Thriving on Overload Podcast
Ross Dawson speaks with some of the world’s most inspiring ‘information masters’ about their practices and lessons on how to transform unlimited information into insight, foresight, and better decisions.
Gerd Leonhard on understanding between the lines, his favorite apps and tools, sharing bookmarks and tags, keynote storylines, and using visual catalogs (Ep19)
Gerd is a Futurist and a Humanist, a leading global Keynote Speaker (live-on-stage as well as virtually and remotely), the Author of 5 books including ‘Technology & Humanity’, the CEO of The Futures Agency, and was named in Wired UK’s most influential people in Europe, among other accolades.
Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls (Ep18)
Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls
Christopher Mims on seeing what’s next, filtering tools, valuable conversations, and tapping expertise (Ep17)
Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014 he worked as a science and technology journalist and editor for a variety of august publications including Quartz, Technology Review, Wired, and Scientific American. He is the author of Arriving Today, which unveils the fascinating story of how products arrive at to our doors through the global supply chain.
Michell Zappa on how technology evolves, scouting what’s emerging, assessing technologies, and designing useful future infographics (Ep16)
Michell Zappa is a technology futurist, information designer and founder of Envisioning, a technology foresight institute. His work aims to illustrate the implications of accelerating change and facilitate a higher level of awareness about our relationship to technology. He is a Singularity University expert in Emerging Technology & Human Behavior and is responsible for the technology thinking module at THNK School of Creative Leadership in Amsterdam.
Gary Swart on achieving balance, prioritization factors, filtering by relationships, and using frameworks (Ep15)
Gary Swart, General Partner of leading venture capital firm Polaris Partners, focusing on investing in technology and healthcare companies. Prior to joining Polaris he was CEO of oDesk, now Upwork, the world’s largest online work marketplace. He regularly appears in major media such as CNBC, NPR, Fox, and Washington Post to discuss marketplaces, the freelance economy, and the future of work.
Marshall Kirkpatrick on source selection, connecting ideas, diverse thinking, and enabling serendipity (Ep14)
Marshall Kirkpatrick was the first writer hired by the TechCrunch and helped drive its early growth through the quality of his work, then moved to become Co-Editor of ReadWriteWeb, then one of the defining publications on the Internet economy. He left to found Little Bird, which uses network analysis to discover top influencers, experts, and insights. Little Bird was acquired in 2016. Marshall continues his work to improve the information ecosystem and develop better information systems.
Annalie Killian on serendipitous learning, the network as filter, finding voices at the edge, and value from deep connections (Ep13)
Annalie Killian’s mission in life is to catalyze the magic of human ingenuity to make the world, and especially corporate life, a better place. She is currently VP of Strategy and Partnerships for Omnicom’s leading cultural intelligence agency Sparks & Honey, the founder of AMPlify innovation festival at the financial services giant AMP, and a Fellow of Aspen Institute’s First Movers program.
Robin Athey on intellectual cocaine, the journey to purpose, slow leadership, and finding your North Star (Ep12)
Robin is the founder of Integral Growth, which guides founders and leaders in fast-moving, complex, high-growth environments through transformational change, to tap and trust their inner wisdom. She comes from a high powered corporate career including 9 years as Research Director at Deloitte.
R “Ray” Wang on constant curation, learning from private networks, finding temporal patterns, and seeing the impact of trends (Ep11)
R “Ray” Wang is the founder and chairman of the highly regarded tech analyst firm Constellation Research. He is the author of Disrupting Digital Business and most recently Everybody Wants To Rule The World on the future of business. Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of live and virtual keynotes at almost every major tech conference, including Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Adobe Summit, IBM, Mobile World Congress, CES, TedX, and sessions at Davos for various clients.
Dan Gillmor on going from macro to micro, useful aggregators, and the best tactics and tools (Ep10)
Dan Gillmor has been a media pioneer for decades. He is currently a professor at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. His latest project is News Co/Lab an experimental lab aimed at collaboration to improve the information ecosystem. He is the author of several excellent books including the highly influential We The Media. He has an online course hosted by edX called Overcoming Information Overload.
Harold Jarche on personal knowledge mastery, the Seek, Sense, and Share framework; networked learning, and finding different perspectives (Ep9)
Harold Jarche has been an independent consultant for almost two decades, working with individuals, organizations, and public policy influencers to to improve collaboration, knowledge sharing, and sensemaking. He is author of the Seeking Perpetual Beta ebook series and has been running the very popular Personal Knowledge Mastery online workshop for many years.
Brett King on understanding fintech, writing for sense-making, thought leadership streams of consciousness, and changing how people think (Ep8)
Brett King is a world-renowned futurist and speaker, an international bestselling author, and a media personality who covers the future of business, technology, and society. Brett hosts the world’s #1 ranked radio show on FinTech, “Breaking Banks” with 7m million listeners, and is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Moven, a successful mobile start-up, which has raised over US$47 million. His books have achieved bestseller status in 20 countries, with his latest book on how to shape the post-Coronavirus world The Rise of Technosocialism, just out.
Ross Dawson
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