Digital Addiction and My Year without an iPhone
Digital devices come with an emotional hook hidden within the appearance of quantified progress. It’s difficult to deny that progress is being made when the numbers keep going up.
Transcripts
What Counts as a Human Business?
Let’s get real about this. How can we tell an authentically human business from a business that simply claims to be human?
Gender and Identity – Episode 7 of This Human Business
A full text transcript of the final episode of the first season of This Human Business, on the topic of gender and identity in business. What is the impact of the #MeToo movement on the manifestations of gender in business, and how does it impact strategies for managing identity beyond gender? How is gender fluidity related to the history of business?
The Business of Human Technology – Episode 5
A transcript of the 5th episode of the podcast This Human Business. The subject of this episode is the relationship between technology and humanity in business, in the context of the techlash, and its growing skepticism of a positive role for digital technology in human society. Can tech culture be humanized?
Postmortem of an Artificial Intelligence Cat – Bonus Episode
An unexpected episode exploring the demise of Jan Kremlacek’s tech business, and the implications for the businesses still left alive, and for the journalists who report on them.
The Rituals of Commerce – Episode 4
The complete transcript for the fourth episode of the podcast This Human Business. This episode discusses the use of ritual structure in business practice.
The Mythology of Commerce – Bonus Episode
To understand the stranger aspects of business culture, we need to go way, way back in time, to the trickster stealing across the boundaries of early civilizations.
The Business of Human Research – Episode 3 Transcript
This transcript for the 3rd episode of This Human Business includes material from interviews with business leaders reflecting on the opportunities to make business research more human.
The Story of John Henry the Data-Driven Man
Those firms that are pushing qualitative research to get faster and cheaper, competing on the quantitative terms of supercomputers, are trapped what I call the John Henry effect.
The Power of Story – Episode 2 Transcript
A complete transcript for The Power of Story – the second episode of This Human Business, a podcast about the movement to restore the role of the human experience in commercial life (includes language bleeped out of the audio version).