Singular XQ

JP talks to the audience about Season 5’s delay, the abrupt closure of Season 4, and her experience in our strange new world.

Ending Season 4 on a optimistic high note, Associate Dean Jason Merai from Humber College discusses with JP what the impact of Gen AI will be on arts education and how the industry will changed and be changed by the generation of students who are being trained right now.

JP and Celi Arias talk about Grown Ass Business, Celi's creative and inspiring business strategy and growth consulting business. Celi shares her approach and JP offers her observations on why Celi's background in modern dance feeds directly into her skills in helping people building and optimizing complex business flows. You can find information on her cohorts and training opportunities as...

JP interviews Founding Core Advisory Board member, Dr. Guissoo Nabavian . Dr. Nabavian is a psychologist with over 25 years in public mental health and wellness in NYC. JP and she talk about the transition from a for-profit consultancy to a non-profit social startup, and the importance of accessibility and education during this age of digital transformation. Dr. Nabavian shares her experience of j...

JP and Luis Riera welcome JP's old start-up "war buddy" Scott Garrison on to talk about the second to last episode of the premiere season of SV. While they dig into the episode, they also hit some deep points about the importance of empathy in the startup culture and the impact of social and emotional intelligence. When the Pied Piper team see a start up at Disrupt that is testing mi...

Brian is a truth teller. He is direct, calls it like he sees it, and doesn't mince words. He and JP had an intense chat about what's been going in BPO and CX since AI hit the scene.

Luis Riera wasn't a rockstar HeroCorps member at the time of this interview but he is one now and we couldn't be luckier to have come across this unique, humble but courageous creator and emerging thought leader on consciousness and technology. We thought we'd save this for our HoSXQ series. Where he and JP get to know each other and talk about consciousness, espionage, The Planet of t...

Michael and JP have another Friday chat and this time they talk about qualitative data and AI and the cost of platforming "qualitative research at scale."

Farzin, a fan of crazy robot fighting movies and watching Total Recall with his grandma, is an organizational justice practicioner. He and JP talk about why it is different than DEI and moves beyond performative tokenism and empty gesture toward more equitable and democratic organizational cultures. A great complement to the Angela Harris episode where we explore how ERGs sometimes create the exac...

In this conversation, JP discusses various topics including his personal life, the challenges faced by his organization, and the importance of taxonomy in AI. He also explores different categories of AI, such as narrow AI, general AI, super intelligence, natural language processing, computer vision, robotics, expert systems, hybrid intelligence, cognitive computing, machine learning, deep learning...

In this episode, Scott Chernoff the voice of Gearhead on Rick and Morty joins the podcast to bring his unique perspective as a comedy creative to Aaron and JP's discussion of episode 6. This conversation is pretty wild. The conversation touches on topics such the importance of doing work for passion, the challenges of being a founder in the tech industry, and why computer programming and Satan...

JP and Bob Goodman discuss the importance of learning cultures, cross-functionality, psychological safety, and human-centered design in driving innovation. They also touch on the evolving role of UX in the technology industry and offer advice for UX professionals navigating the current landscape.

The Humans of Singular XQ presents the lovely and irreplaceable Archana Shah , founding Core Advisory Board team member, brilliant technology researcher, and certified good human. Archana and I explore how my roots with anthropology compare to her recent encounter with a tech anthropology conference she attended and we also talk about her history with developing Singular XQ and what she thinks abo...

Do you know what a dramaturge is? In this week's episode recurring co-host Aaron Beavers and JP chat with dramaturge and full professor Jane Barnette about episode 5 in Season 1 with a controversial mural that even makes Aaron uncomfortable. Dr. Barnette does not hestiate to dive in with her analysis. Dr. Barnette is head of the dramaturgy program at University of Kansas. She, JP, and Aaron ha...

Are ERGs helping or masking organizational problems that have to be addressed with more urgency? Angela V. Harris delivers a provocative interview with JP on the importance of addressing racial and gender inequity in organizations.

The Humans of Singular XQ is a regular series on the Singular XQ podcast where we highlight the members of our Knowledge Capital Index, unicorn professionals with areas of valuable expertise in engineering, research, design, and executive leadership. This week's episode is Dr. Rebecca Grier a Human Factors Engineer. She and JP chat about how to maximally improve the traction research has in or...

Do you remember Dorian Nakamoto? Dorian Nakamoto was a person Newsweek mistakenly outed as the the Nakamoto who founded Bitcoin. It turned out they were wrong and he sued. That and a bunch of tornadoes were in the new in 2014 the week this episode aired. In this installment we have special guest Dr. Heather Roff , an expert on ethics, law, and policy when it comes to AI and autonomous systems. She...

The one where JP talks to Dr. Manhaes about how organizations tend to treat designers the way they treat employes who identify as female.

the recording of our new series Happy Hour for Thinking People with special guest expert, Dr. Guissoo Nabavian and SXQ network special guests, J. Wolf, Dr. Jon McKenzie, and Hazel Weakley as well as, HeroCorps members Aaron Beavers and Luis Riera. We sit around with beverages and talk about the presence of the Dark Triad and its role in business sucess and other topics of interest. We will be doin...

Do you remember Heartbleed? In this episode, JP joins Aaron Beavers alongside special guest Brian Larsen to talk about episode three of Silicon Valley Season 1 . JP starts the episode off with some reminders of what was in the headlines on the day of the release and the team takes it from there with Brian talking about the omnipresence of cereal in start-ups. Why is there so much cereal at Hooli?

The conversation explores the parallels between coercive structures in cults and corporate environments, the manipulation and coercion in advertising and PsyOps, and the ethical implications of these practices. It delves into the impact on individuals and the broader societal implications of these dynamics. Vicente discusses with JP the impact of coercive control culture, leadership, power dynamic...

In another bonus episode where you get to meet the heros who help me run Singular XQ we talk to Dr. Michael Patrick Vaughn about sociology, technology, and, um. Ghosts. That's right. It's a good, 'un Plus I have a new theme song for the Humans series. I'm obsessed with it.

In this episode, Richard hires Jared to design a business plan, Big Head is asked to work for Gavin Belson, and Richard struggles to get his money. The episode explores the concept of a cap table, which is a document that shows the ownership structure of a company. The conversation also touches on the Heartbleed Bug, internet security, and the longevity of Windows XP. The hosts discuss the portray...