The people who make us stay with us forever and leave a lasting impression no matter how long or briefly we interacted with them. Bill Fenwick was one of those people for Jack Russo and Dr Leonard Hayflick who was Jack’s first employer and mentor at Davis, Stafford, Kellman & Fenwick and an active proponent of privacy rights for Dr Hayflick. Jack and Len reflect on the impact one man has had on their lives following the passing of Bill Fenwick.

Something plus nothing equals something. This odd mathematical equation is known to investors as the Black-Scholes equation, and it applies to business outside the stock market as well. Plans based on averages are wrong on average, or at least that is the basis of Dr Sam Savage’s book The Flaw of Averages. Any amount of uncertainty in your business plan can lead to unwelcome consequences and what business owners really need is a way to calculate the chances that the average hits their projected outcome and improve that number. Jack Russo asks Dr Sam Savage to explain how Chancification™️ will change the way business is conducted around the world.

Something plus nothing equals something. This odd mathematical equation is known to investors as the Black-Scholes equation, and it applies to business outside the stock market as well. Plans based on averages are wrong on average, or at least that is the basis of Dr Sam Savage’s book The Flaw of Averages. Any amount of uncertainty in your business plan can lead to unwelcome consequences and what business owners really need is a way to calculate the chances that the average hits their projected outcome and improve that number. Jack Russo asks Dr Sam Savage to explain how Chancification™️ will change the way business is conducted around the world.

The price of real estate keeps climbing and the price of money is staying low, but the inflation on goods is getting quite worrisome. Thankfully prime lending rates are safe for now as the Feds have announced we probably won’t see a move on prime lending rates until next year; though there are plenty of other factors that could cause the market to shift and change that projection. To figure out what is going on in California, Jack Russo asks Joe Cucchiara if things are getting better now that Gavin Newsom has been reaffirmed as governor or if Californians are content with getting beat up by the state.

The price of real estate keeps climbing and the price of money is staying low, but the inflation on goods is getting quite worrisome. Thankfully prime lending rates are safe for now as the Feds have announced we probably won’t see a move on prime lending rates until next year; though there are plenty of other factors that could cause the market to shift and change that projection. To figure out what is going on in California, Jack Russo asks Joe Cucchiara if things are getting better now that Gavin Newsom has been reaffirmed as governor or if Californians are content with getting beat up by the state.

Go through history and you’ll find that one of mankind’s greatest missions has always been the quest to conquer death. From the Fountain of Youth to age defying pills and injections, nothing has been able to defy the second law of thermodynamics. While stopping or reversing the effects of aging may be forever out of our reach, Dr Leonard Hayflick believes there are things we can do to benefit the pathways that keep us alive and consequently add to our longevity indirectly. Jack Russo asks if we will be able to do more than manipulate longevity as science progresses or if we will continue to swap one bottle of snake oil for the next.

Go through history and you’ll find that one of mankind’s greatest missions has always been the quest to conquer death. From the Fountain of Youth to age defying pills and injections, nothing has been able to defy the second law of thermodynamics. While stopping or reversing the effects of aging may be forever out of our reach, Dr Leonard Hayflick believes there are things we can do to benefit the pathways that keep us alive and consequently add to our longevity indirectly. Jack Russo asks if we will be able to do more than manipulate longevity as science progresses or if we will continue to swap one bottle of snake oil for the next.

As many of us know, too many lawyers tend to treat mediation as if it were a trial and try to be as persuasive as possible to the opposing party. While a lawyer should always be an advocate for their client, this zealous approach is more likely to lead to an expensive and time-consuming trial. It’s been 20 years since Jack Russo started The Foundation for Creativity in Dispute Resolution which promotes the use of zealous creativity over zealous advocacy so both parties can cocreate a solution with a less controversial outcome. Can the future of lawyers be more peacemaker instead of advocate and can we be creative enough to make it a reality?

Silicon Valley is on fire… at least when it comes to artificial intelligence talent. With a high demand for people who know how to build artificial intelligence systems and not enough talent to go around, it’s an all-out war for companies to acquire talented employees. Add in that the average employee tenure is around 3 years and companies now have the added concern of wanting to look attractive to future employees. Is it all bad news for AI companies looking to add to their team or will AI itself become part of the solution? Jack Russo asks Andrew Gardiner about all the challenges of finding talent for a field that really isn’t even here yet.

Silicon Valley is on fire… at least when it comes to artificial intelligence talent. With a high demand for people who know how to build artificial intelligence systems and not enough talent to go around, it’s an all-out war for companies to acquire talented employees. Add in that the average employee tenure is around 3 years and companies now have the added concern of wanting to look attractive to future employees. Is it all bad news for AI companies looking to add to their team or will AI itself become part of the solution? Jack Russo asks Andrew Gardiner about all the challenges of finding talent for a field that really isn’t even here yet.