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Radio Recap: The Rise of Long Form Content

In an era when attention spans are shorter than ever, long-form content is making a comeback. Whether it’s in the theater, on the sofa, or at a desk, creators are asking audiences to stay in their seats…for several hours. Take the Broadway hit, “Angels in America” [Read More]

May 22nd, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Brain Hacking

From classical music to transcranial direct-current stimulation to the Mediterranean diet to nootropics, the days of only using 10% of our brain are over. Reporter David Adam claimed to have boosted his IQ using electrical brain stimulation. His goal was to supercharge his brain for a Mensa [Read More]

May 16th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Building Entrepreneurs

Innovator and inventor, Thomas Edison, once said, “Vision without execution is hallucination,” and my guests today can attest to the importance of vision in starting successful entrepreneurial careers.

Long before Sachin Dev Duggal became the Chief Wizard [Read More]

May 9th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Mental Prep for Entrepreneurs

While it might not seem like our emotional feelings and data are linked on a surface level, the two are interconnected in a way that can actually optimize decision-making, and ultimately, performance. The brain responds to everything in either a positive or negative emotion—like excitement, fear or [Read More]

May 2nd, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: The Women of IBM

At IBM, tens of thousands of women have been making contributions to the advancement of information technology for almost as long as the company has been in existence. Where many companies date their affirmative action programs to the 1970s, IBM has been creating meaningful roles for [Read More]

April 26th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Pre-Teen Technology

As technology dominates our lives, learning basic computer programming isn’t just a good idea, it’s an essential skill for children—especially in terms of career outlook. Currently there are around 500,000 open computing jobs nationwide but last year, only about 40,000 computer science students graduated into the [Read More]

April 18th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Second Act Careers

Career transformations are now more common thanks to the rise of technology and entrepreneurialism.  We’ve all seen the inspiring exposés about the lawyer turned organic farmer or of actor Daniel Day Lewis who once briefly quit acting to explore show making. But reinventing your career trajectory isn’t [Read More]

April 11th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: The Future of Retail

 

As predicted by futurist Faith Popcorn, the Future of Retail will be what she calls “consutainment,” the integration of ultra-convenience, consumption, and entertainment. Over the last decade, retail sales and jobs have continued to grow despite turbulent economic conditions.

Despite the press on store closings, data [Read More]

April 4th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Disability is Complicated…But It Doesn’t Have to Be!

Today’s episode of Dot Complicated is especially near and dear to my heart because it combines my favorite passion, live theater, with a passion project I built when I worked at a tiny, little company known as Facebook. Facebook Live came to me during an all-night hackathon. [Read More]

March 28th, 2018|Radio|

Radio Recap: Commercial Real Estate Tech

Commercial real estate technology — otherwise known as CRE tech — is booming. Just over 3 years ago the $15 trillion commercial real estate industry had virtually no software support and was vastly underserved by available technology. Now new tech concepts are popping up left and right, with VC [Read More]

March 21st, 2018|Radio|