Network First Podcast

Dawna Jones has been working in network science for twenty years. She wrote Decision Making for Dummies , spent the mid-2000s inside Hewlett-Packard’s original social network mapping research, and has interviewed and been interviewed more times than either of us could count. In this episode, she joins me to talk about Vital Cartography, her new project, and why the same principles that make a netw...

Sarah de Souza is a psychologist, executive coach, and poet living in Portugal. She speaks several languages, memorised Robert Duncan’s poetry before she could write a sentence in English, and has spent most of her career helping people build lives of genuine meaning rather than just impressive ones. She told me something early in our conversation that stopped me. Happiness cannot be pursued direc...

The traditional career ladder is not failing you by accident. It was built for a world that no longer exists, and it is crumbling under its own weight. Marketing professionals, social media managers, and execution-focused roles are disappearing at pace. When organisations reduce their workforces by forty to fifty per cent, the people who remain inherit the workload of everyone who left — and gain...

Network First Podcast, Episode One With Nat Schooler & Deacon Larry Hiner, Ps. D. The first episode of the Network First Podcast is live, and it opens with the question I have been sitting with for twelve years: what happens to people when the structure they trust disappears overnight. I joined Deacon Larry Hiner to launch the Network First Podcast, a framework built on collaborative freedom rathe...