thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

There are lots of factors that affect how you're going to act in specific environments. If you're in a messy environment, you're more creative. If you're in a clean environment, you're productive.

We have a sense of the past, and in that sense of the past, we feel that there is a certain thing called a self. So in this, there's a continual between our past selves. I think this way. The past is done. 

Stephen Lehtonen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kasvaa. He’s spent the last 17 years helping businesses grow. As a business development executive, he has honed strategies for winning business and loves helping clients create sales strategies that win. He has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from UCSD. Lehtonen is also a father, husband, and stand-up comic in Los Ange...

Both matter.

Despite the bad "news", things are getting better for the human race.

Rudy describes his purpose in life in three simple words; “Change. For Better.”   No stranger to change, Rudy is an entrepreneur and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. He has co-founded two highly successful companies (in completely different industries) and produced over two hundred hours of documentary productions that have covered a wide array of topics. An adept innovator and...

And I think we need to start with definitions because if you don't define something properly, how can you possibly determine what it is. Because I think we're in this current malaise, we haven't fully defined the problem we're trying to solve. 

So one of the things about the future, one of the things about strategic planning, one of the things about trying to figure out where we're going what we're doing is that uncertainty is huge, right that's why a lot of people say it's challenging to think about the future how are you going to think about the future if you have no idea what's going to happen next?

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Is the reason why things are crazy right now that we are approaching post-scarcity?

Instead of creating easily solvable problems to solve, we should try to solve the big problems we already have. 

Your job and mine are impacted by accelerating, converging technologies, and may not exist in a few years' time. We all need to develop different mindsets to thrive in this difficult work environment and to make wise next-job and next-career decisions.

If we could, if it was an easy thing to do, everybody would do it, and we'd be able to figure it out and the scenarios and the plans and the strategies that we build for these futures. But, no, I can't tell you exactly what will happen on the exact date I will tell you. All of these things will happen, will we?  So it's almost impossible to figure out what the future holds, but you can throw...

So I talked in the past about low-hanging fruit. I talk about how the heat the term low hanging fruit because everybody uses the term low hanging fruit. It's always it's the easy stuff. Let's go after the easy stuff. Everybody's okay with going after the easy stuff. Nobody has a problem with the low-hanging fruit; in fact, everybody loves it because it's easy. Human beings, that's what we're like...

Your job and mine are impacted by accelerating, converging technologies, and may not exist in a few years' time. We all need to develop different mindsets to thrive in this difficult work environment and to make wise next-job and next-career decisions.

Occam's Razor cannot really be applied to life. Life is to too complex. 

Fear is the mind-killer. Everyone knows the old saw right what's the difference between fear and anxiety. Fear is being tied to the railway tracks anxiety is thinking about being tied to the railways tracks. 

Dropped out of college in 2017 because I was doing it for other people and not myself, flew from my hometown in Germany (Bremen) to NYC with no plans, documented the journey on social media, and built an audience of 35,000 followers across platforms (LinkedIn, Instagram & Youtube).

Their statistics tell them all these things will happen, and the end of the world is not. Some of them use it as a grift. The user is a way to get more money out of people. I mean, because people will use all sorts of tactics to try and get more money out of people, you know, they don't necessarily need to be truthful. 

To understand where the future is going to go, but when you're making decisions favor their reversible ones because reversible decisions may be completely wrong moments after you make them.

Cecile Alper-Leroux is the Group Vice President of Research and Innovation at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) where she writes and speaks extensively on the changing nature of work, people, and technology in the workplace. Since 1999, she has focused on fostering a culture of innovation in the workplace, resulting in the delivery of advanced, people-centric technology solutions and services. A best-se...

 Pretty much anything that comes along, if we want to work with it, we can modify our behaviors to work with it

And one of the biggest problems I see with remote work was a study when I was a Stanford on working from home and how remote piece affects employees when they're out of the office and study after study after study. We have through tons of different studies. Employees to work from anywhere, not to mention the connections they can make innovative connections they can make if they worked in various p...

Great interview with the VP, Insights & innovation of Shur-Tape - the folks ho brought you Duck Tape! http://www.duckbrand.com http://www.shurtape.com http://www.psycletherapy.com

All these virtual assistants don't work for us today. They work for Google, or they work for Apple, work for Amazon.  They work for whatever corporations created them, so the Alexa sitting on my desk right now is listening in on every bit of my conversation, which works for Amazon. It's like having an Amazon employee sitting in your office.  We need personal AIs. We need an A. I. they ca...