Virgil is the co-founder of Medical Avatar, a health company that creates visual representations to help patients better understand their health information. Virgil is also a visual artist working with concepts in medicine and technology and has exhibited interactive installations, films, paintings, drawings, and prints in galleries and museums around the world.

In this interview, Virgil shares why he went blindfolded for a week in his childhood, how a family medical crisis gave rise to Medical Avatar, and how he has balanced a life and career between the arts and medicine. We explore the mental models and practices that Virgil has adopted, and at the end of the interview he turns the tables and asks me about the same.

Joise Garthwaite lives simultaneously in two very different professions: she is a professional dancer with the ODC Dance Company and a Stanford-trained reporter. In this interview we explore how Josie continues to refine both of her crafts, and how they complement each other.

In this episode, Ella Saltmarshe hijacks the Robin Zander Show and interviews Robin. Ella asks him questions about what it means to learn things deeply, use fear as a compass, and record what we learn.

Robin share some of his daily patterns, including the one thing he has done every evening for more than 10 years. Robin describes how he tracks my progress and course corrects. They discuss Robin's years of training with Anat Baniel, and the intuitions and self-awareness he developed as a result.

Ella and Robin discuss the value of structure and how a structured life can leave room for key focuses. Enjoy this interview on learning, knowledge and developing intuition of Robin Zander by Ella Saltmarshe.

Ella Saltmarshe (@saltsea) is a polymath. All of Ella's efforts revolve around two major themes: social change and story. But embedded throughout Ella’s work is willingness to go out on a limb to learn something new. She is currently writing for a soap opera (never before haven’t written comedy for screen), coalition building around climate change, presenting from stage, and writing a children’s book. And that’s just what she’s working on this month! Ella speaks eloquently about the utility of not just being the master of a single, exclusive discipline. She describes what it takes to excel in multiple domains and what we can all learn from those who forge "plural" careers.

Derek Sivers is probably best know as the founder of CD Baby, a company serving independent musicians which sold to charity for 22 million dollars. But the thing that makes Derek notable is his lifelong drive to learn, or in his words, personal improvement. Prior to founding CD Baby Derek trained him self obsessively for […]

Autism is a topic near and dear to my heart. Though I haven’t discussed on the podcast to date, for many years I ran Move Autism, a consulting company working with children with autism and their families around the world. In November 2014, I was interviewed by the host of the Autism Show podcast Catherine Pascuas (@edcautism). Here, we turn the tables and discuss Catherine’s podcast The Autism Show, her origin story, and more.

This interview is a fast-paced conversation with the host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneur on Fire. I haven’t had a lot of my interviews with famous entrepreneur, but I wanted to bring John Lee Dumas on not just because he’s a successful businessman, but because he’s a successful teacher.

This episode of the Robin Zander Show is an experiment. I recently interviewed Stanford professor and innovator BJ Fogg, PhD, and we talked about the research and tactics...Read More

BJ Fogg (@bjfogg) runs the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. He has an amazing track record of predicting trends in technology and in this interview...Read More

Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer, consultant, and technologist who works at the intersection of dance, choreography, and the future of technology. Sydney recently taught a class at Harvard University on technology interfaces from the proscenium stage in the 18th century through the the movie Minority Report. Sydney is the co-founder of the Change Agency, an organizational design firm which works with established companies to help them evolve with the modern day.