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00:00 Meet Sharath Kuruganty: The Creative Builder
01:26 Sharath’s Journey into the Creative Space
02:32 Building Muscle: The Key to Founding Success
03:38 Importance of Community in the Creative Process
08:50 ‘Commitment and the No Excuses’ Mindset
14:36 Balancing Creativity and Mistakes
26:00 Power of Sharing and Building in Public
28:59 Understanding Public Accountability
30:14 Qualifying Questions for Self-Reflection
31:46 Managing Self-Doubt as a Founder
34:44 Journaling and Gratitude
38:34 Exploring the Podcasting Landscape
51:03 Giving Back as a Founder
How is it to have ideas constantly bustling inside your mind? The creative spirit is the one that’s so effervescent—one day you want to kickstart a new project and just by the evening, you want to build another idea out. Navigating this path of building things for fun, also aligned with monetization and community goals is definitely a huge challenge. How to get going with this?
Sharath Kuruganty is a seasoned creative builder who loves exploring ideas, shipping things quickly, and iterating and learning from feedback. Sharath’s experiences go so wide—from helping creators launch stuff at Product Hunt, to growing communities with OnDeck, interviewing underdogs on his podcast, and building out products like shoutout.so, GuestLab.ai, he’s a complete creator-product package.
In this episode, Sharath shares personal anecdotes and practical tips for aspiring founders and creators on staying committed, managing self-doubt, and leveraging the growing podcast space.
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00:00 Introducing Dan Shipper & Every
02:45 The Philosophy of Building: Reflecting on Identity and Creation
07:37 Dan's Journey: From Tech Founder to Embracing Writing and AI
15:05 Leveraging AI for Creativity and Efficiency in Media
21:35 Reimagining Reading: How AI Enhances the Experience
25:32 Exploring AI's Personalization and Future Potential
28:18 The Evolution of AI: From Sidekick to Personal Assistant
32:45 AI's Role in Content Creation
35:43 Navigating Self-Doubt and Creative Consistency
42:41 The Influence of 70’s Aesthetics on Creativity
46:34 Physical Inspirations in a Digital Age
49:39 Reflecting on AI, Emotion, and Artistic Expression
To think and to create are by far the most satisfying part of work for all of us. As new technologies come in, the crux we keep getting closer to is thinking clearly and creating more frequently. AI has made this process not just upleveled in speed but also introduced a side-kick approach. How to incorporate AI and still build our unique taste? What’s it like to ride with AI and find more individuality with the creative projects and businesses that we build?
Dan Shipper is the co-founder of Every, a creative media company that works to make you smarter about technology, productivity, and AI, trusted by almost 70k builders. Dan is a writer, thinker, podcaster, builder behind an AI chatbot, and his current work is filled with playing around with AI and shipping related projects.
In this chat, Dan and Aishwarya discuss the transformative impact of AI on creativity, the process of building unique projects, and intertwining personal growth with professional work. Dan elaborates on a recent AI project (internal to Every), Spiral, designed to convert content into different formats effectively, providing insights into his reading habits with AI's assistance.
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00:00 Intro to Kristen Berman
01:21 The Genesis of Irrational Labs & Power of Behavioral Economics
02:45 Unlocking User Insights: The Shift in Customer Interviews
05:00 The Art of Designing Effective Incentives & Understanding User Behavior
11:26 Empty Text Boxes to User Empowerment: ChatGPT as an example
13:07 Overcoming Barriers: Making Products More Accessible
19:42 B2B—Understanding Consumer vs. Business Decision-Making
24:27 Product-Led Growth: Strategies and Challenges
25:09 Simplifying B2B User Experiences: A Key to Adoption
26:20 Customer Feedback vs. Actual Behavior: Navigating the Bias
27:17 Case Studies & Learning from Failures
37:41 The Power of Environment in Shaping User Behavior
42:36 Embracing AI: Behavioral Economics in the New Decade
49:23 Concluding Thoughts on Behavioral Science in Product Design
Getting feedback and listening to what customers have got to tell us has been the favorite part for all of us product folks. Whether it’s a new app, feature, or even a little shiny interaction, we love getting validation from our audience. We’re in the constant exploration of how best to solve our users’ problems and jumping in as the demi-gods they’d see. But wait, how do we know what exactly goes on in our users’ minds? Like literally brain-reading them. Kristen Berman is the CEO and co-founder of Irrational Labs, a behavioral product design firm. She helps companies like Google, Airbnb, PayPal, Microsoft, and LinkedIn improve their products and services through behavioral design research. Yes yes, the one where she helps builders and founders design, test and scale products by learning behavioral economics. Kristen’s work has been featured in The Stanford Innovation Review, TechCrunch, and Scientific American.
Kristen shares her experiences working with tech companies and highlights how behavioral design research aids in creating products that truly resonate with users. She touched upon the evolution of AI tools like ChatGPT and its impact on user experience, psychology of nudging, overcoming biases, and the role of behavioral economics in a new AI-driven era.
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00:00 Intro to Peter Yang and Creator Economy
01:21 The Intersection of Product and Creative Tracks
05:14 Finding Your Zone of Genius
12:34 How to Use Humor in Communication
18:30 Defining Success in the Creator Economy
22:04 Crafting Creative Journeys
22:34 Learning from Fellow Creators
23:56 Avoiding Analysis Paralysis
24:22 Packaging Value in Your Work
25:16 Discovering Your Unique Path
26:36 The Importance of Energy in Your Work
27:04 Maximizing Content Creation Efforts
29:49 The Pressure to Become the Next Best Someone
32:50 Building Your Personal Brand
38:42 Exploring AI Experiments with Custom GPTs
42:42 Wrapup
If you are a deep thinker, you naturally enjoy the intersection of creating something and seeing it come alive just as you build. The journey of a product builder and creator cross paths—because it’s all about finding an audience and shipping projects that resonate with both you and them. So how do you set foot to build a business around something that you’re proud of creating? How to look at creation as a craft and channelize it with the way the tech world evolves?Peter Yang has spent more than a decade leading product teams at Meta, Amazon, Reddit, and Roblox. He runs a newsletter community called Creator Economy with over 70k+ folks supporting his work. Peter enjoys sharing tips and humor about how to level up your product and creator skills. Peter shares insights from his journey, exploring how creators can leverage their unique skills and interests to carve out niches in the creator economy. From blending humor in content to the transformative impact of AI on personal productivity and the significance of building with a customer-focused mindset—there’s valuable takeaways for anyone looking to make their mark in the creative and product spaces.
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00:00 Introduction to Lane
01:14 Lane's Nonlinear Career Path
04:09 How Endurance Helps With Success
12:51 Importance of Mindset in Product Building
23:19 Power of Shipping and Learning by Making
26:49 The Origin of the 'Rituals' Concept
29:03 Offer Parties: Gusto’s Ritual with Job Offers
29:51 Transforming Status Quo Rituals
30:58 Impact of Feedback in Product Development
33:01 Influence of French Literary Salons
37:46 Authenticity and Serendipity in Community Building
43:44 Creative People and Connections
46:14 The Ritual Pack: Enhancing Team Meetings and Decision Making
58:01 Intentionality in Building Culture
Everyone’s got an interesting journey into crafting their product careers—the best part is to embrace all of our facets and dimensions and see how to bring them into one picture. And over time, that translates to exploring habits that help us stay in those dimensions and keep learning, not just from our own work but from networks around us. How to channelize these non-linear paths, find rituals, and focus on growth while building products?Lane Shackleton is the CPO of Coda. Lane previously led product teams at YouTube and Google, and brings in a set of unique work experiences from before. Lane works with so many creators across the globe and digs deep into empathy, goal setting, and stories.In this episode of The Founder's Foyer, Aishwarya and Lane delve into the concept of product rituals and the importance of habits in fostering product growth. Lane shares insights from his nonlinear career path, his approach towards leadership, the significance of enduring pain, and the role of mindfulness in product development. He highlights the significance of mental models, the role of serendipity, and the importance of maintaining authenticity in community engagement
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00:00 Introduction to Aarthi
01:38 A Deep Dive into Creation
02:22 The Importance of Focusing on Value
02:43 The Evolution of The Aarthi and Shriram Show
07:20 Persistence in Creative Work
18:15 The Importance of Genuine Connections
23:22 Curiosity in Learning and Networking
29:21 Consistency in Creative Output
30:27 Handling Criticism and Negative Energy
31:21 Dealing with Self-Doubt
32:39 Power of Positive Surroundings
33:05 Handling Negative Feedback and Emotions
35:28 Journey of Self-Reflection and Growth
39:05 The Power of Techno-Optimism and Entrepreneurship
44:54 Individuality in Creative Pursuits
45:11 Authenticity in Content Creation
52:12 Self-Reflection in Personal Growth
52:54 Authenticity in Business and Personal Interactions
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Shipping a piece of work brings inexplicable joy—so much that we learn and grow every time we do it. While this comes with a lot of challenges, adding to the effort is the way tech platforms, market, and so many external factors keep fluctuating. How do we get better at our craft, focus on a creative long game, and win against the odds in the internet world?
Aarthi Ramamurthy is entrepreneur, creator, product advisor, angel investor, and someone who has so many other facets. Aarthi runs the Good Time Show along with her partner Sriram, and trust me she has had a fantastic lineup of conversations with tech and creative geniuses. Their dinner table is so full of ideas, sometimes I wonder if it’s even more than the food. She’s currently heading product at Rithum, formerly led teams at Clubhouse, Netflix, Facebook, and Microsoft, while also co-founding two startups.
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All of us like to meet interesting people—we love getting to know about unique experiences, what inspired them, and how they’ve managed to ship something. We also like to be such interesting people—we love to share what we know and the ways by which we’ve created amazing things. What signifies this ‘interesting’ as an identity? How can we come up with ideas that in turn show us the way to both excel at what we do and find more people in the same league of excellence? Does serendipity help us in maximizing our success? Danny Miranda is very busy asking questions to the world's greatest entrepreneurs & thinkers. He runs the famous podcast, The Danny Miranda show, and has a fantastic roster of guests who’ve shared their musings. Danny himself is praised as the best podcaster by so many business stalwarts, and he recently created Art of Interviewing, the go-to course to learn about research, interviewing, and mastering the creative craft.
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00:00 Introduction to Danny00:49 Sponsor - Recast Studio03:00 Exploring the Concept of Light and Darkness05:02 Self-Discovery in Creation18:18 Power of the Internet and Childhood Influences25:35 How Grandparents Shape Our Vision and Purpose29:41 The Long-Game in Content Creation30:28 Importance of Long-Term Goals 32:11 Art of Creating Content That Ages Well33:31 Podcast and Press—the Synonymity35:29 Impact of Social Media on Content36:26 Journey of Starting a Podcast39:28 Podcast and Listenership40:21 Asking Questions in Getting to Know People52:49 Role of Research in Podcasting53:45 Why Serendipity Matters
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome03:10 Adam's Journey into Product and Growth09:06 The Role of AI in Growth10:48 Understanding Different Aspects of Growth14:13 The Impact of Branding on Growth14:53 The Patreon Rebranding Journey27:59 The Role of Subscription Models in Consumer Products32:06 The Importance of Pricing Experimentation32:13 Understanding Your Customers and Their Pricing Expectations33:02 The Art of Pricing and Value Proposition33:43 Exploring Examples of Pricing Strategies in Different Industries34:45 The Challenges of Monetization in Social Media Platforms36:44 The Risks of Reckless Pricing Experiments37:19 Understanding the Vitamin to Painkiller Product Spectrum39:07 The Importance of Pricing Experiments in SaaS and Consumer Apps40:18 The Role of User Psychology in Product Engagement40:40 Strategies to Reduce Churn and Increase User Engagement41:35 The Importance of Onboarding and User Motivation45:04 The Role of Gaming Mechanics in User Onboarding47:50 Understanding the Competition and Alternatives in User Time55:07 The Intersection of Fatherhood and Professional Life
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When it comes to building products, the biggest lever that pushes the journey forward is the signal of growth. The type of growth where users feel the joy of retaining with your product, the one where your company metrics such as signups and revenue take a happy upward curve. We must have probably heard “Oh that’s a growth problem” way too many times, whenever there’s a challenge with pushing the product to the wider world. So then how does one cross this chasm and see the better sides of growth?Adam Fishman has built some of the fastest-growing consumer companies like Patreon, Lyft, and Imperfect Foods where he served across various roles like CPO, VP of Product & Head of Growth. From driving a company’s critical pivot and rebrand to helping a company scale to $100M revenue—Adam has been the face behind core product growth phases. He is the author of the FishmanAF Newsletter and the creator and host of the Startup Dad Podcast.The conversation traverses from building products that grow, dealing with 'growth problems', the role of branding in a company's growth, intricate aspects of consumer applications, and transitioning to subscription models. Adam also touches upon the psychology affecting product engagement and shares insights on reducing churn. Towards the end, he delves into his podcast 'Startup Dad Podcast' and the unique blend of professional and personal topics he explores through it. Tune in to expand your understanding of product growth strategies and the ongoing shifts in the tech industry.
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0:00 Intro to Matt Munson's work
03:51 Story of ups and downs in starting up
08:20 Moving to coaching founders and CEOs & learnings
12:26 Tackling intellectual loneliness and building a trusted community
25:42 Freedom to experiment & experience outcomes
30:22 How a sense of separation from the work fosters creativity
36:41 Embracing creative play and curiosity for self-awareness
40:12 How can founders figure out their maximum focus areas
44:25 Balancing leadership with company growth
45:46 Diversifying identities to not get locked up with beliefs
53:57 Why 'rest' is termed as a dirty word at work and how it shouldn't be
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Living the founder or builder life is like a permanent oscillation between “I feel so good” and “I feel shitty”—and this is something common with creative people that it often gets passed off with a laugh. But what would it be like to take notice of our moods and energy patterns, see what amplifies our effort and what saps out that enthusiasm? Is there a way to change the outlook to our own thinking and observations, just as we are high on potential to achieve something? How to obsess less about us to learn more about us?
Matt Munson is the founder & CEO coach at Sanity Labs. Matt draws on his own experience as a venture-backed founder to help other founders, CEOs, and product builders navigate the journey of leadership, self-awareness, and team building. Prior to this, Matt co-founded Twenty20, the world’s largest crowd-sourced commercial image catalog.
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Being a founder or product person calls for enjoying the ride even when things are uncertain. While grit and passion are the regulars, it takes a few more skills like competence, agency, clarity of thought, to be able to navigate that uncertainty. And this means, you’ve got to be ready to embrace challenges, relearn some of what you seemingly thought you knew already, and find new pieces of information to put together. First things first, how to get started with all of this?Shreyas Doshi is a seasoned product leader and presently a fantastic advisor to many founders across the globe. Shreyas formerly led product teams at Stripe, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and is most known to this world as a product coach who writes detailed ‘threads’ on many unsaid and important topics.
In this episode, Shreyas and Aishwarya discuss about: Distilling product knowledge through observations, shared vocabulary & how it connects teams without blame, human comprehension and the LLM in our minds, power of 'Why' over 'What' and 'How much', high IQ & cognitive empathy, recognizing the inner creative resistance, combating the 'product builder' fear with actionable steps, signals of growth for better and clear thinking, unlearning traditional programming of the mind for better evaluation.
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Building products is such a fun journey—especially if users are involved early in the process that it feels like co-creating and riding the wave with them. There’s also racing against the advancements in technology, thanks to AI’s hypergrowth every passing day. So how do you balance the ride and race, when do you know it’s time to take a dive or a turn and how do you account for changing markets? Yana Welinder is the founder and CEO of Kraftful, an Al copilot that helps teams build better products by listening to user feedback. A YC alum and a Stanford fellow, she formerly led product teams at IFTTT, Carbon, and Wikimedia Foundation. Yana loves backing up founders and she currently runs GenAIFounders community and she invests into promising ideas via Pioneer fund. A true 0-1 person and an amazing friend in the product community.
Yana and Aishwarya chatted about: Early-stage product: When & how to pivot, Handling customers' emotional quotient during a pivot, Experimenting product updates with early users, Setting up a community on X (Twitter) for PMs, Revisiting product strategy for dynamically changing markets, Possibility of AI in multiple domains & what would stay, Scope and future of product management, How to get started with LLMs & GenAI, AI & creativity for artists
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There’s so much joy in being able to think clearly—whether it’s cracking a tough decision, understanding a complex concept, or even letting go of bottled up confusions. When creating and shipping stuff, it’s very important to introspect on what’s holding us away from this clarity of thought. And the biggest plus is being able to do this as a community, getting to know others’ perspectives, and intellectually growing our knowledge. Anne-Laure is the founder of Ness Labs, a learning community with over 50,000+ makers. She’s a neuroscientist, educator, and soon-to-be author. She writes and speaks about mindful productivity and encourages founders and builders to derive first principles in thinking.
Quitting corporate & choosing unconventional career lanes, Kickstarting Ness Labs and how it works, Creator of information vs. collector of information, Building the newsletter in public, Why 5-year career plans are outdated, Embracing serendipity in exploring interests, Liminal creativity and redefining goals, How community thinking accelerates growth, Tools for thought: keeping human consciousness intact, Distress vs Eustress: How to differentiate -
There’s so much in parallel with tech and art—for instance, innovation starts with small steps, iteratively leading up to radical explorations. A lot of people today blend creative arts together with the principles grounded in ethics and emerging tech. To be at the intersection of all of this creativity and build versatile careers across entertainment media, business, and law, only teaches us that anything is just a step away from learning afresh. Abigail Hing Wen has mastered technology and storytelling, formerly leading emerging AI tech at Intel. She is a New York Times Best Selling Author, a media producer and filmmaker too. She writes and speaks about tech, AI ethics, women's leadership, and transforming culture.
In this episode, Abigail and Aishwarya chat about Legal to Tech to Writing and Filmmaking, trade-off between difficult decisions, community and belief circles in entertainment industry, AI founders and foundational questions to consider, how to combine core tech into media and fiction writing, consumerization of data, fairness, and tech ethics, AI prompts + entertainment and film content, finding a unique voice by combining creative pursuits, and building audiences over different generations
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What’s the hardest part about starting up, you ask? Plenty of them. And topping the charts, amongst the top three things, would be—nailing the branding and go-to-market strategy. While our entire focus is on the target audience all through the stage of building the product, there are quite a number of slips and shaky edges that take our path away from the ideal audience. So how exactly to build a brand, get those first few users to understand our product, nailing the messaging, and getting better at distribution?Arielle Jackson is currently the Marketer in Residence at First Round Capital. Arielle helped grow Gmail, Square, and Cover during their early stages—whether it was hitting 1M+ users or getting distribution to 30k doorsteps. She's worked with 100+ early stage companies — including Patreon, Loom, Front, Bowery, and even Maven — on their foundational messaging.
In this episode, Arielle and Aishwarya chat about how psychology and marketing are related, being the first marketer at Gmail, working on rival brands and difference in positioning, how to associate 'personality' with a brand, five attributes to pick the tone and style of a brand, what constitutes a brand—elements of good branding, fun stories from naming new brands, the domain game—.com, .co, .ai, and more, get rid of jargons in websites—Cinderella Spectrum & Bar Test, how solopreneurs can start with their marketing efforts, and positioning vs messaging.
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Finding the right set of peers, building the dream team to work towards a vision, setting the table for growth—all of these are interrelated from the perspective of strengthening teams. However, there’s a layer of science behind all of the best performing companies and the humans who’re a part of those teams. When the tools from the biological sciences meet the business world, there’s a ton of possibilities that open up—from understanding one’s personality and communicating better to even making right decisions at the workplace.
Evan LaPoint is the founder of Core Sciences, a platform that helps teams accelerate to a peak performance state. Evan has been an entrepreneur in the past as well, and he sold his company Satellite to Adobe, and before that merging his firm Marketing Alpha with Search Discovery.
pushed Evan along analytics, tech, and biological sciences, data silos that we end up with in and how to tackle, internal customer vs external customer narrative, how cognitive thinking separates people's performance, concept of "intuitives" and "semi-intuitives" traits of people, hiring for mindset > skillset, conscientiousness and working mindset, learning styles and personalities for a team, why ideas have a greater value than execution, vision vs fantasy, and how great thinkers obtain clarity. -
If there’s one phrase that’s ruling all of our social media experiences today, it’s Open AI’s GPT. It’s amazing to see the wonders of large language models kick in with everyday user experience, and the best part is that we’re only getting started. Beyond exposing ourselves to the numerous tools that spin out of AI, we as builders really got to dig deeper into understanding what this phase of tech advancement could mean from the lens of open source computing, ethical tech, personification, user generated content, API layers, and co-creation.Travis Fischer, AI researcher, entrepreneur & software developer has been working in the open source space for nearly a decade, with previous stints at Microsoft & Amazon. Travis has built a bunch of Open AI based projects, and loves working towards Passion Economy, about building products that will help enable a more independent and fulfilling future of work.
Travis and Aishwarya discuss about his journey from corporate to open source development, striving to create value and perseverance in the long game , balancing creative pursuits with monetization, using community as a leverage to upskill, understanding the challenges in passion economy, navigating the platform risk of where your work is displayed.
They also go in depth about AI—Personification, LLMs, and AI; Artificial generative intelligence: Are we nearing it?, AI as a foundational application layer, experimenting with opportunities in the AI playground; AI, boundaries, and ethics: Where are we headed at?, The boons and consequences of the AI play, what's in the AI game for open source devs?, AI as a copilot with all forms of works
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There’s been an infinite number of times I’ve spoken to people about how a career in comedy and building products are similar: a journey that involves so much iteration, craft, and attention to detail. And dealing with audiences day in and day out along with the market defining a hit of your work: how close can this get!Which is why TikTok, Instagram Reels, and a lot of social media content are going high on humour, both for the content and the tech creators who are the faces behind. So what exactly can we learn from building a thriving business out of humour, content, and technology?I can't contain my excitement—for I finally pulled in Alexis Gay (Creative Entrepreneur | Stand-up Comic | Podcaster) to sit down with me and discuss everything about creative entrepreneurship. Alexis and Aishwarya chatted about a bunch of themes—-transition from tech to comedy, why to be good at comedy (& business) you have to first be bad, how to shift the needle from ROI to enjoying the process, planning blocks of time as a creator and prepare a calendar, building consistency and momentum around work, acknowledging newer versions of yourself as a founder, working on viral comedy content, why it's important to be 'funny' than anything else, hard parts of today's creator apps and the gap left to address, and talking to world-renowned people on "Non Technical" podcast.
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Innovation is what most of us immediately point to when it comes to product success—but how often have we innovated our own thinking? Have we ever discovered what it means to be at the intersection of interests, ideas, and impact? So many creative entrepreneurial endeavors are based on a portfolio—of skills, careers, and people. And getting into the heart of that is really important.
I'm super happy that I got a chance to pull in Christina Wallace's experiences in this space. Christina dons so many hats—founder, podcaster, professor, and author. She’s currently the Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School, where she co-leads HBS Startup Bootcamp, and is an active angel investor and startup advisor. She’s also authored the book “The Portfolio Life” that’s gonna be live very soon.
As a 'Human Venn Diagram' that she proudly is, Christina and I chat all about how it's okay to not singularly focus on one identity, but bring together a diversified approach to entrepreneurship. Being a multi-hyphenate is so much fun, she quotes, for building a portfolio career and life.
Christina and Aishwarya chat about being a Human Venn diagram, why is it important to 'start' with an idea and connect dots, how to let yourself be naturally curious, how to be a multi-hyphenate, embracing diversification of interests, the left-brain & right-brain fallacy (why it's wrong), the role of self-reflection in identities, the concept of 'portfolio' and how it relates to careers, shedding the 'guilt' and looking at possibilities, what companies should do to accommodate employee's portfolio, and monetizing your passion and looking forward.
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What’s the best way to unlock creativity? Does our mind have the power to process so many thoughts and references? How does AI help in creating, building, and sharing ideas as founders and creators?Some of these questions are deep enough, but there’s a common line that connects them all—the power of cognition and how computers can be trained to augment that science behind.Alice Albrecht is a founder building something cool in the AI space. She did a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Yale and then spent 10 years researching AI before starting up to solve challenges in human creativity and knowledge.
Alice and Aishwarya chatted all about cognitive neuroscience and the way it's associated with augmenting creativity:
Getting started with the neuroscience space and entering tech, what does it mean to augment creativity, challenges in building tools for knowledge workers & creators, why humans are obsessed with tools over the creativity process, the effect of AI algorithms on attention span, keeping users' consciousness in mind while building products, concepts and cognitive theories that Alice is fascinated with, and the future of AI space with the role of ethical tech
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When was the last time you tried explaining an idea to your friend, co-founder, or teammate? Of course, it happens quite frequently for most of us, but looking back at the experience, at certain instances we spent more time explaining so the other person understands it better. Also there are times when they immediately vibe with us. So what exactly is the purpose of communication? Especially from the context of clarity, brevity, and impact.
Matt Abrahams is a lecturer at Stanford GSB, wherein he teaches entrepreneurial minds about organizational behavior, strategic communication, cognitive planning, and persuasion. Matt also runs the “Think Fast, Talk Smart” podcast wherein he hosts guests and discusses everything around maximizing the effectiveness around communication. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global learning and development teams.
Matt and Aishwarya discuss about communication—the mistakes that high-performing people make, getting better at listening, processing feedback, negotiating with stakeholders. Also, they delve into treating communication and speaking as a sport, approaching it with an iterative mindset, and getting better each day. Tune in!
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