“In order to write, I scan over 80 or more newsletters and magazines. If I get a newsletter and there isn’t something in there that I’ve used in a while then I’ll just unsubscribe from that one and look for another one that might be better. “ – Joyce Gioia About Joyce Gioia Joyce is a strategic business futurist and President of The Herman Group, which serves a wide range of clients globally with The Herman Trend Report and other services, and is on the board of the Association of Professional F...
May 25, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 22
“It’s about not getting so constrained by the channel of information and see it as a sole purpose, but being able to see the connection points to other things that are relevant to you.” – Stephen Poor About Stephen Poor Stephen is Chair Emeritus of leading employment law firm Seyfarth & Shaw, which has 900 lawyers across 17 offices and multiple continents. He led the firm as Chairman for 15 years, introducing a range of industry-leading innovations, and he now focuses on the firm’s client-fa...
May 18, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 21
“You could spend all your life just drinking from that firehose and not making sense of it, or you can say, Okay, enough, let me try and structure this. That’s really the magic.” – Abhijit Bhaduri About Abhijit Bhaduri Abhijit is an author, blogger, podcaster, keynote speaker, and influencer focusing on the future of work. His 5 books include most recently Dreamers and Unicorns and The Digital Tsunami , as well as 2 novels. Before starting his solo career he was CLO at Indian tech giant Wipro. W...
May 10, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 20
“Sometimes you just have to say, I don’t know why, I have no idea what that is. I think a lot of people are under a lot of pressure to know everything, understand everything, especially in our business, and you just can’t.” – Gerd Leonhard About Gerd Leonhard Gerd is a Futurist and a Humanist, a leading global Keynote Speaker (live-on-stage as well as virtually and remotely), the author of 5 books including ‘Technology & Humanity’ and ‘The Future of Content’. He is the CEO of The Futures Age...
May 04, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 19
“There will never not be a demand for people who know how to communicate. It’s about not just finding the information, but finding out how to share it effectively.” – Madeline Ashby About Madeline Ashby Madeline Ashby is a highly successful science fiction writer and an in-demand freelance consulting futurist specializing in scenario development and science fiction prototypes. Her novels include vN: The First Machine Dynasty and Company Town, which I recently very much enjoyed reading. Her work ...
Apr 22, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 18
“I have all of these systems for blocking social media when I’m working, so it’s not a distraction. Everything that I do is about trying to keep information at bay, and spend less time on the internet.” – Christopher Mims About Christopher Mims Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014 he worked as a science and technology journalist and editor for a variety of august publications including Quartz, Technology Review, Wired, and Scientif...
Apr 14, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 17
“Technology is not just the devices we use, but it’s how we do things. It’s so much more than just what’s being built, put in boxes, and sold to us. It is all of these deeply inherent aspects of how we do things as a species.” – Michell Zappa About Michel Zappa Michell Zappa is a technology futurist, information designer and founder of Envisioning, a technology foresight institute. His work aims to illustrate the implications of accelerating change and facilitate a higher level of awareness abou...
Apr 06, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 16
“Because there are so many people that I like, respect and trust in my network, the key is to filter that down to the relationships that are most informed, people that you trust for the right information.” – Gary Swart About Gary Swart Gary Swart, General Partner of leading venture capital firm Polaris Partners, focusing on investing in technology and healthcare companies. Prior to joining Polaris, he was CEO of oDesk, now Upwork, the world’s largest online work marketplace. He regularly appears...
Mar 30, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 15
“I find it much more useful to pick a certain collection of trusted sources that have a demonstrated history of adding value around a given topic and subscribing to those.” – Marshall Kirkpatrick About Marshall Kirkpatrick Marshall Kirkpatrick was the first writer hired by TechCrunch and helped drive its early growth through the quality of his work, then moved to become Co-Editor of ReadWriteWeb, then one of the defining publications on the Internet economy. He left to found Little Bird, which u...
Mar 23, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 14
“There are a number of people whom I respect and follow online because they are out-of-the-box thinkers. They might come up with something that I hadn’t encountered before. Then I pay attention because they are a trusted relationship.” – Annalie Killian About Annalie Killian Annalie Killian’s mission in life is to catalyze the magic of human ingenuity to make the world, and especially corporate life, a better place. She is currently VP of Strategy and Partnerships for Omnicom’s leading cultural ...
Mar 16, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 13
“I would say purpose, oriented towards a really clear, focused filter to decide what to take in and what not to take in is how I’ve managed overload.” – Robin Athey About Robin Athey Robin Athey gave up her high powered corporate career including nine-years as Research Director at Deloitte to found Integral Growth where she guides founders and leaders to manage transformational change and trust their inner wisdom in fast-moving, complex, high growth environments. Website: Integral Growth LinkedI...
Mar 09, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 12
“I try to understand temporal patterns. I’m looking for things that are repetitive that I’ve missed. If things aren’t repetitive, I try to find out their dependencies that actually create relationships. If it’s truly ad-hoc, I want to know why are these things completely random?” – Ray Wang About Ray Wang R “Ray” Wang is the founder and chairman of the highly regarded tech analyst firm Constellation Research. He is the author of Disrupting Digital Business and most recently Everybody Wants To Ru...
Mar 02, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
“We need to go outside of our personal comfort zones in all kinds of ways politically, socially, culturally, to have a better understanding of the information ecosystem that we’re engaged in. “ – Dan Gillmor About Dan Gillmor Dan Gillmor has been a media pioneer for decades. He is currently a professor at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. His latest project is News Co/Lab an experimental lab aimed at collaboration to improve the information ...
Feb 23, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
“Choose the sources that are going to disconfirm what you think. You need to have the people who are going to challenge your thinking so you don’t go down a single rabbit hole. That’s the trick. That’s the art in doing this. “ – Harold Jarche About Harold Jarche Harold Jarche has been an independent consultant for the past 20 years working with individuals, organisations, and governments to improve collaboration, knowledge sharing and sense-making. He is the author the Seeking Perpetual Beta e-b...
Feb 16, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9
“What is the technology that can solve homelessness? That can make high quality health care accessible to all? I believe that is the world we should be creating.” – Brett King About Brett King Brett King is a world-renowned futurist and speaker, an international bestselling author, and a media personality who covers the future of business, technology, and society. Brett hosts the world’s #1 ranked radio show on FinTech, “Breaking Banks” with 7 million listeners, and is the Founder and Executive ...
Feb 09, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 8
“Information can pass through your head all day long, but unless you can capture it and put it on a shelf somewhere, it didn’t mean anything. It’s the capturing and putting on a shelf so you can find it again, that’s the important part.” – Leslie Shannon About Leslie Shannon On this episode, we learn from Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trend Scouting for Nokia based in Silicon Valley. Her work involves examining new technologies and how they will converge through this decade. She is a fiv...
Feb 02, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 7
“If you’re an executive at a company, and Bill Gates is calling you going, What the hell’s going on? And you have the answer, you’re going to get called more.” – Robert Scoble About Robert Scoble On this episode we learn from technology evangelist and author Robert Scoble whose work as a blogger and communicator for Microsoft, Fast Company, Rackspace, and others has truly shaped the evolution of social media. He is the author of 4 books about technology including ones dedicated to AI and spatial...
Jan 19, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 6
“I have this wish that more people will come forward to collaborate in building up some infrastructure for what we know, that we might use together to make better sense of the world.” – Jerry Michalski About Jerry Michalski On this episode we learn from the incredible connector Jerry Michalski. His fascinating career is hard to summarise, playing a central role in the emerging digital economy as long time managing editor of Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 newsletter. He is now leader at the Relation ...
Jan 11, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 5
“When you have a framework, you can plug things in, and the things that you plug in matter less than the framework.” – Tom Stewart About Tom Stewart On this episode we learn from Tom Stewart who’s had a far-ranging career immersed in information and ideas. After his early career in publishing, he became a journalist for Forbes magazine leading to his breakthrough book Intellectual Capital in 1997. He went on to become editor of Harvard Business Review for six years, and chief marketing officer o...
Dec 22, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 4
‘’Determining what information is important to you starts with your values.’’ – Nir Eyal About Nir Eyal On this episode we learn from Nir Eyal, who writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of two bestselling books, Hooked: has sold over a quarter of a million copies and heavily influenced the tech industry and Indistractable which has been named best business book of the year, among other accolades. Website: nirandfar.com Face...
Dec 15, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 3
“J ump in there really be an active participant in the industry, because it’s also about that. How are you becoming a voice, an active participant in the idea sharing and everything that’s being built? “ – Cathy Hackl About Cathy Hackl On this episode we learn from Cathy Hackl, a leading tech futurist and globally recognized business leader specializing in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), & spatial computing. She is the CEO of Futures Intelligence Group, a futures research &...
Dec 15, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
‘’We shape reality by what we notice and choose to pay attention to.’’ – Tim O’Reilly About Tim O’Reilly On this episode we learn from Tim O’Reilly, definitely one of the most influential people in the development of the Internet as we know it. He is the founder and CEO of technology publishing giant O’Reilly Media, and has played a seminal role in movements including open source software, Web 2.0, maker culture, and government 2.0, and is author of the excellent book WTF: What’s the Future and ...
Dec 15, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1
We live in a world of exponentially increasing information, every day becoming more intense. All success in our incredibly fast-paced world is based on our ability to make sense of infinite information. On the Thriving on Overload podcast we speak to the world’s very best at dealing with a deluge of information – investors and venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, authors and more – to learn precisely how they are able to thrive in a world of overload. We’ll learn their techniques, their framework...
Sep 21, 2021•1 min
