• (284) Good Girl Deprogramming

    On this week’s show we are joined by psychologist and author Michelle Minnikin to talk about her new book, Good Girl Deprogramming. You can find out more about Michelle’s work at https://michelleminnikin.com/ Listen ⇢

    (284) Good Girl Deprogramming
  • (283) Accessibility

    On this week’s show we speak with Lisa Riemers about challenges of digital accessibility, and what to do about it. You can find Lisa’s collection of useful links here: https://lisariemers.com/index.php/2023/05/12/accessibility-resources/ and you can book to attend her talk here: We spoke with AbilityNet on Episode 208 Listen ⇢

    (283) Accessibility
  • (282) Psych Safety in Action

    This week’s guest is Equal Experts Psychological Safety Lead, Julia Bellis. We talk about the misconceptions associated with psych safety, building safety in client-facing teams, and the challenges of hybrid and global working, amongst many other things. A couple of books were mentioned: The Culture Map by Erin Meyer and… Listen ⇢

    (282) Psych Safety in Action
  • (281) Intelligent Agents

    On this week’s show we are joined by Equal Expert’s Lewis Crawford to talk about his experiments in building autonomous teams of AI agents. AI Generated transcript follows… Matt: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to episode 281 of WB40, the weekly podcast with Matt Ballantine, Chris Weston and Lewis Crawford. Chris:… Listen ⇢

    (281) Intelligent Agents
  • Ask 2024

    On this, the penultimate show of 2023, Chris and Matt answer audience questions about the year ahead… Automatically created transcript… Matt: at the beginning of 2023 on show 248 no less if you want to go back and listen to it. We did an episode where we thought about what… Listen ⇢

    Ask 2024
  • (279) Transitions

    On this week’s show we speak with Railsware CEO Yaroslav Lazor about moving from being a business building software for others to being a product company. You can find out more about their BRIDGeS framework here: https://railsware.com/bridges-framework/ Yaroslav mentioned Railsware’s products: Coupler.io: https://www.coupler.io/ Titan Apps: https://titanapps.io/ And they’ve listed some trusted resources… Listen ⇢

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  • (278) Collaborating

    This week we chat with Gavin Jones to talk through some of the challenges and opportunities when looking at collaborating and technology. You can find out more about Gavin and his work at: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MeeTime Website: https://www.meetimeservices.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-jones-meetime Episode Transcript… (any errors are the fault of the AIs) Matt:… Listen ⇢

    (278) Collaborating
  • (277) ND in IT

    On this week’s show we are joined by Al Doran to talk about some of the practicalities of supporting neurodiversity in the IT workplace. Listen ⇢

    (277) ND in IT
  • (276) AI Rights

    This week’s guest, joining Matt and supply host Martin Sadler, is Milla Spence with whom we explore the idea of AI having rights. You can explore some of these themes further at: The AIRAI Website: https://ai-ari.org/ Ex Google Engineer Lemoine gets fired for claiming LaMDA is sentient: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62275326https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/ A report… Listen ⇢

    (276) AI Rights