261 EXTRA Almost Everything Around Us Is Built From Human Imagination
Look around you. Unless you are in nature somewhere - almost everything around you is a human invention.
Mar 02, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 261
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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260 EXTRA Are Your Own "Zoning Rules" Restricting Innovation?
Just like Frank Lloyd Wright, current architecture is saddled by zoning, rules and regulations. Do you have similar rules when it comes to developing innovative products and services?
Feb 23, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 260
259 EXTRA Apple Saves - The Good The Bad and OK With It
Apple can now detect if you are having a heart attack before you even are aware of it and dispatch first responders: this is a) good, because people do not want to die b) not good, because Apple has your health data and c) OK because the positives far outweigh the negatives. This is the kind of help we need.
Feb 17, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 259
258 EXTRA Agency: Do Your Customers Want More Or Less Of It?
Who would want smart bots to do all of this stuff for them – how can they be trusted? So I questioned myself, and I’d like to throw this question out to you, dear readers, what do you think? Do you feel that we should be giving up more of our agency to technology – that we can trust it to do what we want – or do you think that we have already given up too much agency and we should wrest it back?
Feb 07, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 258
257 EXTRA Stop Always Looking For The Low Hanging Fruit
How often do you hear "let's go for the low hanging fruit"? Why do we always go after the easy stuff - when the sweeter fruit is typically higher up in the tree.
Feb 03, 2020•5 min•Season 1Ep. 257
256 EXTRA Your Customers Want A Post-Scarcity Society
Customers want things to magically happen today - not in some future universe.
Jan 30, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 256
255 EXTRA Reality is Already Virtual
The modern world has filled us with stress since we really haven’t evolved far from tribes wandering the savannah. Think about that for a moment – think about the time before smartphones, before the internet, before computers, before human flight, before cars, before locomotives, before the Renaissance, before the dark ages, before the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians. Go way back, even before we figured out writing and money. Once you cast your mind back to that time and think about w...
Jan 20, 2020•10 min
254 EXTRA Libra: Facebook Finally Innovates
It’s true innovation. Like the Segway , which pushed the boundaries of personal transportation and Google Glass , which pushed the boundaries of wearable devices , Libra is pushing the boundaries of cryptocurrency.
Jan 13, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 254
253 EXTRA Everyone Lives In Their Own Reality
When you think about it, we are all living in a multiverse of realities. What we each experience is our own reality. Even when more than one of us is in the same time and space, we don’t see an objective reality that we can all agree on – we still see our own realities, they just happen to be overlapping in time and space.
Jan 07, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 253
252 EXTRA Are You Washing The Walls?
Many jobs are just "wall washing", serving no real purpose. Are you in one of those jobs? Do you know someone in one of those jobs?
Dec 16, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 252
251 EXTRA Your Employees Need A Strong Vision, Responsibility and Freedom
Your employees are professional adults - give them a goal to shoot for and just let your folks go.
Dec 09, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 251
250 EXTRA Collaboration Uber Alles: Does Flex Space Kill Creativity?
Is having no personal space at work really the best way to get the most from your people? Maybe it's an underhanded way to get more people to work from home? We've already seen an explosion of purchasing noise-canceling headphones.
Dec 01, 2019•8 min•Season 1Ep. 250
249 EXTRA Humans Need Augmentation - Life Is Already Too Complex
We are already cyborgs - we are already augmented humans - is our life more complex due to our technology or is our technology making our lives more complex. Personally, I feel that we are not using technology properly - it should serve us, not the other way around.
Nov 26, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 250
248: The Future of Education with Joe Schmoke from AlternativestoCollege.com
A wide-ranging discussion on education and why not everyone needs a college degree to get a good job. The founder of AlternativesToCollege.com talks about creating a resource for those who want to skip the college debt cycle.
Nov 18, 2019•1 hr 12 min
247: How Startups Should Handle IP - Interview with Patent Attorney George Likourezos
All you need to know about IP for your startup or great new idea - detailed interview with George Likourezos of Carter DeLuca
Nov 11, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 247
246: Master Productivity with Productivity Coach Dr. Todd Snyder
A masterful show with the master of productivity, Dr. Todd Snyder, a psychologist, productivity coach, and decision consultant. We deconstruct what you need to do to be successfully productive. Books mentioned on the show: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life Integration Marketing: How Small Businesses Become Big Businesses – and Big Businesses Become Empires Find Dr. Snyder here: www.toddsnyder...
Nov 04, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 246
245 EXTRA Anything Is Possible, The Only Question Is When
I’ve said many times before, being a futurist is like being a meteorologist, you are usually right, but at the wrong time. I think it’s futurist’s bane always to be right – but too early. I feel as humans, we can look at the clues around us, and with some vision, put together a relatively reasonable scenario of where things will go. We see things like Amazon Go or the Beta Store or Wheelys and think that yes, one day, we will all shop in stores where there are no workers. As we walk into the sto...
Oct 27, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 245
244 EXTRA Don't Do Your Best!
If you see a need, try to fill that specific need as simply, as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Don’t be afraid to put out something half-assed in your own mind; it might be the exact thing your customers want. Sometimes your best is too much, sometimes spending too much time refining, rewriting and tweaking to make something your best, might be the exact thing which kills it as a product. Next time, just start. Get it out there. Show off your best version to the world.
Oct 21, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 244
243 EXTRA Persistence Over Talent
Does persistence always win over talent? Yes, for many reasons, but here are two: 1) if you keep going on anything - writing, dieting, working on your startup, eventually the moment will come when you will luck out and win and 2) persistence is additive - the more you do it, the more you have and the more you want to keep doing it.
Oct 14, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 243
242 EXTRA Say Yes To Everything
William Shatner's philosophy is something that he developed from the days when he was a starving actor, desperate for roles. It was, simply put, “Say Yes To Everything.”
Oct 07, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 242
241: Ageism and Marketing with Lisa LaMagna of Generations Now
A wide-ranging discussion on ageism, marketing, the future. Plus some great start-up ideas and activism thrown in for fun. Links discussed on the show: The Unstoppable Rise of the Zaddys -- in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/t-magazine/zaddy.html Getty Images and AARP Launch the Disrupt Aging Collection http://press.gettyimages.com/aarp-and-getty-images-launch-the-disrupt-aging-collection/ Refinery 29: Life Begins At.... https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/ageism Bratt Pitt is...
Sep 30, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 241
240 EXTRA Risk Avoidance is the Opposite of Innovation – Change my Mind.
Innovation IS risk, it requires risk, and without risk, how can you innovate? This company has just given the death knell to internal innovation. If the most critical metric in your employee’s objectives for the year is managing risk, how innovative do you think this company will be?
Sep 22, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 240
239 EXTRA Stop Copying Me
Can you innovate by copying?
Sep 16, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 239
238 EXTRA Doing Your 2020 Strategic Plan Right
Many organizations are planning for 2020. There's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Some organizations call this “strategic planning,” however since the plan is only a year out, I’d argue that you might not call it “strategic,” although, in this world of extremely short-term planning, let’s say that planning one year out can be considered strategic. Most companies who are looking at completing these strategic planning exercises look at what they are doing today and extend that out a year. Th...
Sep 09, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 238
237 EXTRA Are You Doing Digital Transformation Right?
Is digital transformation simply applying digital technologies to your current processes, products and services? No, it is much more. Get you free paper on "Doing Digital Transformation Right"
Aug 19, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 237
236: Overcoming Inventoritis With Tatsuya Nakagawa of Castagra
How one entrepreneur leveraged a 20 plus year old idea for success. Connect with Tatsuya here: https://linktr.ee/tats_n Heres the book: Overcoming Inventoritis https://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Inventoritis-Silent-Killer-Innovation-ebook/dp/B00243FRGI
Aug 05, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 236
235 EXTRA You Are Selling Your Reality
Everyone has their own reality. This is why its so difficult to get people to agree on anything - everyone experiences their own reality, and its this reality which is what you should be selling. Your version of reality.
Jul 22, 2019•12 min•Season 1Ep. 235
234 EXTRA Don't Do Your Best!
A wise man once said – if you are not embarrassed by your first version, then you waited too long to launch it.
Jul 22, 2019•7 min
233 EXTRA Are You Washing The Walls?
Have you ever looked at what you were doing and realized that you were just washing the walls, and not pushing the balls?
Jul 15, 2019•13 min•Season 1Ep. 233
232 EXTRA A Convoluted Customer Journey
Do you know your customer journey? Have you mapped it out lately? Do you make it easy for customers to do business with you? After a time, your processes may have begun to deviate from the ideal customer experience. Are you seeing an increase in customer service calls, lower net promoter scores, and other key indicators that something is amiss in your customer experience?
Jul 08, 2019•12 min•Season 1Ep. 232
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