Recorded on location in Cardiff, California, July 7, 2025
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I had the great pleasure of taping this podcast episode on July 7 with my good friend - and IoNTELLIGENCE Community Member - Robert Richman.
Robert is a sought-after keynote speaker and one of the world’s leading authorities on employee culture. He is also the author of The Culture Blueprint, a comprehensive guide to creating a high-performance workplace. He hosts the Culture Hackers podcast, a show about culture hacking at companies, in business, and around the world.
This episode explores the transformative power of AI, which will fundamentally reshape work, industries, and even humanity's status as the "apex predator." We also discuss whether AI’s seductive convenience could drive us toward isolation rather than genuine human connection. We grapple with how AI challenges our very understanding of attention, memory, and consensus reality. Finally, we dive into my thesis that "taste" and "agency" have become paramount in an AI-driven world, where the ability to make discerning choices and act on ideas becomes more valuable than mere intelligence.
Some of the hot takes you’ll get from this episode:
"We're now learning, like I like to say, to use our biology like a technology."
"In an era where you can produce a business plan with a button, and you can come up with a hundred different product ideas, where does taste come in? Well, taste decides what you decide to pursue."
"If we are what we remember... that intentionality, that intentional application of memory and attention, that's what becomes... the pillars of what we call our life."
"I think that the most dangerous competitors that any business leader who's listening to this podcast has are not the companies that you know. It's an AI native version of whatever your product is."
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