Coburn Ventures Podcast

The “study of the mind” is now mainstream, but why is this important, and how far ahead are corporations and advertisers?

This student mindedness conversation will help us take a step back, exploring an attitude or approach that can be highly personalized. But what is it? What does it look like in active practice? Pip and Brynne discuss what it is snd why it comes up so often so that you can identify what elements might be helpful to your process.

We continue with biologist Maria Souza on complex systems. In Part 1 we discussed resilience as a key property of complex systems. Now we examine the role of internal feedback loops in resilience and how to identify the lynchpins that could help change your system.

Biologist Maria Souza introduces us to the core properties of complex systems: how to identify a resilient system, and how understanding the property of resiliency — which is neither good nor bad in and of itself — can help us identify effective cultures.

An introduction into Stewart Brand’s pace layering model, from his work The Clock of the Long Now. Movement in this model leads to vast destruction or creation of market cap. We talk through how we identify where companies sit in the model, and when and why there might be movement.

Matt Wallaert, a social psychologist and author of "Start at the End," dives into the profound impact of identity on behavior change. He discusses how understanding our identities can enhance decision-making and personal growth. Wallaert introduces cognitive dissonance, illustrating how conflicting beliefs can shift perceptions. He emphasizes the importance of embracing diverse identities and perspectives, particularly in the finance sector, to foster resilience and improve teamwork. His insights highlight the transformative power of identity in shaping our experiences.

Continuing on the topic of decision making, we walk through the data chain and how to use it to identify where you are in the process and to then make the conversion from one node to the next.

JC Herz guides us through risk avoidance vs. risk acceptance, resilience and fragility, and why your first step must be to identify and write down the answer to this question: what is your source of maximal regret?

We know investors are particularly prone to some common decision making biases. We start the discussion today on some of the tactics and tools to bring awareness of these biases to the forefront in order to ameliorate the problems they can stir up.

Data scientist and business leader JP Rangaswami expands on the impact of starting from a point of view of stewardship vs. monetization; how he expects the quality of investment metrics associated with ESG to improve, and the conditions required to act with real stewardship in business governance.