How New Things Get Done. The 1%ers

This week, Darrell and Shana discuss alignment for AI. Alignment not only between the frontier models and government but also for businesses and humans trying to new things.

This week Darrell and Shana talk about how the creative act belongs to every human. Everyone can do new things. It begins with trusting in our own creativity and being open to disrupting old patterns. 

Darrell says we are 57 moves away from AGI as he defines it. Shana says, so what does that mean for humans?

AI needs us to coordinate for them in order for a new thing to get done! Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

Darrell and Shana talk about their hearts' desire, a clearer picture for every human trying to do a new thing. 

What was lost and what comes back in the Age of Meaning?

What was lost and what comes back, in the Age of Meaning.

Feeling smarter and getting less done. Darrell and Shana talk about the certainty trap

Special Guest Episode with Tim Selders. The wicked problem of the Peatlands in the Netherlands. 

Choosing is the hardest part. Ideas are easy and everyone has one. Converging on the one to get done and taking many small steps toward it is the path to getting a new thing done.

Sentience, Sapience, Consciousness: Oh my!    Darrell and Shana discuss the possibility of AI being alive. 

Darrell does a keynote and in the research finds that 97% of humans can't tell the difference between AI generated music and human created music.   Can a musician make money creating music in the future? And if not, what does that mean for other jobs? 

In this episode, Shana and Darrell start with a simple provocation: tech companies are hiring philosophers. They end up somewhere nobody expected, which is exactly the point.

How AI creates less intelligence instead of more. Shana and Darrell dig into why wisdom is the most important skill for humans in the age of AI, how to define wisdom, and how to increase your wisdom capability. 

Does Agentic AI deliver the hugh promises that have been made on its behalf. If not, why not?

After Darrell misses out on his favourite treat due to road congestion. He joins Shana to ponder why things can't get done faster.

Much ado about Data. Is the data you have worth anything? Should you try to protect it? The difference between information and wisdom. 

Darrell and Shana talk about lies, damn lies and system boundaries. System boundaries: the sneaky culprits preventing organizations from an AI deployment aligned purpose. 

Darrell and Shana talk about the Moonshots EXO model for businesses. 

In this pod, Darrell and Shana talk about how the future will require more holistic thinkers.

Shana and Darrell unravel the meaning and importance of seeing systems when attempting to do a new thing. Systems are everywhere! It's time to spot them and put you in charge of what to do about it. 

The gap between what we see and what is true is often the culprit preventing us from getting a new thing done. Wisdom has nothing to do with age. It is recognizing when you don't know what you don't know, and the old rules are no longer useful. In the age of AI, that is the only thing that is going to matter.

 Is elevate and delegate actually good advice? In this leadership episode, Shana and Darrell challenge one of management's most repeated principles and ask the harder question underneath it. Better decisions require something most organizations don't have: leaders who can think horizontally across functions, not just vertically within them. They dig into why hiring for systems thinking is nearly i...

Shana and Darrell use NEPTUNE to think about how traditional banking could be reimagined for someone wanting to do a new thing. 

As Open AI opens up for advertising revenue, what are the implications. It's a question of trust . What is the direction? Shana and Darrell examine the good and the bad.