Techonomics

10/03/2024

Sure, there's a sh*t-ton going on, but don't sleep on that whole "sepping of church and state" thing. Bonus take: tax churches; fund libraries.

Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.

07/10/2024

Elegant strategy, replete with strong options and next-level tactics. I'm an Option 3 person, but will support Option 4.

How it might go, from here to victory

06/26/2022

New iPhones, Macs, Watches, and more.

06/14/2019

It's been my *great pleasure* to form this show over the past three years (almost exactly). This week is the final one, though. Thank you for listening, commenting and suggesting. If you were a guest, or know of a show/segment you'd like, a good start is at KGOradio.com/techonomics. (Not sure how long that'll be there, tho, so you can check your podcast archive, wherever you get those.)
THANKS AGAIN and have great weeks everybody...

Creativity, drive, and even ruthlessness fuel Silicon Valley -- and what happens in the Valley ripples around the world, socially and economically. Each week on Techonomics, we take a look at how Outsiders -- the new thought leaders -- are becoming the Insiders. Host Jason Middleton has been i

06/14/2019

"The commencement speech advice to picture who you're going to be in ten or twenty years and march constantly towards it ignores a huge body of psychological research that shows that we actually don't have that much insight into ourselves until we do stuff and try it,"📻

Epstein joined us to discuss his new book "RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World".

"The commencement speech advice to picture who you're going to be in ten or twenty years and march constantly towards it ignores a huge body of psychological research that shows that we actually don't have that much insight into ourselves until we do stuff and try it," By Jason Middleton Turns

06/13/2019

"Tim Cook is bringing progressive values to the company and using Apple's massive resources to try to make a difference in accessibility to education, inclusion, diversity, privacy, environment and the conditions in the supply chain," author Leander Khaney expressed to host Jason.

Learn more about the biography on Cook below. 📻

"Tim Cook is bringing progressive values to the company and using Apple's massive resources to try to make a difference in accessibility to education, inclusion, diversity, privacy, environment and the conditions in the supply chain," By Jason Middleton First is a mea culpa. I was not a huge f

06/12/2019

The stories of success in the media get younger and younger, and we’re pushing our kids harder and harder. Are our kids being pushed to the brink of breakdown?

Turns out, late blooming is where it’s at - according to Rich Karlgaard. Catch his full interview on Techonomics here. 📻

By Jason Middleton This one is about early-career prodigies versus late bloomers. Let's review the bidding... Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook at age 19, Taylor Swift released her first album at 16, Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Prize at 17, and Time Magazine now releases an annual list of “Mos

06/07/2019

Yale University Professor Alex Garvin has combined a career in urban planning and real estate with teaching, architecture, and public service

This week, Jason spoke with Garvin about his new book on the development of downtowns going into the future, "The Heart of the City". 🌇 📻

"For me, a downtown is a high density, mixed-use section of the city that produces the bulk of the jobs and taxes in that city," By Jason Middleton Urban planning fascinates me, the ebb and flow of people, converted spaces and new construction, the range of commutes from nuisance to hellish an

06/07/2019

Professor Cathy O'Neill and host Jason discuss her book & new company ORCAA, that she built to help corporations analyze their own algorithms to see if they have biases, like race or gender, in them and if they are within legal compliance.

Listen to the full conversation. 📻

Persistent Problem: Misuse of Already Bad Data (Weaponized?) By Jason Middleton One interview we aired about 18 months ago was with a professor and provocateur, Cathy O'Neill. She had just published her book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democrac

06/07/2019

48% of Americans 55 & older have no money in either an IRA or 401(k)-style account. 29% have no pension or retirement savings accounts.

This week, host Jason Middleton talked with Jean Chatzky about steps you can take to start reversing your money mistakes today 📻

"Whatever retirement mistakes you think you're making now, get yourself to look at where your money is going and make some conscious choices that allow you to save and invest a little bit more for tomorrow," By Jason Middleton Retirement planning - the two most boring words since Featuring Sti

05/17/2019

Journalist and author Clive Thompson talks about his latest book on computer programmers, "Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World":

"If you use an AI that can't make moral judgments & it just makes pattern matches, all you're going to do is replicate the biases from the past," 🎙️

"If you use an Artificial Intelligence that can't make moral judgments and it just makes pattern matches, all you're going to do is replicate the biases from the past," By Jason Middleton Software may well in fact eat the world, but somebody has to write it first. All that software code comes