442 EXTRA What Is Normal?
Normal is contextual. In reality, there is no such thing as "normal".
Jul 15, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 442
thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future
Welcome to thinkfuture, where host Chris Kalaboukis explores the bold ideas shaping tomorrow. From AI-driven creativity and personal growth to leadership in remote work, this podcast delves into the intersection of innovation, technology, and human connection. With visionary guests and thought-provoking conversations, thinkfuture helps listeners unlock new possibilities, challenge the status quo, and create the future they want to see. Tune in for fresh insights, actionable strategies, and unexpected inspiration.
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441 Innovation In Credit Unions with Jeff Phillipich @ Superior Choice Credit Union
Jeff Phillipich serves credit unions in AR, OK, and TX as the SVP of Strategic Development for Cornerstone. He has worked in financial services for over 15 years with 10 years of non-for-profit financial cooperative work. Currently, Jeff is working on projects applying the cooperative model to fintech start-ups and established providers to create economies of scale for small financial institutions. Jeff is originally from MN, currently lives and works in TX…has a wonderful spouse, and 3 great ki...
Jul 14, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 441
440 EXTRA Attacking Your Own Ideas
Sometimes you need to disagree with yourself to get to the truth.
Jul 13, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 440
439 EXTRA Reality Is Non-Binary
There are always more than two sides to everything. Human beings are more complicated than that.
Jul 12, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 439
438 Design Thinking & Digital Transformation with Melissa & Prakash @ Mindtree
Melissa Rojo is leading the data migration and conversion of one of the largest American bank's most prominent loan products. She is also a project manager of an internal IBM initiative known as TechTalks. This end-to-end internal strategy is started by inviting the most up and coming startups, across all sectors to present to an exclusive group of IBMers and interested external parties. These start-ups are brought in with the end-all goal being collaboration and integration into IBM's business ...
Jul 11, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 438
437 EXTRA Forget The Low Hanging Fruit
There is one phrase that I dislike more than any other - and that's "low hanging fruit" - I've lost count of the number of times we talk about this in meetings - we have to stop focusing on the low hanging fruit and reach higher in the tree. You can't dent the universe without reaching to the top of the tree.
Jul 09, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 437
436 EXTRA It Shouldn't Be This Hard
If you find yourself saying the above phrase to yourself when you are working on your startup, that is an indicator that something is wrong and you might need to pivot.
Jul 08, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 436
435 Exploring Luminal Space, Part 2 with Jesse Adeniji @ studio intO
We return to the luminal spaces with Jesse Adenji - we are now living in uncertain times - COVID is a luminal space - we don't know if we will be back where were are - however it is a fantastic opportunity for innovation - we need to understand what we need to change and what we can change - chaos vs order - the world is almost too complicated for the human brain to comprehend - we need to be "tricksters" or provocateurs - bringing new knowledge into the group - beginners mind is important is di...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 435
434 EXTRA Safetyism & Innovation
Great rewards require great risks. What does that say if we are not even able to take small risks? We used to risk our lives for human progress, now we are afraid to leave our homes without a face covering. If we can't take risks, we will not progress. Risk-taking is required for us to move the human race forward.
Jul 06, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 434
433: Ignoring The Firework Ban
Even though all fireworks are banned in California, we still heard tons of fireworks going off all around us. This tells me that we haven't totally drunk the Kool-Aid of Safetyism - we can still take risks.
Jul 05, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 433
432 Innovation In Manufacturing with Jeff Weiss @ Bemis
Jeff goes into detail on the differences between new product development and innovation - working with the unknown - creating the right innovative culture - risk mitigation - expectations and creativity - innovation councils and developing the right innovation strategy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-j-weiss/
Jul 04, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 432
431 EXTRA Embrace Chaos Driven Coincidences
Chaos created coincidences, and these coincidences can create new thinking. Agile software development accounts for chaos - we can all account for chaos by developing the skill to account for chaos.
Jul 02, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 431
430 EXTRA Humans Need Psychological Safety to Take Risks
Why don't we ever listen and implement any of the studies that we all agree are valid? Working from home has been proven to increase productivity and happiness, but we still force our people back to work. Our environment contributes to our thinking, but we still don't have organized environments for productivity and chaotic environments for creativity, and its proven that we need psychological safety within teams to take risks, but do we foster it?
Jul 01, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 430
429 Financial Services Innovation with Martin Walker @ SoundCU
Martin Walker is the VP of Digital Experience & Innovation for Sound Credit Union. He has led digital transformation efforts in the financial services, sports and entertainment, retail, and foodservice industries, helping marketing, product development, business development, and operations functions become digital, data-driven enterprises. He holds a BS in marketing and an MBA. https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-walker/
Jun 30, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 429
428 EXTRA Progress Depends on the Unreasonable Human
You need to be unhappy with the status quo in order to change things. Being reasonable is not connected to change and innovation.
Jun 29, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 428
427 EXTRA We Need More Randomness In Our Lives
We spend too much time in our little hyper-personalized bubbles - make it a habit to try to experience randomness outside your algorithms. Outside of your feed. Mentioned in this episode: http://gimmeserendipity.com http://forgotify.com
Jun 28, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 427
426 Organizing Around Ideas with Chris Wexler @ Krunam
Chris Wexler is one of the Founders and CEO of Krunam, the best in the class image and video classifier of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM). Krunam is in the business of removing digital toxic waste from the internet using AI to identify CSAM and other indicative content to improve and speed content moderation. Krunam’s technology is already in use by law enforcement and is now moving into the private sector. Before founding Krunam, Chris established several leading digital MarTech and analyt...
Jun 27, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 426
425 EXTRA You Need Chaos To Be Creative
Humans crave order. We have built a very orderly world. But what happens when the chaos pokes through? A Black Swan. We need to embrace the chaos to be creative and grow.
Jun 25, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 425
424 EXTRA We Need a New Discovery Engine
Our hyper-personalized experience of the internet today won't help you come across new ideas or new discoveries that you can mashup with things that you already know.
Jun 24, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 424
423 Liviing La Vida Virtual with Preston Mccauley @ Tonic3
For the last several years Preston has been deep in the design, development, and bleeding edge of AR / VR / MR and immersive computing. He loves looking into the near & distant future to come up with practical ways to solve design problems for today and tomorrow. https://www.linkedin.com/in/preston-mccauley-immersive-ux/
Jun 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 423
422 EXTRA Run Towards The Pain Instead of Away
To grow in life - to create new and innovative products - sometimes you must run towards the pain instead of away from it.
Jun 22, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 422
421 EXTRA Silicon Valley Gave Up Risk Taking
If there is any indication of how far Silicon Valley has fallen among the pantheon of risk-takers, you just have to look at the timidity of the culture. Whatever happened to the rollicking, risk-taking culture of the earlier days - we are no longer interested in making a dent in the universe, we'd much rather sit at home, trembling in fear and having everything delivered.
Jun 21, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 421
420 Intelligent Automation & Sustainability with Sergio Mastrogiovanni @ Nubiral
Sergio Mastrogiovanni is a senior data scientist, executive, entrepreneur, AI evangelist, and data storyteller with career success leveraging advanced data analytics and technology integration to boost sustainable revenue, inspire high-performing teams and manage change through digital transformation and continuous improvement, and his passion in this world is about making data accessible to people. He teaches Intelligent Automation at NYU and is the Head of Data and Innovation at Nubiral. Stron...
Jun 20, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 420
419 EXTRA Whats Your Story?
Companies are not buying your service. People are buying you.
Jun 18, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 419
418 EXTRA The Time To Buiild P2P Alternatives is Now
Why do we have to keep building new platforms? It's time we built the uber platform for all. Support The Show: https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support
Jun 17, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 418
417 Web Advertising Insights with Don Marti @ CafeMedia
Working within the web technology and standards community to advance a publisher-centric, user-respecting future of digital advertising. Experienced problem-solver in complex product and community environments, with deep knowledge of product strategy, marketing, community, and market design, and software development. Skilled in web-scale technologies including containers, databases, Software as a Service (SaaS), and the web platform including PWAs, advanced privacy tooling, and WebExtensions. ht...
Jun 16, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 417
416 EXTRA Don't Buy An Electric Car, Part II
Continuing the conversation on electric vehicles - IMHO, electric vehicles are a cop-out - we need to innovate better power sources - why not hydrogen? Why not geothermal? Why not humans? (cue the matrix theme) https://anchor.fm/thinkfuture/support
Jun 15, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 416
415 EXTRA Tripping Down Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Depending on the kind of business you want to start, you may want to be pickier about where on the pyramid you'd like to fall. In the higher levels, unless you are deeply embedded in the niche, then you might have a tough time selling premium products at a premium price. If you are looking for quantity instead of quality, no one ever really got fired for betting on money or food.
Jun 14, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 415
414 SME Innovation From The Public Sector with Paul Kinghorn @ University of Northern Iowa
Director of the Center for Business Growth and Innovation programs at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Known for our nationally recognized and award-winning innovative programs, UNI is positioned as a preeminent “entrepreneurial support” resource for entrepreneurs throughout the State of Iowa. Programs include: Advance Iowa, a program that targets Iowa’s second-stage companies that have grown past the startup stage but have not yet reached maturity, and applies growth strategies to grow ex...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 414
413 EXTRA Future: Threat Or Opportunity
How do you feel about the future?
Jun 11, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 413
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