Nicole F. Smith, M.Ed, Ranked #3 Nationally Recognized Leadership and EQ Coach, Speaker, Best Selling Author, and the CEO of JMS Creative Leadership Solutions joins the show to discuss how to improve as a leader with an eye towards the next-generation workforce. We also focus on improving your emotional intelligence, how to enhance your business and personal relationships, and the increasing importance of empathy in every touchpoint we have with our stakeholders.
Matt Cowell didn't start out in tech. In fact, he studied the chemical world heavily in school, getting his Bachelors in Chemistry and Masters in Chemical Engineering. So - by trade, he was clearly a chemist. However, when he joined Accenture, he started in with programming and establishing the SDLC methodology for the company. Matt is married with 2 kids, loves sports - specifically Illinois basketball - loves to play music and golf. He likes to travel with his wife to see family, and make frequent visits to their lakehouse.
In his professional past, Matt had held several roles in SaaS companies and startups. He met a company that was an artificial intelligence consultancy, which had a POC around assessments. They wanted to start up a separate company to support launch this POC and take it to market. This is when Matt got involved.
Thomas Tull is founder of Legendary Entertainment, Tulco, part-owner of Pittsburgh Steelers, and guitarist for the band Ghost Hounds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:14) – Legendary Entertainment
(23:56) – James Cameron
(25:50) – Storytelling
(36:02) – Allure of movies
(39:56) – Future of American industries
(58:48) – Tulco
(1:03:58) – Intellectual honest and life lessons
(1:14:30) – Colossal
(1:18:28) – Warren Buffet
(1:27:10) – The Rolling Stones
(1:45:20) – Greatest guitarist
(1:53:33) – Thomas Tull’s music
(2:03:00) – Football
(2:13:56) – Advice for young people
(2:19:42) – Mortality and death
Dr. Tom Insel led the National Institue of Mental Health for 13 years, departing toward the end of the Obama administration for a career in tech. Insel joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how the data on our devices may unlock the key to treatment. Our conversation covers how tech can help manage and treat illness, the privacy ramifications of collecting this data, and whether social media is actually harmful for our mental health.
Trevor Marshall grew up in NY, and has been living in the state his whole life. His path into technology was not a direct one. Prior to school, he was on the road to becoming a professional musician, studying at Juilliard. However, early on in his schooling, he found the same sort of joy he got from music in other areas, initially through economics and combinatorics - and he was hooked on math and computer science.
Early on in life, Trevor's grandfather took him to the horse tracks, teaching him about the odds of a race. Fast forward several years post graduation from Columbia, he joined Morgan Stanley and got really excited about Bitcoin. He even went to his boss and asked if he could trade it... which he was promptly denied. However, that bold interaction solidified a match made in heaven for future working relationship.
In fact, when his now co-founder left, Trevor followed him to continue working together. Being really into Crypto, they both wanted to figure out how to introduce these new value streams to the masses. In order to do so, they needed to build a banking product that made sense for everyone... not just the wealthy.
The inspiration for today's episode was a terrific article from The Guardian about the many ways in which the modern world, specifically the software we use every day, was designed to steal our attention.
During the episode, we discuss Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a professor know as the "father of flow" for his pioneering research on flow states. Sadly, Prof. Csikszentmihalyi passed away in 2021, but you can find a terrific tribute to him and his work here.
In the second half of the episode, we discuss "The California Ideology" and the ways in which hustle culture and libertarian ideals helped to shape Silicon Valley and the world of technology more broadly.
Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, professor at NYU, Turing Award winner, and one of the seminal researchers in the history of machine learning. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:58) – Self-supervised learning
(17:17) – Vision vs language
(23:08) – Statistics
(28:55) – Three challenges of machine learning
(34:45) – Chess
(42:47) – Animals and intelligence
(52:31) – Data augmentation
(1:13:51) – Multimodal learning
(1:25:40) – Consciousness
(1:30:25) – Intrinsic vs learned ideas
(1:34:37) – Fear of death
(1:42:29) – Artificial Intelligence
(1:56:18) – Facebook AI Research
(2:12:56) – NeurIPS
(2:29:08) – Complexity
(2:37:33) – Music
(2:42:28) – Advice for young people
