Better with Humans

There's a moment in this conversation where Helen describes trees growing weak and weedy inside the Eden Project's biodomes. They'd forgotten about the wind. No resistance, no strength. That image has stayed with me. We're in a strange period with technology. The pressure to be on every platform, to use every tool, to 10x your output with AI, is relentless. And what Helen sees...

Episode 3 - Richard Lalchan There's a study from MIT that found 83% of people who used ChatGPT to write an essay couldn't quote a single sentence from what they'd written. That stopped me cold. Richard Lalchan is back, and this time we went deep on critical thinking. Not as an abstract virtue, but as something that can be measured, exercised, and apparently lost. Richard is a digita...

Better With Humans. Episode 2. Leslie Coelho.   Leslie has 40 years in software engineering. He wrote safety-critical aviation code for the Airbus A321 with no internet, no code libraries, and no AI. And he still cannot stop exploring what comes next. That context matters. Because when Leslie talks about AI, he is not speculating. He has watched this story unfold in real time across four decades....

One of the most interesting conversations I have had recently was around something most of us carry every single day without really questioning it anymore. Our phones. Richard Lalchan joined me on Better With Humans and we explored what smartphones, social media, and now AI are actually doing to us, particularly our children. Not from a fear perspective. From a human perspective. One thing Richard...

The way we create. The way we think. The way we live. And most of us have not stopped to ask whether we actually chose this. I am Shaun Phillips. And I have been sitting down with the people right in the middle of it.  Industry leaders. Creatives. Thinkers. People navigating the shift in real time. Not polished takes. Not press releases. Honest conversations. One idea keeps coming back. If we choo...