Culture Hackers

In this episode, we go into the culture of content, consumption and dopamine addiction with Ion Valis.  Ion is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives. He helps them perform, transform, and flourish in an era of accelerating change. In 2014, he published his first book, The Magnificent Mistake: How We Can Earn More from Failure than We Learn from Success. It describes an innovative system he developed to teach leaders and teams how to learn from their errors, and why it’s so important to do so.

Alan Heymann is an executive coach, and was previously Vice President of Communications for The Humane Society of the United States. He also held various roles in the Government of the District of Columbia, including agency public information officer, mayoral speechwriter and legislative staffer. Earlier in his career, Alan was a television reporter, producer and anchor in his native Illinois.

When you run a business, it's so tempting to try new things. But it can come at the cost of the core business. How many do you do? Which ones do you pick? I share my answer through a metaphor...

John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work. He was also vice president and executive director of strategy and innovation at Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Winsor’s books include “Beyond the Brand,” “Spark,” “Flipped, and the best-selling “Baked In,” winner of the 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award in marketing, Winsor is an advisor to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, and a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Forbes and Digiday.

We talk to the founder of Arcimoto, Mark Frohnmayer. He's pioneering the FUV - the Fun Utility Vehicle, and creating a new category. We talk about the business lessons and culture behind being bold.

In Unfollow Your Passion, Terri Trespicio—whose TEDx talk has more than seven million views—skewers the platitudes, inverts conventional wisdom, and calls into question everything you think you need to succeed: passion (fun, but fleeting), plans (flimsy at best), and a bucket list (eye roll), to name a few.

Great to sit down with my fellow culture hacker, Berke Brown. Let me know what you think!

This is an invention ahead of its time. a 5 hour workday, getting more done than a standard day. It's like the 4 Hour Work Week (book by Tim Ferriss), but for a company. Will you dare to explore and experiment?

Robbe Richman and Kellen Schuh talk culture, San Diego, coffee, music and many other things.

We're all dealing with it, both in corporations and in our everyday lives. Let's talk about it.

In this episode I take your questions and answer them!

NYC native Danielle Beinstein has always been passionate about physical, emotional and mental health. After nearly 10 years in the media world, she returned to school, receiving her MA in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica in 2012, followed by an additional year in Consciousness, Health & Healing in 2014. She is particularly fascinated by the role that feelings play in our both our personal and collective experiences and narratives. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Humanities from NYU in 2003.

Kanban System - 4:32 Thinking Fast and Slow - 8:30Bot Revolution - 16.33Phil Libin Investment Thesis - 18:14Slackbot Integrations on Producthunt - 22Slack has 600 app integrationsOzlo -23:54Butter - 29:08Glide - 31:24

Featuring Robert Bakhshai and Brian Schoenbaum

Show Notes Introduction of Shirley Eylor Asif [0:22] How Shirley got involved in the field of procrastination [1:25] What do you do when you procrastinate? [2:11] The pattern/cycle/stages/phases of procrastination [2:25] What is at the core of procrastination [6:50] What research shows the reasons for procrastination is [8:15] Can procrastination be hacked just by doing it? [9:16] Research is on motivation [11:26] Strongest motivation [11:56] The procrastinators mindset [12:26] Pareto role applied to behavior [13:29] Trying to do too many things cause procrastination? [14:34] On schedule tool [17:46] Are busy people more efficient? [19:39] Shifting your mind [23:12] Way to make growth mindset active [26:51] False beliefs [31:36]

Robbe on anti-marketing, adrenal fatigue and the big productivity hack.

A new and very practical theory on networked leadership.

Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller are two screenwriters I went to high school and college with. We get a bit ridiculous and then cover the darker side of entertainment.

Start-ups, Vegas and more with Jill and Robbe

Rich shares with us the history behind the culture of love.