BaU with Joe Rogers and Patrick Beggs

In amongst the inflation storm and choppy economic seas ahead Pat and Joe dig into approaches to creating and capturing value. In this episode they kick off the series around value by talking on the different approaches to defining it creating it and capturing it Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe and Pat take the opportunity to check in with each other and share tactics on how to maintain a healthy dose of optimism. Against the backdrop of Mens Mental Health month, real and metaphorical rainclouds and Southern Winter upon us the two check with each other and share hacks on ways to break cycles in your thinking and embrace what life throws your way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

Pat and Joe wrap up their thoughts on bringing democracy into the the era of Web 3.0. In this fifth and final episode the two look at the role of digital citizenship in creating and eating the proverbial democracy sausage. They conclude their take on breaking from politics as usual exploring how has citizens we need to enable the move from popular politics and into policy politics. Hosted on Acast...

In this episode Joe and Pat look at ways in which democracy can further embrace digital to drive decentralisation to allow for more participation and representation in governance from the get go. The two take inspiration from a previous BaU episode  'The Questioner'   with Stefaan Verhulst aka Mr Data and a project that came out of  The GovLab , titled  The 100 Questions I...

Joe and Pat examine the philosophy and processes that would need to be put in place to bring democracy fully into the digital age. They propose a framework for ensuring everyone can participate in the creation of a voice of the people based system for sharing our views on issues that affect us all.  They discuss how open the data should be, who would set the questions and who w...

Sticking to the program, Joe and Pat give their respective pros and cons on their revamped democratic system. The two dig into the potentiality and the reality of implementing new systems into old. The conversation leads the two to the realization that to make something like this land, you need a method to the madness. Next episode, join the two as they dive into what methods and processes would n...

Kicking on from last week Joe and Pat dive into alternative approaches to designing ways to participate in our own governance. They explore how we could bring the voice of the people forward before we step into the ballot box to better set the table to vote on what really matters to them and their communities. The conversation leads the two to the hard realisation that everything has compromise an...

In the middle a federal election in Australia Pat and Joe get back to work by asking the question can democracy be brought into the digital age? The two ask each other what that digital democracy process would look like and re-evaluate what our current form of legacy democracy is based on. They begin the process of looking at what digital democracy for communities could and would look like and set...

Joe and Pat get into the mechanics of what makes a narrative work in the long and the short term. They view narrative through the lenses of politics, social cohesion and personal life to see what drives success and what stops it. The two go deep on politics and the state of play in democracies where the long and the short are in constant conflict. The conversation leads the two into differing...

Joe and Pat jump into how hope based narratives can create change by grounding themselves in a shared reality.  The two examine how hope based narratives drive resilience, frame mistakes into lessons, change threat into opportunity, and turn problems to solutions. They uncover the main friction point that stops leaders creating hope based narratives in the 21st century and set up next weeks c...

Joe and Pat kick off where they ended off last week, exploring what being stuck in the emotional muck really means and the opportunity it presents us all. They discuss how communities through their own actions often rise to the top when they are threatened. They explore the role of hope in creating new opportunities at an individual, community and an organisational level and lead into next weeks c...

Joe and Pat continue the discussion on connection by examining how our choice of media shapes our discourse. They turn their attention to exploring modes of connection, knowledge and discussion. The two examine how both online and offline modes can facilitate either a sense of connection or alienation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe and Pat stand up and dig into how our sense of connection is shaped by our emotional availability. They explore the role that emotional context plays in enhancing or detracting from our sense of connection. The two look into how medium shapes the emotional experience and whether digital can every truly replace the physical. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first of a deep dive into connection Pat and Joe sit on the invasion of Ukraine and turn their attention from conflict to connection, assessing what it takes to truly connect with another in the new world. The two ask each other what has been changing over time in our ability to connect and truly hear where another person is coming from.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Join in as Joe and Pat wrap up their convos on conflict. They unpack their key takeaways on how conflict is used as a narrative structure and a handy lens through which to view human interactions. They conclude the deep dive by discussing the startling truth that in a world now shaped by more and more conflict we are responding by pushing further and further into our digital foxholes where we...

Joe and Pat dive into one of the main driving, motivating and classically entertaining narrative structures, conflict between character vs character. The two dissect the narrative structure how it interacts with our value alignments as communities, societies and humanity at large. With a telling realisation that we live in an age where mass consumption of the narrative conflict between character v...

Pat and Joe get under the hood of humanities conflict with nature. Joe shares his hatred of leaves and they discuss how our dynamic with nature get framed with fear of the unknown rather than awe of the omnipresent. The boys step through the conflict at a personal, societal and technological level and examine whether in an age of rising temps and seas is our narrative evolving at all. Dig dee...

Joe and Pat kick on into 2022 with a series of convos on conflict. They will explore the different types of conflicts that exist, interrogating their use, relevance and nuances. In this convo they look deep into each other's jaundiced covid eyes and explore the essence of being human, the conflict within oneself. Get your ears around some honest assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly of the...

We’re back. Joe and Pat re-group for 2022, stripping the past two years bare to see how it has effected community cohesion at a micro and meta level. Leveraging Joe's fresh international travel perspective and Pat’s Schanck based Summer to shine some light outside of the algorithm of rage and examine what has changed in the way we interact as a community over the past two years. Hosted on Acast. S...

On the last episode for 2021, Joe and Pat look at ways to which we can create meaning in the workplace and at home, while interrogating the very word itself. The two wrap up the year on a note that often it is the challenges to which make life meaningful and its how we confront those challenges that define us over time, in and out of work. Happy holidays, we will be back at the end of January 2022...

Join in our 4th convo on the future of work we look how the pendulum is swinging back in favour of individual talent and away from larger corporates. The boys look at how organisations are adapting to a new landscape where they have stand for something more than career progression and economic incentives to attract today's best and brightest. Dig Deeper. https://hbr.org/sponsored/2021/04/thriving-...

In this third convo on the future of work, Joe and Pat look to different ways the working contract is being re-imagined as business and organisations look to attract and retain 'good workers' in a global environment that is migrating to digital at speed. The two interrogate what really motivates people now and into the future to continue to work. They pull apart what organisation structures and ap...

Join Joe and Pat as they dig deeper into the future landscape of employment. They look at where value can be found, earned and created in the new era of digital, from both an employees and employers perspective and they spit ball different structures and work ecosystems that are disrupting the traditional social contract of work.  Dig deeper: Other Internet ethnography on Uniswap community ht...

Join us as Pat and Joe start another multi part convo on the future of work. They examine the key long term trends changing the way we work, how employees and employers need to reimagine how they commit to one another and what this means for the area of employer branding as employers seek to align to new behaviour and signal shared values. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Join us as Joe and Pat have a rollercoaster of a conversation about who controls the narrative and who is aware of it. The two look into what it means to be a publisher, push each other to look past what is said to who is saying it and explore the role each individual must play in the attention economy.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.