Ribbonfarm Studio Podcast
1) Video Recording: Protocols Preview 2025
Here’s a recording of a live video chat I did with my colleague Timber Schroff of the Summer of Protocols program. We’re gearing up to announce the 2025 program on Friday. It will be in the form of an...Show More
2) Welcome to the World of Tomorrow
In this episode of Breaking Smart podcast, I want to explore what it means to say that Covid has accelerated everything. If so, it means we’ve done some time travel relative the old timeline. As the c...Show More
3) Demiurgical Businesses
In today’s episode of the Breaking Smart podcast, I want to discuss a concept I call demiurgical businesses that I think goes beyond the 3 kinds you may be familiar with: lifestyle, customer-driven, a...Show More
4) Mars and the Meaning of Money
Space exploration has an unusual side effect: giving us a sense of the value of money on earth.1/ The Perseverance rover, shown touching down on Mars in the photo below, cost about $2.2 billion to des...Show More
5) Anti-Network Effects
In this first 2021 episode of the Breaking Smart podcast, I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately that I call anti-network effects.1/ As I am recording this, governments aro...Show More
6) Complete 2020 Roundup
Well, I guess 2020 is a wrap. I’m going to do a quick round-up of everything I published on Breaking Smart this year, and try to tease out the larger themes, but obviously no look back at the year can...Show More
7) Involvement Capitalism
Welcome back. The Breaking Smart newsletter and podcast is starting up again after a very refreshing 6-week break. I want to kick off the post-break programming with a podcast on a big question: if we...Show More
8) Fifth-Generation Management
In today’s episode, I want to talk about an idea I call fifth-generation management. 1/ Fifth-generation management is an emerging style of management we don’t know much about because it doesn’t actua...Show More
9) The State of (Business) Play
For today’s episode, I want to share an out-take from my consulting work, something I think might be interesting for anyone working in the technology industry. It’s a set of 20 questions that can help...Show More
10) Thinking Out Loud: Year One
A special episode, an audio roundup/summary of the last year’s podcasts. I cover the 19 episodes I did starting in June last year. A year of thinking out loud.The inaugural episode riffing on the like...Show More