A while back when I was promoting People Powered, I was invited to go on a podcast all about consulting. As a consultant, it is rare that I get an opportunity to be interviewed about the business itself as opposed to the focus and subject of my work. Little did I know...

Recently I was introduced to Coda - a platform that aims to re-invent the document - bridging live data, views, and more to enable people to collaborate more effectively together. What really struck me, aside from the technology, is how well designed and delivered...

I first discovered Allan Dib when I read his book, 'The One Page Marketing Plan'. It was refreshing: there weren't the glitzy, sensationalist, unrealistic techniques that some of the marketing gurus use - it was simple, effective, practical advice. As such, I knew I...

Mark Shuttleworth has weaved a fascinating story in his life so far. He founded and sold his company, Thawte, was the first South African in space, created one of the most popular open source projects, Ubuntu, and has built a successful company, Canonical. There is...

There is little doubt that realtime discussion, collaboration, and chat has had a significant impact on businesses and communities. While Slack has risen as a dominant leader, open source powered Mattermost has gone on to grow more and more significantly as a powerful...

Many of us are striving for growth and success, but we don't know which levers to yank to get the right results. This is where Catherine Gray from The Trium Group comes in. She is an expert in a range of tools, such as Enneagrams, to evaluate what kind of personality...

For those playing along with Silicon Valley bingo, there is an enormous amount of change going on in startups, venture capital, and beyond. This has been heightened by the impact of COVID-19 on founders, startups, and investors. David Hornik has been around the...

When I say the word "psychedelics", you probably think of hazy people tripping on suspicious substances at a Grateful Dead concert. Well, the story is much deeper than this, and it is a very interesting story indeed. It turns out there has been an enormous amount of...

In recent years, there has been an explosion in digital marketing. Bold claims of making thousands of dollars a day have been perpetuated by self-proclaimed marketing gurus. It all seems a bit much to my cynical British eye. This is why I was thrilled to have Mike...

Open Source has seen enormous growth in recent years, and this has shone the light on the security of the many different components in open source systems such as NPM, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, and Debian. How do we ensure that the rapidly growing library of open...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you are probably familiar with Meetup. They have become the epicenter of how people organize local and online gatherings and have become a fixture for many people and organizations. David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, comes on...

Millions of people around the world have limited access to reliable, secure financial tools. This creates a vicious circle that keeps many people in poverty when they are faced with limitations in how they store, transfer, and send money. Unfortunately, this also...

Work/Life Balance. How is yours? Good? Decent? Middling? Let's be honest, most of us suck at it. Well, David Finkel doesn't. David is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 11 books and CEO of Maui Mastermind. His new book,  The Freedom Formula:...

Would you pay $30 a month for an email service, especially when Gmail is entirely free? I do. A while back I started using a service called Superhuman. It provides a blisteringly fast, keyboard-driven, experience for email power users. Their value prop is simple: the...

Mårten Mickos comes on to discuss “hacker powered security”, and how he has built and led a series of successful businesses, including MuSQL, Eucalyptus, and now HackerOne.

Dr. Diane Hamilton comes on Conversations With Bacon to dig into what curiosity is, and what role it plays in our lives.

Liz McCabe comes on to not just demystify what coaches do, but to share so much of the insight she provides to her clients. A very, very interesting and pragmatic discussion.

Jen Wike Huger and Jason Hibbets come on to discuss how they created opensource.com, which generates millions of page views and is largely driven by a raft of community contributed content.

Zach Abbott comes on to talk about what goes into engineering probiotics, his new technology, and how he built a business using crowdfunding among many other tools.

Angela Brown, who leads events at The Linux Foundation comes on to discuss what goes into great events and how her method and approach has evolved over the years.

Jason Warner, SVP of Technology at GitHub comes on to not just talk about how GitHub builds GitHub, but what he sees as a key components of great leadership, and how his experiences and perspectives have shifted and evolved over the years.

Mary Thengvall comes on to talk about what Developer Relations is, how it works, where it should report in, what success looks like, and much more.

Building collaborative online platforms is hard. To make a platform that is truly compelling, and rewards the right kind of behavior and teamwork, requires a careful balance of effective design, workflow, and understanding the psychology of how people work together....

Ryan Bethcourt comes on to talk about the business of biosciences, raising a large round from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank, producing sustainable pet food, and more.

Emily Musil Church comes on to talk about the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE that resulted in Android applications that teach kids reading, writing, and maths without a teacher. We get into the competition, the logistics of testing thousands of tablets in remote villages in Tanzania, the incredible results and impact of the entries, and more.

Kate Drane from Techstars (and previously Indiegogo) comes on to talk crowdfunding, supporting startups, expanding access to funding and information, innovation growth, craft beer, and more.

Todd Lewis, founder of All Things Open comes on to discuss what goes into great events, how to get the right balance of content and taking care of sponsors, building an open marketplace of (often contrasting) ideas, and what Todd has learned over the years as he has refined his craft.