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Remake

Eran Dror

Remake is a podcast about Design, Systems, and Society. And I'm Eran Dror, a product designer and researcher of eastern religions. In each episode I interview someone whoโ€™s trying to change our lives for the better in some meaningful way, whether through a new product, new venture, or new way of looking at the world, and I try to understand how they came to it, what makes them tick, and what we all can learn from them. I truly believe Design is strategic, that it goes to the core, that it's at the root of what it means to be human. In this show we explore an expansive view of design, and cover Systems Thinking, Social Innovation, Secular spirituality, and the future.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Remake episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Remake for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Remake episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Remake - 074. Kevin Kelly: Living with Technology

074. Kevin Kelly: Living with Technology

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08/17/23 โ€ข 45 min

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One of the most tragic aspects of the accelerating pace of change, and rapid evolution of new technologies โ€” is that we as humanity have lost our elders. We begin to see older generations as detached from the current world of innovation, and have to discount advice and experiences gained in an age that feels so different from our own.

Whereas prior generations could count on a world pretty similar to that of their ancestors, when we look to the future, pretty much the only thing weโ€™re sure of is that itโ€™s not going to look like the past, or even the present.

But we still yearn for some sage advice, at least I know I do. And wouldnโ€™t it be wonderful if we did have someone who could help us navigate a time of tremendous, accelerating change?

Thatโ€™s why I was so excited to talk to Kevin Kelly.

Kevin is perhaps the closest thing Silicon Valley has to such a sage. Someone who not only witnessed the tremendous rise of digital technology, but thought about it deeply as it was happening and developed models for thinking about it.

In 1993, Kevin co-founded the groundbreaking Wired magazine, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. In 1994, he wrote Out of Control, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems. In 2010 he published What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology and the complex, almost organic systems that drive it, and in 2017 he published The Inevitable, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller about the inevitable trends driving technology.

His latest book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, is an offering of 450 useful aphorisms or principles for living heโ€™s devised over his life amidst the changes.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • How did DIY culture shape Kevin's worldview from a young age?
  • What inspired Kevin to co-found Wired magazine?
  • Why does Kevin claim technology has a will of its own?
  • What is his take on AI advances of today?
  • Why did he decide to write a book of pithy life advice?
  • What is some of Kevin's most counterintuitive advice around decision making and change?
  • How can we live fully before our time is up?

My favorite piece of advice in the episode is about choosing a path of change. Without giving away the content, Iโ€™ll just say Iโ€™ve brought it up multiple times in conversation with friends about their dilemmas, and when considering my own life decisions.

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These timestaps are AI-generated and could prove inaccurate. (Please let us know if you find any issues here: [email protected] )

  • Early Making and DIY Culture (00:08:17 - 00:10:16)
  • The Origins of Wired Magazine (00:15:18 - 00:17:30)
  • Technology's Inherent Tendencies (00:19:32 - 00:22:05)
  • AI as Future Partners (00:25:11 - 00:27:02)
  • Truth and AI (00:28:17 - 00:31:20)
  • Advice for Living Wisdom (00:32:14 - 00:36:39)
  • Giving and Getting (00:36:59 - 00:38:16)
  • Learning vs "Can't Do" (00:38:57 - 00:39:42)
  • Choosing Change (00:40:55 - 00:41:57)
  • Embodying Your Full Potential (00:42:24 - 00:44:45)

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Remake - 062. Vicki Tan: Intuition and Bias

062. Vicki Tan: Intuition and Bias

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07/20/23 โ€ข 69 min

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Vicki Tan is a Product Designer, a public speaker, a student of Behavioral Psychology, and a dog mom based in Brooklyn. She currently works at Spotify, and has previously worked at Headspace, Lyft, and Google. She cares deeply about the human aspects of design, and the insights that data cannot provide. In her spare time, she's working on an illustrated book on cognitive bias.

We spoke in mid-July 2022, and I was excited to talk to Vicki because she's been at the center of designing some really delightful digital experiences in Headspace, Lyft, and Spotify, and has given interesting talks on the complex interactions of data, logic, and creativity.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • How Vicki got into design by forging notes for school.
  • Studying Behavioral Psychology, and using that lens in design.
  • Her early work in psychological research.
  • How she found her way into Google.
  • The importance of cognitive ability in hiring practices.
  • The unique culture at Headspace.
  • The challenges of designing a meditation app.
  • The role of intuition in design and our overreliance on data.
  • What finding umami means to her.
  • Her book in the works on cognitive bias.
  • Self-coherence as a way to help our own cognitive bias.
  • And dreams as a blueprint for reality.

One of my favorite things about being a product designer is meeting other product designers. There is something about the open-mindedness, mindfulness, optimism, and interdisciplinary interests that seem to be a recurring pattern and which make the best product designers a real delight to talk to. And Vicki is no different.

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with top designers, thinkers, makers, authors, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So please follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Vicki Tan.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:18] Life in the Present

[8:35] Childhood Rebellion

[12:17] A Journey to Behavioral Psychology

[15:15] A Career Path

[19:02] Hiring Decision Factors

[21:38] A Pivot to Designer

[25:35] Lyft, Headspace, and Spotify

[29:25] The Culture at Headspace

[37:04] Designing With Intuition

[40:23] Finding Umami

[47:52] Gentle Chaos

[56:47] Cognitive Bias

[1:05:20] A Short Sermon

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Remake - 026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity

026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity

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08/10/23 โ€ข 82 min

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Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is an Israeli-born, Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist. He's the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. and the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in NYC, an artist-driven, everybody friendly, God-optional, pop-up experimental community for sacred Jewish gatherings.

Amichai is a member of the Global Justice Fellowship of the American Jewish World Service, a founding member of the Jewish Emergent Network, serves on the Leadership Council of the New York Jewish Agenda, the Advisory Council of the International School for Peace - a Refugee Support Project in Greece, a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, and is a faculty member of the Reboot Network.

Through all his endeavors, he brings a creative, inclusive, and vital energy to Jewish practice and Jewish life.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • How the Jewish concept of the set table served both as a happy early memory, and as an organizing principle for his later work.
  • How Covid 19 made rituals and online communities more important than ever.
  • His orthodox roots as the scion of an ancient and respected rabbinical dynasty, and his journey of self discovery through theater, drag, and art.
  • His creation of storytelling, a way to bring to life the ancient ritual of the reading of the Torah, and the Maven Method he developed to spread the practice further.
  • The emergence of Lab/Shul and the community around it.
  • The power of spiritual design and a well-designed practice in transforming our lives and our communities for the better.

We also discuss:

  • How is religion used as a tool in the service of humanity?
  • What happens if you bring scripture to the 21st century as a performance?
  • Why is the tribal wisdom of small circles within a bigger circle so important?

I've long believed that one of the most promising avenues to apply design skills and creativity to is in designing communities, social rituals, and spiritual practice that suits the modern world. And, as such, there's no one I can think of that exemplifies this better than Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie. I think this conversation, which is full of wisdom and fun, is a great introduction to exactly the type of spiritual design we need to see more of. So let's jump right in with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[3:52] Life During Covid

[10:17] The Wisdom of the Set Table

[22:31] The Birth of Storahtelling

[29:55] A Paradigm Shift from Patriarchy

[38:25] Rebirth of the Translator

[54:34] The Design of Lab/Shul

[1:00:19] Design Thinking and Virtual Practice

[1:11:54] Individualism vs Collectivism

[1:19:36] The Significance of the Tree

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Remake - 006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck

006. Kathy Davies: Design Your Life to Get Unstuck

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07/27/23 โ€ข 98 min

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Kathy Davies wears many hats - sheโ€™s a Design Lecturer at Stanford University. She's the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design lab, where she and her team have trained 150 universities globally to use the life design processes on their campuses to help students design, prototype, and test the right career paths for them.

She is also a Cofounder and CEO at DYL Consulting where she uses design thinking and life design principles to build a better world.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode we discuss:

  • [02:56] Challenges during the pandemic, transitioning into virtual classes and workshops.
  • [18:34] Kathy's early desires to connect, and to combine science with art in her work.
  • [29:23] Kathy's engineering experience.
  • [33:14] Getting into Design Thinking at Stanford.
  • [48:59] The journey into Life Design.
  • [1:02:22] Why is it so hard for us to figure out what we want to do in life?
  • [1:07:31] The Life Design process.
  • [1:19:39] Life Design for women.
  • [1:30:02] The future of Life Design, and its impact.

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Remake - 061. Geci Karuri-Sebina: Our Urban Future

061. Geci Karuri-Sebina: Our Urban Future

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07/13/23 โ€ข 53 min

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Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina is a futurist, urban planning thinker, and the author of Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence. She's a faculty member at Singularity University South Africa with a focus on urban futures, including smart cities, networks, urban planning, governance and development, and innovation systems. She's an associate of The South African Cities Network and had worked with The National Treasury, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and the University of California, Los Angeles Advanced Policy Institute.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • The value and importance of speaking your truth, and how she learned that in childhood.
  • Her journey from Kenya to the United States, and then to South Africa.
  • Her experiments with architecture, physics, and computer science.
  • Why urban planning was more appealing to her than architecture.
  • The issues that architecture doesn't address.
  • Her approach to foresight and future thinking.
  • Smart cities, and what constitutes bad urban design.
  • Her work with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe.
  • And decolonizing our knowledge and ways of knowing.

I loved hearing about Geci's use of different foresight practices to imagine different futures and different possibilities for the future. But what really stayed with me is how dire the situation is โ€” with urbanization outpacing our predictions and our ability to plan, and giving rise to shortages and unplanned solutions that may be less than ideal. We need every tool in our creative toolbox to make sure our cities grow to be a place of diversity, creativity, and opportunity, rather than their opposite.

This episode is especially rich with resources and references, so I wanna encourage everyone listening to check the show notes. We are fairly meticulous at listing and providing links to every article, book, person, or resource mentioned in the episode.

We have close to a dozen weekly episodes already lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, and entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[4:24] Life in the Present

[7:05] Early Childhood Lessons

[10:02] An Intercontinental Journey

[13:58] A Sense of Dismissal

[16:59] A World of Futures and Foresight

[19:21] Creating a Culture of Futures Thinking

[23:32] An Unpredictable Future

[26:22] An Appreciative Practice

[34:33] What Does Good Look Like?

[37:18] Smart Cities and Design Thinking

[41:44] Capacity to Decolonize

[47:09] A Poetic Collaboration

[50:50] A Short Sermon

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Remake - 047. Jerry Colonna: Why Better Humans Make Better Leaders

047. Jerry Colonna: Why Better Humans Make Better Leaders

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08/03/23 โ€ข 67 min

TODAY'S GUEST

Jerry Colonna is the CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm whose coaches and facilitators are committed to the notion that better humans make better leaders.

For nearly 20 years, he has used the knowledge gained as an investor, an executive, and a board member for more than 100 organizations to help entrepreneurs and others to lead with humanity, resilience, and equanimity. Heโ€™s been called the CEO Whisperer and the Coach with the Spider Tattoo, and has taken refuge in the Buddhist dharma tradition.

Previous to his career as a coach, he was a partner with JPMorgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of JP Morgan Chase. And before that, had launched Flatiron Partners with partner, Fred Wilson. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs in the New York City area.

Today, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • COVID, and how it exposed the interdependence, but also the inequality of American society.
  • Leadership in the context of the Ukraine war, and how when leaders don't address their vulnerable and wounded parts, that expresses itself in violence. We discuss that in the context of malignant narcissism with Putin, and also with Trump.
  • His childhood, and how he became keenly aware of how people around him are feeling.
  • His career in venture, and how he veered from that into coaching.
  • My therapy session, where he points his radical inquiry, his coach mind, at me.
  • My tendency to hide, to not want to be very active on social media, at least not publicly on Twitter.
  • My fear of being judged, and my fears of not being seen or appreciated.
  • What it means to bring your whole self to every challenge in your life, at work, and at any other moment.
  • How everything is an opportunity for self growth, and to practice that.
  • His reboot system and method, and his book.
  • How everybody in life is basically looking for love, safety, and belonging.

We had this conversation in mid-March 2022, and that was two years into the worldwide outbreak of COVID, and a couple of weeks into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was excited and nervous to talk to Jerry, who's famous for making podcasters cry. We also had a brief chat months before preparing for this interview and I already had a taste of his radical inquiry approach to coaching.

So as expected, this did not end up being a regular interview. While we got to explore his history and his ideas and his childhood a little bit, Jerry turned his radical inquiry on me as expected. And you'll get to hear a pretty detailed coaching/therapy session on this podcast and dive deeper into my fears and insecurities along the way. I have to say, I found it deeply therapeutic, both at the time, and now weeks later when I relisten. This was a very different, very meaningful process for me, and I hope that you'll find it beneficial as well. It definitely affected the way that I approach putting myself out there and allow myself to be more visible on social media.

Shortly after this interview was recorded, I definitely did start being more vocal and an amazing thing happened. As I started being more vocal on Twitter and other platforms, we got more and more downloads for this podcast and the podcast started growing very, very rapidly. And so I owe a big thank you to Jerry for challenging my assumptions and helping me pinpoint these insecurities. Jerry assured me that this is helpful to other people to hear. So I really hope that will prove true, and that you'll find this episode really helpful to you in your journey as well.

This conversation with Jerry is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and investors who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Jerry Colonna.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[6:58] Life During Covid

[13:23] The War in Ukraine

[20:51] Early Childhood Empathy

[24:25] A Journey to the Venture World

[32:54] A Therapy Session

[52:17] Business as a Tool for Growth

[57:44] Bringing Your Whole Self

[1:00:20] The Reboot Approach

[1:05:01] A Short Sermon

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Remake - 058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design

058. Richard Bartlett: Decentralized by Design

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06/01/23 โ€ข 54 min

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Today, I'm speaking to Richard D. Bartlett, aka Rich Decibels.

During the Occupy movement in 2011, Rich caught a glimpse of a different way of being together โ€” more compassionate, more intelligent, more creative, inclusive, and animating than he'd experienced as a student worker or citizen up to that point. Since then, he's been on a mission. In 2012 he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people.

In 2016 he co-founded The Hum, a management consultancy for organizations without managers. The Hum has recently published an online training course that shares what they know about working in highly decentralized organizations. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral โ€” a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work.

Rich has a daily writing practice. He writes about how people work together, at any scale, from relationships, to organizations, to social change, and he's prolific on Twitter and on Medium. His fascinating book (currently in beta) is called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing and can be downloaded from Leanpub.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • How growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and decoupling from that, shaped his outlook.
  • His complex relationship with atheism and religion today.
  • How he discovered love and solidarity in activism.
  • Technologies of organizing.
  • Forming decentralized decision-making processes.
  • Nihilism in the face of dysfunction as a form of cowardice.
  • Loomio, and collective decision-making software.
  • Status and hierarchy.
  • Shifting culture through fermentation.
  • And the concept of stewardship.

We spoke in mid-June 2022, and I was excited to talk to Rich since he's been introduced to me by Daniel Thorson, whom I interviewed here in episode 10. I've been following his writing on Twitter and find the idea of decentralized work and collaboration fascinating, exciting, and challenging.

It's perhaps the greatest question of our time: now that we're all connected and have incredible tools of self-organization, how can we make better decisions together? How can we outcompete centralized organizations? And how can we benefit from the wonderful richness of so many brains without descending into chaos, nihilism and mob rule?

This conversation is one of a dozen or so weekly conversations that we already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe.

And now let's jump right in with Richard D. Bartlett.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[5:23] Life in the Present

[8:07] Early Childhood Community

[10:33] A Complex Religious Journey

[18:37] The Occupy Movement

[23:45] A Transformational Insight

[28:21] Cowardice and Courage

[30:40] Membership Groups

[35:16] Intersecting Communities

[41:06] Status and Hierarchy

[44:35] Fermenting the Right Culture

[48:21] The Stewardship System

[51:58] A Short Sermon

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Remake - 073. Eli Green: Gender Beyond the Binary

073. Eli Green: Gender Beyond the Binary

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05/11/23 โ€ข 71 min

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Today we're talking about transgender issues.

Specifically, what should the rest of us know about transgender people? This is a topic that I admit I know very little about, but one that feels important at the very least, if one wants to avoid causing unnecessary pain. Language itself seems to be changing when it comes to gender, and while some resistance is natural and no generally agreed upon set of rules has been widely accepted, it's important to understand why these changes are happening and what's behind them.

I can't imagine someone more perfect to talk to about this subject than Dr. Eli Green. Eli is the founder and CEO of the Transgender Training Institute. They are an award winning educator and author with over 20 years facilitating transgender related education and supporting other gender educators. Dr. Green has helped thousands of people have a better understanding of what it means to be transgender and nonbinary and how to support and affirm the transgender and nonbinary people in their lives, workplaces, and communities. Eli brings kindness, patience, and authentic connection to the topic, making the gender conversation one that seems inviting, a place you'd like to be rather than a place to avoid.

We spoke in mid January 2022, and it was really the first time I felt like I had a grasp of what we're talking about. When we talk about gender and transgender rights and challenges.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • Eli's childhood and early realization on how people are treated differently based on gender.
  • How Eli recognized they were nonbinary at a young age, but not having the language for it.
  • Eli's process of coming out as nonbinary is transgender transition, facing discrimination as a nonbinary person, including transphobia and barriers to accessing resources.
  • The differences between gender and sex and how they are not the same.
  • The importance of kindness and affirmation for the LGBTQ plus community.
  • How Cisgendered people can support and advocate for trans rights.
  • Eli's work with the Transgender Training Institute, which provides education and training on trans issues to businesses, organizations, and government agencies changing hearts and minds, and the need for systemic change to support nonbinary people.
  • How does religion enter into the picture?
  • What do most people still need to understand about transgender and non-binary individuals?
  • What is the significance of the dynamism of language in this area?
  • Understanding Gender Prejudice

What stayed with me most of all is the ever present need for kindness, the need to make an effort to see things from a different person's perspective. This applies equally to cisgendered folks learning about gender dysphoria, as it does to activists understanding that ignorance does not equal malice. In both cases, the smallest gesture of kindness can open the door to a whole new way of relating and moving forward, in which specific details can be discussed from a place of trust.

We already have lined up for you with thinkers, designers, makers, authors, entrepreneurs, and activists who are working to change our world for the better. We have some amazing episodes lined up for you, answering questions like:

Why is prototyping essential to making truly new things?

What's the value of knowing what you're about and crafting a personal manifesto? How can we find the freedom to think in an increasingly connected world?

So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to RemakePod.org to subscribe. And if you're a subscriber already and enjoy our show, you can go to RemakePod.org/support and join our supporter community.

And now, without further ado, let's jump right in with Dr. Eli Green.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[5:31] Life in the Present

[6:53] Early Childhood Realizations

[15:56] Coming Out as a Trans

[20:42] Significance, Evolution and Expansion of Labels and Languages

[28:30] Learning Human Sexuality in Academia

[32:07] From Academia to Establishing the Transgender Training Institute

[35:50] The TTI Teaching Pedagogy

[38:37] Success Stories

[42:29] LGBTQ+ Present Issues and Obstacles

[47:33] Alliance vs Friendship

[51:19] Elements of being a Good Ally

[53:04] Gender Pronouns

[57:15] Importance of Being Kind

[01:02:51] Company Design and Structure

[01:09:33] Short Sermon

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Remake - 054. Jay McClelland: Networks That Learn

054. Jay McClelland: Networks That Learn

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05/18/23 โ€ข 80 min

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Jay McClelland is a Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist and one of the founding fathers of the field of neural networks and deep learning in the 1980s, which led directly to today's explosion in AI and machine learning algorithms that are transforming our lives. He is the Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford University, where he was formerly the chair of the psychology department, and is currently a Consulting Research Scientist at DeepMind, perhaps the leader in machine learning technologies today.

Jay is best known for his work on statistical learning and parallel distributed processing, applying connectionist models (or neural networks) to explain cognitive phenomena such as spoken word recognition and visual word recognition. Today, he works on integrating language, memory, and visuospatial cognition in an integrated understanding system to capture human intelligence and enhance artificial intelligence, exploring how education and human-invented tools of thought can enhance human and machine intelligence.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we talk about:

  • Lessons from his youth, where he moved around the world as a child and interacted with different religions and backgrounds, which helped him understand that we are shaped by our contexts and experiences.
  • His entry into cognitive psychology, and going beyond the laws of behavior into: Why do people behave the way they do?
  • Building neural networks to model cognition.
  • His world-changing PDP paper (Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition), a paper that was published in 1986 and transformed this whole field, and directly led to more and more people embracing the connectionist model and neural networks.
  • The fact and meaning of bi-directionality in neural networks. What does it mean that information can flow both ways in the same network structure?
  • Generative models, and in this context, OpenAI's DALL-E 2 algorithm, which can create amazing illustrations and artworks โ€” and should we credit generative or creative algorithms with artistry and give them credit for their art?
  • Consciousness โ€” does it extend beyond humans and is it something that we may be able to find someday in algorithms?

Talking to Jay really reminded me of the best in mankind, that through curiosity, asking interesting questions, and constructing thought models and experiments, we can unlock such a subtle and fundamental thing like cognition and the connectionist model, which then unlocks all of this power for society at large. We now have this responsibility to reign in the worst of mankind in how we exploit, curate, and share in the benefits of this incredible power. This will be a running topic for us, AI in the future. We explore the power of design and human-centered thinking to create a better future for everyone.

This conversation with Jay is one of many weekly conversations we already have lined up for you with leading authors, thinkers, designers, makers, scientists, and social entrepreneurs who are working to change our world for the better. So follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app, or head over to remakepod.org to subscribe.

And now, let's jump right in with Jay McClelland.

TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS

[7:28] Life in the Present

[9:08] Early Childhood Perspectives

[12:33] A Path to Psychology

[22:16] Modeling Cognition

[27:37] Neural Networks

[35:16] The Significance of Bi-Directionality

[40:21] Bistable Perception

[43:55] The Truth of Mathematics

[49:24] An Emergentist

[55:17] Technology and AI

[1:01:17] An Accumulation of Experience

[1:07:20] On Consciousness

[1:15:47] A Short Sermon

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Remake - 015. Christopher Holm-Hansen: Can Online Meetings Be More Human?

015. Christopher Holm-Hansen: Can Online Meetings Be More Human?

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01/21/21 โ€ข 88 min

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Christopher Holm-Hansen is a Copenhagen-based product designer and the co-founder of MeetButter, a promising new startup which aims to makes online workshops and meetings more human and delightful.

We talk about his journey from training as a civil engineer, through the first product he ever built - a spoon that helps you properly season your food - to his journey through founding 2 previous startups, and a bankโ€™s internal venture group.

We explore how seeking a new direction and remaining engaged at the moment that Covid hit gave him and his team a clue that led to MeetButterโ€™s current product, and what he sees as the future of online meetings and work beyond the Covid-19 crisis.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this conversation we discuss:

[3:11] Covid situation in Denmark & Israel.

[8:08] Early life, and a love for making and creating things.

[13:51] Design Engineering Degree.

[15:20] Discovering Human-Centered Design.

[18:28] A Spoon That Helps Cook.

[23:22] Service Design Explained.

[27:41] First Startup Launched

[31:51] Working as a UX Designer at an Agency

[36:38] Joining a Venture arm at a Large Bank

[39:48] 2nd Startup Launched, New Partner

[46:10] Denmark's Gaming Ecosystem

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How many episodes does Remake have?

Remake currently has 101 episodes available.

What topics does Remake cover?

The podcast is about Spirituality, Society, Entrepreneurship, Experience, Design, Podcasts, Arts, Business, Innovation and Thinking.

What is the most popular episode on Remake?

The episode title '026. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie: Community, Ritual, and Creativity' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Remake?

The average episode length on Remake is 67 minutes.

How often are episodes of Remake released?

Episodes of Remake are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Remake?

The first episode of Remake was released on Nov 12, 2020.

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