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Turn the Lens is about exploring the people, topics, and pieces of media that help shape my perspective on the world. The concept behind 'turn the lens' is to look beyond the foreground, beyond the obvious, to see things in a different context, to see things that you might have missed before. Let's get past our own bias and point of view to try and look from a broader point of view, to expand our learning beyond the obvious.
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Ray Kurzweil recently released his new book, *The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI*, a follow-up to his 2006 blockbuster, *The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology*. I had the chance to see him speak at our local bookstore as part of the launch event. A central theme of Ray’s talks is the exponential growth of computing po…
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2,500 pages. How can you quickly and easily digest 2,500 pages of material? More than just a summary or table of contents, what if you could dive into the core issues, pull up a timeline, or even create a study guide? That’s exactly what you can do with Google NotebookLM, a powerful new free AI tool that requires no training, coding, or even RAG (R…
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Dan Ariely, the renowned behavioral economist, prolific author, frequent TED speaker, and endowed professor at Duke University, has spent decades studying why people behave the way they do. And let’s just say that logic and reasoning do not top the list. I had the pleasure of seeing Dan speak in person in 2016, and almost a decade later, I was thri…
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Jason Sacks joined the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) 18 years ago, around the same time I began my youth sports journey with my oldest child as he entered kindergarten and joined AYSO, the American Youth Soccer Organization. When done right, youth sports provide countless character-building opportunities in each practice, game, and activity. To …
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George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law 34 years ago today, July 26, 1990. It literally changed our world, from cub cuts, and wide doors, to ramps and more. What is less reported is the secondary and ‘law of unintended positive consequences’ that come with inclusive design. More accessible for one is more accessib…
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Debate. There has been lots of talk lately about debates, winners, and losers. I didn’t have any debate team friends in high school or college, and have not been to a real debate. If there are winners and losers, that would imply that there are rules, as victory in most competitions, from basketball to chess to Family Feud, is based on performance …
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Waymo has been working on autonomous vehicles since it began as the Google Self Driving Car project at Google X in 2009. Spun out from it’s parent, and renamed Waymo in 2016, the iterations have developed. So today, June 2024, 15 years later, Waymo opened up it’s waitlist, and made it’s autonomous ride-hailing service up to anyone in San Francisco.…
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Welcome back for another episode of ‘Turn the Lens’ with our ongoing conversations with ChatGPT. We've been hitting the heavy topics of ethics and explainable AI. And I think there are some real challenges there that, that we have to overcome. But I want to do something a little bit more fun. So in this episode, we're going to do a different type o…
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Eric Law went searching for robotics opportunities in the construction industry, where machines have been used for decades, starting with earth-moving steam shovels in the 19th century. Recently, drones have taken on some of the more difficult and dangerous tasks. Eric discovered numerous opportunities for robotics, but one stood out due to its siz…
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(Trains are backing up, so had ChatGPT write this after ingesting the transcript, full disclosure, transparency) ChatGPT Join us for an enlightening episode of the "Turn the Lens Podcast" with host Jeff Frick as we delve deep into the evolving world of artificial intelligence with our special focus on OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 v2. This episode, titled "Op…
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Marten Mickos has been navigating Silicon Valley innovation waves for a quarter century and counting, first on the eastern edge of the Atlantic, then into the valley. Web 1, Web 2, OpenSource, Hybrid Cloud, the list is long, including notable stops at MySQL (acquired by Sun), Eucalyptus (acquired by HP) and his current extended run at the helm of H…
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ChatGPT busted into our consciousness less than 18 months ago, and has since vacuumed up all the headlines, sucked all the oxygen out of the room, pick your metaphor, $Billions of new investment adding fuel to a raging fire. Continuing on our exploration of the virtual, digital, and augmentations, and inspired by the very creative Yadin Porter de L…
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Dave Cairns has chosen paths less traveled, since leaving university. He was a pioneer of sorts in digital spaces, and digital communities, and has tasted personally, a small slice of digital expansion possibilities. Taking full advantage of digital tools, he’s living his values with his family in the ‘why vacation only, let's move there full time’…
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Drew Palos: Community, eBikes, Collaboration, Mobility | Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick Ep26 In business school, we learned about competing, by being the best in one product attribute. Highest technology, lowest cost, pick a parameter to win. I don’t recall learning to beat the competition with the community. We’ve seen it to a degree in the tech wo…
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What does the future look like? How long til we get there? What models and assumptions will get flipped on their head? Thrilled to share this conversation with Derek Kerton, Founder and Principal Analyst, Kerton Group in the latest episode of the Turn the Lens podcast with Jeff Frick Derek and the team have created a unique process to bring the spe…
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Melody Meckfessel has been focused on the human side of software engineering productivity since before we met in 2015. She was already building the tools and teams powering some of the largest applications in the world on Google. In 2019, Melody followed an entrepreneurial calling to Co-Found Observable, the serf-described collaborative data platfo…
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The Dean of Big Data needs no introduction. When intelligent life forms in distant galaxies pick up the electric signals from this planet, no doubt one signal of a particular density will spark their attention, the Dean discussing decision-making, design thinking, and the economics of ethics, across media platforms, channels, and communication foru…
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When Casey Neistat announced that he, Candice and the family were moving back to Manhattan, you might have heard a collective cheer from his many fans and followers, rising just above the distinctive 'bzzzz'ing' sound of his beloved Boosted Board motors. What many don't know, is the impact Casey had on my life, along a number of tangents, Boosted B…
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Martina Lauchengco is a fantastic B2B tech marketer, who learned from some of the brightest in the business, on a few of the most important software products ever. She's worked for Bill, Marc, and Ben, and splitting early career time between Microsoft and Netscape provided an early graduate-level experience in two very different methods of deliveri…
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I used to see Jon Fortt at all the big tech events, sitting under lights, earpiece in and connected, waiting for the throw from CNBC New York for the latest in technology from The Sands, Moscone, or Javits Convention Centers. Jon has interviewed most of today's technology leaders, including Andy Jassy, Shantanu Narayen, Sandy Speicher, Satya Nadell…
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I was introduced to Chris and Melissa Bruntlett in 2018 through 'The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality: Building the Cycling City', a bookshelf stable for anyone involved in urban mobility & transportation planning around the globe. Chris and Melissa took it up a notch with their 2021 release 'Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our …
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#Mobility #SafeStreets #MrBarricade Cities and municipalities and working to do more with the acres of space they own as 'streets' to make them more than simply a thoroughfare for cars. @MrBarricade aka Vignesh Swaminathan uses modern design methods like Tactical Urbanism & Quick-Build techniques to speed and humanize projects for the people who'll…
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I was so excited to visit Keith and Melissa Townsend, Mr and Mrs CTO Advisor, on the CTO Flying Cloud Cross Country Bay Area Tour Stop, accompanied by one of the best creators in the B2B business, Vittorio Viarengo. We settled into the Airstream to talk all things B2B content, to help you better engage with your audience. A real treat. Thanks for h…
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I always enjoy a look into the lives and activities of those fortunate professionals who carry the title of 'Evangelist.' Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Head of Data Science Evangelism and Marketing for Coiled joined me from the future, Sydney, Australia for a conversation on all things Coiled, Dask, and the Pythonic ecosystem. Hugo shares a unique perspecti…
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The never-ending cybersecurity battles intensify as attackers & defenders have raised the stakes and integrated more advanced techniques, including the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI). Mike DeCesare has been in the proverbial trenches, and recently joined Exabeam as President and CEO. In this far-ranging conversation, Mike and I disc…
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Did not want any Guest jinxing on Episode 13, so went solo. I have been asked to share a short story version of the Menlo Creek Manifesto, a position statement on content strategy in an AI-driven asynchronous world. So... a six-minute summary. final 2 minutes on application to leadership training for more. Transcript and Show Notes Click Here Linke…
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Matt Rocklin has been in the center of the Python renaissance in enterprise data science, at Anaconda, NVIDIA, and now Coiled, Matt's start-up focused on helping enterprises more easily deploy parallelized python in production at scale. Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) are two of the most important technologies of our time, data…
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Electric cars are one of the most visible signs of the electrification and eventual automation of an increasing number of transportation vehicles. The benefits of electrification are numerous, especially when looking beyond the consumer application to commercial and fleet operations. In this interview, Bill Loewenthal, SVP Product shares his views …
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Visualization is a hot topic in the data world, but I hadn't heard anyone reference visualization in the context of helping humans write better code. In a world where the competition for relevance to developers is at an all-time high, this unique take deserves a deeper dive. In this conversation, we cover topics, including visualization, their care…
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For the last 21 years, Accenture has published and presented its annual Tech Vision Research Report. The report it typically 70 - 120 pages, from surveying hundreds of professionals, I've been covering the report release since 2017. Michael Biltz, MD, Accenture Technology Vision, one of the lead authors, and I continued our tradition of digging int…
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Upon seeing a post on LinkedIn, loudly proclaiming in bright red all caps .... 'I DO NOT CHECK EMAIL. Yep you read that right, No email for KMo, I had to learn more. Regardless of your reaction to that statement, Kyle Moschetto outlines a very intentional process to identify and stack rank the dozens of communication tools we use every day, and for…
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Retracing Michele Bettencourt's professional and personal journey promises to be one of the more interesting rides you'll take in 2021. From turning around companies to turning heads and minds, in this wide-ranging conversation, Michele shares lessons learned from 35 years as a tech CEO, while balancing home and personal life a bit more complicated…
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Always a treat to take a random walk with the Dean of Big Data, Bill Schmarzo. In this conversation, we touch on quite a few bases, from how to print money with your data project, drive innovation through empowerment, leverage design thinking for better outcomes, and pass the ball when the situation dictates. Oh yeah, and we reviewed his latest boo…
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In this episode, we sat down Liza Donnelly, award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, visual journalist, live drawer, an observer of humanity. I first met Liza when she was live drawing the keynotes at the Stanford Women in Data Science Conference and was amazed at the way she captured the personalities of the speakers and their talks in just a few li…
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In this episode, we look back to Amanda Palmer's "The art of asking" TED Talk from 2013. With over 18 million views and counting, Amanda clearly touched a nerve with the core message of knowing how to ask. But there are many more lessons to be learned, from the evolving role of distribution in an increasingly digital world, the value of direct conn…
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I've had the pleasure of interviewing PagerDuty's CEO Jennifer Tejada on a number of occasions. She's an inspirational, successful leader, in all that the term encompasses. In this live look back to Girls in Tech, Inc. Catalyst Conference 2016, Jennifer shares a few of the values that have shaped her as a leader and more importantly, as a person. P…
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In this episode, and in the context of tightening of Covid restrictions, and a new way to work, work from home, work from anywhere, we look back at a 2013 interview with Marcia Conner, where she goes into depth in the need for a more Human Centric approach to managing people. Topics include working with the person you hired, enabling all people to …
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Was writing a post-about Nick Mehta and the Gainsight acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, but figured, I'd just do a quick video (my preferred format) and podcast audio. Periscope for now. Enjoy and Congrats Team Gainsight! Transcript & Show Notes YouTube VideoJeff Frick
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