“Depending on the environment I’m in, whether I’m sitting at my desk here, and I’ve got my two screens in front of me or whether I’m walking the dog on the field, and I’ve got like no internet connection, I don’t want there to be a friction point in any environment that I’m in. I select tools that help me do that.” – Danny Hatcher About Danny Hatcher Danny is a YouTuber, Blogger, Author, and Podcaster helping people be more intentional and organized with their time, and sharing useful insights f...
Feb 28, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 53
“I’m very particular about what information I pull in and what I leave out. I think that is one of the most absolutely critical things that people need to do.” – Thomas Baekdal About Thomas Baekdal Thomas is the founder and publisher of Baekdal Media and a leading media analyst. He is the author of books including The Shift, about the news industry’s transition from print to digital, and advises leading publishers about the evolution of the media industry. Website: Baekdal Media Twitter: Thomas ...
Feb 23, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 52
“Centralize and get everything out of your head. Those two things alone, make it incredibly easier to manage your life, especially if you have a lot of things going on.” – Bryan Jenks About Bryan Jenks Bryan is an information specialist and data analytics expert who has over 300 certifications in a wide variety of technologies and is always seeking more knowledge. He is also a popular YouTuber with millions of views for his detailed insights on productivity and personal knowledge management. Web...
Feb 16, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 51
“The more connected and participative you’re going to become in your foresight practices, the more useful the effort is, the more meaning it would give. How they recognize change, how you recognize change, and what gaps are there, to understand those, whether it’s an information gap or a knowledge gap, you need to be among those people to create that comprehension.” – Puruesh Chaudhary About Puruesh Chaudhary Puruesh is Founder and President of the NGO AGAHI, co-founder of Media Development Trus...
Feb 07, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 50
“I think a lot of times we want to shortcut and jump to the middle or jump to the end. But there’s so much to be learned by taking a breath and stepping back and going: What am I really trying to do here? Whether it’s going for a walk, or painting or cooking or gardening, give yourself the space.” – Stephanie Barnes About Stephanie Barnes Stephanie is founder and chief chaos organiser of Entelechy, a global network that works with organisations to solve problems in creative and innovative ways. ...
Jan 31, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 49
“It’s more than the Great Resignation, it’s more than the Great Reset, it’s more than Quiet Quitting, this is all about reimagining. It’s an opportunity to create something better, to be better than we were before.” – Bob Johansen About Bob Johansen Bob is Distinguished Fellow and former CEO at the Institute for the Future. He has worked as a professional futurist for nearly 50 years, including in the 1970s exploring the social and organizational implications of ARPANET, which evolved to become ...
Jan 25, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 48
“It’s kind of a “sleight-of-head” exercise if you will. Because again, we tend to get very narrowly focused in our way of thinking. I’m sure you’ve heard of confirmation bias and availability bias. We tend to think in very narrow paths, and you need to be able to literally kickstart your head in different directions and this is one creative way to do that.” – Chuck Frey About Chuck Frey Chuck is a PR and online marketing expert who focuses on innovation, creativity, business strategy and visual ...
Jan 17, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 47
“You need to recognize that technology is not going to solve that feeling of overwhelm that I think is honestly intrinsic to being a human being in an era where the world comes at us faster than we are wired for. If you try to solve it all with meditation, you are going to miss your spreadsheet. If you try to solve it all with spreadsheets, you’re probably not going to heal your existential angst.” – Alexandra Samuel About Alexandra Samuel Alexandra is an authority on remote work and the digital...
Jan 10, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 46
“Because there’s so much information to pass and so many transactions that we need to transact every day, having that moment to properly think and work through a big idea is challenging. I find that especially difficult in my work today as a venture capitalist where synthesis is the core skill. It’s important that we find the time to think and the tools to help us think.” – Phil Morle About Phil Morle Phil is partner at major deep tech venture capital firm Main Sequence Ventures, where he focuse...
Jan 03, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 45
“If people valued that their lens and the strength of their lens is their competitive advantage, they would probably take better care of themselves. The mindset that I want to invite through this conversation is that if we only treated ourselves as well as we treat our gadgets, we probably would have a better time thriving on overload.” – Jennifer Sertl About Jennifer Sertl Jennifer Sertl is president and founder of the leadership development company Agility3R, director of marketing at Circle Op...
Dec 20, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 44
“I like to say stories is data with soul. Particularly when it comes to understanding potentially where your organization could be in the future that’s emerging, how do we help human beings, which are essentially storytelling animals, make sense of all that information? Stories are a really good way to do that. “ – Ari Popper About Ari Popper Ari is the Founder and CEO of SciFutures, a foresight and innovation firm that works with leading organizations such as Visa, Ford, and NATO to create insp...
Dec 14, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 43
“I think this is a really valuable conversation for this moment where we’re talking about Web3 and the blockchain and all of this because there’s a fascination about using the metaverse to sell more things and to fashion more things. But what we need is a metaverse and a Web3 and a blockchain that allows us to collaborate to solve the world’s problems in ways that we haven’t before. We’re at a real tipping point, I think, for the net right now. “ – Frank Spencer About Frank Spencer Frank is the ...
Dec 07, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 42
“I think the research will tell us now that the ancient people probably used art and symbols before language. It is something that we all know instinctually because of the world around us. It’s visual. If you situate ideas in something physical, it stays with you.” – Eileen Clegg About Eileen Clegg Eileen has been a long-time pioneer in visual journalism. She is the founder of Visual Insight, and is now also the CEO of vTapestry, which automates the creation of visual summaries of online meeting...
Nov 30, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 41
“There’s the experience, what it is we take in the information, and then there’s the output, which can come in many forms just in talking, thinking or writing, and so on. The writing is crystallizing the ideas, which can be a process and come out difficult, but it is this process. What you write then informs what you read or what you input or the things which can shape that to be able to then write something which is even more incisive or better.” – Greg Satell About Greg Satell Greg Satell is a...
Nov 23, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 40
“If somebody asks me to write about what’s not in my field, I push it out. I may know about it, I may feel comfortable about it. But at the end of the day, I need to make it so that my audience is defined and my information perspective is defined. Otherwise, thriving on overload, I would have been buried by overload.” – Jim Marous About Jim Marous Jim Marous is the publisher of the Digital Banking Report, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and host of the Banking Transformed Podcast. He has bee...
Nov 16, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 39
“People have to dedicate a chunk of time to actively make sense of the world every day. That is get out your diary and write all the thoughts you had in your head and didn’t have time to synthesize until you woke up this morning, or read the things you think are most critical to read and take notes, and capture chunks of information that you think are going to be of relevance to you in the future. You have to make that investment.” – Stowe Boyd About Stowe Boyd Stowe Boyd has been studying work ...
Nov 03, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 38
“I will be triggered by something that challenges ideas, assumptions, hypotheses that either I have, or that the wider world has. It makes you think, and that’s the only thing I want, I want to make people think, and have a deeper integration by challenging their assumptions.” – Michel Bauwens About Michel Bauwens Michel Bauwens is the founder of the P2P Foundation working in collaboration with global researchers in exploring the potential of peer production. Michel travels extensively giving wo...
Oct 20, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 37
“Whether you love it or loathe it, technology is here to stay. A lot of us have a love-hate relationship with our digital devices. My approach is that it’s here to stay, regardless of our approach. I believe we need to learn how to use technology in ways that are congruent with how our brains and bodies are designed” – Dr Kristy Goodwin About Dr Kristy Goodwin Kristy is a digital wellbeing and productivity researcher, speaker, author, and consultant, helping corporations promote employee digital...
Oct 13, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 36
“The recipe is do not trust the algorithm, do not trust mainstream media for the most part, search for individuals who you have a strong affinity with and to whom you can apply strong filters about credibility, trust, integrity, the way they conduct the work, the way they show their sources, and how much they’re transparent about the way they conduct their business and their lives, and maintain these lists while updating it because your trusted sources, your trusted advisors, as I call them, are...
Sep 28, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 35
“I always think of my views like a stovetop with multiple pots and mixtures brewing. I’m constantly adding new information that I’ve learned, things that I’ve read, and observations that I’ve made into each of these pots, and they’re cooking over time. My opinion, my views, and my analysis evolve as I gain more information.” – Cindy Otis About Cindy Otis Cindy Otis is an author, disinformation expert, and former CIA officer. She is the author of books including True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Gui...
Sep 21, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 34
“What are the questions I’m asking? Do I have some biases in my question patterns? By paying attention to the questions you’re asking, you will also get some attention to the questions that you’re not asking and that will help you make better choices” – Pia Lauritzen About Pia Lauritzen Pia Lauritzen is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Qvest, a technology company that unleashes the power of questions in companies and communities. She is the author of the book Questions and a regula...
Aug 17, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 32
“What is nuance? I think it’s really important, particularly in today’s information environment, whether we’re talking about the challenges of accurate information, conspiracy theory, or in general trying to find the signal through the noise.” – Remi Kalir About Remi Kalir Remi is Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at the University of Colorado Denver, and a leading scholar of annotation. He is co-author of the book Annotation, published by MIT Press, and many journal articles...
Aug 10, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 31
“You should read things that actually make you excited and make you want to engage with the world. For that, what you choose almost doesn’t matter, but you should choose something that allows you to create your own worldview.” – Rohit Krishnan About Rohit Krishnan Rohit is Investment Director at leading global venture capital firm Unbound, focusing on software and fintech. He was previously VP at Eight Roads Ventures and leader of McKinsey’s growth tech practice. He is author of the Strange Loop...
Jul 27, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 30
“It’s interesting how things that seem unconnected at first glance may actually be connected. You may be looking in finance, and you find something related to psychology, where you may be looking in psychology, and you come across something that’s related to physics. Everything is connected, it just depends on the path that you get there and the weighting.” – Sam McRoberts About Sam McRoberts Sam is the CEO of global SEO agency VUDU Marketing and the bestselling author of Screw the Zoo . He is t...
Jul 21, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
“Not only is that overload factual, in terms of data and trying to figure out what’s true, but also it’s an emotional overload. How do you be intentional about your feelings and emotions as well so that you can pay attention to what matters for you right now, rather than all of the stuff that’s being served up, as all of the emotions of the world are available for you on the internet to consume? “ – Derek Laney About Derek Laney Derek Laney is Technology Evangelist for the Future of Work at coll...
Jul 14, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 28
“The most important thing, regardless of how you collect information, is learning how to notice what’s important, like learning how to notice the systems that are underlying a specific story or a specific information source, the motivations, keeping tabs on those, and identifying the context behind the information. “ – Berit Anderson About Berit Anderson Berit is COO of Strategic News Service and director of programs for the Future in Review conferences. She co-founded and was CEO of Scout.ai, a...
Jul 05, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 27
“There’s a lot of information right now, sometimes you feel it’s just too much. But I try to find the right sources of information to understand how the world is changing, especially now that it is rapidly changing, and what are the impacts of those changes. “ – Brenda Ramokopelwa About Brenda Ramokopelwa Brenda is a Futurist, Author, Keynote Speaker, and Award-Winning Risk and Governance professional. She is the CEO of the Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussion and Managing Director at D...
Jun 21, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 26
“I find synergising to be the most rewarding part of the whole process. When that happens, you really are thriving on the information overload. “ – Julie Rasmussen About Julie Rasmussen Julie is a highly experienced corporate executive and entrepreneur, taking senior leadership and board roles in a range of industries and several countries for major organizations including Mary Kay, CVSL and EnXray. She is now the founder and CEO of She Banks, a fintech startup whose mission is to increase finan...
Jun 15, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 25
“Productivity is ultimately one of the greatest predictors of success in all fields. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an artist or a scientist, or whatever you’re doing, productivity is a key marker to long-term success. “ – Paul X. McCarthy About Paul X. McCarthy Paul is CEO of data science and research startup League of Scholars, which works with a wide range of organizations including Nature and News Corporation, and the co-founder of a number of other ventures, He is an Adjunct Professor at ...
Jun 07, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 24
“It comes down to establishing why is it relevant for you. If it is meaningful, and you can use the information that you get, then you will become more interested in it. “ – Nick Abrahams About Nick Abrahams Nick Abrahams is a leading lawyer, futurist, and keynote speaker. He is the Global Co-leader of the Digital Transformation Practice at Norton Rose Fulbright advising major organisations on technology M&A, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and digital transformation. He is also the co-founde...
May 31, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 23
