Alexandra Samuel on her personal AI coach Viv, simulated personalities, catalyzing insights, and strengthening social interactions (AC Ep28)

by shan | Jan 14, 2026 | Podcast

“My core Viv instruction—which is both, I think, brilliant and dangerous, and I think it was sort of accidental how effective it turned out to be—is, I told Viv, ‘You are the result of a lab accident in which four sets of personalities collided and became...

Lisa Carlin on AI in strategy execution, participative strategy, cultural intelligence, and AI’s impact on consulting (AC Ep27)

by shan | Dec 17, 2025 | Podcast

“You’re using AI to generate solutions for ideation. Once you’ve got the ideas, you can do an initial cull with AI, or you can do it via humans.” –Lisa Carlin About Lisa Carlin Lisa Carlin is the Founder of the strategy execution group, The...

Nicole Radziwill on organizational consciousness, reimagining work, reducing collaboration barriers, and GenAI for teams (AC Ep26)

by shan | Dec 10, 2025 | Podcast

“Let’s get ourselves around the generative AI campfire. Let’s sit ourselves in a conference room or a Zoom meeting, and let’s engage with that generative AI together, so that we learn about each other’s inputs and so that we generate one solution together.”...

Joel Pearson on putting human first, 5 rules for intuition, AI for mental imagery, and cognitive upsizing (AC Ep25)

by shan | Dec 3, 2025 | Podcast

“This is the first time, really, humanity’s had the possibility open up to create a new way of life, a new society—to create this utopia. And I really hope we get it right.” –Joel Pearson About Joel Pearson Joel Pearson is Professor of Cognitive...

Diyi Yang on augmenting capabilities and wellbeing, levels of human agency, AI in the scientific process, and the ideation-execution gap (AC Ep24)

by shan | Nov 26, 2025 | Podcast

“Our vision is that for well-being, we really want to prioritize human connection and human touch. We need to think about how to augment human capabilities.” –Diyi Yang About Diyi Yang Diyi Yang is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford...