The Aboard Podcast
Talking about AI doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world.
Join Rich Ziade, Paul Ford, and their guests as they discuss how AI is changing software development, business strategy—and everything else. New episodes every Tuesday.
Latest episodes
Jan 26, 2023 • 23min
2023-01-26. Proverbs
Ziade and Ford ADVISORS right? Well you know the oldest kind of advice? Proverbs. Paul picks out some interesting ones to see what happens. Thoughts ensue.
Jan 24, 2023 • 24min
2023-01-24. Layoffs
Rich and Paul talk through the tech layoffs, explaining why they happen, why they suck, and what you can do about them (very little) and what you can do for the people involved in them (far more).
Jan 19, 2023 • 27min
2023-01-18. AI Adaptation
A conversation about the robots taking our job—and how various forces have been taking our jobs for a while, and personal experiences with jobs and robots.
Jan 17, 2023 • 22min
2023-01-16. Stopping By
Rich has an idea about how to completely revolutionize the remote workplace. Typical hijinks ensue.
Jan 12, 2023 • 23min
2023-01-12. Retail Futures: The Circus Comes to Town
Paul and Rich talk about modern shopping experiences—and how big box retail is increasingly like a warehouse for online orders, while more and more commerce becomes focused around community and live events.
Jan 10, 2023 • 17min
2023-01-10. Should I Get a New Job?
Rich advises Paul (who is pretending to be a guy who works in video editing) on whether to quit his job or not. Together, they look into THE VOID. The VOID looks back. Paul digresses on corporatist epistemology. In the end everything is okay.
Jan 5, 2023 • 18min
2023-01-05. Predictions
Rich and Paul come back to the office after the holidays just full of predictions for tech, politics, and the economy.
Dec 20, 2022 • 24min
2022-12-20. Soccer as a Platform
The last episode of 2022! Paul and Rich talk about the World Cup, in a general way, but then they start to talk about how soccer functions as a platform in the world—how to see it as a kind of technology.
Dec 15, 2022 • 21min
2022-12-15. AI Anxiety
Rich has been a Customer Success Manager Level IV for Salesforce for 13 years—and he's panicking. He heard a cable bill got renegotiated by a robot and now he's convinced the robots are coming for his job. Paul unpacks that with him and helps him see that there could be new ways of working and doing things for him and his team, and then Paul and Rich demonstrate the absolute state of the art in AI technology.
Dec 13, 2022 • 26min
2022-12-13. Recipe for Conspiracy
Paul and Rich talk conspiracies: Where they come from and why people keep going in for them. Paul pretends to be a guy named Jeff who is falling into QAnon. They talk about where conspiracy thinking comes from, what to do, and how to handle Christmas Dinner.
