) Ark Operator Incentives & Fee Structure (03:17:08) Testing, Following, and Final Thoughts

Zach Pardey, CEO and co-founder of Bold, a Bitcoin-focused banking platform, discusses Zach's journey into the Bitcoin space, the societal issues stemming from fiat systems, and how Bitcoin can serve as a solution. The conversation delves into the integration of Bitcoin with traditional banking, the unique offerings of Bold, including Bitcoin rewards and self-custody options, and the emerging trend of Bitcoin treasury companies. Zach emphasizes the importance of self-custody and the need for financial education in the Bitcoin space.Takeaways

Ibrahim Mohmed is the founder of CourtSide Media Group and the co-founder & CEO of Taja AI. His entrepreneurial journey began right here in Ohio, where he launched CourtSide Media, a digital media agency that serves influencers with audiences ranging from 1 million to 75 million followers across various social platforms. Through CourtSide Media, Ibrahim has collaborated with high-profile clients including NBA legend Kevin Garnett, Cleveland's FutureLAND annual conference, and prominent influencer Lauren Fitzmaurice—effectively amplifying their reach and impact through strategic, organic growth.Building on his success with CourtSide, Ibrahim co-founded Taja AI—a platform designed specifically to empower small businesses and content creators. TAJA AI automates content workflows by optimizing, repurposing, and scheduling content, significantly saving time for thousands of creators while maximizing their audience engagement and discoverability.Beyond his entrepreneurial ventures, Ibrahim is deeply committed to social impact through his organization, Nile Nights, which curates events to raise awareness and funds for individuals and communities affected by the ongoing conflict in Sudan.As a founder at the forefront of media and AI, Ibrahim offers powerful insight into where the space is headed and what it takes to succeed within it—please enjoy this fascinating conversation with Ibrahim Mohmed.00:00:00 - The Shift to Video Podcasting  00:04:06 - Understanding Taja AI  00:06:03 - The Entrepreneurial Journey Begins  00:08:14 - The Drive for Storytelling in Media  00:11:47 - The Power of Technological Leverage  00:13:22 - The Vision and Evolution of Taja AI  00:15:31 - User Experience and Product Functionality  00:17:36 - Building a Scalable Company with AI  00:20:35 - The Changing Landscape of Venture Capital  00:22:10 - Navigating Model Providers in AI  00:23:30 - Navigating Competition in the AI Landscape  00:26:26 - Understanding Vibe Coding and Its Impact  00:27:52 - Product Philosophy and Customer Engagement  00:29:41 - Common Mistakes Creators Make  00:32:34 - The Intersection of AI and Human Creativity  00:35:01 - Sustainable Business Models in Content Creation  00:36:42 - Personal Impact and Future Aspirations  00:37:48 - Embracing Adversity in Entrepreneurship  00:40:28 - Looking Ahead: Growth and Innovation  00:47:00 - Final Thoughts and Hidden Gems in Cleveland-----LINKS:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibrahim-mohmed-982076110/https://www.courtsidegroup.com/https://www.taja.ai/-----SPONSOR:Roundstone InsuranceRoundstone Insurance is proud to sponsor Lay of The Land. Founder and CEO, Michael Schroeder, has committed full-year support for the podcast, recognizing its alignment with the company's passion for entrepreneurship, innovation, and community leadership.Headquartered in Rocky River, Ohio, Roundstone was founded in 2005 with a vision to deliver better healthcare outcomes at a more affordable cost. To bring that vision to life, the company pioneered the group medical captive model — a self-funded health insurance solution that provides small and mid-sized businesses with greater control and significant savings.Over the past two decades, Roundstone has grown rapidly, creating nearly 200 jobs in Northeast Ohio. The company works closely with employers and benefits advisors to navigate the complexities of commercial health insurance and build custom plans that prioritize employee well-being over shareholder returns. By focusing on aligned incentives and better health outcomes, Roundstone is helping businesses save thousands in Per Employee Per Year healthcare costs.Roundstone Insurance — Built for entrepreneurs. Backed by innovation. Committed to Cleveland.-----Stay up to date by signing up for Lay of The Land's weekly newsletter — sign up here.Past guests include Justin Bibb (Mayor of Cleveland), Pat Conway (Great Lakes Brewing), Steve Potash (OverDrive), Umberto P. Fedeli (The Fedeli Group), Lila Mills (Signal Cleveland), Stewart Kohl (The Riverside Company), Mitch Kroll (Findaway — Acquired by Spotify), and over 200 other Cleveland Entrepreneurs.Connect with Jeffrey Stern on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreypstern/Follow Lay of The Land on X @podlayofthelandhttps://www.jeffreys.page/

In this episode, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia interviews Glen Coates, Vice President of Product at Shopify.Shopify is one of the world's leading commerce platforms, powering millions of businesses and helping entrepreneurs sell online and offline with ease. Since launching in 2006, it has become a global e-commerce giant and the second-largest online retailer in the U.S., with over $8 billion in annual revenue and 8,000+ employees working fully remotely.Glen leads Shopify's Core Product organization, overseeing the storefront, checkout, back office, marketing, analytics tools, and the core developer platform. He also drives Shopify's thriving partner ecosystem, which offers merchants access to over 10,000 apps. From video game developer to B2B ecommerce founder to product leader at scale, Glen brings a rare blend of technical depth and entrepreneurial vision.In this episode, he shares how his unconventional path shaped his approach to product leadership, the principles behind Shopify's fast-moving strategy, and how the company stays ahead with AI and deep product focus. He also explains his org design for scale, why every product leader must “know everything down to the details,” and how the team keeps the experience polished with the “Boring Edition.”What you'll learn:-Glen's journey from game development to leading Shopify's core platform.- How Shopify's viral “AI memo” raised the bar for PMs and engineers to build faster.- The Outcomes, Assumptions & Principles framework behind better product decisions.- Why focusing on fundamentals keeps Shopify nimble and merchants competitive.Key Takeaways

In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, I, Stewart Alsop, speak with Andrew Einhorn, CEO and founder of Level Fields, a platform using AI to help people navigate financial markets through the lens of repeatable, data-driven events. We explore how structured patterns in market news—like CEO departures or earnings surprises—can inform trading strategies, how Level Fields filters noise from financial data, and the emotional nuance of user experience design in fintech. Andrew also shares insights on knowledge graphs, machine learning in finance, and the evolving role of narrative in markets. Stock tips from Level Fields are available on their YouTube channel at Level Fields AI and their website levelfields.ai.Check out this GPT we trained on the conversationTimestamps00:00 – Andrew introduces Level Fields and explains how it identifies event-driven stock movements using AI.05:00 – Discussion of LLMs vs. custom models, and how Level Fields prioritized financial specificity over general AI.10:00 – Stewart asks about ontologies and knowledge graphs; Andrew describes early experiences building rule-based systems.15:00 – They explore the founder's role in translating problems, UX challenges, and how user expectations shape product design.20:00 – Insight into feedback collection, including a unique refund policy aimed at improving user understanding.25:00 – Andrew breaks down the complexities of user segmentation, churn, and adapting the product for different investor types.30:00 – A look into event types in the market, especially crypto-related announcements and their impact on equities.35:00 – Philosophical turn on narrative vs. fundamentals in finance; how news and groupthink drive large-scale moves.40:00 – Reflection on crypto parallels to dot-com era, and the long-term potential of blockchain infrastructure.45:00 – Deep dive into machine persuasion, LLM training risks, and the influence of opinionated data in financial AI.50:00 – Final thoughts on momentum algos, market manipulation, and the need for transparent, structured data.Key InsightsEvent-Based Investing as Market Forecasting: Andrew Einhorn describes Level Fields as a system for interpreting the market's weather—detecting recurring events like CEO departures or earnings beats to predict price movements. This approach reframes volatility as something intelligible, giving investors a clearer sense of timing and direction.Building Custom AI for Finance: Rejecting generic large language models, Einhorn's team developed proprietary AI trained exclusively on financial documents. By narrowing the scope, they increased precision and reduced noise, enabling the platform to focus only on events that truly impact share price behavior.Teaching Through Signals, Not Just Showing: Stewart Alsop notes how Level Fields does more than surface opportunities—it educates. By linking cause and effect in financial movements, the platform helps users build intuition, transforming confusion into understanding through repeated exposure to clear, data-backed patterns.User Expectation vs. Product Vision: Initially, Level Fields emphasized an event-centric UX, but users sought more familiar tools like ticker searches and watchlists. This tension revealed that even innovative technologies must accommodate habitual user flows before inviting them into new ways of thinking.Friction as a Path to Clarity: To elicit meaningful feedback, Level Fields implemented a refund policy that required users to explain what didn't work. The result wasn't just better UX insights—it also surfaced emotional blockages around investing and design, sharpening the team's understanding of what users truly needed.Narrative as a Volatile Market Force: Einhorn points out that groupthink in finance stems from shared academic training, creating reflexive investment patterns tied to economic narratives. These surface-level cycles obscure the deeper, steadier signals that Level Fields seeks to highlight through its data model.AI's Risk of Amplifying Noise: Alsop and Einhorn explore the darker corners of machine persuasion and LLM-generated content. Since models are trained on public data, including biased and speculative sources, they risk reinforcing distortions. In response, Level Fields emphasizes curated, high-integrity inputs grounded in financial fact.

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