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TODAY'S GUEST

Uri Aviv is a Science fiction Evangelist. He is the Founder and director, of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Fantastic Films in Tel Aviv. A festival which merges an international film festival with an events program emphasizing the mutual inspiration between science and science fiction, and the social and philosophical significance of speculative thought.

Uri is also Program curator and Producer for conferences and festivals, including academic conferences, public science talks, tech meetups, workshops, and art exhibits and more.

He's also an accomplished writer and speaker in his own right.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[3:03] How Uri is affected by the Covid crisis

[5:46] The challenges of productions under the strain of an epidemic

[7:25] The psychological challenges of dealing with uncertainty.

[11:13] How Science Fiction became Uri's calling and his life from an early age, and his growing skepticism

[15:46] About good parenting and good teachers

[20:35] Uri getting into Star Trek at a very young age.

[26:52] What it felt like to lead a popular national science fiction festival at such a young age.

[29:15] Why Israeli culture seems anti science fiction

[41:27] Why it's so important to imagine alternative futures

[44:13] The creation of Designing Tomorrow, an international, interdisciplinary program for creating alternative futures.

[53:22] On the space between Utopia and Dystopia

[56:28] On where we are headed with climate and technology

[1:00:27] Two final quotes about chasing utopias.

EPISODE LINKS

• Uri Aviv's Links
  • 🌍 AvivUri.com
  • Utopia Festival (Hebrew)
  • Utopia on Facebook
  • 🌍 The Futures Community
• Other Things Discussed
  • 🌍 re:publica festival
  • 🌍 "It Takes a Crisis" by Naomi Klein
  • 📺 Ursula K. Le Guin's 2014 Acceptance Speech
  • 📘 Thomas Moore's Utopia
  • 📕 Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossesed

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TODAY’S GUEST

Patrick Lightbody is a 3rd time entrepreneur, and currently a Co-Founder of Reclaim.ai, a fascinating artificial intelligence startup promising to help optimize, time-box, and defend your schedule from distraction and meeting-creep.

Patrick is a self-professed Data Nerd, and has long roots in automation and big data. Being involved early with projects and companies like Selenium, OpenSymphony, and New Relic.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[3:18] Patrick’s journey into making things

[8:38] Why Patrick misses the days of readable code and accessible web tinkering

[11:00] Patrick's early involvement with important open-source projects

[15:38] The influence of Patrick's first real professional mentor, and his methodical management philosophy.

[19:19] Patrick's early and crucial involvement with Selenium, the world's most popular automated testing platform.

[22:34] The social impact of automation.

[27:30] Patrick's relationship with data.The importance of uncovering the stories behind the data.

[34:35] The Social Dilemma -- Everyone is getting data from people and trying to create a model of what these people are going to be interested in, what is going to get their attention, etc.

[41:41] How Reclaim came to be.

[54:05] What's so special about Reclaim?

[59:10] Various productivity and time management methodologies.

[1:04:33] Reclaim as a GPS for Daily Life.

[1:08:57] Patrick's vision for Reclaim's future.

EPISODE LINKS

• Patrick Lightbody's Links
  • 🌍 Reclaim AI
  • 🌍 Patrick's Twitter: @plightbo
• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 🌍 Jive Software
  • 🌍 Selenium / Selenium Remote Control
  • 📺 "Look at Your Data" , a talk by John Rauser at Velocity 2011
  • 🌍 New Relic
  • 🌍 Scratch Jr.
  • 🌍 Swift Playgrounds
  • 🎬 The Social Dilemma - Netflix (Official Trailer)
  • 🌍 Facebook Messenger for Kids 😱
  • 🌍 OKR
  • 🌍 V2MOM
  • 📘 Make Time by John Zeratsky and Jake Knapp
  • 📘 Indistractable by Nir Eyal
  • 📘 Hooked by Nir Eyal

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TODAY’S GUEST

Dr. Lior Zalmanson taught the "Information Technology for Business and Society" course at NYU Stern, was a Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum Media Lab, and spent his career studying the interrelations between society and the internet. His studies won awards and grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Google, the Marketing Science Institute and were covered in The Times, Independent, PBS, Fast Company, just to name a few.

Today he is a senior lecturer at the Technology and Information Management Program, Coller School of Management in Tel Aviv University. In his parallel life, Lior is also the founder of the Print Screen Festival, Israel's first and largest digital culture festival,
and is an award-winning digital artist, playwright, and screenwriter. His recent film (about drone operators) received its debut at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. 

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

[3:24] How the power of informal & civic engagement, helped Lior discover non-traditional leadership styles, and empowered him to pursue his passion.

[12:37] How Lior came to find clarity of passion and purpose.

[16:46] How Lior thinks about the totality of what he is doing today.

[19:43] Why study the internet?

[21:36] How the internet is changing us.

[50:07] How algorithms are taking over middle-management, and increasingly managing humans.

[1:09:32] Lior's connection with Reform Judaism & spirituality

[1:20:55] Lior's art, focusing on two specific works of art.

EPISODE LINKS

• Dr. Lior Zalmanson Links
  • 🌍 LiorZalmanson.Art
  • 🌍 Lior's Google Scholar Profile
  • 📺  Lior's "When Algorithms are Your Boss" Talk
  • 🌍 Artificial Artificial Fears
  • 🌍 Print Screen Festival

• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 📺 Steve Jobs' Commencement Speech at Stanford University 2005
  • 🌍 Surveillance Capitalism (Wikipedia)
  • 📘  "Algorithm Appreciation" Study
  • 📘  The Experience Economy  by B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore
  • 🎬 The Social Dilemma Movie Trailer
  • 📕 The Buddha in the Robot, by Masahiro Mori

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TODAY’S GUEST

Kathy Davies wears many hats - she’s a Design Lecturer at Stanford University. She's the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design lab, where she and her team have trained 150 universities globally to use the life design processes on their campuses to help students design, prototype, and test the right career paths for them.

She is also a Cofounder and CEO at DYL Consulting where she uses design thinking and life design principles to build a better world. 

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

• [02:56] Challenges during the pandemic, transitioning into virtual classes and workshops.

• [18:34] Kathy's early desires to connect, and to combine science with art in her work.

• [29:23] Kathy's engineering experience.

• [33:14] Getting into Design Thinking at Stanford.

• [48:59] The journey into Life Design.

• [1:02:22] Why is it so hard for us to figure out what we want to do in life?

• [1:07:31] The Life Design process.

• [1:19:39] Life Design for women.

• [1:30:02] The future of Life Design, and its impact.

EPISODE LINKS

• Kathy Davies' Links
  • 🌍 Stanford Life Design Lab
  • 🌍 DYL Consulting 
  • 🌍 Stanford Product Design Program
  • 📘 Designing Your Life Book
  • 🌍 Designing Your Life for Women
  • 🗓 Designing Your life for Women Event Page
• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 🌍 Seth Godin's Akimbo Workshops
  • 📺 How to Make Hard Choices, TED Talk by Ruth Chang

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TODAY’S GUEST

Shalev Moran is a Copenhagen-based Game Designer, a Game Design Director at PortaPlay, and was formerly the lead game designer on revolutionary art exploration game Occupy White Walls.

He runs the political sci-fi project Speculative Tourism, and is a member of organizations like the Designing Tomorrows collective, and the Game Arts International Network.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

• Shalev's early belief that the world is a complicated place.
• His insight that Indy games might be going through a Nouvelle Vague moment where independent creators can express their artistic vision more freely.
• His experience in the mainstream gaming industry at Plarium.
• His work on the ambitious Occupy White Walls game - which brings art to the masses through an online gaming environment.
• The radical Speculative Tourism project he worked on alongside designer Mushon Zer-Aviv, which explores futures through locative experiences.
• His vision for a never-ending, ever changing game he calls Archipelago. 

* You can watch the full, unedited video conversation on the Remake Podcast Members community.

EPISODE LINKS

• Shalev Moran's Links
  
  • 🌍 ShalevMoran.com
  • 🌍 Facebook: shalevmoran
  • 🌍 Twitter: @shalev_moran
  • 💼 PortaPlay
  • 🎧 Speculative Tourism
• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 🖼 Occupy White Walls
  • 🎨 Designing Tomorrows
  • 🎬 Utopia Festival

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TODAY’S GUEST

Jake Knapp is one of the most influential product designers living today. Formerly a product designer at Microsoft, Google, and Google Ventures, he’s the creator of the Design Sprint process, which transformed the way hundreds of enterprises and thousands of designers around the world approach new product design. He is also a bestselling author of two books, Sprint, and Make Time.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this audio conversation we discuss:

• Surviving covid and chaos
• Finding positivity in hard things
• Jake’s childhood and the sense of possibility
• What is Design? Problem-solving or gooey rainbows?
• What’s broken with how companies approach new products?
• How did the idea of the Design Sprint come about?
• How to explain Design Sprints to an unsuspecting person
• Writing a science-fiction novel, resistance
• And more!

* You can watch the full, unedited video conversation on the Remake Podcast Members community. We also discuss: Dogs, Spiders in Thailand, Quotes on the Internet, US Presidential History, the ReMarkable Tablet, and more.

EPISODE LINKS

• Jake Knapp’s Links
  
  • 🌍 JakeKnapp.com
  • 🌍 TheSprintBook.com
  • 🌍 Jake on Medium
  • 📘 Sprint: Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days
  • 📔 Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
    
• Other Things Discussed
  
  • 📙  37Signals Getting Real
  • 📘 Getting Things Done
  • 📕 Brain Rules
  • 📗 Decisive
  • 🍿 Amadeus (Film)
  • 📘 On Writing, by Stephen King
  • 📕 The War of Art

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TODAY’S GUEST

Dr. Shahar Avin is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge University, focusing primarily on risks associated with artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms.

EPISODE SUMMARY

We discuss:

• Shahar’s unique approach of discovering truths through simulation and gaming.
• His insights into how to fix the broken system of science-funding.
• The existential risks associated with the rise of machine intelligence.
• Shahar's project, Intelligence Rising, in collaboration with Oxford University’s Future of Humanities Institute and our own Remake Labs, to create a strategic scenario game that will help educate decision makers on the possible risks and effects of the accelerating development in AI capabilities in the next few years.

EPISODE LINKS

• Dr. Shahar Avin's Links
  
  • 🌍 ShaharAvin.com 
  • 🌍 Shahar on CSER @ Cambridge
  • 🌍 Shahar's Google Scholar Profile

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TODAY’S GUEST

Saverio Bianchi’s London-based strategic consultancy, Atelier & Avenue, specializes in eCommerce Acceleration and Digital Transformation for Luxury, Fashion & Beauty brands around the world.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

• Savario's childhood in Italy growing up as the son of architects
• His journey in the international business world
• His ideas about consulting ethics
• The dangerous conflicts of interest that can arise
• The value of remaining an unbiased and trusted advisor.
• And more!

EPISODE LINKS

• Saverio's Links
  
  • 🌍 Blog & Newsletter: SaverioBianchi.com 
  • 🌍 ATELIER & AVENUE
  • 📣 Twitter: @SaverioBianchi
  • 💼 LinkedIn: saveriobianchi

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TODAY’S GUEST

Maya Magnat is a performance Artist, an educator, and an advocate of inti-tech, or intimate technologies.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

• How growing up in Tel-Aviv in the 90s shaped her outlook.
• How her performance art, education, and advocacy fit together.
• Her hopes for Intimake, a group she’s founded that's composed of makers, hackers, designers, and sexual health educators dedicated to improving human sex and intimacy through technology.

EPISODE LINKS

• Maya's Links
  
  • 🌍 MayaMagnat.com
  • 🌍 Intimake FB Page
  • 🌍 Intimake FB Group [Hebrew]

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