Please take this the right way: do you really need that new credit card at the checkout register? Or as you’re purchasing your online cart? Those retail cards, the ones you’re pitched when you’re paying for your stuff, can get pricey. And some have some… Read More »Don’t Get Credit-Hustled this Holiday Season with Ted Rossman, Mark Hamrick
This week, the competitive streaming video on demand — the S V O D market — and how it’s about to get even rougher in those waters. To help us untangle all the players now, and upcoming, we tapped Peter Csathy, Founder & Chairman of… Read More »Streaming Video Industry Is About to Get Way Crowded with Peter Csathy
They’re in there, you just don’t always know where they are. Racism, sexism, and probably just about every other -ism there is could be baked into any algorithm. We’re human. And when humans code they bring their own, personal biases to the table. Oh, they’re… Read More »Technically Wrong: How We Can Claw Back Biases in Algorithms with Sarah Wachter-Boettcher
About 10 percent of America’s population either has or is leaning toward diabetes, either type 1 or type 2. That said, physical devices that monitor and share data with doctors as well as patients are seeing huge advancements — so why aren’t they being prescribed… Read More »Taking Diabetes Tech from Theory to Practice with Dr. Saleh Adi
Personally speaking, I really dig recycled spaces. Drug stores that are now bars. Or gas stations that become restaurants. Churches that become breweries. If you string enough of those stories together, you get an American story thread — and that’s what national landmarks and historic… Read More »Finding New Lives for Landmark Buildings with Renee Kuhlman
Seaweed (and kelp) could save the world. It’s nutritious (and delicious). It eats away at all the earth-destroying acids and gases that we relentlessly throw into it (aka acidfication). It regenerates and grows incredibly quick. And it sustains three ecosystems during its lifetime (shelter for… Read More »Saving the Oceans, One Seaweed Stalk at a Time with Tessa Emmer & Catherine O’Hare
Technology, being the amoral beast that it is, can be a mixed bag of progress and digression. Digital technology, especially when applied to our work lives, can be alienating and even lead to loneliness. The more friends we have at work, the happier we are… Read More »Leading Tech Away from Loneliness: ‘Back to Human’ with Dan Schawbel
Hello and welcome back and as always thanks for listening. This week: tech run amok. We’re spending much time with Dr Ian Mitroff, author of Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age. Dr Mitroff combines advanced education and training in engineering, industrial engineering… Read More »Tech Run Amok: Using Crisis Management to Pull It of the Ditch with Dr Ian Mitroff
When recycling rare-earth minerals is 100 percent supported, if we skip the recyclying process we’re simply the problem. A recent California Product Stewardship Council survey reported that of 26 surveyed waste facilities from all over California, 83 percent had a fire at their facility. Sixty-five… Read More »Call2Recycle’s New Bay Area Battery Campaign with Carl Smith
Housing issues, income disparity, strained public institutions … heck, even the commute is piling up quicker than anticipated. This week we host an author who is taking his documentary filmmaking and interview skills into book form with Cary McClelland’s ‘Silicon City: San Francisco in the… Read More »Silicon City’ Author Unpacks Modern Life via 100+ Interviews with Cary McClelland
