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TODAY'S GUEST

Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a futurist, urban planning thinker, and the author of Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence. She's a faculty member at Singularity University South Africa with a focus on urban futures, including smart cities, networks, urban planning, governance and development, and innovation systems. She's an associate of The South African Cities Network and had worked with The National Treasury, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and the University of California, Los Angeles Advanced Policy Institute.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• The value and importance of speaking your truth, and how she learned that in childhood.
• Her journey from Kenya to the United States, and then to South Africa.
• Her experiments with architecture, physics, and computer science.
• Why urban planning was more appealing to her than architecture.
• The issues that architecture doesn't address.
• Her approach to foresight and future thinking.
• Smart cities, and what constitutes bad urban design.
• Her work with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe.
• And decolonizing our knowledge and ways of knowing.

I loved hearing about Geci's use of different foresight practices to imagine different futures and different possibilities for the future. But what really stayed with me is how dire the situation is — with urbanization outpacing our predictions and our ability to plan, and giving rise to shortages and unplanned solutions that may be less than ideal. We need every tool in our creative toolbox to make sure our cities grow to be a place of diversity, creativity, and opportunity, rather than their opposite.

This episode is especially rich with resources and references, so I wanna encourage everyone listening to check the show notes. We are fairly meticulous at listing and providing links to every article, book, person, or resource mentioned in the episode.

We have close to a dozen weekly episodes already lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, and entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:24] Life in the Present

[7:05] Early Childhood Lessons

[10:02] An Intercontinental Journey

[13:58] A Sense of Dismissal

[16:59] A World of Futures and Foresight

[19:21] Creating a Culture of Futures Thinking

[23:32] An Unpredictable Future

[26:22] An Appreciative Practice

[34:33] What Does Good Look Like?

[37:18] Smart Cities and Design Thinking

[41:44] Capacity to Decolonize

[47:09] A Poetic Collaboration

[50:50] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Geci's Links
  • 🏫 Coe College
  • 🏫 UCLA
  • 🏫 SingularityU South Africa
  • 💰 The National Treasury
  • 🔬 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
  • 🌎 Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa
  • 🌎 New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
  • 🌎 The Millennium Project
  • 🌎 Southern Africa Node - The Millennium Project
  • 🌎 The Global Millennium Prize Project
  • 🌎 Capacity to Decolonise (C2D)
  • 📘 Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence
  • 🏙️ The South African Cities Network
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @geci
• Other Links
  • 🌎 UNESCO
  • 📕 Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 21st Century by Riel Miller
  • 🎧 Eddie Obeng Interview
  • 📝 Regularising "informality": turning the legitimate into legal? by Paul Jenkins
  • 🏫 Stellenbosch University
  • 🌎 Seeds of Good Anthropocenes
  • 🎧 Bayo Akomolafe Interview
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

BJ Miller is an American physician, author, and speaker. He is a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician, and is best known for his 2015 TED Talk, "What Really Matters at the End of Life". BJ, who served as an executive director of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, has been on the teaching faculty at UCSF School of Medicine since 2017, and is the subject of the Netflix Academy Award nominated short documentary, End Game. His book, A Beginner's Guide to the End, which he co-authored with Shoshana Berger, is an unflinching, compassionate, and intensely pragmatic guide to the end of life.

Today, BJ sees patients and caregivers through his online palliative care service, Mettle Health.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up with a mother who lived with polio, and how that influenced his thinking.
• A severe accident early it life, which forced him to re-form his identity and informed the rest of his journey.
• His path in Palliative care - and the insight that the health establishment is designed to treat diseases, not humans.
• His insights into the meaning and wisdom one can find at the end of life.

It's been a rare pleasure to talk to someone like BJ, who is someone who steps into realms of experience most of us avoid at all costs, and to hear the precious types of wisdom he brings with him from there.

This episode, I think, is also a great introduction to the world of palliative medicine, which may be the first time the medical establishment put the patient's experience, quality of life, and constructed meeting at the heart of care, treating people as opposed to diseases. BJ and I discuss the ways the healthcare system and hospital system are badly designed, and what can be done about it.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:32] Life During Covid

[7:23] Early Childhood Spirituality

[12:30] An Accident and an Identity Crisis

[18:25] The Significance of a Snowball

[22:01] Palliative Care and the Dynamic Between Human Beings

[29:51] A Badly Designed Healthcare System

[32:20] Necessary vs Unnecessary Suffering

[35:13] Lessons in Death

[39:51] Wildness and Wonderment

[47:54] A Beginner's Guide to the End

[53:36] A Sermon on Life and Death

EPISODE LINKS

• BJ's Links
  • 🌍 Zen Hospice Project
  • 🌍 Mettle Health
  • 📘 A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
  • 🎤 TED Talk
  • 🍿 End Game
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @bjmillermd
  • 📺 YouTube Channel

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TODAY'S GUEST

Susie Wise is a designer, educator, and author, whose wonderful book Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities came out in April 2022 as part of the new Stanford d.school book series on core design skills. She teaches at the Stanford d.school and coaches leaders in innovation practices and liberatory design.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• The topic of belonging and how to foster it.
• The need for belonging in troubling times.
• What being bored at school taught Susie about herself and the world.
• How she moved from politics to design and got involved with the Stanford d.school.
• Her work in the K12 lab at d.school, which combined design thinking with the Montessori education system.
• Moving from design thinking and education, to liberatory design and design for belonging.

What is belonging? What does it look and feel like? Why does it matter? What is othering, and how does it work? The importance of ritual, storytelling, and spaces, and crafting belonging. As someone who's researched religion through a designer's eye, I love the emphasis on ritual, spaces, and storytelling, and crafting belonging. All of these areas, which religions are famously good at utilizing, whereas secular environments often fail entirely to appreciate. But what if a school made you feel as welcome and as part of the community as the best churches? What if the rituals we crafted and the stories we told included every one of us?

Since this interview with Susie, I've already interviewed a few of her co-authors in the d.school new book series, which will be coming out in the next few weeks.

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Susie Wise.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[5:08] Life in the Present

[11:57] Childhood Projects

[13:56] A Path to Design

[18:05] The Birth of the K12 Lab

[20:26] The Montessori System

[23:16] Belonging and Equity

[27:53] Design for Belonging

[29:51] What is Belonging?

[31:29] Seeing Belonging

[36:33] Othering and Systemic Othering

[43:25] The Assumption Storm

[46:49] Shaping Belonging with Rituals

[50:53] Shaping Belonging with Spaces

[54:25] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Susie's Links
  • 🌎 Design for Belonging
  • 📘 Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
  • 🏫 Stanford University
  • 🏫 Stanford d.school
  • 🏫 K12 Lab - Stanford d.school
  • 🏫 Urban Montessori Charter School
  • 📷 Instagram: Instagram Profile
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @susiewise
• Other Links
  • 🌎 National Equity Project
  • 🏫 Othering & Belonging Institute
  • 🎨 Rose Jaffe Website
  • 📕 Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
  • 🌎 john a. powell Website
  • 🌎 Christine Wong Yap Website
  • 🌎 Google
  • 📁 Dropbox
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Eyal Press is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Times. His most recent book is Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, which won the 2022 Hillman Prize and was named a New York Times Notable book. He's also the host of the podcast Primary Sources.

We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Eyal after getting a hold of his book, Dirty Work, which covers the ethically questionable, psychologically damaging work society delegates to marginalized, far away, or hidden workers. An example of this would be killer drone operators who sit in a safe command center in the US while killing people remotely underground in the Middle East, and the complexities of the systems we create to keep those jobs hidden and far away and removed from the so-called "good people". I found the conversation fascinating and challenging.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Him growing up as the son and grandson of Holocaust survivors and the perspective it gave him.
• The rarity of people who take a moral stand in the face of bad consequences.
• What Everett Hughes had to say about the people who keep themselves clean and good while knowingly ignoring horrors done in their name.
• The character of dirty work and the systemic structures that make it persist. We then dive into particular examples, such as prison systems in the US, drone warfare as an imagined way to clean up war, and things that Americans consume that have dirty work behind them.
• Moral injury and how unethical jobs can over time create real injury, psychological harm to the people performing them.
• The invisibility of dirty work.
• What can we do to clean up dirty work?
• And we dive into the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the extent to which Israeli society is delegating the dirty work of occupation to soldiers and military police, and the ways in which civil organizations like Breaking the Silence are trying to counteract that tendency.

It's impossible to talk to Eyal and not think about the places where I might be exporting unpleasant or unethical work to invisible hands while still benefiting from their work. And it's been useful to think about what I can do in these situations. Eyal provided a valuable and challenging framework to think about the world we live in and what's truly necessary to make it better — not only keep our own hands clean, but raising awareness and reforming systems that fund and perpetuate morally injurious work out of the site of so-called "good people".

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, authors, scientists, designers, makers, and entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Eyal Press.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:34] Life in the Present

[5:44] Family History Osmosis

[7:16] Beautiful Souls

[12:05] The Story of Everett Hughes

[17:48] The Structure of Dirty Work

[29:45] Moral Injury

[38:49] The Hidden Nature of Dirty Jobs

[42:28] Jobs of Last Resort

[44:38] The Good People

[50:13] Breaking the Silence

[56:49] The Dirty Work in Tech

[1:00:20] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Eyal's Links
  • 🌎 Eyal Press Website
  • 📘 Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
  • 📘 Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
  • 📘 Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America
  • 📝 The New Yorker - Eyal Press Latest Articles
  • 🎧 Primary Sources Podcast
  • 📣 Twitter: @EyalPress
• Other Links
  • 📝 Good People and Dirty Work by Everett C. Hughes
  • 🐷 Smithfield Foods
  • 🐔 Sanderson Farms
  • 🧚 Disneyland
  • 🏫 University of Cambridge
  • 🏫 Harvard University
  • 🛂 ICE | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • 📕 No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
  • 🪖 Breaking the Silence
  • 🌎 Google
  • 📦 Amazon
  • 🌎 Facebook
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels.

During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together — more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people.

In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.

Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook.
• His complex relationship with atheism and religion today.
• How he discovered love and solidarity in activism.
• Technologies of organizing.
• Forming decentralized decision-making processes.
• Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice.
• Loomio, and collective decision-making software.
• Status and hierarchy.
• Shifting culture through fermentation.
• And the concept of stewardship.

We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging.

It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule?

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[5:23] Life in the Present

[8:07] Early Childhood Community

[10:33] A Complex Religious Journey

[18:37] The Occupy Movement

[23:45] A Transformational Insight

[28:21] Cowardice and Courage

[30:40] Membership Groups

[35:16] Intersecting Communities

[41:06] Status and Hierarchy

[44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture

[48:21] The Stewardship System

[51:58] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Richard's Links
  • 🌎 Richard D. Bartlett Website
  • 🌎 Loomio
  • 🌎 The Hum
  • 🌎 Enspiral
  • 📘 Patterns for Decentralised Organising
  • 🎤 TED Talk
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @RichDecibels
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 🎧 Daniel Thorson Interview
  • 🌎 Facebook
  • 📣 Twitter
  • 🏜️ Burning Man
  • 🏜️ Midburn
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Greg Hoffman is Nike's former Chief Marketing Officer, a global brand leader, advisor, and speaker, and the author of Emotion by Design: Creative Leadership Lessons From a Life at Nike.

In his book, Greg shares lessons and stories on the power of creativity drawn from almost three decades of experience within the company. It's a celebration of creativity and a call-to-arms for brand-builders to rediscover the human element that makes consumer bonds.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• How he developed his love of art and design sensibility.
• Growing up in branding inside of Nike, until eventually becoming Chief Marketing Officer.
• The importance of emotion and storytelling.
• On authenticity, and why chasing cool is a bad idea.
• On creativity as a team sport.
• And on the importance of courage.

We talked in mid-June 2022 and I was looking forward to talking to Greg because Nike clearly is doing some amazing work around branding and brand values, and is able again and again to create authentic connections at scale.

I'm a latecomer to the world of branding. For much of my life, I was an avid product person and saw the brand as an afterthought. It's only in recent years that I understood the extent to which our lives, our thinking, and our decisions are driven by the stories we tell, and the emotional associations we make.

The art of doing that well is branding. And it can be used for good or evil, and is just as important in non-profits and political organizations as it is in business.

I really enjoyed the stories of some of Nike's iconic campaigns. Digging in to find compelling ways to tell stories that illustrate and support your values in a real way, feels like a very human way of crafting a brand that people can believe in.

I've counted the episodes that we already have recorded and edited for you, and it's currently eight episodes. There are famous designers like Vicki Tan and John Maeda, authors like Susie Wise and Ashish Goel, and the most connected man in the world, Chris Dancy, among them. We release conversations weekly with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Greg Hoffman.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:39] Life in the Present

[5:38] Early Childhood Driving Forces

[7:29] An Age of Color Blindness

[9:18] The Power of Drawing

[12:52] Joining Nike

[16:27] What is Branding?

[18:12] The Importance of Emotions

[23:57] Crafting Authenticity

[32:44] Developing a Culture of Risk-Taking

[35:19] Find Your Greatness

[38:06] Believe in Something

[41:04] Designing Dreams

[45:52] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Greg's Links
  • 👟 Nike
  • 📘 Emotion by Design: Creative Leadership Lessons From a Life at Nike
  • 🌎 The Modern Arena
  • 🏫 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
  • 🏫 Lundquist College of Business - University of Oregon
  • 🎤 "Capturing Imagination Through Brand Storytelling" Talk
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @g_hoffm
• Other Links
  • 🌎 Google
  • 🌎 Facebook
  • ☕ Nespresso
  • 👟 Nike Air Force 1
  •  Apple
  • 🥤 Kendall Jenner Pepsi Commercial
  • 🏀 Michael Jordan "Failure" Commercial
  • 📺 Nike "Find Your Greatness" Commercial
  • 🏈 Nike "Believe in Something" Commercial
  • 🏈 Nike Stand Up Speak Up Campaign
  • 📺 Nike Equality Campaign
  • 🤺 Nike Pro Hijab 2.0
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

John-Paul Flintoff is a writer, performer, and illustrator, and the author of books like How to Change the World and A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech. He worked for 15 years as a writer and associate editor on the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and other papers in magazines, and has been involved with The School of Life in London as a lecturer and writer.

Today, he runs a subscription service called Adequate Projects, which provides moral support and a bit of financial freedom in return for discounts and exclusive access.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• The importance of creativity and how he learned it as a child.
• His attraction to poetry and why he became a journalist.
• His book, How to Change the World, and the burden it placed on him later in life.
• His involvement with The School of Life.
• What learning improv taught him about creativity and about life.
• His work on public speaking and his book on the subject.
• And how tragedy reshaped his life and led him on a search for more resilient happiness.

We spoke in early June 2022, and I was excited to talk to John-Paul because of his involvement with so many things I care about, from The School of Life, to mindful use of technology, to improv and creativity, to the art of writing.

I left this conversation feeling inspired by John-Paul's honesty, his never-ending search for expression, creativity, and happiness, and the wisdom with which he connects with the people around him. I think most of our listeners will feel the same.

This conversation is one of many weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, and entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with John-Paul Flintoff.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:44] Life in the Present

[11:04] Childhood Creativity

[16:18] A Journey to Journalism

[19:45] A Memorable Event

[23:39] From Journalist to Author

[28:30] The School of Life

[31:44] Change the World

[35:42] Beauty and Fun

[39:13] Effective Tools for Change

[47:15] The Power of Improv

[49:44] The Rejection Game

[52:36] The Biggest Takeaways

[55:38] A Religious Journey

[1:05:25] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• John-Paul's Links
  • 🌍 John-Paul Flintoff Website
  • 🏫 Holland Park School
  • 📘 Comp - A Survivor's Tale
  • 📘 How to Change the World
  • 📘 A Modest Book About How to Make an Adequate Speech
  • 📘 Psalms for the City: Original poetry for the places we call home
  • 📰 Financial Times
  • 📰 The Sunday Times
  • 🏫 The School of Life
  • 🎤 TED Talk - How to Change the World
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Conversations That Change Life
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @jpflintoff
  • 📺 YouTube Channel
• Other Links
  • 📓 Moleskine
  • 📝 reMarkable
  • 📱 iPad
  • 🎨 Procreate
  • ✝️ The Bible
  • 📕 Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
  • 📕 There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places by Brad Warner
  • ✍️ Medium
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST

Joe Macleod was Global Head of Design for the legendary Design agency and game studio UsTwo, and is a veteran with decades of experience across service, digital, and product sectors.

In recent years, he became fascinated with the problem of designing good ending experiences and is the founder of what he calls "the world's first customer ending business". It's not what you think - no customers get killed in the process. Instead, Joe is focused on giving customers a positive, meaningful, and socially responsible end of relationship experience.

His first book, titled Ends, is a look into the importance of thinking about offboarding - from sustainability and recycling, through data and privacy, to retiring old products and tools, and finds the roots of our collective repression of the end of cycle problem in our fear of death, and the rise of mass market capitalism.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[2:18] Covid situation in Stockholm.

[5:41] Growing up in the UK as a child with dyslexia, developing a sense of independence.

[9:55] Early involvement in graphics, very early HTML and digital design work, and interaction design.

[13:13] Getting involved with Mobile early at Orange and Nokia.

[15:02] Observing the rise and fall of Nokia.

[16:57] Joining legendary digital agency UsTwo.

[26:06] The Off-Boarding Problem.

[32:11] Getting Interested in Endings.

[38:18] The Western Avoidance of Death.

[41:07] A Chance to Reflect.

[46:18] The Move Away from Endings.

[51:11] Why is it important?

[58:19] The Narrative Importance of Ending.

[59:18] The Ends Book, and the 2nd Book.

[1:14:29] Why the Focus on Endings?

EPISODE LINKS

• Joe's Links
  • 🌍 Joe Macleod's Blog @ Medium
  • 📔 Ends. The Book
  • 🌍 AnEnd.com - The Business
  • 📣 Twitter: @mrmacleod
• Other Things Discussed
  • 🌍 UsTwo Agency
  • ⛳️ Monument Valley Game
  • 🌍 WAP - Wireless Application Protocol (1999)

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TODAY'S GUEST Dr. Tobias Rees is CEO of Transformations of the Human School, and was formerly the William Dawson Chair at McGill University and the Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the Parsons School of Design. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and holds degrees in philosophy, anthropology, and neurobiology.

In the early 2010s, he recognized that contemporary technology not only disrupts our historical established ways of thinking and doing, but also creates new ones: radically new possibilities that unfold beyond what we take for granted. This, he believes, is not only a sweeping event in the history of thought, but also a major opportunity; technology itself has become philosophical, and it has become possible to "do" philosophy by building and inventing new technologies.

This led him on a path to building a new institution, dedicated to the interplay of philosophy, art, science, and engineering, and to the way they blur the lines between the human and nonhuman.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

• Growing up with no books and few words in a small peasant village in Southern Germany.
• The importance and uses of silence which stayed with him ever since.
• How he became interested in philosophy, and the big questions after his grandfather's death.
• Moving freely from philosophy to comparative religion to anthropology and art history.
• The happy accident that led him to studying neurobiology and learning to see himself as a brain.
• The importance of concepts in framing our day-to-day experience.
• What do terms like human and humanity mean? When were they introduced? How did they evolve?
• What is the relationship between nature, humans, and machines?
• His work with some of the largest technology companies who are building a future to bring philosophy and art into the room.
• Where does creativity lie with AI algorithms like DALL·E 2?
• And the need to always reexamine our assumptions about the world and our values.

This conversation with Tobias is one of many weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, authors, makers, activists, and leaders who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in, with Dr. Tobias Rees.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[5:18] Life in the Present

[7:00] Early Childhood Silence

[13:44] An Educational Journey

[22:49] The Importance of Concepts

[32:04] A Period of Growth and Sadness

[40:47] An Opening of Doors

[44:55] The Term 'Human'

[56:12] Anthropology of Machines

[1:11:35] Merging Philosophy with Engineering

[1:17:55] A Short Sermon

EPISODE LINKS

• Tobias' Links
  • 🏫 Transformations of the Human (ToftH)
  • 🏫 Berggruen Institute
  • 🏫 University of California, Berkeley
  • 🏫 McGill University
  • 🏫 Parsons School of Design | The New School
  • 🏫 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
  • 💼 LinkedIn: LinkedIn Profile
  • 📣 Twitter: @tobias_rees

• Other Links
  • 📕 The Apology of Socrates by Plato
  • 🔬 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 👨‍💼 LinkedIn
  • 🌎 Cloudera
  • 💻 Microsoft
  • 🏨 The Beverly Hills Hotel
  • 💉 The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise
  • 🌎 Gates Foundation
  • 🎗️ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  • 🏫 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • 📕 Race and History by Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • 🎧 Jay McClelland Interview
  • 🤖 OpenAI
  • 🤖 DALL·E 2
  • 📷 Adobe Photoshop
  • 🌎 Google
  • 🌎 Facebook
  • 🏫 Stanford University
  • 🌎 X, the moonshot factory
  • 🎤 TED Talk - Alain de Botton

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TODAY'S GUEST Steve Krug is one of the founding fathers of User Experience and Usability Design, and a bestselling author of two foundational classics in the field: Don't Make Me Think, his guide to Usability Design with over 600,000 copies in print today, and Rocket Surgery Made Easy, a friendly guide to Usability Testing. He based his writing on decades spent as a usability consultant for a wide variety of clients like Apple, Bloomberg.com, Lexus.com, NPR, and the International Monetary Fund, and continues to consult through his firm, Advanced Common Sense.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[2:45] Life during the Covid pandemic.

[5:49] Being nice is better than being smart.

[9:04] Being nice in politics.

[12:58] Not replacing Mr. Wizard.

[17:22] From writing to usability.

[22:29] The story behind "Don't Make Me Think".

[27:47] Steve's literary style.

[31:55] The evolution of UX design.

[37:33] Empathy as a pre-requisite for being a great UX expert.

[46:28] Writing and hating it since 1980 - about the new book about writing.

[52:44] Advice for writers.

[55:42] A short sermon on UX.

EPISODE LINKS

• Steve's Links
  • 🌍 Homepage
  • 📔 Don't Make Me Think
  • 📔Rocket Surgery Made Easy
  • 🎓 Steve Krug on Wikipedia
  • 📣 Twitter: @skrug
• Other Links
  • 🎓The Mr. Wizard TV show
  • 🎓 Bill Nye the science guy on Wikipedia
  • 📰 Boston College Student Newspaper
  • 🌍 Jacob Nielsen's Profile at nngroup.com
  • 🌍 The Roger Black Collection
  • 📔 Made To Stick Book

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