Catching the Next Wave
Aga and Łukasz Szóstek inspire leaders to reflect on the possibilities and challenges of 21st-century leadership through inspired conversations with amazing guests. They together discuss topics such as change, innovation, common sense, empowerment and more, each of them unique for one season of their podcast. Join them as they Catch The Next Wave.
S4.E5. Peter Droste. The Power of Apprenticeship.
2019-10-01 16:50:16
Yeah, we all go to school and learn stuff. But is it the best way to become a professional? For centuries there was another way: an apprenticeship. Peter Droste, a self-thought experience designer from New York, talks about his personal path to become who he is today. He explores what experience design means, how you can test the limits of what's possible and how it was to learn making steaks from a vegetarian chef. Important links “ The artist’s way ” by Julia Cameron “ The war of art ” by Steven Pressfield “ Finite and infinite games ” by James Carse “ Getting things done ” by David Allen “ Checklist manifesto ” by Atul Gawande “ Museum of a lost wonder ” by Jeff Hoke
Yeah, we all go to school and learn stuff. But is it the best way to become a professional? For centuries there was another way: an apprenticeship. Peter Droste, a self-thought experience designer from New York, talks about his personal path to become who he is today. He explores what experience design means, how you can test the limits of what's possible and how it was to learn making steaks from a vegetarian chef.
Important links
“The artist’s way” by Julia Cameron
“The war of art” by Steven Pressfield
“Finite and infinite games” by James Carse
“Getting things done” by David Allen
“Checklist manifesto” by Atul Gawande
“Museum of a lost wonder” by Jeff Hoke
S4.E4. Elena Foggiato. Focusing On The 1% That You Control.
2019-10-01 16:45:20
We all have self-sabotaging mechanisms that stop us reaching our full potential. Elena Foggiato, an amazing coach from Milan, Italy, talks about focusing on the things we can change and also about being present with our lives. She also explains how improvisation is this amazing tool any of us can use to find new ways of interacting with others. Important links " Callings " by Gregg Levoy
We all have self-sabotaging mechanisms that stop us reaching our full potential. Elena Foggiato, an amazing coach from Milan, Italy, talks about focusing on the things we can change and also about being present with our lives. She also explains how improvisation is this amazing tool any of us can use to find new ways of interacting with others.
Important links
"Callings" by Gregg Levoy
S4.E3. Piotr Jegier. Your Data Is Not Going To Take Decisions For You.
2019-10-01 16:40:04
Is Big Data able to take decisions for us, humans? In this episode, we talk to the Big Data expert from nPowered, Piotr Jegier about the traps that many of us will encounter as we start to rely more any more on data. We dive into the topic of cognitive biases and try to understand in what domains humans still can't be replaced by AI. IMPORTANT LINKS nPowered - what we do Piotr's twitter Flat Earthers' documentary - BEHIND THE CURVE | Official HD Trailer (2018) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers (YT) Things that correlate, but that does not really mean anything (Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen) The software that helps judges make bail decisions, which does not like black people John Cleese on Creativity , including open vs. closed mode (YT) Modern portfolio theory , ie. making sure your many mistakes of forecasting compensate each other (Wikipedia) Traveling Wilburys , the supergroup and the history behind their name An article on The Butterfly Effect and Edward Lorenz's contribution to the Chaos Theory On the often-discussed death of strategy in business in these turbulent times - IMD: Strategy is dead? Long live strategic thinking!. Diagnostics, alternatives and choice By Emeritus Professor Paul Strebel An interesting article on what you might make when you do strategy, includes the strategy statement and the strategic sweet spot: - Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad Comments by the CEO of T-Mobile Poland on "turning the tanker around" Ethics and addiction in tech product design: How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, by Tristan Harris What is the Turing Test? (a short video from Cnet on YT) On the General AI and the control problem (YT) - Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris (TED) Confirmation Bias - a good intro by Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. on Psychology Today A Vox article outlining the work of Dan Kahan on how the (politically) motivated reasoning makes us stupid, and how scientific curiosity can counteract this effect A place where you can learn more on Open Science movement and pre-register your research hypotheses - Center for Open Science - preregister your hypotheses AI Control Problem (Wikipedia) An episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, "The Destroyer of Worlds" on the difficult and risky early years of the nuclear cold war on Earth A selection of 10 particularly non-obvious "For Dummies" books An inspiring introduction and overview of Getting Things Done method (and book) by its creator, David Allen, on Google Tech Talks An accessible and irreverent discussion of the Extended Mind article by Andy Clark and David Chalmers and the distributed cognition concept, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast Peter Thiel's favorite job interview question, as written up by Quartz The original article on the primacy and precedence of (moral) emotions compared to reasoning - more accessible writeups are also easy to find online - The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment, Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia
Is Big Data able to take decisions for us, humans? In this episode, we talk to the Big Data expert from nPowered, Piotr Jegier about the traps that many of us will encounter as we start to rely more any more on data. We dive into the topic of cognitive biases and try to understand in what domains humans still can't be replaced by AI.
IMPORTANT LINKS
nPowered - what we do
Flat Earthers' documentary - BEHIND THE CURVE | Official HD Trailer (2018) | DOCUMENTARY | Film Threat Trailers (YT)
Things that correlate, but that does not really mean anything (Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen)
The software that helps judges make bail decisions, which does not like black people
John Cleese on Creativity, including open vs. closed mode (YT)
Modern portfolio theory, ie. making sure your many mistakes of forecasting compensate each other (Wikipedia)
Traveling Wilburys, the supergroup and the history behind their name
An article on The Butterfly Effect and Edward Lorenz's contribution to the Chaos Theory
On the often-discussed death of strategy in business in these turbulent times - IMD: Strategy is dead? Long live strategic thinking!. Diagnostics, alternatives and choice By Emeritus Professor Paul Strebel
An interesting article on what you might make when you do strategy, includes the strategy statement and the strategic sweet spot: - Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad
Comments by the CEO of T-Mobile Poland on "turning the tanker around"
Ethics and addiction in tech product design: How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist, by Tristan Harris
What is the Turing Test? (a short video from Cnet on YT)
On the General AI and the control problem (YT) - Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris (TED)
Confirmation Bias - a good intro by Shahram Heshmat Ph.D. on Psychology Today
A Vox article outlining the work of Dan Kahan on how the (politically) motivated reasoning makes us stupid, and how scientific curiosity can counteract this effect
A place where you can learn more on Open Science movement and pre-register your research hypotheses - Center for Open Science - preregister your hypotheses
AI Control Problem (Wikipedia)
An episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, "The Destroyer of Worlds" on the difficult and risky early years of the nuclear cold war on Earth
A selection of 10 particularly non-obvious "For Dummies" books
An inspiring introduction and overview of Getting Things Done method (and book) by its creator, David Allen, on Google Tech Talks
An accessible and irreverent discussion of the Extended Mind article by Andy Clark and David Chalmers and the distributed cognition concept, on the Very Bad Wizards podcast
Peter Thiel's favorite job interview question, as written up by Quartz
The original article on the primacy and precedence of (moral) emotions compared to reasoning - more accessible writeups are also easy to find online - The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment, Jonathan Haidt, University of Virginia
S4.E2. David Straker. Changing Minds Is a Daily Practice.
2019-10-01 16:35:01
What do we talk about when we talk about common sense? David Straker, the author of the book "Changing minds" gives a great definition of what common sense truly means. He points out at the traps of our System 1 thinking when it comes to considering something to be common sense. Then we chat about the role of empathy in influencing people, what trust means in the interpersonal relationships and how crucial it is to be able to change our own minds before we attempt to change the minds of others. IMPORTANT LINKS David’s book: "Changing Minds" All his books on Amazon David’s Youtube channel about Affinity Photo "Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis" by Eric Berne "Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre" by Keith Johnstone "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work" by Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare "Diffusion of Innovations" by Everett M. Rogers "The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening" by Steve Taylor “ Thinking Fast and Slow ” by Daniel Kahneman Netflix series “Dark”
What do we talk about when we talk about common sense? David Straker, the author of the book "Changing minds" gives a great definition of what common sense truly means. He points out at the traps of our System 1 thinking when it comes to considering something to be common sense. Then we chat about the role of empathy in influencing people, what trust means in the interpersonal relationships and how crucial it is to be able to change our own minds before we attempt to change the minds of others.
IMPORTANT LINKS
David’s book: "Changing Minds"
David’s Youtube channel about Affinity Photo
"Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis" by Eric Berne
"Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre" by Keith Johnstone
"Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work"
by Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare
"Diffusion of Innovations" by Everett M. Rogers
"The Leap: The Psychology of Spiritual Awakening" by Steve Taylor
“Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
S4.E1. Aga & Łukasz Szóstek. INTRO: Is Common Sense Common at All?
2019-10-01 16:30:06
Sometimes we all ask ourselves this very question: is common sense all that common? In this fourth season of the Catching The Next Wave podcast we hope to investigate what common sense really means and whether it is something that should be generally popular. ...or perhaps not really... Important links Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder”
Sometimes we all ask ourselves this very question: is common sense all that common? In this fourth season of the Catching The Next Wave podcast we hope to investigate what common sense really means and whether it is something that should be generally popular. ...or perhaps not really...
Important links
Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder”
S3.E10. Aga & Łukasz Szóstek. OUTRO: Are You Crossing Boundaries Or Are You Sitting Across Them?
2019-04-25 17:08:00
Once again we are standing corrected - whatever we imagined crossing the borders means, there is so much more to consider. We were talking about starting the transformational journey, crossing borders slowly or quickly, sitting in the fences and also about the certain borders that needn't be crossed. We looked at ways to let go of your own image of yourself and be happy about the choices you've made. We investigated crossing borders in the personal and professional domains tackling the forever elusive topic of business innovation. There were even a few personal borders we crossed ourselves when recording this very season :) We hope you will have a lot of joy listening to it!
Important links
Kaospilot Experience Design program
David Rock, Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long
The Ride in New York City
Once again we are standing corrected - whatever we imagined crossing the borders means, there is so much more to consider. We were talking about starting the transformational journey, crossing borders slowly or quickly, sitting in the fences and also about the certain borders that needn't be crossed. We looked at ways to let go of your own image of yourself and be happy about the choices you've made. We investigated crossing borders in the personal and professional domains tackling the forever elusive topic of business innovation. There were even a few personal borders we crossed ourselves when recording this very season :) We hope you will have a lot of joy listening to it!
Important links
S3.E9. Clara Otero. The Organizational Structure For Innovation.
2019-04-25 17:07:00
Staying innovative is the ultimate challenge for every organization today. Clara Otero, a Director of Systems Innovations for NXP’s Automotive Business Unit, talks about how to structure innovation so that the organization works on both the long-term as well as the short-term vision for product development. We talk about the need for collaboration to create new solutions. We also discuss how to lead a happy and fulfilled life by owning the choices you make. Important links “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card “Thinking, Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman
Staying innovative is the ultimate challenge for every organization today. Clara Otero, a Director of Systems Innovations for NXP’s Automotive Business Unit, talks about how to structure innovation so that the organization works on both the long-term as well as the short-term vision for product development. We talk about the need for collaboration to create new solutions. We also discuss how to lead a happy and fulfilled life by owning the choices you make.
Important links
S3.E8. Alex Grots. Design As Craft Versus Design As a Way of Thinking.
2019-04-25 17:06:00
How does living a nomadic life change your perspective about owning stuff? Together with the world-wide known innovator Alex Grots we explore the importance of rituals, the history of Design Thinking at IDEO and the value of Design Thinking workshops. We also chat about the need to keep the unique organizational culture when your start-up is growing.
Important links
ProGlove
IDEO
The House of Beautiful Business conference
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume by Douglas Adams
How does living a nomadic life change your perspective about owning stuff? Together with the world-wide known innovator Alex Grots we explore the importance of rituals, the history of Design Thinking at IDEO and the value of Design Thinking workshops. We also chat about the need to keep the unique organizational culture when your start-up is growing.
Important links
The House of Beautiful Business conference
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume by Douglas Adams
S3.E7. John-Paul Bichard. The Stories Inside The Forensic Space.
2019-04-25 17:05:00
The realization of your own mortality must impact the art you do. John-Paul talks about his path as an artist early touched by cancer. He takes us into the world of interactive video installations, game design and provocation. We chat about the burlesque theater as an ultimate space for women to be themselves to the core. And we look into the third gender: the choice of neither being a female or male but being both.
Important links
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino
The realization of your own mortality must impact the art you do. John-Paul talks about his path as an artist early touched by cancer. He takes us into the world of interactive video installations, game design and provocation. We chat about the burlesque theater as an ultimate space for women to be themselves to the core. And we look into the third gender: the choice of neither being a female or male but being both.
Important links
S3.E6. Flemming Ottsen. The Art of Letting Go.
2019-04-25 17:04:00
Have you ever imagined yourself being a guest at the Mad Hatter tea party from Alice in Wonderland? Our guest, Flemming Ottsen, can make it a reality. In this conversation we talk about switching from engineering and product management to performance. We explore the world of immersive theater, the importance of meditation and the ego work. We also cross a border we never imagined to cross on this podcast - we discuss the potential positive impact of psychedelics.
Important links
The Flyingfox Entertainment
“The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes” by Steven Pinker
Bill Gates Newsletter
Have you ever imagined yourself being a guest at the Mad Hatter tea party from Alice in Wonderland? Our guest, Flemming Ottsen, can make it a reality. In this conversation we talk about switching from engineering and product management to performance. We explore the world of immersive theater, the importance of meditation and the ego work. We also cross a border we never imagined to cross on this podcast - we discuss the potential positive impact of psychedelics.
Important links