The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

When people have to pitch a story, not a fifty page business case, and justify why their ideas deserve another few million dollars, they suddenly start thinking like founders instead of managers.

Fresh Air

A veteran diplomat breaks down the Iran war

To have a successful negotiation, you really need three elements. You need two parties who are willing and able and are prepared to use diplomacy, not to browbeat or to issue demands for each side, but to actually create some sort of balance of interest. Number two, you need a shared sense of urgency. And finally, you need an end product, some agreement, some deal, text.

TED

4 Relationship Traps That Lead to Burnout | Eric Quintane | TED

We've learned that there are two typical network structures that particularly matter... Meet Kelly. Kelly is in what we call a cohesive network structure. That means Kelly has strong relationships with her colleagues, but also all of her colleagues know each other, they trust each other, they talk with each other frequently.

Pivot

Rahm Emanuel: “Nobody Believes Our President” on Iran | Pivot

I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I think you need to know and we're in this together rather than trying to fight each other all the time.

How to Be a Better Human

How to Confront Your Inner Critic (W/ Anu Gupta) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

I realized people aren't seeing me. I don't want to live in a world where we live in ideas of one another. I want to live in a world where we live in the presence of one another, the real people.

Fresh Air

Comic Jeff Ross on roasting, loss and his epic bar mitzvah

I would ride my moped on the turning lane of this highway 12 months a year to go to my family-owned catering hall where these lavish affairs would happen. So I saw human nature, people at their most nervous, brides, grooms, mother of the bride, father of the groom, like you saw people at their most intense.

Fresh Air

Arsenio Hall

You're going to take money out of my wallet and food off my family's plate in the middle of my job here when you don't know what you're talking about. You're going to blame me for something that is absolutely not true. And I think I was sick of being criticized by everyone because everyone wanted it to be something else.

TED

How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED

I always love having at least one move or one groove that my mama can do, in a video. But I think it allows dancers and non-dancers alike to feel like, "Oh, I like that move. I can do that whenever the song comes on."

TED

How a Viral Choreographer Makes His Moves | Sean Bankhead | TED

I always put 1,000 percent of my heart and time and energy into anything I create. And people can feel heart, they can feel passion. And I think it translates through the screen.

TBPN

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us. We're not a typical company. We're driving a really big technological shift and the mission of bringing AGI to the world comes a responsibility to help create a space for real constructive conversation about the changes AI creates with builders and people using the technology at the center.

Hidden Brain

When It's Okay to Lie

Should you tell a harsh truth if it will only cause pain? Or is it sometimes kinder to keep someone in the dark?

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We meet America's robo-teachers and take a nap in coach | WWDTM

Actual data showing that young children sometimes feel more comfortable being read to or reading to a robot than a human being. It's less stressful for them.

Fresh Air

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

If you can show it on the screen visually rather than verbally, it's much better.

Fresh Air

Remembering Action Hero Chuck Norris

When there's something to say, say it. If it isn't important, then keep your mouth shut.

Book of the Day

In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculinity

We often regard people as black bags, don't we? Filling in the blanks for suppositions we make without really knowing

TED

What Makes an Idea Stick? | Singapore | TED Idea Search

Having conversations around money takes the power away from the people up top and gives it back to us.

TBPN

Hill & Valley Gigastream, The Fastest Companies, Apple's Next CEO, OpenAI's Non-Profit

I do think interjecting with a ton of factchecking during the debate would be disruptive. I'm not a fan of that. I sort of just like having one person like the guest, the debater fact check the other person because if they know the fact and the other person who they're debating against drops something that's not factual, that's their opportunity to come in and say, "No, that's not accurate."

It's Been a Minute

Many women don't want kids. And for good reason. | It's Been A Minute

You know, it is like the millennial generation I feel that has said openly, I don't want to have children, but also finding that conversation difficult to have with their parents who expected to be a grandparent.

Code Switch

What Trump's language has in common with cult language

Language can be used to build a following, how words can be used to divide people into an us versus them mindset, and actually shape people's perception of reality

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

It puts us into confrontation with the fact that two minds can perceive the same reality entirely differently.

Prof G Conversations

NYT CEO: 'We're Not Pulling Our Punches” | Prof G Conversations

Reporters go out into the world. They bear witness to important things that are happening that the public should know about. And then they translate that with sensitivity and judgment in a way that's meant to get people to understanding.

It's Been a Minute

The unbearable fear of being cheated on | It's Been A Minute

If we think of love as a set of behaviors and expectations versus a set of feelings, then it like brings in this other idea of what cheating is because it's instead of cheating as like someone being swept away by desire, maybe it's like they're doing a breach of contract, like they're not fulfilling the set of expectations that were clearly delineated.

Mixed Signals

Gavin Newsom on 'Sick' FCC Threats, David Ellison, & Getting Trump's Personal Cell Phone Number

It's not what is said now, it's not it's what's not said. It's what's not reported and it's happening.

The New York Times

Turning Point USA Clubs Expand to High Schools Across America

If we don't talk, we'll never get to get outside of our echo chambers. And Charlie Kirk always said, when we stop talking, that's when violence happens.

TED Radio Hour

The TED talk that put writer Pico Iyer in “Marty Supreme”

In Japan, a game of ping pong is really like an act of love. You're learning how to play with somebody rather than against her.

TED

1 Thing You Can Do Today to Be Happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky | TED

We will feel more loved if we become more known, if we learn to talk to people in a way that takes down the walls between us.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Delroy Lindo / Tayari Jones on ‘Kin’

When there are no words for some things, that's where the blues comes in, that's where the music. And yet another affirmation for me, in terms of how people have received this work, it's incredibly affirming that audiences, many audiences, have made the connection between the pain of what I was experiencing and the birth of the music.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

And I think what's going on is the pups are following really simple rules that might go, swim next to mom. If there's a fish in front of me, eat it. And the adults are coordinating things through their vocalizations.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: Federal Priorities | Semafor Media Partner

Fights sell ratings. And so you see that, I think, on the media oftentimes. Talking heads are on radio. But the reality is the collegiality that exists between members.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Delroy Lindo / Tayari Jones on ‘Kin’

When there are no words for some things. There are no words. And when there are no words, that's where the blues comes in. That's where the music.

Office Hours

Why Scott Galloway’s Paternity Leave Comment Went Viral | Office Hours

If you want to understand or put a Wonder Woman's golden lasso on them, look at their actions, not the words.

TED

How to Turn Your Idea Into a Powerful Talk | Lagos | TED Idea Search

TED is that space that amplifies voices that are hardly even heard and given opportunities to create opportunities that I might not even realize are out there for me.

TED

How to Capture Your Audience’s Attention | Athens | TED Idea Search

Bad breath is kind of a metaphor for humanness, for being a human being, for loving somebody enough to tell them something that might be painful in the short term but very helpful in the long term.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships, so when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation, at work or at home.

TED

How to Make an Idea Land | Mumbai | TED Idea Search

The strength of the idea, but you then have to make it land. The delivery is how well they connect with the people in the room.

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

Paramount Beats Netflix in Battle for Warner Bros. | Pivot

You sound smarter when you catastrophize. It sounds scarier and more interesting. And you put some bar charts around you talking about the zombie apocalypse in a downward spiral doom loop.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

Is AI a Threat to Privacy? | Prof G Conversations

Signal is obsessed with maintaining the human right to communicate privately, and we have built an alternative communications platform that does just that.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

negotiation is just steering. It's about steering the relationships in your life, building those relationships. So when you get to the place where you do need to negotiate something difficult, you're in a much better place to have successful outcomes.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

Tell me is the biggest question you can ask, and it is the most powerful first question in any negotiation at work or at home.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win, and maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.