Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter which was named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, he wrote Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and the newly released, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, which forms the basis of today’s conversation. He is currently collaborating with Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Zach Weinersmith on All Roads Lead to ...
Mar 03, 2018•56 min•Ep. 222
If you’re asking for a warm introduction to somebody, you might do what I’ve done successfully a number of times, which is to browse your contact’s LinkedIn connections, find people of interest and then reach out with a connection request. However, when your contact has thousands of connections, this can become quite the task, nor is there any way to find out just how well connected they are to these people - I often get the response “oh, I don’t actually really know the person of interest”, as ...
Mar 01, 2018•4 min
Alex Hutchinson is National Magazine Award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance for Runner’s World and Outside, and frequently contributes to other publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, he holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia and a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge, and he did his post-doctoral research with the National Security Agency. He’s just released his third book, Endure: Min...
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 220
The OODA loop was a tool developed by military strategist John Boyd. Boyd was a US Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant whose theories have been highly influential in not just the military, but in sports, business and litigation. The OODA loop explains how individuals and organizations can win in uncertain and chaotic environments. It is an Acronym that explains the four steps of decisions making: O bserve, O rient, D ecide A ct. Show notes: Get the book: bit.ly/bizcaseebook Twitter: ...
Feb 22, 2018•5 min
Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and a Faculty Leader at Stanford’s Center for Longevity. He earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University. Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual Reality (VR) and has been in the space of VR since 1999, in particular he studies how virtual experiences lead to changes in perceptions of self and others. His lab builds and studies systems that allow people to meet in virtual space...
Feb 16, 2018•46 min•Ep. 218
I recently interviewed Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Almost a decade ago, Ross Tucker and his colleagues at the University of Cape Town published a striking graph showing the average pacing strategies in men’s middle- and long-distance track world records over the past century: The patterns are remarkably consistent. In the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, the first and last parts of the race are the fastest—of the 66 records set in...
Feb 15, 2018•4 min
Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of "governance-by-design" as it relates to online distributed architectures. Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergent decentralized technologies —such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based applications ...
Feb 10, 2018•58 min
May 29, 2000. I still remember this day like it was yesterday. I was 16 years old and had eagerly been awaiting the new release from one of my favourite bands for months. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I tell a story that encapsulates a worrying trend signifying the end of not only deep work, but also deep leisure. --- @ facebook.com/futuresquaredpodcast Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've go...
Feb 09, 2018•11 min
Today, I talk discipline, and how small decisions made repeatedly could be the difference between a super fulfilling life and a less than rewarding one. --- @ facebook.com/futuresquaredpodcast Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @ steveglaveski or @ future_squared Follow me on Instagram: ...
Feb 01, 2018•7 min
Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D. Certified Speaking Professional, is an author and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.” Her bestselling books The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, and The Genius of Opposites have been translated into 16 languages and help introverts throughout the world expand their leadership capacity. Jennifer has deepened her knowledge and appreciation for introverts through her work as a learning and development professional and speaker at leading organizati...
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 213
First up, to Future Squared listeners downunder, happy Australia Day, I trust that your day will be jam packed with cold beers, lamb chops and for the vegeterians in the pack, some epic quinoa, kale and haloumi salads or maybe an Impossible Burger made of fake meat - for more on that, and this isn’t a sponsored bit but a shout out for companies doing good things, check out impossiblefoods.com Now, for today’s instalment of Fast Fix Friday, let's talk why ideas and why they're overrated. --- Get ...
Jan 25, 2018•4 min
Welcome to Future Squared for episode #211, our first guest interview of the year. I’m absolutely psyched to be bringing you Adam Alter. Adam is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Psychology at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the author of Drunk Tank Pink, a New York Times bestseller about the forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave, and Irresistible, a book about the rise of tech addiction and what we should do about it. Alter was recently included in the Poets...
Jan 25, 2018•56 min•Ep. 211
80:20 should be nothing new to listeners of Future Squared but breaking it down in order to identify and leverage your highest value customers to dramatically grow your business might be. --- Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Listen on Google Play @ bit.ly/FSGoog If you've got any questions on this podcast feel free to send an email to steve@collectivecamp.us or tweet me on Twitter @ steveglaveski or @ future_squared Follow me on Instagram: @...
Jan 18, 2018•3 min
In this episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Sean and Shay from Collective Campus to talk about our musings, ponderings and predictions for 2018 when it comes to technology and innovation. Topics discussed: Blockchain, cryptocurrencies and ICOs AI and automation Autonomous and electric vehicles Augmented and virtual reality Ride sharing Net neutrality Smart devices and home assistants Technology addiction Privacy Listen on iTunes @ goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher @ www.stitcher.com/podcas...
Jan 13, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 209
Welcome back for another big year of Future Squared and a very happy new year to you, I hope that this year brings you prosperity, growth, fullfillment and fun both in your professional and personal life! In the very first instalment of Fast Fix Friday for the year, I thought it would make sense to talk about your goals for the year - not only how to set them but some things you might want to put into place to help you achieve them! We’ve all made resolutions, or quote unquote committed to achie...
Jan 11, 2018•8 min
Welcome back for episode #207 of Future Squared for what is the last instalment of Fast Fix Friday, in fact the last instalment of Future Squared for the year. 2017 was a huge year for the entire team here at Collective Campus. Before I get into this week’s fast fix insights, I’d just like to extend a very warm thank you for listening this year. Without you, this show simply wouldn’t exist because there would be no purpose in it existing. --- “There is nothing worse than doing the wrong things r...
Dec 21, 2017•7 min
Every day we’re tasked with making decisions. Most of the time, these decisions are small (like deciding whether or not to floss today). However, small things done consistently poorly versus consistently well over the long-term can have a devastating impact on where you end up, whether in business or in life. It’s kind of like the power of compound interest. I’m no dentist but it’s pretty common knowledge that if you decide not to floss every single day then you’re staring down the barrel of ble...
Dec 14, 2017•8 min
Tim O’Reilly popularised the terms Open Source and Web 2.0 He is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media which delivers online learning, publishes books, runs conferences, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. Tim has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. In 1998, he organized the meeting where the term “open source software” was agreed on, and helped the busi...
Dec 09, 2017•52 min•Ep. 205
Collective Campus in its third year now and in that time I’m proud to say that, unlike other consultancies and education providers that have come (and gone already in many cases), we didn’t start out with fundraising as a key priority. It still isn’t. We started by focusing on finding our value proposition and delivering on it in a cashflow positive way. Over the course of the first 18 months we built a seven figure business, then with what was just a team of four (soon to be a team of nine), bu...
Dec 07, 2017•6 min
Perry Marshall is one of the world's most expensive and sought-after business consultants, endorsed by FORBES, INC Magazine, and the most respected entrepreneurs in the world. Clients in 300 industries seek his capacity to integrate sales, engineering, art and psychology. He founded the $5 million Evolution 2.0 Prize, staffed by judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT. The prize aims to solve one of the leading mysteries in science. His Google AdWords books laid the foundations for the $100 billion ...
Dec 02, 2017•58 min•Ep. 203
On this podcast I’ve been fortunate enough to speak to a lot of thought leaders, and what becomes clear, after having spoken to almost 100 of them so far, is that no matter how educated, experienced or accomplished they are, oftentimes, they hold contradictory views. And these views are often colored by the circles they run in, their associates, the information they consume and so on. We all make decisions based on the evidence presented, based on past experience, based on belief systems we’ve g...
Nov 30, 2017•5 min
As you may know Collective Campus is powering the Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator, Asia-Pac’s first proptech startup accelerator. As part of the promotion for the program, I recently hit the road and facilitated roadshows in Sydney and Melbourne, hosting panels in both cities. In this episode of Future Squared, I bring you our Melbourne panel discussion which took place at Collective Campus and featured Gabrielle McMillan of Equiem, Josh Rowe of realAs, David Hodges of Loc8 and of course, Aida...
Nov 27, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Welcome back to Future Squared for a very special milestone episode number 200…. it seems like just yesterday I was sitting down with my co-founder and bashing out episode #1. That was now over 20 months ago and in that time I’ve been lucky enough to speak with and learn from the likes of Kevin Kelly, Steve Blank, Tim Harford, Jason Calacanis, Gretchen Rubin, Andreas Antonopoulous, Karen Dillon, Sean Ellis, Massimo Pigliucci, Brad Feld, Jamie Wheal, Lawrence Levy, Tyler Cowen, Alec Ross, Jamie W...
Nov 25, 2017•49 min•Ep. 200
As more large companies begin to embark upon audacious transformation plans and set up innovation teams, more corporate professionals are being introduced to a world in which terms like design thinking, lean, agile, pivot, experiment, fail, adapt and so on are used almost interchangeably. Many fall victim to the law of the instrument bias and after attending a one day design thinking workshop, load all of their eggs into that one basket, maintaining a firm belief that design thinking is the silv...
Nov 23, 2017•9 min
Alison Stratten is co-author of 4 best selling business books, co-owner of UnMarketing Inc and co-host of The UnPodcast - the other half of that co, her husband Scott, who was named one of the Top 5 Social Media Influencers in the world by Forbes.com. Alison’s books include QR Codes Kill Kittens, UnSelling, UnMarketing and the newly released UnBranding: 100 Branding Lessons for the Age of Disruption. The book provides lessons from 100 branding stories that will challenge your assumptions about b...
Nov 18, 2017•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 198
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Nov 16, 2017•10 min
Sean is the Senior Environmental Strategist at City West Water where he works across a range of areas including climate change, renewable energy, resource recovery and sustainability. More recently, Sean has managed City West Water’s Innovation Fund. In establishing and managing the Innovation Fund, Sean has worked across City West Water to build employee engagement, identify innovative ideas and prioritise their prototyping and implementation. He holds a degree in Biomedical Science and a Maste...
Nov 15, 2017•59 min•Ep. 196
More often than not, senior management and the C-suite assume that exploring disruptive innovation is incredibly risky, and it is. It’s often a key bugbear to getting senior management buy-in for corporate innovation initiatives. However, that high risk doesn’t necessarily need to translate to high cost, especially not in the early stages of the innovation lifecycle (below). In fact, the cost of not exploring disruptive innovation can be much higher with countless companies having paid the ultim...
Nov 03, 2017•11 min
Collective Campus recently announced the AsiaPac’s first virtual and augmented reality startup accelerator, the Village Roadshow Xperience Accelerator, in collaboration with Microsoft. We’re big believers in the value and power of combining startup grit, speed and experimentation with the core assets, access and scale of a large company so we’ll be scouting Australia wide looking for 8 to 10 entertainment startups using VR or AR to change the face of entertainment. To celebrate and raise awarene...
Oct 31, 2017•49 min
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the Design and Play podcast with Steve Brophy and Dean Pearman, two teachers that are actively raising awareness for and doing their best to drive much needed change in K12 education in Australia. The guys were happy enough to have me republish it on Future Squared. We talk about my podcast journey, including growth hacks I used to make Future Squared an iTunes chart-topper. We take a deep dive into the power of virtual assistants to reduce administrat...
Oct 28, 2017•50 min•Ep. 193
