The Edge of Now is a conversation about what AI means for people, work, leadership, and the organizations we’re part of.
Hosted by Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank, each episode starts with the signals shaping the week, then looks past the headlines to find the real story, the human question, and the choices ahead.
Expect strong opinions, honest disagreement, and practical thinking about workforce orchestration, trust, productivity, education, the humanities, and the changing value of human capability.
Created by Now to Next for people who want to do more than react to the future. They want to help shape it.
Episode 10: The Future Will Not Arrive as a Software Upgrade
Send us Fan Mail Conference season produced an avalanche of AI announcements, product roadmaps, and promises about the future of work. Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank returned from Las Vegas and Paris with a more difficult observation: many organizations are still treating this moment like the next version of cloud software. They are waiting for a vendor to add a module, switch on a capability, and tell them what comes next. In Episode 10 of The Edge of Now, Jason and Jess examine why the fu...
16 Oct 2026
Episode 9: AI Has Removed Every Excuse Not to Transform
Send us Fan Mail Organizations are racing to become AI-native, but many of the changes now described as AI transformation have very little to do with AI. Customer centricity, outcome-based work, fluid talent, faster decision-making, continuous planning, and flatter organizational structures were already characteristics of high-performing companies. Leaders knew these changes mattered long before generative AI arrived. In Episode 9 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine w...
2 Oct 2026
Episode 8: The Future Has a Demolition Phase
Send us Fan Mail Most organizations are preparing to apply new intelligence to old processes, old roles, and old organizational structures. That may produce faster work, but it will not necessarily produce better work. In Episode 8 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine why this moment demands more than another round of upgrades. Talent acquisition, learning, talent management, and workforce planning have spent years operating as separate functions, often because the tec...
18 Sept 2026
Episode 7: AI Is Not Moving Too Fast. Your Organization Is Moving Too Slowly.Episode Description
Send us Fan Mail AI leaders are debating whether development should slow down, but most organizations have barely begun to absorb the capabilities that already exist. The real enterprise problem may not be an adoption gap. It may be an adaptability gap. In Episode 7 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine why individual productivity gains are not reaching the P&L, what a pause in frontier development should mean for business leaders, and why agents need accountable hu...
11 Sept 2026
Episode 6: AI Is Moving Faster Than We Can Govern It. Where Do We Draw the Line?
Send us Fan Mail Schools are considering AI bans at the same moment frontier models are becoming more capable than most people imagined they would see in their lifetimes. That gap is not only an education problem. It is a warning for every organization trying to balance progress, protection, learning, and human control. In Episode 6 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine what responsible AI adoption actually requires. They challenge blanket bans that create shadow behavi...
28 Aug 2026
Episode 5: AI Should Come for Your Org Chart. But Have You Earned the Move?
Send us Fan Mail AI should change the org chart, but not because a headline, budget target, or efficiency claim says it should. The real question is whether an organization has redesigned the work, decision rights, accountability, and operating model before making the move. In Episode 5 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine three signals shaping the AI conversation: Expedia’s reorganization around AI, McKinsey research showing stronger conviction than financial return, ...
21 Aug 2026
Episode 4: Your Organization Is Connected. But Has It Forgotten How to Connect?
Send us Fan Mail Organizations have spent years connecting people through platforms, devices, chat, video, and increasingly intelligent systems. Yet being connected is not the same as building connection, and technology will not decide for us when people need presence, conversation, judgment, or trust. In Episode 4 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank explore what it means to design humanity into technology-enabled work. Beginning with back-to-school phone policies and moving ...
14 Aug 2026
Episode 3: AI Can Find the Answer. Can Your Organization Still Think?
Send us Fan Mail AI has made information easier to access and first drafts easier to produce, but abundant answers do not automatically create better thinkers. As schools, universities, and workplaces race to introduce AI, the more urgent question is what people should learn when the answer itself is no longer scarce. In Episode 3 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank explore why everyone is going back to school, regardless of age or role. They examine the durable human capabil...
7 Aug 2026
Episode 2: Your Smartwatch Might Be Recording This. Enterprise Governance, Employee Trust
Send us Fan Mail AI can preserve organizational knowledge, expand human capability, and capture context that traditional systems routinely miss. It can also record, retain, and repurpose more of our work, behavior, and judgment than most people fully understand. In Episode 2 of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine the complicated relationship between AI, privacy, trust, and human value. They explore what happens when organizations encourage experimentation while limiting ...
31 Jul 2026
Episode 1: When Work Outgrows the Organization
Send us Fan Mail AI is changing what work is, but most organizations still rely on job descriptions, structures, and leadership practices built for a less fluid world. In the first episode of The Edge of Now, Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank examine why people increasingly contribute across functions while organizations continue to keep them in boxes. They discuss the growing value of organizational context, the difference between routine and frontier problems, and what happens when companies...
30 Jul 2026
Intro Episode: Welcome to The Edge of Now
Send us Fan Mail The world doesn't need another podcast. It needs a better conversation. Welcome to The Edge of Now, a weekly conversation with Jason Averbook and Jess Von Bank exploring the space where technology meets humanity and where the future of work is being shaped in real time. Each week, they'll unpack the biggest signals shaping our world by asking four questions: What happened? What's the story behind it? What's the human impact? And where is the edge? If you're looking for though...
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