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unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc

unSILOed is a series of interdisciplinary conversations that inspire new ways of thinking about our world. Our goal is to build a community of lifelong learners addicted to curiosity and the pursuit of insight about themselves and the world around them.*unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.*

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00:58:45

Will Every Business Become a Platform Business? feat....

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/28

Platforms are eating the world! While not every business is becoming a platform business in the strictest sense, every company needs to re-examine its business model and consider adopting platform elements if they are to survive in the new ecosystem oriented economy.Geoff Parker is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College, as well as a visiting scholar and research fellow at MIT. He is also the coauthor of “Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to

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00:57:30

Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/25

David Yoffie has been a professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years where he has authored hundreds of cases, and a number of books, the most recent being “The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation and Power.”He has been writing about technology and digital for a long time, and has served on the boards of numerous companies that are at the heart of this digital explosion over the last couple of decades. But it's only recently that we have formulated an

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00:57:22

Knowledge vs. Know-How feat. César Hidalgo

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/23

César Hidalgo is the director of the Center for Collective Learning at the University of Toulouse, known for his contributions to economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. His books include “How Humans Judge Machines,” and “Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies.”César joins Greg to discuss knowledge vs know how, Services vs products, backlash against algorithmic bias and keeping entropy at bay.Episode Quotes:Judging humans vs

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01:02:37

Is Drinking Alcohol an Evolutionary Mistake? feat....

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/22

The short answer is no. According to Edward Slingerland our taste for alcohol is a practice found in nearly every culture, meaning that its consumption must offer benefits which outweigh its obvious costs.Edward Slingerland is a professor of philosophy at The University of British Columbia up in Vancouver, and is also the author of multiple books. His most recent being “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization.”So today we are looking at alcohol from a historical

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01:06:59

It’s Almost Impossible To Undo A Bad Idea feat. John...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/18

Why do some great business and policy ideas make it big while others fail to take off? That's the big question behind John List’s most recent book The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale.John List is an economist at the University of Chicago, as well as chief economist at Lyft. He is also the author of The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life. Having worked for a number of governments & tech companies, he has dipped his toes in a lot

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00:51:21

Friendship Can Be A Template For All Other...

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2022/02/16

When we first started to study the social brain as a species, friendship was considered a luxury, it didn't aid us in survival. But now studies show that friendship is vital to not only your mental health and happiness, but your immune system, your cognitive health and your overall longevity. So today we dig into the science behind friendship, with Lydia DenworthLydia Denworth is a contributing editor at Scientific American, and also the author of I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through

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00:41:58

Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters feat....

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2022/02/11

We like to think we have everything we need to make decisions based on the numbers we are presented in a data set. But any large data set is bound to have problems. And it's often the data that we are missing that can lead us off course unexpectedly. David Hand has written many books, including The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day and the more recent, Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters. He is also emeritus professor of math at Imperial

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00:57:12

The Human Brain Is Far From Perfect feat. Dean Buonomano

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/09

Dean Buonomano is a professor of psychology and neurobiology at UCLA, and the author of Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, as well as the newer, Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time. He says it's impossible to overstate how important associations are for cognition, behavior learning and decisions.We’ll learn in this episode about memory capacity, creating and breaking those important associations, reward learning, and why we think about the brain as a

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00:55:19

What Makes Us Unique? feat. David Linden

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2022/02/07

You can have genetically identical siblings. They have the same genome. They lay right next to each other in the womb. They're born, and at the moment they're born, they're already different. Before any experience has accrued at all. Why shouldn't they be just the same?This question and more are discussed in today’s episode on individuality, variability, heritability and epigenetics. Our guest is David Linden. He is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He is also at the Kavli

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00:54:48

The Journey Beyond Fear feat. John Hagel

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/02/04

Intensifying competition, accelerating change, extreme disruptive events. A combination of these elements are leading to a global shift to living in constant fear and uncertainty. But John Hagel says you can cultivate emotions that motivate you to move beyond this fear. John is a leading strategy thinker who has worked at McKinsey, and was most recently at Deloitte where he founded and is now emeritus chair of The Center for the Edge.In addition to his very generous blog posts, John is also the

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00:48:57

Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So...

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2022/02/02

Humans are born to create theories about the world -- unfortunately, we're often wrong and our intuitive theories keep us from understanding science and the world as it really is.Andrew Shtulman is a cognitive developmental psychologist who studies conceptual development and conceptual change, particularly as they relate to science education, and does this work at Occidental College, where he is currently a professor of psychology.He has also written a book, Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories

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00:56:09

Ownership: What It Is, and What It Isn't feat....

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2022/01/31

When it comes to ownership, the same few simple stories are used from the playground to the courtroom. And the problem lies here, that we still have this very old, physical notion of ownership that no longer works in a digital world.Michael Heller is a professor of law at Columbia University and co-author of the classic The Gridlock Economy, and the more recent Mine! How The Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. In this episode we’ll dig into the merits of copyright and property law, why law

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01:01:20

You’re Probably Not Heading Back To The Office feat....

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/28

As we head into year 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic, most knowledge workers are still working from home. You may be listening to this from your home office or kitchen table desk. But before working from home became semi mandatory for health and safety reasons, many companies were very resistant to the idea of distributed and remote work. David Burkus is an associate professor of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University and an author. His many books include Friend of a Friend: Understanding

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01:11:29

Stress Begins Earlier Than You May Think feat. Daniel...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/26

There is no doubt that we are in a stress epidemic in our fast paced and modern world. But Daniel Keating says this may seem pretty paltry in comparison to what's coming. He predicts a full stress pandemic on the horizon, where everything needs immediate fixing or else it's perceived as an existential threat.Daniel Keating is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the departments of Psychology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics. And he wrote a couple of books, the most recent being Born Anxious: The

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00:59:05

The Price We Pay For Pleasure feat. Anna Lembke

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/24

Anna Lembke says we are becoming a nation of addicts. She makes that pretty clear in her books with titles like Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence and Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, And Why It's So Hard To Stop.Her argument is in a world where we’re constantly chasing pleasure, it's not just that we're using up our dopamine and then we go back to baseline. It's that there's a price to pay for every pleasure. Anna Lembke is a Professor of

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00:48:29

Where Humans Fit in a Robotic Future feat. Frank...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/21

The robots will steal our jobs. That's how many people see the future of labor in the United States. But what do we stand to lose when humans aren’t doing the work they've done for decades?Frank Pasquale is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. And also the author of New Laws Of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise In The Age Of A.I. and The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money And Information.We often overestimate what AI can do, even as it gains ground all around us

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01:06:26

How Working Less Could Improve Your Productivity...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/19

In a world where the hustle and the grind are glamorized, it can be almost radical to consider the importance of rest. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang wants to reinvent work so that we can shorten working hours, and even whole working weeks, in order to promote productivity.Alex is the founder of Strategy And Rest, a company that advises others on how to instill more productivity and creativity in their workforce by providing an environment that facilitates better rest. He is also a visiting scholar at

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01:10:46

Entrepreneurship and Nietzsche feat. Brad Feld

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/17

Today we’re talking philosophy. And we know you may be thinking, somebody creating an app that entertains people or automates some routine office work can’t be compared to the great philosophers or great artists. But there’s more of an overlap than you may think. Brad Feld is a co-founder of the Foundry Group, Mobius VC, and Techstars, the famous accelerator. He is also known as the author of a bunch of books, including Venture Deals, Startup Communities, and the most recent, The Entrepreneur's

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01:02:04

The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/14

When asked about what superpower they could have if possible, people often respond with mind reading. As humans, many of us are constantly thinking about what other people are thinking about us. Does their brain work the same way as mine? What's going on in their inner world? Well, what if I told you there is actually no inner world of thought?That is the basis of Nick Chater’s work. We all like to think we have a hidden inner life. Psychologists and psychiatrists have struggled to discover what

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00:56:00

2021: This Is The Best Time To Be Alive feat. Gregg...

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc ·

2022/01/12

Open any newspaper or website, and there are tons of people decrying the end of this or the decline of that. And even with the pandemic just now falling into our recent rearview mirror, it's actually hard to think of a better time for humanity. So why does Gregg Easterbrook think this is such a great time to be alive?Gregg is a prolific journalist and author who has written a number of books. Including It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons For Optimism In An Age Of Fear, Sonic Boom: Globalization At

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