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Computer Says MaybeDigitisation, Privatisation, and Human Centipedes: Our Learnings from 2025Before we break for the year we wanted to reflect on what the podcast brought us in 2025, and what we want to see for 2026This week Alix is joined by two members of The Maybe team: Prathm Juneja and Georgia Iacovou. We discuss our favourite episodes from the year while making it clear we love all episodes equally. And also this is not your standard clip show. We ask ourselves what we learned, why it was important to us, and what we are hungry for in 2026.Featured episodes:Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje...
2025-12-1952 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeComputer Says MozFest 2025Mozilla Festival 2025. Barcelona. Three days in a bonanza of interesting people, ideas, and technology politics. These were our highlights!More like this: FAccT 2025 episodes one and twoThis is an extra special episode packed full of conversations and on-site impressions of the biggest Mozfest we’ve had in years. This year Alix moderated three panels, ran an AMA, and even hosted a game show — and somehow also had time to record all of this, for your pleasure.Included in this episode is:A preview of Exposing and Reshaping the Global Foot...
2025-12-1253 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWho Knows? Independent Researchers in a Platform Era w/ Brandi GeurkinkImagine doing tech research… but from outside the tech industry? What an idea…More like this: Nodestar: Turning Networks into Knowledge w/ Andrew TraskSo much of tech research happens within the tech industry itself, because it requires data access, funding, and compute. But what the tech industry has in resources, it lacks in independence, scruples, and a public interest imperative. Alix is joined by Brandi Guerkink from The Coalition of Independent Tech Research to discuss her work at a time where platforms have never been so opaque, and funding has never been so s...
2025-11-2848 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Toxic Relationship Between AI & Journalism w/ Nic DawesWhat happens when AI models try to fill the gaping hole in the media landscape where journalists should be?More like this: Reanimating Apartheid w/ Nic DawesThis week Alix is joined by Nic Dawes, who until very recently ran the non-profit newsroom The City. In this conversation we explore journalism’s new found toxic relationship with AI and big tech: can journalists meaningfully use AI in their work? If a model summarises a few documents, does that add a new layer of efficiency, or inadvertently oversimplify? And what can we learn from bi...
2025-11-0741 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeUnlearning in the AI Era w/ Nabiha Syed at Mozilla FoundationMozilla Foundation wants to chart a new path in the AI era. But what is its role now and how can it help reshape the impacts and opportunities of technology for… everyone?More like this: Defying Datafication w/ Abeba BirhaneAlix sat down with Nabiha Syed to chat through her first year as the new leader of Mozilla Foundation. How does she think about strategy in this moment? What role does she want the foundation to play? And crucially, how is she stewarding a community of human-centered technology builders in a time of hy...
2025-10-3145 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeGotcha! ScamGPT w/ Lana Swartz & Alice MarwickThought we were at peak scam? Well, ScamGPT just entered the chat.More like this: Gotcha! The Crypto Grift w/ Mark HaysThis is part three of Gotcha! — our series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them. This week Lana Swartz and Alice Marwick join Alix to discuss their primer on how generative AI is automating fraud.We dig into the very human, very dark world of the scam industry, where the scammers are often being exploited in highly sophisticated human trafficking operations — and are now using gene...
2025-10-0354 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAre AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers WestOpenAI just secured a bizarre financial deal with Nvidia — but the math is not mathing. Is the AI sector an actual market, or a series of high-profile announcements of circular relationships between a tiny number of companies?More like this: Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI NowAlix sat down with Sarah Myers-West to go through the particulars of this deal, and other similar deals that are propping up AI’s industry of vapour. This is not your traditional bubble that’s about to burst — there is no bubble, it’s just that The N...
2025-09-3039 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeGotcha! How MLMs Ate the Economy w/ Bridget ReadMulti-level marketing schemes have built an empire by enticing people with promises of self-realisation and economic freedom. The cost is simple: exploit and be exploited.More like this: Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David SeligmanThis is part two of Gotcha! Our series on scams, how they work, and how technology is super-charging them. This week Bridget Read came to Alix with a very exciting business opportunity. Bridget authored Little Bosses Everywhere — a book on the history of MLM.We explore how door-to-door sales in the mid 20th century US to...
2025-09-2650 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeNodestar: Building Blacksky w/ Rudy FraserSocial media isn’t really social anymore. But that might be changing. Rudy Fraser over at Blacksky Algorithms has built something new. He has built the infrastructure to provide a safe online space for the black community, and in the process challenges the ideas of hierarchical, centralised networks. His work — even outside the very cool development of Blacksky — is an amazing, concrete example of how the abstract ambitions of decentralisation can provide real value for people, and sets us up for a new kind of tech politics.More like this: How to (actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kat...
2025-09-0541 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeBig Tech’s Bogus Vision for the Future w/ Paris MarxWhat’s the deal with Silicon Valley selling imagined futures and never delivering on them. What are the consequences of an industry all-in on AI? What if we thought more deeply than just ‘more compute’?More like this: Big Dirty Data Centres with Boxi Wu and Jenna RuddockThis week, Paris Marx (host of Tech Won’t Save Us) joined Alix to chat about his recent work on hyperscale data centres, and his upcoming book on the subjectWe discuss everything from the US shooting itself in the foot with it’s lack of...
2025-08-2241 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeShort: UK Groups Sue To Block Data Center ExpansionFoxglove and Global Action Plan have just sued the UK government over their YOLO hyperscale data center plans.More like this: Net0++: Data Centre SprawlLocal government rejected the data center. But Starmer’s administration overruled them. They want to force the development of a water-guzzling, energy draining data center on a local community who has said no. And all of this is on the green belt. The lawsuit filed this week might put a stop to those plans.Alix sat down Ollie Hayes from Global Action Plan and Martha Dark fr...
2025-08-2213 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAfter the FAccT: Labour and MisrepresentationDid you miss FAccT? We interviewed some of our favourite session organisers!More like this: Part One of our FAccT roundup: Materiality and Militarisation.Georgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the conference was like if you didn’t get to go. Alix missed it too — you’ll learn along with her!In part two we look into how AI is used to misrepresent people through things like i...
2025-07-2550 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAfter the FAccT: Materiality and MilitarisationGeorgia, Soizic, and Hanna from The Maybe team just went to FAccT. Georgia and Soizic interviewed a bunch of amazing researchers, practitioners, and artists to give you a taste of what the conference was like if you didn’t get to go. Alix missed it too — you’ll learn along with her!In part one we explore the depth of AI’s hidden material impacts, including its use in military applications and to aid genocide. One of our interviewees talked about why they spoke up at the town hall — questioning why FAccT, the biggest AI ethics conference there is...
2025-07-181h 04Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeMaking Myths to Make Money w/ AI NowAI Now have just released their 2025 AI Landscape report — Artificial Power. Alix sat down with two of it’s authors, Amba Kak and Sarah Myers-West for a light unpacking of the themes within.This report isn’t a boring survey of what AI Now have been doing this year; it’s a comprehensive view of the state of AI, and the concentrated powers that prop it up. What are the latest AI-shaped solutions that the hype guys are trying to convince us are real? And how can we reclaim a positive agenda for innovation — and unstick ourselves from a pat...
2025-07-1138 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeIs Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne HermansFelienne Hermans calls herself an ‘involuntary ethnographer of computer science’. She studies the culture behind programming, and challenges the dominant idea that learning to program has to be painful. Alix and Felienne chat about the history of programming and how it went from multidisciplinary and inclusive, to masochistic and exclusive. They also dig into all the ways it excludes women and people who do not speak English.Further reading & resources:Scratch — a high level programming language aimed at kidsHedy — the programming language that Felienne designedJoin in and help out with Hedy!GenderMag by Margaret Burnett — how to ensure...
2025-07-0454 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in TbilisiSmart people focused on technology politics issues get it. We trade high level helpful concepts like surveillance capitalism, automated inequality, and enshittification. And even as some of these ideas are making it more mainstream, normies aren’t getting the message. We need stories for that. But how? How do we take the technical jargon and high-level concepts that dominate tech narratives and instead create stories that are personal, relatable, and powerful?And how do we combat the amazing hero-god narratives of Silicon Valley without reinforcing them?Alix went to storytelling festival ZEG Fest in Tbilisi to...
2025-06-2746 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeIs Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje SchaakeThere has been an intentional and systematic narrative push that tells governments they are not good enough to provide their own public infrastructure or regulate tech companies that provide it for them.Shocking: these narratives stem from large tech companies, and this represents what Marietje Schaake refers to as a Tech Coup — which is the title of her book (which you should buy!).The Tech Coup refers to the inability of democratic policymakers to provide oversight, regulation, and even visibility into the structural systems that big tech is building, managing, and selling. Marietje and Alix di...
2025-06-2037 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAI in Gaza: Live from Mexico CityThis episode contains some descriptions of torture methods, automated human targeting by machines, and psychological warfare throughoutLast week Alix hosted a live show in Mexico City right after REAL ML. Four panellists discussed a huge important topic, which has been wrongfully deemed as taboo by other conferences: the use of AI and other technologies to support the ongoing genocide in Palestine.Here’s a preview of what the four speakers shared:Karen Palacio AKA kardaver gave us an overview of Operation Condor — a program of psychological warfare that ran in the late...
2025-06-131h 00Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeLogging Off w/ Adele WaltonAdele Walton’s new book *Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World* is out NOW — for this week’s episode Alix sat down with her to discuss the book, and what pushed her to write it.Adele shares her experiences of using social media from age ten, and growing up only ever feeling ‘understood’ by her followers. And now, the constant ‘how can I make content out of this??’ mindset has followed her into adult life.Adele has been severely effected by online harms through the loss of her sister, and is working to use her liv...
2025-06-0643 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah AgnewMost of the time we interview people who say No to AI. In this interview, Georgia and Alix talk to two people who look at AI and ask How and For What. And lots of other questions too.Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew from the Collective Intelligence Project share CIP’s work using AI systems to explore more consultative democratic governance, how to reframe the social and relational of knowledge, to pull our thinking out of the individual frame and into collective and communal applications.In Zarinah’s words, they are interested in what happens “betwee...
2025-05-3054 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWorker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David SeligmanThis week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the working class in the US. He makes a compelling case for the urgent need to re-orient our thinking about political power and organise against it.We talk about legal devices like forced arbitration and monopolistic practices like algorithmic price fixing and wage suppression. And we dig into the existential issue of tech companies asserting more and more control over markets and people without taking any...
2025-04-1846 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAI Can’t Fix This: Live in LondonLast week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Palantir partnership of horrorMatt Mahmoudi outlined the UK’s push to amp up facial recognition surveillance and to outlaw protests (seems good)Seyi Akiwowo shared a retrospective of the development of the Online Safety Act — the UK’s online speech regulation meant to protect kidsTanya O’Carroll did a victory lap, sharing details of her case against Facebook’s intrusive ad-targeting business model**Subscribe to our newsletter for up-to-the...
2025-04-111h 15Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & SocietyTwo years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is this just another shallow marketing narrative?This week Alix speaks with Aiha Nguyen and Alexandra Mateescu, who recently authored Generative AI and Labor: Power, Hype, and Value at Work. They discuss how automation is now being used as a threat against workers, and how certain types of labour are being devalued by AI — especially (shocking) traditionally feminised work, such as caregiving.Further reading:Generative...
2025-03-2843 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeRegulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly KindThis week Alix is speaking with her long-time friend and collaborator Carly Kind, who is now the privacy commissioner of Australia. Here’s something you may be embarrassed to ask: what does a privacy commissioner even do? We got you…Alix and Carly will discuss how privacy regs bump up against current trends in AI, how to incentivise compliance, and the limits of Australian privacy laws.**Subscribe to our newsletter to get more stuff than just a podcast — we run events and do other work that you will definitely be interested in!**Carly Kind c...
2025-03-211h 00Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeDogwhistles: Networked Transphobia OnlineThis week producer Georgia joins Alix to discuss something huge that we’ve yet to go deep on: the prevalence of trans misogyny online. This episode is jam-packed with four amazing guests to guide us through this rough terrain:Shivani Dave is a journalist and commentator who uses social media for their career and income. They share their experiences with receiving hate online, and having to balance posting against hits to their mental healthAlice Hunsberger is a trust & safety professional who’s worked at all levels of content moderation. She explains the technical complexities and limitations of moderating onli...
2025-03-1452 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeVCs Are World Eaters w/ Catherine BracyThis week Alix interviewed Catherine Bracy on her book World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalising the Economy. Support Catherine’s work and buy it NOW.Venture capital wasn’t always how it is today. But now it’s a driver of inequality, political and economic instability, and insufferable personalities. How did we get here and what might come next?In this conversation Catherine outlines her views on our current political moment and the role of VC in it. We’ve all got feelings about VCs, but in her book and in this conversation she forensic...
2025-03-0747 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybePower Over Precision w/ Jenny ReardonAlix’s conversation this week is with Jenny Reardon, who shares with us the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory of the AI industry.Jenny describes genomics as the industrialisation of genetics; it’s not just about understanding the genetic properties of humans, but mapping out every last inch of their genetic information so that it’s machine readable and scalable and — does this remind you of anything yet?There are a disturbing amount of correlations between AI and genomics: that they have roots in military applications; as fields the...
2025-02-281h 02Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian ChenDo you ever wonder how semiconductors (AKA chips) get made? Or why most of them are made in Taiwan? Or what this means for geopolitics?Luckily, this is a podcast for nerds like you. Alix was joined this week by Brian Chen from Data & Society, who systematically explains the process of advanced chip manufacture, how its thoroughly entangled in US economic policy, and how Taiwan’s place as the main artery for chips is the product of deep colonial infrastructures.Brian J. Chen is the policy director of Data & Society, leading the organization’s work to s...
2025-02-2137 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeLive Show: Paris Post-MortemKapow! We just did our first ever LIVE SHOW. We barely had time to let the mics cool down before a bunch of you requested to have the recording on our pod feed so here we are.ICYMI: this is a recording from the live show that we did in Paris, right after the AI Action Summit. Alix sat down to have a candid conversation about the summit, and pontificate on what people might have meant when they kept saying ‘public interest AI’ over and over. She was joined by four of the best women in AI poli...
2025-02-1246 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeDefying Datafication w/ Dr Abeba Birhane (PLUS: Paris AI Action Summit)The Paris AI Action Summit is just around the corner! If you’re not going to be there, and you wish you were — we got you.We are streaming next week’s podcast LIVE from Paris on YouTube — register here🎙️On Tuesday, February 11th, at 6:30pm Paris time / 12:30pm EST, we’ll be recording our first-ever LIVE podcast episode. After two days at the French AI Action Summit, Alix will sit down with four of the best women in AI politics to break down the power and politics of the Summit. It’s our Paris Post-Mo...
2025-02-071h 03Computer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeDEI Season Finale: Part TwoThis week Alix continues her conversation with Hanna McCloskey and Rubie Clarke from Fearless Futures and we take a whistle-stop tour of the past 5 years. We start in 2020 with the disingenuous but huge embrace of DEI work by tech companies, to 2025 when those same companies are part of massive movements actively campaigning against it.The pair share what it was like running a DEI consultancy in the months and years following the murder of George Floyd — when DEI was suddenly on the agenda for a lot organisations. The performative and ineffective methods that DEI is famous for (en...
2025-01-3144 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeDEI Season Finale: Part OneDEI is a nebulous field — if you’re not in it, it can be hard to know which tactics and methods are reasonable and effective… and which are a total waste of time. Or worse: which are actively harmful.In this two-parter Alix is joined by Hanna McCloskey and Rubie Clarke from Fearless Futures. In this episode they share what DEI is and crucially, what it isn’t.Listen to understand why unconscious bias training is a waste of time, and what meaningful anti-oppression work actually looks like — especially when attempting to embed these principles into digit...
2025-01-2446 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeTo be Seen and not Watched w/ Tawana PettyWelcome back! Let us know what you think of the show and what you want to see more of in 2025 by writing in here, or rambling into a microphone here.In this episode Alix is joined by Tawana Petty, who shares her experiences coming up as a political community activist in Detroit. Tawana studied the history of radical black movements under Grace Lee Boggs, and has taken these learnings into her work today.Listen to learn about how places like Detroit are used as testing grounds for new ‘innovations’ — especially within marginalised neighbourhoods. Tawana explains in det...
2025-01-1045 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeOur learnings from 2024We’re wrapped for the year, and will be back on the 10th of Jan. In the meantime, listen to Alix, Prathm, and Georgia discuss their biggest learnings from the pod this year from some of their favourite episodes.**We want to hear from YOU about the podcast — what do you want to hear more of in 2025? Share your ideas with us here: https://tally.so/r/3E860B**Or if you’d rather ramble into a microphone (just like we do…) use this link instead!We pull out clip...
2024-12-2048 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeA $20bn Search Engine w/ Michelle MeagherGoogle has finally been judged to be a monopoly by a federal court — while this was strikingly obvious already, what does this judgement mean? Is this too little too late?This week Alix and Prathm were joined by Michelle Meagher, an antitrust lawyer who shared a brief history of how antitrust started as a tool for governments to stop the consolidation of corporate power, and over time has morphed to focus on issues of competition and consumer protection — which has allowed monopolies to thrive.Michelle discusses the details and her thinking on the ongoing cases agai...
2024-12-1345 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Age of Noise w/ Eryk SalvaggioWhat happens if you ask a generative AI image model to show you what Picasso’s work would have looked like if he lived in Japan in the 16th century? Would it produce something totally new, or just mash together stereotypical aesthetics from Picasso’s work, and 16th century Japan?This week, Alix interviewed Eryk Salvaggio, who shares his ideas around how we are moving away from ‘the age of information’ and into an age of noise, where we’ve progressed so far into a paradigm of easy and frictionless information sharing, that information has transformed into an overwhe...
2024-12-0647 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Happy Few: Open Source AI (part two)In part two of our episode on open source AI, we delve deeper into we can use openness and participation for sustainable AI governance. It’s clear that everyone agrees that things like the proliferation of harmful content is a huge risk — but what we cannot seem to agree on is how to eliminate this risk.Alix is joined again by Mark Surman, and this time they both take a closer look at the work Audrey Tang did as Taiwan’s first digital minister, where she successfully built and implemented a participatory framework that allowed the people of Tai...
2024-11-2953 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Happy Few: Open Source AI (part one)In the context of AI, what do we mean when we say ‘open source’? An AI model is not something you can straightforwardly open up like a piece of software; there are huge technical and social considerations to be made.Is it risky to open-source highly capable foundation models? What guardrails do we need to think about when it comes to the proliferation of harmful content? And, can you really call it ‘open’ if the barrier for accessing compute is so high? Is model alignment really the only thing we have to protect us?In this two...
2024-11-2258 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeAlgorithmically cutting benefits w/ Kevin De LibanThis week Alix was joined by Kevin De Liban, who just launched Techntonic Justice, an organisation designed to support and fight for those harmed by AI systems.In this episode Kevin describes his experiences litigating on behalf of people in Arkansas who found their in-home care hours cut aggressively by an algorithm administered by the state. This is a story about taking care away from individuals in the name of ‘efficiency’, and the particular levers for justice that Kevin and his team managed to take advantage of to eventually ban the use of this algorithm in Arkansas.
2024-11-1550 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeElection DebriefThis week we’re wallowing in post-election catharsis: Alix and Prathm process the result together, and discuss the implications this administration has for technology politics.How much of a role will people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel play during Trump’s presidency? What kind of tactics should the left adopt going forward to stop this from happening again? And what does this mean for the technology politics community?This episode was recorded on Wednesday the 6th of November; we don’t have all the answers but we know we want to move forward and have n...
2024-11-0840 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeNet 0 ++: Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen HaoFor our final episode in this series on the environment, Alix interviewed Karen Hao on how tough it is to report on environmental impacts of AI.The conversation focusses on two of Karen’s recent stories, linked below. One of the biggest barriers to consistent reporting on AI’s climate injustices is the sheer opaqueness of information about what companies are trying to do when building infrastructure and what they think the actual costs — primarily of energy use and water — will be. Tech companies that Karen has written about enter communities via shell companies and promise relatively big deal...
2024-11-0126 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeNet 0++: Concrete arguments for AIIn our third episode about AI & the environment, Alix interviewed Sherif Elsayed-Ali, who’s been working on using AI to reduce the carbon emissions of concrete. Yes, that’s right — concrete.This may seem like a very niche place to focus a green initiative on but it isn’t; concrete is the second most used substance in the world because it’s integral to modern infrastructure, and there’s no other material like it. It’s also one of the biggest carbon emitters in the world.In this episode Sherif explains how AI and machine learning can m...
2024-10-2533 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeChasing Away Sidewalk Labs w/ Bianca WylieIn 2017 Google’s urban planning arm Sidewalk Labs came into Toronto and said “we’re going to turn this into a smart city”.Our guest Bianca Wylie was one of the people who stood up and said “okay but… who asked for this?”This is a story about how a large tech firm came into a community with big promises, and then left with its tail between its legs. In the episode Alix and Bianca discuss the complexities of government procurement of tech, and how attractive corporate solutions look when you’re so riddled with austerity.
2024-10-0449 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWill Newsom Veto the AI Safety Bill? w/ Teri OlleWhat if we could have a public library for compute? But is… more compute really what we want right now?This week Alix interviewed Teri Olle from the Economic Security Project, a co-sponsor of the California AI safety bill (SB 1047). The bill has been making the rounds in the news because it would force AI companies to do safety checks on their models before releasing them to the public — which is seen as uh, ‘controversial’, to those in the innovation space.But Teri had a hand in a lesser known part of the bill: the construc...
2024-09-2724 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe stories we tell ourselves about AIApplications for our second cohort of Media Mastery for New AI Protagonists are now open! Join this 5-week program to level up your media impact alongside a dynamic community of emerging experts in AI politics and power—at no cost to you. In this episode, we chat with Daniel Stone, a participant from our first cohort, about his work. Apply by Sunday, September 29th!The adoption of new technologies is driven by stories. A story is a shortcut to understanding something complex. Narratives can lock us into a set of options that are…terrible. The kicker is th...
2024-09-2037 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeBridging The Divide w/ Issie LapowskyThere are oceans of research papers digging into the various harms of online platforms. Researchers are asking urgent questions such as how hate speech and misinformation has an effect on our information environment, and our democracy.But how does this research find it’s way to the media, policymakers, advocacy groups, or even tech companies themselves?To help us answer this, Alix is joined this week by Issie Lapowsky, who recently authored Bridging The Divide: Translating Research on Digital Media into Policy and Practice — a report about how research reaches these four groups, and what they...
2024-09-1338 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWhy was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory KnodelLast week, CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov landed in France and was immediately detained. The details of his arrest are still emerging; he is being charged for being complicit in illegal activities happening on the platform, including the spread of CSAM.Durov’s lawyer has referred to these charges as “absurd” — because the head of a social media company cannot be held responsible for criminal activity on the platform. That might be true in the US but does that hold up in France?This week Alix is joined by Mallory Knodel to talk us through what hap...
2024-09-0644 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeExhibit X: What did we learn?That’s the END of Exhibit X folks; if you’ve been following along, congratulations on choosing to become smarter. If not that’s okay, consider this episode a delicious teaser for the series.In this episode Alix and Prathm engage their large wet brains and pull out the meatiest insights and learnings from the last five episodes. This series has been a delightful intellectual expedition into big tech litigation, knowledge creation, and online speech — if you’re a nerd for any of those things, it would be irresponsible for you to ignore this.Thank you for li...
2024-08-3035 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeExhibit X: The CourtsImagine: something horrible has happened and the only evidence you have is a video posted online. Can you submit it into evidence in court? Well, it’s complicated.In part 4 of our Exhibit X series, Alix sat down with Dr. Alexa Koenig to discuss her work with the International Criminal Court. Dr. Koenig and many colleagues are supporting the court to grapple with online evidence and tackling challenges that courts face when they adapt to our digital world.We answer questions like:How does the ICC work with social media companies to acquire evidence?Ho...
2024-08-1644 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeExhibit X: The LitigatorsOften it feels as though the cases and lawsuits brought against big tech firms are continuously piling up, but there never seems to be any resulting justice or resolution. There are many good reasons for this, two of which are section 230 and the first amendment.Big Tech companies will routinely invoke 230 and the first amendment to get cases against them thrown out before they can go to trial. In part 3 of Exhibit X, Meetali Jain explains how litigators have been playing 4D chess to get the courts to hold these companies accountable.In this episode...
2024-08-0931 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeExhibit X: The WhistleblowerIn part 2 of Exhibit X, Alix interviewed Frances Haugen, who In 2021 blew the whistle on Meta; they were sitting on the knowledge that their products were harmful to kids, and yet — shocker — they continued to make design decisions that would keep kids engaged.Mark Zuckerberg worked hard on his image (it’s a hydrofoil, not a surfboard!), while Instagram was being used for human trafficking — the lack of care and accountability here absolutely melts the mind.What conversations did Frances’s whistleblowing start?Was whistleblowing an effective mechanism for accountability in this case?Do we...
2024-08-0231 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeExhibit X: Tech and TobaccoHere is something you’re probably tired of hearing: Big Tech is responsible for a bottomless brunch of societal harms. And they are not being held accountable. Right now it feels as though we hear constantly about laws, regulation, courts. But none of it is effective in litigating against Big Tech.In our latest podcast series Exhibit X, we’re looking at how the tides might finally be turning. Legal accountability could be around the corner, but only if a few things happen first.To start, we look back to 1964. When Big Tobacco was winning the...
2024-07-2627 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeNew mini-series: Exhibit XIn the Exhibit X series Alix and Prathm sink their fingernails into the tangled universe of litigation and Big Tech; how have the courts held Big Tech firms accountable for their various harms over the years? Is whistleblowing an effective mechanism for informing new regulations? What about a social media platform’s first amendment rights? So much to cover, so many episodes coming your way!
2024-07-1803 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWhat the FAccT? Evidence of bias. Now what?In part four of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins Marta Ziosi and Dasha Pruss to discuss their paper “Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool”.In their paper they discuss how an erosion of public trust can lead to ‘any idea will do’ decisions, and often these lean on technology, such as predictive policing systems. One such tool is the Shot Spotter, a piece of audio surveillance tech designed to detect gunfire — a contentious system which has been sold both as a tool for police to surveil ci...
2024-07-1225 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWhat the FAccT? First law, bad lawIn this episode, we speak with Lara Groves and Jacob Metcalf  at the seventh annual FAccT conference in Rio de Janeiro.In part four of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins Lara Groves and Jacob Metcalf  to discuss their paper “ Auditing Work: Exploring the New York City algorithmic bias audit regime”.Lara Groves is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Her most recent project explored the role of third-party auditing regimes in AI governance. Lara has previously led research on the role of public participation in commercial AI labs, and on algorithmic impact assess...
2024-07-0523 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWhat the FAccT?: Abandoning AlgorithmsIn this episode, we speak with Nari Johnson and Sanika Moharana at this year’s FAccT conference in Rio de Janeiro.In part two of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins Nari Johnson and Sanika Moharana to discuss their paper “The Fall of an Algorithm: Characterizing the Dynamics Toward Abandonment”.Nari Johnson is a third-year PhD student in Carnegie Mellon University's Machine Learning Department, where she is advised by Hoda Heidari. She graduated from Harvard in 2021 with a BA and MS in Computer Science, where she previously worked with Finale Doshi-Velez.Sanika Moharana is a s...
2024-06-2829 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeWhat the FAccT?: Reformers and RadicalsIn part 1 of our FAccT conference deep dive, Alix Dunn sits down with co-host Andrew Strait from the Ada Lovelace Institute to talk about the history of FAccT and some of the papers being presented at this year’s event.The Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Conference, or FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars and exploring how socio-technical systems could be built in a way that is compatible with a fair society. The seventh annual FAccT conference was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Monday, June 3rd through Thursday, Ju...
2024-06-2154 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeProtesting Project Nimbus: employee organising to end Google’s contract with Israel w/ Dr.Kate SimIn this episode, we speak with Dr. Kate Sim, one of the core organisers of the Google Worker Sit-In Against Project Nimbus. Dr. Kate Sim was recently fired, alongside almost 50 other employees, from Google after helping organize a sit-in protesting Project Nimbus, a joint contract between Google and Amazon to provide technology to the Israeli government and military. In this episode, Alix and Dr. Sim discuss technology-enabled violence, Dr. Sim's work in trust and safety, and Google's cancelled project Maven. They also talk about Dr. Sim's journey into protesting Project Nimbus, the many other voices fighting against...
2024-05-2351 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says MaybeThe Human in the Loop: What's it like to work in the AI supply chain?In this episode, we talk about the kinds of jobs that are being created as AI systems grow, how those jobs are evolving, what the labour conditions of those jobs are like and, who is benefitting from these systems.  This episode is hosted by Alix Dunn and guests include James (Mojez) Oyange, Yoel Roth, Catherine Bracy and Cori Crider.If you have feedback about the episode or a pet subject that you might want to join forces to develop into an episode, please reach out. You can email team@saysmaybe.com or share an audio n...
2024-04-1939 minComputer Says Maybe
Computer Says Maybe2024 Elections: Is AI going to wreak havoc?In this episode, we walk through how misinformation and disinformation has been used in past elections to impact outcomes, where we think AI might make a material difference in how elections play out this year, and where we think responsibility lies for the situation we’re in.This episode is hosted by Alix Dunn and Prathm Juneja, and guests include Sam Gregory, Josh Lawson, and Claire Wardle.If you have feedback about the episode or a pet subject that you might want to join forces to develop into an episode, please reach out. You can em...
2024-02-1335 minA Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. DunnBreakdowns and Takedowns: Dumb Money with AlixIt's another deep dive!! Gabe and his boyfriend Alix went down a rabbit hole to give you the comprehensive 101 on the 2020 Gamestop stock revolution, the movie made about the thrilling real story, and what Roaring Kitty Keith Gills' original videos were actually about. How accurate was the 2023 movie Dumb Money? When would you have cashed out?Actor mentioned was Larry Owens! https://www.instagram.com/larryowensliveJoin My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunnDonate to Our Movie: https://seedandspark.com/fund/you-and-i-you-and-me-film#story
2024-01-161h 01Remote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 18 | How to make and communicate decisions remotelyHow does your team make decisions? Are individuals empowered to make choices on their own, or does everything happen by committee? In remote life, clearly making and communicating decisions can make or break teams, enabling work or grinding its pace to a halt. In this mini-episode, Alix looks at the different types of decision making that happen on remote teams and unpacks how to bring more clarity to your team’s approach.
2023-11-1506 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 18 | How to make and communicate decisions remotelyHow does your team make decisions? Are individuals empowered to make choices on their own, or does everything happen by committee? In remote life, clearly making and communicating decisions can make or break teams, enabling work or grinding its pace to a halt. In this mini-episode, Alix looks at the different types of decision making that happen on remote teams and unpacks how to bring more clarity to your team’s approach.
2023-11-1506 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 17 | How to save time with good documentationGood documentation fuels remote teams, giving your team the info they need at their fingertips to get stuff done without having to ask a million questions. But documentation is a bit of a Goldilocks problem. Teams tend to have too little of it, or far too much. So how can you perfect your approach to documenting your team’s work? In this mini-episode, Alix shares three strategies for getting your documentation juuuust right.
2023-11-0106 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 17 | How to save time with good documentationGood documentation fuels remote teams, giving your team the info they need at their fingertips to get stuff done without having to ask a million questions. But documentation is a bit of a Goldilocks problem. Teams tend to have too little of it, or far too much. So how can you perfect your approach to documenting your team’s work? In this mini-episode, Alix shares three strategies for getting your documentation juuuust right.
2023-11-0106 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 16 | Why you shouldn’t try to please everyoneFrom email to Slack to video calls, we have a lot of ways to communicate at work these days. But what do you do when you prefer emails, but your team hates them? Or when your colleague communicates only in Slack, but you’re struggling to keep up with the constant pings? In this mini-episode, Alix talks about how to understand and respond to your team’s communication preferences. TL;DR? You can’t make everyone happy all the time, but you can find common ground. Listen in for more.  
2023-10-1805 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 16 | Why you shouldn’t try to please everyoneFrom email to Slack to video calls, we have a lot of ways to communicate at work these days. But what do you do when you prefer emails, but your team hates them? Or when your colleague communicates only in Slack, but you’re struggling to keep up with the constant pings? In this mini-episode, Alix talks about how to understand and respond to your team’s communication preferences. TL;DR? You can’t make everyone happy all the time, but you can find common ground. Listen in for more.  
2023-10-1805 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 15 | How ‘metawork’ can help your team thriveIn remote work, small decisions can have a big impact on the effectiveness of your team: how you document your work, how you share information, how and when you meet, and more. That’s why it’s crucial to figure out your best way of working together. But it’s easy to keep your head down and avoid this work when there’s plenty to do and deadlines ahead. In this mini-episode, Alix discusses strategies for figuring out the how of your team’s work together without derailing work or getting lost in process. Listen to learn h...
2023-10-0405 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 15 | How ‘metawork’ can help your team thriveIn remote work, small decisions can have a big impact on the effectiveness of your team: how you document your work, how you share information, how and when you meet, and more. That’s why it’s crucial to figure out your best way of working together. But it’s easy to keep your head down and avoid this work when there’s plenty to do and deadlines ahead. In this mini-episode, Alix discusses strategies for figuring out the how of your team’s work together without derailing work or getting lost in process. Listen to learn h...
2023-10-0405 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 14 | How to fix your remote meeting cultureMeetings should be a powerful way for your team to advance their work and build relationships. So why are they so often the villain when we talk about remote working? And does it have to be that way? In this first of a series of shorter, solo episodes, Alix shares ideas to help you stop meeting when you don’t need to, find the right rhythm for your team, and meet more effectively to turn the energy you expend into real impact.
2023-09-2011 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 14 | How to fix your remote meeting culture Meetings should be a powerful way for your team to advance their work and build relationships. So why are they so often the villain when we talk about remote working? And does it have to be that way? In this first of a series of shorter, solo episodes, Alix shares ideas to help you stop meeting when you don’t need to, find the right rhythm for your team, and meet more effectively to turn the energy you expend into real impact.
2023-09-2011 minA Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. DunnEverything About Changing Careers ft. AlixBoyfriend Alix joins to share everything he knows about changing careers. We answer your questions from the Discord as Alix explains going from being a CPA to a software engineer, how to really figure out what job you want and would thrive in, and how to make the leap. You can do it!!Get Tickets to Our Live Show: https://tinyurl.com/Bad-With-Money-LiveJoin My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gabesdunnThis has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint ProductionsProduced by...
2023-09-1942 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 13 | Running operations at a global remote nonprofit with Vanessa GoasRemote organisations can hire the best person for the job, regardless of where they live. Well, that’s the theory. But the reality is that hiring around the world can lead to some tricky operational challenges, from scheduling calls to navigating employment law. This week, Development Gateway COO Vanessa Goas joins Alix on the podcast to talk about what she’s learned from 15 years in operations at a growing global non-profit. Listen in to learn from Vanessa’s expertise on wrangling meetings across time zones, communicating policies around the globe, and building real connection with collea...
2023-09-1331 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 13 | Running operations at a global remote nonprofit with Vanessa GoasRemote organisations can hire the best person for the job, regardless of where they live. Well, that’s the theory. But the reality is that hiring around the world can lead to some tricky operational challenges, from scheduling calls to navigating employment law. This week, Development Gateway COO Vanessa Goas joins Alix on the podcast to talk about what she’s learned from 15 years in operations at a growing global non-profit. Listen in to learn from Vanessa’s expertise on wrangling meetings across time zones, communicating policies around the globe, and building real connection with collea...
2023-09-1331 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 12 | Notion-powered remote teamwork with TemFrom Slack to Zoom to Google Doc comments, we have many ways of communicating at work. With so many channels at our disposal, why is communication on remote teams still so tough? On this week’s podcast, Remote Culture Club Director Jake talks to Tem, head of Notion consulting firm Optemization, about using Notion and other tools to support your remote team to work together. Whether you’re an individual trying to organise your digital life or a team leader looking to streamline and supercharge your team’s work, this week’s episode has tips and tric...
2023-08-3054 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 12 | Notion-powered remote teamwork with TemFrom Slack to Zoom to Google Doc comments, we have many ways of communicating at work. With so many channels at our disposal, why is communication on remote teams still so tough? On this week’s podcast, Remote Culture Club Director Jake talks to Tem, head of Notion consulting firm Optemization, about using Notion and other tools to support your remote team to work together. Whether you’re an individual trying to organise your digital life or a team leader looking to streamline and supercharge your team’s work, this week’s episode has tips and tric...
2023-08-3054 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 11 | Lessons from a remote freelancer with Soizic PénicaudThis week, digital rights researcher, consultant, and facilitator Soizic Pénicaud joins us to share remote wisdom from an organisational outsider. Whether you’re a freelancer building your own remote practice or a team leader looking for a fresh take, listen in for Soizic’s guidance on managing calendars, information overload, and the benefits of treating full-time staffers like consultants. After you listen, find Soizic and say hello on Twitter or LinkedIn. __ For more, check out our website or follow Alix on Twitter.
2023-08-1637 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 11 | Lessons from a remote freelancer with Soizic PénicaudThis week, digital rights researcher, consultant, and facilitator Soizic Pénicaud joins us to share remote wisdom from an organisational outsider. Whether you’re a freelancer building your own remote practice or a team leader looking for a fresh take, listen in for Soizic’s guidance on managing calendars, information overload, and the benefits of treating full-time staffers like consultants. After you listen, find Soizic and say hello on Twitter or LinkedIn. __ For more, check out our website or follow Alix on Twitter.
2023-08-1637 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 10 | Better remote onboarding, with Dave ChanFirst impressions count, especially when it comes to new hires. This week’s episode is all about setting the right tone for new team members through remote onboarding. Alix is joined by onboarding aficionado Dave Chan to dig into the dos-and-don'ts of remote orientations, from meetings to documentation and everything in between. Passionate about getting remote onboarding right, Dave is currently helping build Sono, an all-in-one platform for creating engaging onboarding experiences in minutes. You can find him and say hello here. *This interview was originally recorded as part of the 2022 Remote Culture Intensive, a co...
2023-08-0219 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 10 | Better remote onboarding, with Dave ChanFirst impressions count, especially when it comes to new hires. This week’s episode is all about setting the right tone for new team members through remote onboarding. Alix is joined by onboarding aficionado Dave Chan to dig into the dos-and-don'ts of remote orientations, from meetings to documentation and everything in between. Passionate about getting remote onboarding right, Dave is currently helping build Sono, an all-in-one platform for creating engaging onboarding experiences in minutes. You can find him and say hello here. *This interview was originally recorded as part of the 2022 Remote Culture Intensive, a co...
2023-08-0219 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 9 | Demystifying strategic planning with Dave AlgosoHaving a clear strategy can dramatically improve the way your team functions. But developing a clear strategy? It’s not always so easy. In this week’s episode, Alix sits down with social change strategist and facilitator Dave Algoso to demystify strategic planning. They discuss the elements of a good strategic planning process and identify common pitfalls to help you avoid going astray. Whether you’re kicking off a formal strategic planning process or just trying to figure out a way to keep your remote team moving in the same strategic direction, Dave’s guidance will help you buil...
2023-06-2839 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 9 | Demystifying strategic planning with Dave Algoso Having a clear strategy can dramatically improve the way your team functions. But developing a clear strategy? It’s not always so easy. In this week’s episode, Alix sits down with social change strategist and facilitator Dave Algoso to demystify strategic planning. They discuss the elements of a good strategic planning process and identify common pitfalls to help you avoid going astray. Whether you’re kicking off a formal strategic planning process or just trying to figure out a way to keep your remote team moving in the same strategic direction, Dave’s guidance will help you buil...
2023-06-2839 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 8 | Making magic and momentum in virtual events with Sarah AllenWhen in-person conferences became impossible in 2020, Mozilla’s Sarah Allen and her team had to move their renowned annual convening MozFest online. But how do you move an event focused on building community into the virtual world without losing the magic? In this episode, Alix sits down with Sarah to talk about Mozilla Festival (aka MozFest)’s shift to virtual, how the new format changed her approach to the event, and how to create meaningful connection and community remotely. Find Sarah and say hello here. __ For more, check out our website or fol...
2023-06-1432 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 8 | Making magic and momentum in virtual events with Sarah AllenWhen in-person conferences became impossible in 2020, Mozilla’s Sarah Allen and her team had to move their renowned annual convening MozFest online. But how do you move an event focused on building community into the virtual world without losing the magic? In this episode, Alix sits down with Sarah to talk about Mozilla Festival (aka MozFest)’s shift to virtual, how the new format changed her approach to the event, and how to create meaningful connection and community remotely. Find Sarah and say hello here. __ For more, check out our website or fol...
2023-06-1432 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 7 | The rhythms and rituals of remote with Hera HussainAs the leader of a remote team, you set the pace of work. When things get tight, this probably means asking folks to push to meet a deadline or take on more work. But what if you asked your team to go more slowly and do less instead? In this week’s episode, Alix talks with Hera Hussain of CHAYN about the rhythms and rituals of remote work. Hera discusses how slowing down and making time for reflection can energise a team, and she shares both big and small rituals you can implement on your own remote te...
2023-05-3126 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 7 | The rhythms and rituals of remote with Hera HussainAs the leader of a remote team, you set the pace of work. When things get tight, this probably means asking folks to push to meet a deadline or take on more work. But what if you asked your team to go more slowly and do less instead? In this week’s episode, Alix talks with Hera Hussain of CHAYN about the rhythms and rituals of remote work. Hera discusses how slowing down and making time for reflection can energise a team, and she shares both big and small rituals you can implement on your own remote te...
2023-05-3126 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 6 | Symptoms of stress and reclaiming your calm with Faith BosworthIn this week’s episode, Alix talks with an expert facilitator and mindfulness teacher Faith Bosworth about the causes and symptoms of stress in remote life and how to reclaim your calm. Together, Alix and Faith discuss strategies for setting remote teams up for success rather than stress, and they unpack ways of decoupling stress from productivity for you and your team. In remote work as in life, your state of mind determines your experience, so listen in for wisdom and guidance on reframing your relationship with stress, productivity, and joy in remote work. For mo...
2023-05-1829 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 6 | Symptoms of stress and reclaiming your calm with Faith BosworthIn this week’s episode, Alix talks with an expert facilitator and mindfulness teacher Faith Bosworth about the causes and symptoms of stress in remote life and how to reclaim your calm. Together, Alix and Faith discuss strategies for setting remote teams up for success rather than stress, and they unpack ways of decoupling stress from productivity for you and your team. In remote work as in life, your state of mind determines your experience, so listen in for wisdom and guidance on reframing your relationship with stress, productivity, and joy in remote work. For mo...
2023-05-1829 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 5 | Boundaries & work-life balance with Mehan JayasuriyaBoundaries, they’re not just for your in-laws… In this week’s episode, Alix talks to Mehan Jayasuriya, Senior Program Officer at the Mozilla Foundation, about creating and sticking to boundaries in remote work. Alix and Mehan dig into the perils and possibilities of working remotely as parents of young children, and Mehan shares practical advice for working across timezones, setting clear expectations with colleagues, and making progress (even when your toddler didn’t sleep last night…). You can find Mehan and say hello here. __ For more, check out our website...
2023-05-0330 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 5 | Boundaries & work-life balance with Mehan JayasuriyaBoundaries, they’re not just for your in-laws… In this week’s episode, Alix talks to Mehan Jayasuriya, Senior Program Officer at the Mozilla Foundation, about creating and sticking to boundaries in remote work. Alix and Mehan dig into the perils and possibilities of working remotely as parents of young children, and Mehan shares practical advice for working across timezones, setting clear expectations with colleagues, and making progress (even when your toddler didn’t sleep last night…). You can find Mehan and say hello here. __ For more, check out our website...
2023-05-0330 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 4 | Community building in remote environments with Tatiana FigueredoHow can you foster a sense of belonging and connection when your team doesn't work in the same office? How can you create genuine opportunities to connect with colleagues without 'forced fun'? How can you support your team to get to know and trust each other better over time? In this episode, Alix sat down with Tatiana Figueredo, founder of Business of Community. Tatiana helps leaders understand how to bring their people together & structure systems of belonging within their organisations. *This interview was originally recorded as part of the 2022 Remote Culture Intensive, a course for...
2023-04-1942 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 4 | Community building in remote environments with Tatiana FigueredoHow can you foster a sense of belonging and connection when your team doesn't work in the same office? How can you create genuine opportunities to connect with colleagues without 'forced fun'? How can you support your team to get to know and trust each other better over time? In this episode, Alix sat down with Tatiana Figueredo, founder of Business of Community. Tatiana helps leaders understand how to bring their people together & structure systems of belonging within their organisations. *This interview was originally recorded as part of the 2022 Remote Culture Intensive, a course for...
2023-04-1942 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 3 | Decision-making for remote teams with Sharon MoorhouseDoes decision-making tie your team up in knots? Is it sometimes unclear when, where, and how decisions are made? With decision-making in remote spaces, the devil’s in the detail, and it can be hard to strike the balance between having the right people involved without getting bogged down in endless meetings and conversations. In this episode, Alix sat down with Sharon Moorehouse, former UX Operations at Shopify and now Partner Enablement Program Manager at Tines. Sharon has lots to share about how to structure decision-making processes; include people effectively; and build trust and consult te...
2023-04-0537 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 3 | Decision-making for remote teams with Sharon Moorhouse Does decision-making tie your team up in knots? Is it sometimes unclear when, where, and how decisions are made? With decision-making in remote spaces, the devil’s in the detail, and it can be hard to strike the balance between having the right people involved without getting bogged down in endless meetings and conversations. In this episode, Alix sat down with Sharon Moorehouse, former UX Operations at Shopify and now Partner Enablement Program Manager at Tines. Sharon has lots to share about how to structure decision-making processes; include people effectively; and build trust and consult te...
2023-04-0537 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 2 | Mapping roles in dynamic organizations with Nathan EvansFeeling floating and confused about who’s doing what and when in your organization? Nathan Evans was too, which lead him to start Peerdom. At its core, their work believes that seeing something tangible and visual in front of you is a powerful way to make sense of how we work with each other. Nathan applies his scientific background to organizing organizations, in the process making our career path more adaptable. If your organization has this huge pile of work it needs to get done every month, what’s the optimal way of dividing that through well-scoped, dynamic roles? It’s...
2023-03-2249 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 2 | Mapping roles in dynamic organizations with Nathan EvansFeeling floating and confused about who’s doing what and when in your organization? Nathan Evans was too, which lead him to start Peerdom. At its core, their work believes that seeing something tangible and visual in front of you is a powerful way to make sense of how we work with each other. Nathan applies his scientific background to organizing organizations, in the process making our career path more adaptable. If your organization has this huge pile of work it needs to get done every month, what’s the optimal way of dividing that through well-scoped, dynamic roles? It’s...
2023-03-2249 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 1 | Retreats for remote teams with Chris MichaelIn the first episode of the Remote Culture Club podcast, Chris Michael and Alix get into the why, when, what and how of when your team gets together. Retreats have become a really critical tool for remote teams to connect and get to know each other, but we still oftentimes use them in the same ways: we pile up the agendas as we try and figure our every little detail, ask every question under the sun, and in the process end up tiring ourselves out and spending a lot of mental energy on strategy and substance, rather...
2023-03-0753 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 1 | Retreats for remote teams with Chris MichaelIn the first episode of the Remote Culture Club podcast, Chris Michael and Alix get into the why, when, what and how of when your team gets together. Retreats have become a really critical tool for remote teams to connect and get to know each other, but we still oftentimes use them in the same ways: we pile up the agendas as we try and figure our every little detail, ask every question under the sun, and in the process end up tiring ourselves out and spending a lot of mental energy on strategy and substance, rather...
2023-03-0753 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 0 | Intro to the ShowWelcome to the Remote Culture Club podcast – building a remote culture that works. Join us in the Remote Culture Club podcast with Alix Dunn. We wanted to tell you more about the framing and project we’re embarking on. The way we work has changed dramatically, yet there are few places to go to ask questions and brainstorm ideas on how to facilitate that change. We want to be that space you can come to, and a place that can give you concrete experiments you can run yourself. Please let us know what you think, and share idea...
2023-03-0603 minRemote Culture Club with Alix Dunn
Remote Culture Club with Alix DunnEpisode 0 | Intro to the ShowWelcome to the Remote Culture Club podcast – building a remote culture that works. Join us in the Remote Culture Club podcast with Alix Dunn. We wanted to tell you more about the framing and project we’re embarking on. The way we work has changed dramatically, yet there are few places to go to ask questions and brainstorm ideas on how to facilitate that change. We want to be that space you can come to, and a place that can give you concrete experiments you can run yourself. Please let us know what you think, and share idea...
2023-03-0603 min