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Fears that once helped keep our ancestors alive, today, more of often than not, serve to limit our experience of life. --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spot...

Adam Grant has been Wharton’s top-rated teacher for four straight years. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and the world's top 40 business professors under 40. Adam is the author of three New York Times bestselling books translated into 34 languages, including Originals, Give and Take and Option B which he co-wrote with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook...

Today, I want to talk why you should leave things unfinished. What's that you say? This doesn’t sound like the Steve we know. And you’d be right to think that, but please hear me out in this instalment of Fast Fix Friday. You might be pleasantly surprised! Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose q...

On 17 January 1944, the Office of the Strategic Services of the CIA issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. The manual remained classified for decades, becoming declassified in 2008. The purpose of the manual was to present suggestions for inciting and executing sabotage. The manual is full of 1940s references such as ‘axis nationals’, the latter no doubt falling victim to many of the manual’s me...

Arj started his career in comedy after graduating from high school in 1989. His first gigs were at an old café called Caffe Nuvo in downtown San Anselmo where he hosted stand-up night every Sunday throughout the early 1990s. Barker has appeared on Premium Blend , Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Glass House . He twice hosted Comedy Central Presents and was featured in Comedy Central's animate...

Brian Ardinger is the founder of NXXT, the InsideOutside.io podcast, and the Inside/Outside Innovation Summit. For over 25 years Brian has been helping entrepreneurs and enterprises navigate and compete in a world of change and disruption. He has led efforts with startups and corporations to engage the latest trends, tools, and tactics to accelerate innovation, launch new ideas, and build better p...

On October 23, 2001, using the slogan “1000 songs in your pocket”, Steve Jobs introduced the original iPod which left us enamoured and with it he ushered in a new age that, with the launch of the iPhone six years later in 2007, would go on to fundamentally change the way we interact with the world around us. This is a Fast Fix Friday instalment on tech addiction and how to overcome it.  --- J...

Jon Satterley is an experienced entertainment & media industry executive and thought leader. I have been recognized as an innovator with expert knowledge of new products, emerging technology and digital business strategy.   When he was just 17, Jon started a record label and wound up signing hundreds of bands while studying to get his law degree.   Jon led digital strategy for Roadrunner...

In the early days of Collective Campus, like most new organisations, we kept ourselves afloat by taking part time jobs on the side and working with a number of small clients who paid us just enough to keep the lights on. After building up enough case studies and collateral working with smaller organisations, we worked our way up and eventually hooked our first big A-list client, a global law firm...

Annie Duke has leveraged her expertise in the science of smart decision making to excel at pursuits as varied as championship poker to public speaking. Her first book for general audiences, “Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts” has just been released and has become a national bestseller in the US. In this book, Annie reveals to readers the lessons she regul...

What are you fighting for? Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Spotify @  http://spoti.fi/2G2QsxV   Listen on Stitcher @  www.stitcher.com/podcast/f...

In this episode of Future Squared, I welcome back DAVID BURKUS, named one of the world’s top business thought leaders by Thinkers50 last year.   His forthcoming book, FRIEND OF A FRIEND, offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He is also the author of UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT a...

While spreading the butter thin might be good for the waistline, it won’t be as good for your business or career. Vote on a book title at  bit.ly/stevesnewbook --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/  where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen...

Today, I am speaking with Nicole Forsgren. Nicole is an IT impacts expert who is best known for her work with tech professionals and as the lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She is a consultant, expert, and researcher in knowledge management, IT adoption and impacts, and DevOps. In a previous life, she was a professor, sysadmin, and hardware performance analyst. Nicole has b...

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk about something that we are all liable to be blindsided by. --- Vote on a book title at bit.ly/stevesbooktitle   Join the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ where you can discuss episodes, request guests, propose questions for forthcoming guests and access exclusive content and special offers! Listen on iTunes @&...

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter which was named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, he wrote Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and the newly released, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, which forms the basis of today’s conversation. He is c...

If you’re asking for a warm introduction to somebody, you might do what I’ve done successfully a number of times, which is to browse your contact’s LinkedIn connections, find people of interest and then reach out with a connection request. However, when your contact has thousands of connections, this can become quite the task, nor is there any way to find out just how well connected they are to th...

Alex Hutchinson is National Magazine Award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance for Runner’s World and Outside, and frequently contributes to other publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team, he holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia and a Ph. D. in physics from Cambridge, and he did his pos...

The OODA loop was a tool developed by military strategist John Boyd. Boyd was a US Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant whose theories have been highly influential in not just the military, but in sports, business and litigation. The OODA loop explains how individuals and organizations can win in uncertain and chaotic environments. It is an Acronym that explains the four steps of decisi...

Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and a Faculty Leader at Stanford’s Center for Longevity. He earned a Ph. D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University.   Bailenson studies the psychology of Virtual Reality (VR) and has been in the space of VR since 1999, in particular he studies how virtual experiences lead to changes in p...

I recently interviewed Alex Hutchinson, author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Almost a decade ago, Ross Tucker and his colleagues at the University of Cape Town published a striking graph showing the average pacing strategies in men’s middle- and long-distance track world records over the past century: The patterns are remarkably consistent. In the 5,...

Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of "governance-by-design" as it relates to online distributed architectures. Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergen...

May 29, 2000. I still remember this day like it was yesterday. I was 16 years old and had eagerly been awaiting the new release from one of my favourite bands for months. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I tell a story that encapsulates a worrying trend signifying the end of not only deep work, but also deep leisure. --- @  facebook.com/futuresquaredpodcast   Listen on iTunes @ ...

Today, I talk discipline, and how small decisions made repeatedly could be the difference between a super fulfilling life and a less than rewarding one. --- @  facebook.com/futuresquaredpodcast   Listen on iTunes @  goo.gl/sMnEa0   Listen on Stitcher @  www.stitcher.com/podcast/future   Listen on Google Play @   bit.ly/FSGoog   ‍ If you've got any quest...

Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph. D. Certified Speaking Professional, is an author and global speaker hailed as a “champion for introverts.” Her bestselling books The Introverted Leader, Quiet Influence, and The Genius of Opposites have been translated into 16 languages and help introverts throughout the world expand their leadership capacity.   Jennifer has deepened her knowledge and appreciation...