In this two-parts episode, we meet Bobby Chang, entrepreneur, philanthropist, industrial designer, and co-founder of Incase. Bobby is a Bay era native, who’s had a frontal seat to the meteoric rise in the transformation of technology. In this conversation we decided to do things a bit differently. We go down a more chronological path to elaborate on some pivotal aha moments that Bobby has experienced on his journey, to see if there are some patterns that connects it all. I am incredibly humbled by Bobby’s generosity, and his willingness to share some personal moments of change and precious nuggets that can inspire others on their personal and career path. This is essentially a story about a personal quest for creating the best opportunities for learning, innovation, and growth for oneself and loved ones. I hope you will enjoy this conversation with a very special entrepreneurial mind and human being, as much as I did.

Recommended links and sources:

“The Century of the Self” documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

In this two-parts episode, we meet Bobby Chang, entrepreneur, philanthropist, industrial designer, and co-founder of Incase. Bobby is a Bay era native, who’s had a frontal seat to the meteoric rise in the transformation of technology. In this conversation we decided to do things a bit differently. We go down a more chronological path to elaborate on some pivotal aha moments that Bobby has experienced on his journey, to see if there are some patterns that connects it all. I am incredibly humbled by Bobby’s generosity, and his willingness to share some personal moments of change and precious nuggets that can inspire others on their personal and career path. This is essentially a story about a personal quest for creating the best opportunities for learning, innovation, and growth for oneself and loved ones. I hope you will enjoy this conversation with a very special entrepreneurial mind and human being, as much as I did.

Recommended links and sources:

“The Century of the Self” documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

In this episode, we meet Melissa Daimler, a culture and learning thought leader, author and speaker, and Chief Learning Officer at Udemy, a leading learning technology company. The conversation focuses on her background as a learning and organization development leader in the field of tech and learning, about her new book ReCulturing, company cultures, as well as some ideas about education for the future. We also discuss the importance of understanding how to continuously adapt and transform when leading a whole system on to new territories.

Recommended reading and sources:

1. Melissa Daimler’s website: https://www.melissadaimler.com

2. The book ReCulturing: https://www.amazon.com/ReCulturing-Company-Culture-Connect-Strategy/dp/1264278608

3. Harvard Business review article: https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-great-employees-leave-great-cultures

In this episode, we meet Michael Morgenstern, Film Director and Founder/CEO of @ This is Definitely Real, a company that makes Alternate Reality Cinema that blurs the lines between reality and fiction. The conversation focuses on what's coming next with disinformation enhanced by AI, how tribalism forms, and how experiential storytelling can be used to modify our existing meta-narratives. How will we operate in a world where reality has broken down? We also discuss the film he is currently making, "Dared My Best Friend", his journey navigating the intersection between art and tech, and the future of human narratives.

Recommended reading and sources:

1. Dared My Best Friend to Ruin My Life: https://daredmybestfriend.com

2. This is Definitely Real: https://definitelyreal.com

3. About Frances Haugen: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183579433/frances-haugens-memoir-looks-back-on-why-she-blew-the-whistle-on-facebook

4. About Tristan Harris: https://www.wired.com/story/tristan-harris-tech-is-downgrading-humans-time-to-fight-back/

5. From Ted Hope on Transmedia storytelling: http://trulyfreefilm.hopeforfilm.com/2014/07/why-the-form-of-cinema-will-change.html

6. AI Objectives Institute's Talk to the City project: https://aiobjectives.org/blog/introducing-talk-to-the-city-our-collective-deliberation-tool

7. About Rick Smith: https://www.thetenderedge.com/ | https://youtu.be/mcNfoN7zqRU

8. Unabomber Manifesto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm

In this double episode (episode #5 for English speaking listeners recorded on June 15, 2023, and episode #6 for Norwegian listeners, recorded on March 20, 2023), we meet Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi.

The conversations focus on the internet, its development, and impacts, as well as what we need to be informed about to benefit from all the opportunities without putting ourselves or our societies at risk.

In the English episode, we briefly touch upon web3, blockchain and crypto.

Recommended reading list/sources:

1. History of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee. World Wide Web Foundation: https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

2. Ever get the feeling you’re being watched? Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com/blog/privacy/ever-get-the-feeling-youre-being-watched/

3. Floc and topic. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/25/22900567/google-floc-abandon-topics-api-cookies-tracking

4. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-us-to-ignore-web3.html

In this double episode release (episode #5 for English speaking listeners recorded on June 15, 2023 and episode #6 for Norwegian listeners, recorded on March 20, 2023), we meet Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi.

The conversations focus on the internet, its development, and impacts, as well as what we need to be informed about to benefit from all the opportunities without putting ourselves or our societies at risk.

In episode #5, we briefly touch upon web3, blockchain and crypto.

Recommended reading list/sources:

1. History of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee. World Wide Web Foundation: https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

2. Ever get the feeling you’re being watched? Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com/blog/privacy/ever-get-the-feeling-youre-being-watched/

3. Floc and topic. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/25/22900567/google-floc-abandon-topics-api-cookies-tracking

4. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to ‘ignore’ Web3: ‘Web3 is not the web at all’. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/04/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-wants-us-to-ignore-web3.html

In this episode, we meet Dr. Eric Daimler, CEO and co-founder of Conexus AI and an esteemed AI expert with an extraordinary in-depth and broad knowledge of AI and decades of experience in the field – as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, educator, and policy advisor.

The focus of this conversation will be on his journey in tech and AI, his passion for Category Theory and its potential for scaling deterministic and symbolic AI, as well as some contemplations about the future of AI - in particular, the likely increase in the use of hybrid AI solutions for complex systems.

I hope this episode will invite more people from education, policy and research to participate in the conversation about how to define our goals and needs within each of these sectors, as more complex AI systems are being developed.

Recommended reading:1. Eric Daimler (2022). Aftershock: Pattern Channeling. https://ericdaimler.medium.com/aftershock-pattern-channeling-f6a57f78135f2. Melissa Daimler (2022). ReCulturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.