All Episodes

“We’re extremely powerful when it comes to making sense and finding connections, doing it visually instead of with a page.”

“Having many modes to cope with different kinds of ways that we find ourselves in situations with new people or familiar people — it’s good to have that.”

“Is the way that I am designing my conversations getting me what I want out of life? Is it working for me?”

“It’s so important to get the foundation right. You can’t go to the next level when the foundation isn’t set.”

“My note-taking changed when I stopped trying to take notes because that’s what good people do.”

“You have to figure out what is the right altitude, and it’s almost impossible to know when you start.”

“If the only audience for your note-taking system is just you, even then, it’s not just you. It’s past you and future you as well.”

“For a certain kind of reading and a certain kind of understanding, I can’t read without taking notes and I can’t take notes without reading.”

“How do you compress the entire life’s work of this guy down to something that an ordinary person is not going to misunderstand?”

“If you’re not at the table, then it’s likely you’re on the menu.”

“Organization is at the heart of learning.”

“Let’s turn our back on the solution for a little bit and instead face the human”

“… it’s my list, which of course shows how I see our fundament, historically speaking.”

“It’s not just the tools, but how is it part of our actual life?”

“I use Roam for what it’s good at: note thinking.”

“It’s sermons in stone that really changed my whole life”

A reflection on five themes that emerged in the podcast over 2021.

“For art, we have the language of aesthetics. For IA, what do we have?”

“You have to take responsibility for the state you’re in.”

“When we expect the brain to function like a computer… we’re really underselling its actual powers”

“‘Sentiers’ is French for ‘paths,’ and the path is taking more importance in the curation in the last year or so.”

“There is so much capability out there that is probably somewhat unsung.”

“Almost everything in your internal system is workable.”

“Interaction is fundamentally under-appreciated.”

“Thinking and perception and action and the world are all intertwined in many, many different kinds of ways.”

“My passion is growing people”

Jorge answers questions from listeners.

“[There’s] a human being over there just trying to get something done in their daily lives…”

“People mistake localization to best user experiences.”

“Your architecture is not the place to surprise people”

“I’m trying to find the truth of the system”

“What we are completely missing in the workplace right now are spaces for connecting to each other”

“Approach your work, both at the strategic and tactical level, in terms of the outcomes as opposed to the outputs.”

“Bring intention to how you want people to connect.”

“How many times have you done an hour of something?”

“Leadership is just another design problem”

“See how you and your individual part of the organization fit into a larger whole”

“Organizations need to know what they stand for”

“Just build your own Island of greatness and then the rest will follow.”

“You want the ideas to be able to come to you when and where they are useful to you”

“I am because you are, you are because I am.”

“Come! Come learn with us. Come participate and contribute.”

“There’s a lot of potential here and there’s a lot of need.”

“The more nodes there are in the network, the stronger the network becomes.”

“Conversation is a system”

“[Think] about the kinds of topics that you want to engage with”

“The structures that have served us well, served us well in a different world — in a past world that’s not coming back.”

“Older adults are in a sense the population that is most in need of technological assistance.”

“In qualitative research, we are the research instrument.”

“We could be heading for a space where we start to build the best of both worlds…”

“Roam really makes it powerful to connect the dots between ideas and between projects”

“First you have to understand the vision and the superior meaning that you want to create”

“[Sometimes] the lived world that you’re in may not just be enough in and of itself to help you create meanings.”

“Some people are good at searching and some people are not so experienced. But having a taxonomy kind of levels it.”

“I would love to see the entire world up-leveled in terms of our understanding our own cognitive abilities.”

“In some respects, what you’re designing is a kind of ecosystem.”

“Perspective is the most valuable product in the modern world.”

“Ultimately, in many respects it was a better experience than people might ordinarily get.”

“It’s in the relationships between the things that the meaning emerges, rather than in the individual components themselves.”

“On its own, you can’t use data. It has to have context.”

“It’s okay to not be okay right now. This is not normal.”

“Whether you’re working in private sector or working within the public sector, or academia, there’s always that trade-off of the good for the perfect.”

“Are there ways that we can pick our heads up from this one situation and look at the more general, more open space around, when this is going to happen again, and can we do things to attend to that?”

“A big part of the product manager’s role is actually connecting those levels of meaning, or those levels, those scales. There’s this almost fractal-like scale of decision-making that goes on.”

“Design is about being in service to others. Our job is a service job.”

“If you want to deliver a meaningful experience — a sensible experience — to your customers, you have to reorganize your company in a way that makes sense to your customers.”

“I tend to think of an institution as something that acts not just at scale, but over time.”

“I just really wanted to go deep on understanding; what is my material if I’m an information architect?”

“When it comes to spoken language or any form of language, it’s very deeply tied to our identity.”

“It’s very rare that we take a step back in our own lives and try to look at what we’re trying to accomplish with the little things we write every day.“

“I would love for more people to really understand not only the potentials but also the limitations of these systems, so that they’re not so scary and so that people aren’t intimidated by them.”

“I feel that my mission is to help organizations create new ways of working, to support flourishing individuals and flourishing organizations.”

“It’s hard work, but it’s very rewarding when you get to see the better side of human beings.”

“Sometimes I say that theory without practice is useless, but sometimes I’ll say that practice without theory is expensive.”

“This is something that needed to be done and a number of people jumped on board to get it done.”

“The department I’m working in has been systematically collecting music since 1949, and the physical archives consist of roughly about 900,000 units.”

“[The] idea that chord changes are enough is so cool.”

“You’re making marks, and those marks need to have a meaning.”

“My business is predicated on the idea that it’s possible to move fast without breaking things.”

“I’m trying to architect my best life.”

“It’s a very creative time for people from different disciplines to be trying to help us figure out if we can detect life in our solar system, or even life on exoplanets.”

“It’s really about us making sure that we’re aligned, and that comes through conversation.”

“The sharing of information globally and instantly is definitely an inflection point for human beings — and I think we’re just starting that.”

“Sleep and diet and exercise are probably the top three tools for better information management.”

“My goal was to be able to juggle all the things I need to juggle and do all the things I need to do without burning out and without working long hours.”

“I am very good at connecting what seemed like unrelated ideas very quickly. They call it dyslexic gist detection.”

“I won’t help you develop your products, but I will help you develop yourselves.”

“When everything has to be super fast and easy to find, our actual experience of using it can be potentially poorer if we value things besides being productive and fast.”

“One of the interesting things that I’ve observed in working in design and process is this idea of working in the open.”

How a consultant and author helps organizations “find their next.”

How the UX Collective team manages information in their publishing process.

How the design leader and author managed information towards writing “Mastering Collaboration.”

A conversation with the author and founder of Rosenfeld Media about how he manages various workstreams.

A brief description of what the show is about.