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S3E12 - The 80/20 Rule for Trusting AI with Brogan Neagle
What if the smartest way to use AI right now is knowing exactly where it stops being enough?
In this episode of Lumos Talks, Brogan Neagle — AI Technical Product Manager at Dell and co-founder of identity verification startup Ethos Social — has built his career around a simple but urgent idea: AI can get you eighty percent of the way there, but the last twenty percent still needs a human. That instinct traces back further than you'd think — to filing his first patent at fourteen after solving a problem on the lacrosse field, and to building an early chip designed to detect deepfakes in court years before most people were paying attention to AI-generated fraud.
He gets into why so many AI "wrapper" startups disappear the moment a bigger model catches up, why trust — not the model itself — is the only real moat left, and why the world is racing toward a future where agentic AI could outnumber human interactions a thousand to one.
He also breaks down exactly where people over-trust AI today, why judgment and human skill still matter more than most people admit, and why a LinkedIn reply or a real conversation at an event still beats anything automated.
Grounded, clear-eyed, and a genuinely useful way to think about where AI actually earns your trust — and where it doesn't.
20 Aug 2026
S3E11 - Chasing Rooms Full of Smarter People with Garrett Williams
What if the secret to growth is chasing rooms full of people smarter than you?
In this episode of Lumos Talks, Garrett Williams walks through a career built on one deliberate habit: seeking out rooms where he was the least experienced person in them. That instinct took him from three years at Bain and Company, into a strategy role inside the Russo Brothers' entertainment studio during the run-up to the next Avengers films, on to a year in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar studying tech and geopolitics, and now into go-to-market and growth at a stealth AI startup reimagining how celebrities and athletes connect with fans.
He gets into why he's chased unfamiliar environments and smarter people over a tidy, linear resume, what each of those rooms — consulting, Hollywood, geopolitics, AI — taught him that the last one couldn't, and why real growth almost always lives just outside your comfort zone.
He also breaks down why most technical founders lose their audience the moment they lead with the product instead of the problem it solves, and why his best advice for marketers right now is to stop talking to the room you're used to and start talking to the next generation.
Sharp, unfiltered, and a genuine case for staying uncomfortable on purpose.
6 Aug 2026
S3E10 - Culture, Curiosity and Having Fun In Marketing with Contessa Boorman
What does it actually take to build a brand people can feel is real?
In this episode of Lumos Talks, Contessa Boorman — Senior Director of Brand and Content at Vayner Speakers — walks through a career built on following curiosity: starting in corporate sponsorships at a bank, moving into agency work for Gen Z audiences, leading global partner events at TikTok (including their first-ever Cannes Lions presence), and landing at one of the world's top speakers bureaus after a chance conversation on a plane.
She gets into the difference between culturally engineering a brand and forcing one, why she'd replace the word "authenticity" with "honesty," and why the brands that win collaborate with culture instead of trying to own it.
She also breaks down why brand is about to become the most valuable asset any company has in the age of AI, and why — after all of it — her best advice is refreshingly simple: have fun.
Sharp, human, and impossible not to enjoy.
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