O-Types Rising celebrates visionary founders and leaders who thrive on curiosity, connection, and challenging the status quo. Hosted by Jen Rice, each episode uncovers how O-types leverage their unique strengths and strategies to innovate, scale, and shape the future — while candidly exploring the challenges they face along the way.
Whether you’re an O-type leader yourself or someone who works with one, this podcast will inspire, challenge, and equip you to thrive in today’s volatile, interconnected world.
Ecosystems, AI and Perspective Shifts - with Futuring Architect Ron Kersic
Our guest this week is Ron Kersic, a Digital Strategy & Innovation expert at ING who advises both internally and externally with startups and scaleups. In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover platforms and ecosystems, AI's impact on our relationship with computers (shifting from "oracle to muse"), and the importance of rethinking business structures, perspectives and mindsets. Ron also offers practical advice for founders and 'O types' on focusing their curiosity and embracing ambiguity as a strength in the modern business landscape.
You can find the Futuring Architectures Substack here. (https://thoughtforms.substack.com/)
00:00 Introduction to O Types Rising
00:22 Meet Ron Kersic: Futuring Architect
01:53 Exploring Ecosystems and Platforms
05:54 The Role of Technology in Business
11:14 Generative AI: A New Paradigm
21:25 Rethinking Organizations
24:52 The Value of Niches and Ecosystems
25:59 The Role of External Participants
27:31 Lessons from Airbnb's Ecosystem
28:52 B2B and Ecosystem Innovation
33:44 The Importance of Slowing Down
36:58 Embracing the O Type Mindset
39:16 Advice for O Types and Founders
42:25 Closing Thoughts and Reflections
5 Dec 2024
AI, The Future of Learning, and Scaleup Success with Graham Glass
In this episode of O Types Rising, host Jen Rice interviews Graham Glass, the founder, CEO, and CTO of Cypher Learning - an AI-powered Learning Management System in scale-up mode supported by $40 million in funding.
Graham shares his journey from childhood inspiration by English sci-fi to becoming a serial entrepreneur. He discusses the evolution of AI, the future of personalized learning, and how intelligent agents can revolutionize education. Graham also talks about what it takes to succeed as a founder, maintaining a distributed workforce, and the value of mentorship.
00:00 Introduction to O Types Rising
00:22 Meet Graham Glass: Founder of Cypher Learning
00:47 The Genesis of Cypher Learning
04:53 AI and the Future of Education
08:08 The Role of Humans in an AI-Driven World
14:17 The Personal Qualities for Success
24:33 Distributed Workforce and Company Culture
30:40 The Most Important Lesson Learned
33:10 Wrap up
28 Nov 2024
Curiosity, Collaboration, and Code: Rethinking Team Dynamics - with John Durrant
In this first episode of O-Types Rising, host Jen Rice interviews John Durrant, co-founder of Human-Centric Engineering. We discuss the oft-overlooked people and relationship issues within software engineering, focusing on the importance of collaboration and empowerment for true value creation.
The relevance of this conversation expands far beyond software teams, delving into the value of self-organizing systems, the benefits of team topologies, and the need to balance specialists with generalists.
The episode also explores O-Types, individuals who thrive on curiosity and holistic thinking, and how their contributions can enhance organizational effectiveness at all levels.
00:00 Introduction to O-Types Rising
00:23 Meet John Durrant: Human-Centric Engineering
01:15 The Importance of Relationships in Engineering
01:54 Software is a Team Sport
02:59 No One Wants to Be a Cog in the Machine
04:44 Under-leveraged Potential of SEs and O-Types
07:35 Self-Organizing Systems and Trust
11:34 Team Topologies and Organizational Structure
21:31 The Drawback of Overspecialization
27:32 Balancing Curiosity and Focus
30:12 Unlocking Engineering Team Performance
34:28 Final Thoughts and Advice
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Resources:
https://humancentricengineering.substack.com/ (https://humancentricengineering.substack.com/)
https://www.humancentricengineering.com/ (https://www.humancentricengineering.com/)
Reflections on Palantir (https://medium.com/@nabeelqu/reflections-on-palantir-52433cf95439) re: "forward-deployed engineers"
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