Lessons learned from producing 100 podcast episodes
Lessons learned from producing 100 podcast episodes
https://simonowens.substack.com/p/lessons-learned-from-producing-100
Lessons learned from producing 100 podcast episodes
Lessons learned from producing 100 podcast episodes by Simon Owen
https://simonowens.substack.com/p/lessons-learned-from-producing-100
John C Havens on the Tech Humanist podcast
John C. Havens is Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is also executive director of the Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI). He previously served as an EVP at a top-ten global PR firm, where he counseled clients like Gillette, HP, and Merck on emerging and social media issues. John has authored the books Heartificial Intelligence and Hacking Happiness and has been a contributing writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. He has been quoted on issues relating to technology, business, and well being by USA Today, Fast Company, BBC News, Mashable, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Forbes, INC, PR Week, and Advertising Age.
John was also a professional actor in New York City for over 15 years, appearing in principal roles on Broadway, television, and film.
On The Mind Of: Stephen Hale, Chief Executive at Refugee Action
Crisis has brought us together to work together but it is an incredible test of every organisation. Find out if you have the cohesion to pivot, adapt and survive.
Opportunity and privilege comes with moral responsibility.
Put a commitment to shift power to refugees and people seeking asylum at the centre of the strategy. Its a journey to go on rather than a state to be reached. We need to centre those people, voices and perspectives because its morally right, will make a better organisation, and is important for the cause.
Debate in the charity sector about lack of diversity, equality and inclusion and how privilege has excluded people from having the opportunities.
White men are in the way, and need to own that and recognise the structural racism that exists across the sector, and more space, confidence and power to people to say things that they want to say that they haven’t been given explicit permission to say.
Recogniding that silence can be complicit. Make way for other voices that have more lived experience. Not dominating platforms that are available for other voices, spending more time listening and learning, but also wanting to contribute.
If you rush to use your voice you risk skipping the listening and reflection but it might not be amplifying voices.
Shifting power to experts by experience. The shifting of power often requires people in senior positions to give away power in order for others to take it forward.
The shifting of power should have three dimensions, 1) the make up of people on the board, 2) increasing the number of refugees employed within the organisation, 3) who makes decisions.
We have a profound moral obligation to think about our cause before we think about our organisation. That is what the people who support our organisation expect. If we are not connecting we are letting down the people who have enough confidence in the organisation.
The role of leaders to figure where their organisation fits in contributing to the cause.
Charities have an obligation to collaborate to achieve more together.
Challenge the idea that there is a conflict between the short term interests of the organisation and whether you are collaborative or not.
Influencing the state to make people’s lives better, but we should not over estimate what the state can do.
Big and complex network of charities around any given issue, their coherence and collective strategy and influence can have a huge impact on the system. What we can do within our sphere of influence?
Safety and accidents in complex systems
Crashes always occur in complex systems.
Improving safety on a small scale increases complexity in the system which increases the chances of big accidents.
Small inputs can lead to very large outputs.
Tightly coupled systems produce unexpected results.
People with an internal locus of control turn accidents into opportunities.
De-googling your website analytics
Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.