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Sept. 22, 2024

Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and ...

Episode 2198: Megan Hellerer exposes the "achievement lie" of how we think about our careers and ...

Working on Sheryl Sandberg’s team at Google, Megan Hellerer (https://meganhellerer.com/) - who had just graduated top of her Stanford class - was on the fast track to become a young Silicon Valley superstar. A few years later, however, she had a breakdown and quit. Describing herself as an “underfulfilled overachiever”,…

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Sept. 22, 2024

Megan Hellerer

Megan Hellerer
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Sept. 21, 2024

Carissa Carter and Scott Dooley

Carissa Carter and Scott Dooley
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Sept. 21, 2024

Edward Goldberg

Edward Goldberg
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Sept. 20, 2024

TWTW

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Sept. 20, 2024

Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat

Episode 2197: Keith and Andrew on why, in our AI Age, Specialists will be the New Proletariat

Earlier this week, I interviewed (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2195-toby-walsh-on-why-ai) the Australian AI expert Toby Walsh about Google’s new NotebookLM (https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/) , a seemingly magical AI product that creates believable conversation between bots. Today, on our weekly That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) tech roundup, Keith Teare and I agreed that this is going to…

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Sept. 19, 2024

Saad Mohseni

Saad Mohseni
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Sept. 19, 2024

Michael Scott-Baumann

Michael Scott-Baumann
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Sept. 19, 2024

Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine

Episode 2196: Michael Scott-Baumann on the unfolding catastrophe in Israel and Palestine

Last year, Michael Scott-Baumann, author of The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine (https://theexperimentpublishing.com/creator/michael-scott-baumann/) and a peace activist at the Balfour Project (https://balfourproject.org/mission-statement-2/) , came on the show to talk about the problem to end all problems (https://lithub.com/michael-scott-baumann-explains-the-dual-histories-of-israel-and-palestine/) - the Israel-Palestine question. Today, Scott-Baumann explains, this problem has, if anything,…

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Sept. 19, 2024

Sharon McMahon

Sharon McMahon
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Sept. 18, 2024

Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything

Episode 2195: Toby Walsh on why AI is finally ready to change everything

The AI revolution, long in hype but short in practice, is finally beginning to happen. In today’s WSJ, the tech writer Joanna Stern introduces her own Joannabot (https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/iphone-16-review-ai-joannabot-3d7fce19?mod=hp_lead_pos7) to review the new iPhone 16. Soon, of course, we will increasingly struggle to distinguished between the real Joanna and her Joannabot.…

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Sept. 18, 2024

Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh
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Sept. 17, 2024

Marietje Schaake

Marietje Schaake
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Sept. 17, 2024

Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

Episode 2194: Marietje Schaake explains how to save democracy from Silicon Valley

This is the final episode of a trilogy of critical conversations about the digital revolution. Earlier this week, Gary Marcus explained (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2190-gary-marcus-on-how-to) how to tame Silicon Valley’s AI barons. Then Mark Weinstein talked to us (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2192-mark-weinstein-on-how) the reinvention of social media. And now we have the former member of the…

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Sept. 16, 2024

Martin Schmidt

Martin Schmidt
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Sept. 16, 2024

Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis

Episode 2193: Arthur Magida on what Americans can learn from a young forger who outfoxed the Nazis

And still they come. Every week, it seems, there’s a new book celebrating resistance to Nazism. The latest is (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Two-Wheels-to-Freedom/Arthur-J-Magida/9781639367221) Two Wheels to Freedom (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Two-Wheels-to-Freedom/Arthur-J-Magida/9781639367221) , Arthur J. Magida’s true story of Cioma Schonhaus, a 20 year-old Jewish art student in Nazi Berlin who successfully forged papers for hundreds of…

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Sept. 16, 2024

Arthur Magida

Arthur Magida
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Sept. 15, 2024

Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online

Episode 2192: Mark Weinstein on how to restore our sanity online

Early social media pioneer Mark Weinstein (https://twitter.com/markweinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) is deeply disturbed by the current state of social media. He’s not alone of course, but in his new book, Restoring Our Sanity Online (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Restoring+Our+Sanity+Online%3A+A+Revolutionary+Social+Framework-p-9781394273966) , Weinstein lays out what he boasts is a “revolutionary social framework” to clean up social media. The…

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Sept. 14, 2024

TWTW

TWTW
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Sept. 14, 2024

Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists

Episode 2191: Why the future has to be built by innovators, rather than just hoped for by optimists

Yesterday, KEEN ON featured a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2190-gary-marcus-on-how-to) with the technologist Gary Marcus about how we can ensure that AI works for us. Today, on our regular That Was The Week (https://www.thatwastheweek.com/) tech weekly roundup, Andrew and Keith Teare discuss the role of human agency in determining our tech future. For…

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Sept. 14, 2024

Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus
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Sept. 13, 2024

Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons

Episode 2190: Gary Marcus on How to Tame Silicon Valley's AI Barons

Few artificial intelligence experts have been as outspoken or prescient as the author and entrepreneur Gary Marcus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus) . In his new book, Taming Silicon Valley (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551069/taming-silicon-valley/) , Marcus takes on the new AI barons of Silicon Valley - billionaires like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman who are building an AI…

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Sept. 13, 2024

Wilbur Ross

Wilbur Ross
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Sept. 12, 2024

Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"

Episode 2189: Wilbur Ross on his mom, Donald Trump, King Charles, and Biden's "Lollipop Economy"

As Donald Trump’s 79 year-old Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Ross) was the oldest first-time Cabinet appointee in American history. Ross’ mom, however - Agnes, a lifelong New Jersey schoolteacher and proud Democrat - probably wouldn’t have been proud of her boy. As he acknowledges in his new memoir, Risks…

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