TODAY'S GUEST   Nirupa Umapathy is an investor, a writer and social entrepreneur who facilitates change and conversation around change and disruption with the heart. Nirupa believes that personal transformation is an intentional act and through her Salons For Life community, she brings financial and personal wisdom into a shared problem solving space.      EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:50] Life during the Covid pandemic, home visits. [6:11] Duty vs. Freedom. [10:39] Cultural differences and similarities between Israel, India and the USA. [19:09] Starting out in the USA. [25:07] Building a relationship with money. [32:07] 2017: The year of life redesign. [41:23] Financial life design and financial freedom. [49:18] Teaching financial redesign. [54:23] Salons for Life as a way of transmitting wisdom. [1:10:55] The importance of being yourself.    EPISODE LINKS Nirupa's Links 🌍 Nirupa's Radical Everything Website 🌍 Writing on Medium 🏞 Nirupa's Instagram 📣 Interview about Salons For Life 🌍 Salons For Life Website Other Things Discussed 📔 Designing Your Life Book 🎓 The FIRE Movement on Wikipedia 🎓 Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of money 🎓 Julie de Lespinasse on Wikipedia 🎓 Clubhouse App   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY'S GUEST Steve Krug is one of the founding fathers of User Experience and Usability Design, and a bestselling author of two foundational classics in the field: Don’t Make Me Think, his guide to Usability design, with over 600,000 copies in print today, and Rocket Surgery Made Easy, a friendly guide to usability testing. He based his writing on decades spent as usability consultant for a wide variety of clients like Apple, Bloomberg.com, Lexus.com, NPR, and the International Monetary Fund, and continues to consult through his firm, Advanced Common Sense.    EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:45] Life during the Covid pandemic [5:49] Being nice is better than being smart. [9:04] Being nice in politics. [12:58] Not replacing Mr. Wizard [17:22] From writing to usability. [22:29] The story behind "Don't make me think" [27:47] Steve's literary style. [31:55] The evolution of UX design. [37:33] Empathy as a pre-requisite for being a great UX expert. [46:28] Writing and hating it since 1980- about the new book about writing. [52:44] Advice for writers. [55:42] A short sermon on UX.    EPISODE LINKS Steve's Links 🌍 Homepage 📔 Don't Make Me Think 📔Rocket Surgery Made Easy 🎓 Steve Krug on Wikipedia 📣 Twitter: @skrug Other Things Discussed 🎓The Mr. Wizard TV show 🎓 Bill Nye the science guy on Wikipedia 📰 Boston College Student Newspaper 🌍 Jacob Nielsen's Profile at nngroup.com 🌍 The Roger Black Collection 📔 Made To Stick Book   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST   Dr. Hila Lifshitz-Assaf is an Associate Professor at NYU Stern. She is also a faculty associate at Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science. Her work received the prestigious INSPIRE grant from the National Science Foundation, has been recognized to have a strong impact on industry, and has been taught at a variety of institutions around the world including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, London Business School, Columbia, and Carnegie Mellon.   Hila spent 3 years at NASA, studying their adoption of open innovation processes, which led to many insights and an award-winning dissertation and paper. She continues to investigate new innovation processes such as crowdsourcing, open source, open online innovation communities, Wikipedia, hackathons, makeathons, etc.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss: [2:47] Covid situation, teaching remotely. [4:41] Leading COVID-19 hackathons, open innovation. [10:37] Crisis as impetus for change. [14:21] Developing curiosity in early childhood. Questioning boundaries. [19:01] Pre-academic career: law, consulting, listening to people and seeing their psychology as business drivers. [25:27] Getting interested in innovation, innovation as the "Big Question" of business. [28:25] Working with NASA, NASA's culture. [40:22] Open innovation study at NASA. [48:01] How peoples' identity can hold innovation back. [53:28] Growth mindset & belief. [55:34] The pace of change. [57:30] The causes of dysfunction. [1:01:09] Embracing a little chaos. [1:12:14] Bias towards action. [1:14:10] Remote work & creativity. [1:22:05] Managing for creativity. [1:30:24] A short sermon for creative managers.   EPISODE LINKS Hila's Links 🌍 HilaLifshitz.com 🎓 Google Scholar Profile 🎓 ResearchGate Profile 📰 HBR: Embrace a Little Chaos When Innovating Under Pressure 📺 On Breaking Knowledge Boundaries at NASA 🌍 Hila @ NYU 🌍 Hila @ Harvard 📣 Twitter: @H_DigInnovation Other Links 🎓 Dismantling Knowledge Boundaries at NASA: The Critical Role of Professional Identity in Open Innovation 📔 Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy 🌍 Growth vs. Fixed Minsets   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST Joe Macleod was Global Head of Design for the legendary Design agency and game studio UsTwo, and is a veteran with decades of experience across service, digital and product sectors. In recent years, he became fascinated with the problem of designing good ending experiences and is the founder of what he calls “the worlds first customer ending business.” It’s not what you think - no customers get killed in the process. Instead, Joe is focused on giving customers a positive, meaningful, and socially responsible end of relationship experience. His first book, titled Ends - is a look into the importance of thinking about offboarding - from sustainability and recycling, through data and privacy, to retiring old products and tools, and finds the roots of our collective repression of the end of cycle problem in our fear of death, and the rise of mass market capitalism. . EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:18] Covid situation in Stockholm [5:41] Growing up in the UK as a child with dyslexia, developing a sense of independence. [9:55] Early involvement in graphics, very early HTML and digital design work, and interaction design. [13:13] Getting involved with Mobile early at Orange and Nokia. [15:02] Observing the rise and fall of Nokia [16:57] Joining legendary digital agency UsTwo [26:06] The Off-Boarding Problem [32:11] Getting Interested in Endings [38:18] The Western Avoidance of Death [41:07] A Chance to Reflect [46:18] The Move Away from Endings [51:11] Why is it important? [58:19] The Narrative Importance of Ending [59:18] The Ends Book, and the 2nd Book [1:14:29] Why the Focus on Endings?   EPISODE LINKS Joe's Links 🌍 Joe Macleod's Blog @ Medium 📔 Ends. The Book 🌍 AnEnd.com - The Business 📣 Twitter: @mrmacleod Other Things Discussed 🌍 UsTwo Agency ⛳️ Monument Valley Game 🌍 WAP - Wireless Application Protocol (1999) ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST Christopher Holm-Hansen is a Copenhagen-based product designer and the co-founder of MeetButter, a promising new startup which aims to makes online workshops and meetings more human and delightful. We talk about his journey from training as a civil engineer, through the first product he ever built - a spoon that helps you properly season your food - to his journey through founding 2 previous startups, and a bank’s internal venture group. We explore how seeking a new direction and remaining engaged at the moment that Covid hit gave him and his team a clue that led to MeetButter’s current product, and what he sees as the future of online meetings and work beyond the Covid-19 crisis.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [3:11] Covid situation in Denmark & Israel. [8:08] Early life, and a love for making and creating things. [13:51] Design Engineering Degree. [15:20] Discovering Human-Centered Design. [18:28] A Spoon That Helps Cook. [23:22] Service Design Explained. [27:41] First Startup Launched [31:51] Working as a UX Designer at an Agency [36:38] Joining a Venture arm at a Large Bank [39:48] 2nd Startup Launched, New Partner [46:10] Denmark's Gaming Ecosystem [51:24] Retrospective: What Christopher Would Do Differently [52:56] The Origin Story of MeetButter [1:02:33] How MeetButter is Different [1:08:39] Can Online Meetings Be Delightful? [1:12:56] The Costs of Bad Remote Practices [1:21:48] The Future of Remote Work   EPISODE LINKS Christopher's Links 🌍 MeetButter.io 🌍 Christopher's Dribbble Profile 📣 Twitter: @MrChrisHolm Other Things Discussed 🌍 What is Human Centered Design? 🌍 What is Service Design? 🌍 Service Design Tools ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST Dave Evans worked on the first computer mouse at Apple, founded the Life Design Lab at Stanford alongside Bill Burnett, and is a bestselling author of two books — Design Your Life, and Design Your Work Life. Informed by early tragedy, by his own missteps along the way, and by his contemplative spirituality, he created a transformative Design Thinking process that has helped many thousands of students and adults, at Stanford and around the world, to figure out what they want to do with their "one wild and precious life". In this conversation, in the shadow of the epidemic and his wife’s final battle with cancer — we talk about what it means to lead a joyful, vital, and meaningful life.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:59] Living in paradox, how Dave and his wife are dealing with her terminal cancer, focusing on the present. [10:24] Dave's early life, and how an early life tragedy set in motion a search for a worthy and meaningful life. [13:47] Walking into the Stanford Career Center at 19, looking for answers on what to do in life. [17:08] Consulting successful grownups, and finding no answers. [19:12] A period of "clumsily iterating". [20:28] An unexpected call from Apple. [27:04] A chance to teach at UC Berkley. [29:49] Starting Life Design at Stanford over a 5-minute lunch. [33:28] Expanding Design Thinking in interesting ways. [40:29] The idea of Coherence. [45:40] Dave's short sermon for young people.   EPISODE LINKS Dave's Links 🌍 DesignYour.Life 🌍 Stanford Life Design Lab 📣 Twitter: @DaveEvansDYL 📺 Videos: TEDxSanFranciscoSalon "Designing the rest of your life"  📺 Videos: Talk at Google: Designing Your Life  📗 BOOK: Design Your Life 📘 BOOK: Design Your Work Life Other Things Discussed 🌍 IDEO 🌍 dSchool at Stanford 📺 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST   Donatella Caggiano is a Global Creativity Hacker. With her methodology crossing design, storytelling, and strategy, she works at applying creativity to processes of change and transformation for brands, communities and people.   She made a crucial decision to leave the high powered Business World of Corporate America in mid-life, return to her home country of Italy, and to do so intentionally, and mindfully.   Her new podcast in the making “The Design of Return”, will deal with personal stories of transit as told by the “in-betweeners”.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss: [2:59] Donatella's childhood, leaving her home town. Home is where you are. [8:48] What it means to be a Creativity Hacker, and what Donatella does professionally these days. [16:30] Making a home by separation. [20:55] Leaving Milan to the US, her time in NY. [26:45] The loneliness of living in a new country. [30:05] The differences between US culture and Italian and Israeli culture. [34:32] The weirdness of Orange County, California. [45:00] Leaving the US, heading back to Italy. [56:53] The challenges of returning. [1:03:09] A culture-shock with one's own culture. [1:15:25] Returning skillfully. [1:29:40] 500 Days without Social Media. [1:32:43] The Juliet Club. [1:38:00] Finding a community of fellow returners. [1:44:40] The Design of Return podcast-in-the-making. [1:49:05] Becoming Home vs. Finding Home.   EPISODE LINKS Donatella's Links 🖼 Instagram: @donatellacaggiano 🌍 LinkTree: @donatellacaggiano 🌍 Donatella's Medium Blog 📣 Twitter: @donaworldwide 📺 Videos: "The Design of Return" Talk  Other Things Discussed The Juliet Club - 🌍 Website: JulietClub.com 🖼 Instagram: @julietclubofficial   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST   For the last decade, Dr. Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice, and mindfulness. He completed his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University.    After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, Angel began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development with conversations about inequality and healing; including as part of the 400 Years of Inequality Project, based at the New School.   Angel continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others.   EPISODE SUMMARY   In this conversation we discuss:   [2:57] Being with the world of Covid, elections, and chaos. [7:27] Angel growing up with the value of hard work and strong work ethics, instilled by his family. [10:57] Moving around a lot in early life, changing schools, and learning how to connect with new people. [14:15] Getting into anthropology. [18:20] From anthropology to leadership studies. [19:45] Working on expanding opportunities in education. [27:40] Growing interest in mindfulness and healing practices. [36:12] Angel's research, looking at the connection of healing practices with racial literacy and racial justice education. [52:03] About white participants in the group staying committed despite their discomfort, and showing up. [56:10] The 400 Years of Inequality Project. [1:07:05] The future of trauma healing. [1:11:02] Designing for equity, and overcoming old systems designed out of racism and prejudice.   EPISODE LINKS Dr. Angel Acosta's Links 🌍 DrAngelAcosta.com 🎧 NYC Healing Collective Podcast 📣 Twitter: @drangelacosta 📺 Videos: Angel's Videos  🌍 College for Every Student (CFES) 🌍 400 Years of Inequality Other Links 🌍 Creative Reaction Lab 🌍 Thich Nhat Hanh 🌍 Lani Guinier 🌍 Resmaa Menakem 🌍 Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams 🌍 Thomas Hübl 📕 Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePod.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST Nick was a med student in NYC when I met with him a couple of years ago to start working on a new startup idea of his. Today, he is the Founder & CEO of Hailify, a funded startup which makes the Gomo app - a complete solution for ride-share drivers. Gomo started with a desire to understand Uber and Lyft drivers, their struggles and needs — and the loss of independence that comes from being managed, and sometimes penalized by a piece of software.Today, Gomo allows thousands of drivers to accept rides from multiple apps without being penalized, to increase safe driving by automating common tasks, to find hotspots, prepare for large upcoming events, and even find nearby public restrooms.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [2:41] Nick's early realization about the connection between relationships and happiness [5:27] How Nick decided to launch a Gomo while in med school, and the needs it's meant to address for drivers. [7:02] The early research with drivers we did, and how it continued as more drivers signed up to use the app. [12:07] How doing research with drivers changed Nick's personal perspective and help build empathy with the drivers. [14:08] Giving drivers their autonomy back. Where Gomo is heading. [19:08] Business and relationships. [20:58] Putting medicine on hold, mastering business and the language of entrepreneurship. [25:15] Goals for the future. [29:59] Advice for new entrepreneurs.   EPISODE LINKS Nick Bhashyam's Links 🌍 LinkedIn Profile 🌍 DriveGomo.com 🌍 DriveHailify.com ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePodcast.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium

TODAY’S GUEST Daniel Thorson has been meditating for the last twelve years and has a passion for the intersection of contemplative practice, adult development, trauma healing, and systems design. In previous incarnations, Daniel has organized with Occupy Wall Street, worked at a company called Buddhist Geeks, helped start Boulder Flood Relief, founded a mindfulness education company, launched a new American political party, and spent over 10,000 (awful, wonderful) hours in formal meditation practice. Daniel is also the host of the Emerge podcast, which explores the relationship between inner and outer transformation.   EPISODE SUMMARY In this conversation we discuss: [3:17] How Daniel is dealing with Covid, Trump, and other forms of Chaos from within a Monastery. [9:35] His path from alienation to growth and meditation. [19:37] Dealing with heartbreak, learning to not be a jerk. [23:33] Continuous self-improvement.  [27:04] Daniel's early involvement in politics [31:57] His involvement with Occupy Wall Street and its innovative, though flawed, radically participatory systems of governance. [43:25] Working for Buddhist Geeks, at the meeting place of cutting edge Buddhist and tech cultures. Helping to create the Buddhist Geeks community. [51:30] Why "Living alone is a disaster" - on the growing trend of living in intentional communities. [1:07:35] Life in the Monastic Academy, and are freedom and restrictions really opposites? [1:14:03] Daniel in the news: "The man who went into a 75-day retreat and missed the pandemic" [1:17:28] The Emerge Podcast - its emergence and subsiding [1:31:04] The ideas and practices behind MAPLE, the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth, where Daniel is today.   EPISODE LINKS Daniel Thorsons's Links 🎧 Emerge Podcast 🌍 WhatIsEmerging.com 📣 Daniel on Twitter: @dthorson 🌍 Monastic Academy Other Things Discussed 📰 ‘Did I Miss Anything?’: A Man Emerges From a 75-Day Silent Retreat 🌍 Global Intentional Communities Directory 🌍 Twin Oaks Community 🌍 E.E. Cummings' quote 🎧 Occupy Wall Street as a Bootstrapping Collective Intelligence Podcast with Richard Bartlett 🎧 The Wisdom Skills Model by Tom Murray (Emerge Podcast) 🌍 Buddhist Geeks / Buddhist Geeks Farm 🌍 Soryu Forall 🌍 Non-violent communication 🌍 Dharmacanics 🌍 Neo Monasticism (Wikipedia) 🌍 Zach Stein 🌍 Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley 📕 Masahiro Mori's The Buddha in the Robot   ABOUT US Remake Podcast: Visit us: RemakePodcast.org 🙏🏻 Rate the show on iTunes 🙏🏻 Support us! Join the Podcast Member community 💌 Share your thoughts: podcast@remakelabs.com 👉 Listen or Subscribe to the show: Apple Podcasts・Google Podcasts・RadioPublic・Overcast・Stitcher・PocketCasts・Castro・SoundCloud・Spotify・YouTube・Deezer Remake Labs:  RemakeLabs.com・Medium・LinkedIn・Community・Twitter・Facebook・Instagram Eran Dror:  EranDror.com・LinkedIn・Twitter・Medium