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thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

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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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502 EXTRA Books That Tell The Truth

What books changed your life? For me, it's the ones that tell the truth - that explain reality AS IT IS, not as we'd like it to be.

Oct 01, 2021•10 min•Season 1Ep. 502

501 EXTRA Future Of Work Is A Task Economy

In the future of work, we are all free agents, free to work at any job whenever we want, whenever we like, and for whoever we want.

Sep 30, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 501

500 EXTRA To Connect All Humans To Each Other

I always thought that the act of connecting every human being on the planet with every other human being on the planet over the internet was going to help us to evolve the human race beyond our current misunderstandings. Now I find that might not be the right thing to do - allowing us to connect with other humans just increases mimesis. How do we stop mimesis from running out of control into a world where we have become Homo Nexus - the fully connected human? We need to get over our natural tend...

Sep 28, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 500

499 EXTRA Now Is Not The Time To Be Timid

I can not wait for autonomous driving to come in because if you ask me going is one of those things human beings have too much brainpower to do that we spend too much time thinking in order to do something like driving I think machines we should probably get to to a Thomas driving sooner as opposed to I later believe Thomas is driving. When I went to driving school you were supposed to stay on the right and pass on the left but most everybody was sitting in the left lane the entire way and drivi...

Sep 27, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 499

498 EXTRA Everyone Needs Spare Time

Let me ask you something. We're in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. We have. Full doing tons and tons of work, I mean. The sense that if you're in the middle of a corporate environment. You're probably feeling the stress in the paint. Because. There are so many open jobs. There's so much. Work to be done, and people are doubling and tripling up their work their soul much work that they're doing their focus on their core vision. Giver sat back and realized all you do is work work work. All...

Sep 24, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 498

497 EXTRA Why Do I Do This Again?

Now I want to talk a little bit to the corporate innovators out there. Right I feel your pain; I can't; I can't do it is an accent at all. But I feel your pain because you probably think yourself, why don't I do that? Sometimes why am I doing this? The organization that I'm in says they want to be innovative. We talk about an additional time the the the bring in all these gadgets and toys for us to play with. But when it comes down to actually innovating to bring out new innovative products and ...

Sep 23, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 497

496 EXTRA Battle Of The Shouldwes And The Doits

I went to a conference of the association of professional futurists. And it was an amazing conference because we had futurists from all over the world come on and talk about it. And it was great it was optimistic he was looking at technology from a perspective of how it could make things better for us. The technology coulTechnologyhuman race the human condition it was great I was speaker after speaker went up there, and they talked about all these different things Qatar computing, etcetera etcet...

Sep 22, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 496

495 EXTRA Always Choose Joy

In my last show, we were talking about. Life is a series of moments as opposed to a line. And one of the things I forgot to mention in that show is that. Hi, as an optimistic futurist, I always choose the positive way at each one of these structures early should try to choose a positive way at which one of these gestures and we always have the ability to do that we always have the ability to choose to improve our lives were improved the lives of everyone around us or develop products and service...

Sep 20, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 495

494 EXTRA Life Is A Series Of Moments

So I've been reading up on February in psychology and Adler. I forget his first name was a psychologist; basically, he was a contemporary of Freud and young. And he was basically one of the biggest names in psychology at the time, but we hardly ever hear from him because a lot of the stuff he wrote wasn't written for the psychoanalytic field. He was more written for the layperson. He was focused more on how individuals could improve their lives, and he had a lot of very interesting. Elements to ...

Sep 17, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 494

493 EXTRA No More Workarounds

So today, I'm gonna talk about workarounds. Everybody knows of workarounds are right workarounds are like the patch is you put in a bicycle tire when you you you don't want to have to replace the tire and. Is basically how it works so. You build software any releases suffered any realizes the massive bug in the software that you didn't see because it wasn't tested properly or when it gets the real world everyone knows the adage no plan survives contact with the enemy. When you put things in the ...

Sep 17, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 493

492 Agents Of Change (For Good) with George Aye @ Greater Good Studio

George co-founded Greater Good Studio to use design to heal, to be just, to be restorative, Previously, he spent seven years at global innovation firm IDEO before being hired as the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority. Since founding Greater Good he guides clients and teams through complex projects that honor reality, creates ownership and builds power. He speaks frequently across the US and internationally. George holds the position of Full Professor (Adj) at The Scho...

Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 492

491 EXTRA Solving The Problem Of Supply & Demand

In sales at 1. so I was an engineer. And there was a period of time where I was working for a web design company. I had people working for me who was coding. But I really love the United States I want to stay here so so what can you do how can you how can you help me stay here and they said well you can keep your current job but you also have to do sales you have to sell as well and I'm like I don't know anything about sales how the hell am I gonna sell I have no idea how to sell and I ended up ...

Sep 14, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 491

490 EXTRA The Duality Is Not The Reality

Now lately, we've come into a world. It seems like we're all at odds with each other. Everything is split down the middle. Things are a duality. It's either black versus white. Male versus female, this verse is that everything is split in 2 right it just seems like it's one thing versus another thing. But. The reality that there is no duality is something that we just created to get more eyeballs. That's right, folks, all this conflict that you're seeing a lot of discomfort vision scene is a dua...

Sep 13, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 490

488 EXTRA The Past Vs The Task

And maybe I'd like to sell those one day even though I'm the kind of guy who just sits on the couch after a long hard day and relaxes and watches TV. Maybe I could be this other guy if I disconnected myself from my past's etiology and said, you know what? I don't necessarily need to be like that person anymore; I can be like this person and be more like the person I want to be.

Sep 09, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 488

487 Spearheading Data Equity with Christine Keung & Julia Chen @ City Of San Jose MOTI

About Data Equity @ San José The Mayor’s Office of Technology and Innovation (MOTI) leverages technology to address pressing issues facing San José to improve our residents’ livelihoods, opportunities, and city experience. MOTI’s data equity team works with City departments to drive equitable outcomes for constituents via our data equity framework, which creates consistency, transparency, and accountability towards equity goals. With an emphasis on analyzing the City’s data ethically, we work wi...

Sep 08, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 487

486 EXTRA Humans Crave Recognition

They don't just want the money out of it. They want recognition; the ones who are really truly innovative will prefer recognition to almost anything else. I fact, I've had plenty of situations where you can give away I. pads, or you can give away monetary rewards. Still, the monitor you the idea is you gonna get from Montr words pale in comparison from the ideas are you going to get if you do internal recognition or external recognition war. And lately, I've been reading.

Sep 07, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 486

485 EXTRA Changing Places, Changing Personality

There are lots of factors that affect how you're going to act in specific environments. If you're in a messy environment, you're more creative. If you're in a clean environment, you're productive.

Sep 03, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 485

484 EXTRA Does The Past Matter?

We have a sense of the past, and in that sense of the past, we feel that there is a certain thing called a self. So in this, there's a continual between our past selves. I think this way. The past is done.

Sep 02, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 484

483 The Future Of Growth...And Comedy with Stephen Lehtonen @ Kasvaa

Stephen Lehtonen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kasvaa. He’s spent the last 17 years helping businesses grow. As a business development executive, he has honed strategies for winning business and loves helping clients create sales strategies that win. He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from UCSD. Lehtonen is also a father, husband, and stand-up comic in Los Angeles. Stephen’s comedy can be followed on Instagram @stephenlehtonen

Sep 01, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 483

480 Embracing Change with Rudy Poe @ Rudy Poe OÜ

Rudy describes his purpose in life in three simple words; “Change. For Better.” No stranger to change, Rudy is an entrepreneur and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has co-founded two highly successful companies (in completely different industries) and produced over two hundred hours of documentary productions that have covered a wide array of topics. An adept innovator and storyteller, Rudy has become an expert at pulling disparate resources together and merging them into his project...

Aug 29, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 480

479 EXTRA How To Solve The Big Problems

And I think we need to start with definitions because if you don't define something properly, how can you possibly determine what it is. Because I think we're in this current malaise, we haven't fully defined the problem we're trying to solve.

Aug 27, 2021•9 min•Season 1Ep. 479

478 EXTRA Plan Small Steps

So one of the things about the future, one of the things about strategic planning, one of the things about trying to figure out where we're going what we're doing is that uncertainty is huge, right that's why a lot of people say it's challenging to think about the future how are you going to think about the future if you have no idea what's going to happen next?

Aug 26, 2021•7 min•Season 1Ep. 478

477 How To Start New Businesses with Jake Jorgovan @ Content Allies

Enterprise Podcast Consultant, Serial Entrepreneur, Blogger, & Creator. A powerful new business building framework: a must-read for all startup founders. https://jake-jorgovan.com/blog/my-framework-for-starting-a-new-business

Aug 25, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 477

473 EXTRA Plan On Surprises

If we could, if it was an easy thing to do, everybody would do it, and we'd be able to figure it out and the scenarios and the plans and the strategies that we build for these futures. But, no, I can't tell you exactly what will happen on the exact date I will tell you. All of these things will happen, will we? So it's almost impossible to figure out what the future holds, but you can throw a few things in there and say, well, we can assume that human beings will. So continue to use their invent...

Aug 20, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 473
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