Interview on The Findings Report

A Field Guide to Lies

Sat, 22 Oct 2016 21:47:00 +0000

2016 in the USA has been one, long, contentious election cycle. Within it, a plethora of facts and false facts (also known as lies). We live in an age of big data, but that data is bereft of meaning on its own. Instead, we can easily be misled by a statistic. It’s all up to the way the information is framed and shared.

Best-selling author Daniel Levitin’s new book A Field Guide to Lies explores the ways people use data and statistics to mislead us. I interviewed him for Live Talks LA in August.

Grit: The Essential Ingredient

Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:40:00 +0000

When someone is successful, our first inclination is to chalk it up to luck or talent. Bestselling author Angela Duckworth says that is a mistake. Her fascinating research on over-achievers has found that grittiness is a much better predictor of success–how even less talented individuals will often rise to the top than their stellar peers if they have more grit.

I had the opportunity to interview Duckworth for Live Talks LA. The conversation was full of fascinating insights and information about the world of the gritty.

How Google Works

Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:16:39 +0000

There’s little doubt that Google has become one of the world’s most envied companies, largely because of its renowned culture of innovation. I had the privilege of interviewing Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, advisor to CEO Larry Page, on their new book, How Google Works. It was a revealing conversation and the video is now available from Live Talks LA.

The Maker Movement Manifesto: A conversation with Mark Hatch on a creative revolution

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 07:10:08 +0000

Chris Anderson, the former editor in chief of Wired magazine and the author of the best-selling book The Long Tail, said “if you thought the web was big, this is going to be bigger.” He was talking about the maker movement–a creative revolution that is driving invention and leading to innovation all over the world. It is driven by cheap, powerful and easy-to-use tools that allow just about anyone to build what they imagine.

Selling Well with Daniel Pink

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:40:00 +0000

Unless the word is in their job title, the word selling makes a lot of people squeamish. Part of the reason we feel this way is because so many of us have had bad encounters with sales people. Who hasn’t felt trapped by the salesman on the car lot, employing tactics we know very well are intended to part us from our money as quickly as possible. We don’t want to be that guy. For others, it’s merely the notion that we might have to ask someone to do business with us. Maybe we’re introverted. Maybe we’re shy. Maybe we just don’t like asking people for money. No matter our reason, a lot of us don’t like the idea of selling.