Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick
Turn the Lens is about exploring the people, topics, and pieces of media that help shape my perspective on the world. The concept behind 'turn the lens' is to look beyond the foreground, beyond the obvious, to see things in a different context, to see things that you might have missed before. Let's get past our own bias and point of view to try and look from a broader point of view, to expand our learning beyond the obvious.
Episodes
Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, has been at the forefront of robotics research, commercialization, and policy for decades. A self-described “techno-pragmatist,” Andra has her pulse on the robotics industry, in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Importantly, she is conscious and intentional to try and get ahead of the big issues we face down the road with the societal shifts comin...
Salvatore (Sal) Mercogliano (Sal), has a Ph.D. in Military and Naval History from the University of Alabama. He served in the Merchant Marine, has been an Adjunct Professor of History/Engineering at the US Merchant Marine Academy for over 17 years, and Chairs the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science for Campbell University for over 14 years.
So when something happens with ships, s...
Trump 2.0 starts tomorrow. 2025 started 19 days ago.
Remember Project 2025?
Might be a good time to study up on the subject, at least the basics.
Not ready to read the full 920 pages? Google NotebookLM can help. I encourage you to upload the PDF yourself, and start asking questions. Sharing mine to help get you started.
This is the Podcast Google NotbookLM created from the source material.
Project 2025: Briefing doc, FAQ, Study ...
Ray Kurzweil recently released his new book, *The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI*, a follow-up to his 2006 blockbuster, *The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology*. I had the chance to see him speak at our local bookstore as part of the launch event.
A central theme of Ray’s talks is the exponential growth of computing power—how we’re constantly achieving more computations per se...
2,500 pages. How can you quickly and easily digest 2,500 pages of material? More than just a summary or table of contents, what if you could dive into the core issues, pull up a timeline, or even create a study guide?
That’s exactly what you can do with Google NotebookLM, a powerful new free AI tool that requires no training, coding, or e...
Dan Ariely, the renowned behavioral economist, prolific author, frequent TED speaker, and endowed professor at Duke University, has spent decades studying why people behave the way they do. And let’s just say that logic and reasoning do not top the list.
I had the pleasure of seeing Dan speak in person in 2016, and almost a decade later, I was thrilled to host him for this conversation, where we could div...
Jason Sacks joined the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) 18 years ago, around the same time I began my youth sports journey with my oldest child as he entered kindergarten and joined AYSO, the American Youth Soccer Organization.
When done right, youth sports provide countless character-building opportunities in each practice, game, and activity. To quote NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young, these cha...
George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law 34 years ago today, July 26, 1990. It literally changed our world, from cub cuts, and wide doors, to ramps and more. What is less reported is the secondary and ‘law of unintended positive consequences’ that come with inclusive design. More accessible for one is more accessible for all.
Meryl Evans has been championing the benefits ...
Debate.
There has been lots of talk lately about debates, winners, and losers. I didn’t have any debate team friends in high school or college, and have not been to a real debate. If there are winners and losers, that would imply that there are rules, as victory in most competitions, from basketball to chess to Family Feud, is based on performance within the constraints, the rules, of the competition.
If basketball players carry th...
Waymo has been working on autonomous vehicles since it began as the Google Self Driving Car project at Google X in 2009. Spun out from it’s parent, and renamed Waymo in 2016, the iterations have developed. So today, June 2024, 15 years later, Waymo opened up it’s waitlist, and made it’s autonomous ride-hailing service up to anyone in San Francisco. It just so happens that I cleared the waitlist and took my first Waymo ...
Welcome back for another episode of ‘Turn the Lens’ with our ongoing conversations with ChatGPT. We've been hitting the heavy topics of ethics and explainable AI. And I think there are some real challenges there that, that we have to overcome.
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Eric Law went searching for robotics opportunities in the construction industry, where machines have been used for decades, starting with earth-moving steam shovels in the 19th century. Recently, drones have taken on some of the more difficult and dangerous tasks. Eric discovered numerous opportunities for robotics, but one stood out due to its size, scale, and ubiquity: wood waste from construction and demolition.
**The Problem:**...
(Trains are backing up, so had ChatGPT write this after ingesting the transcript, full disclosure, transparency)
ChatGPT
Join us for an enlightening episode of the "Turn the Lens Podcast" with host Jeff Frick as we delve deep into the evolving world of artificial intelligence with our special focus on OpenAI's ChatGPT 4 v2. This episode, titled "OpenAI ChatGPT 4 v2: Explainable AI, Audit, Ethics, Hallucinations, Transparency," cov...
Marten Mickos has been navigating Silicon Valley innovation waves for a quarter century and counting, first on the eastern edge of the Atlantic, then into the valley. Web 1, Web 2, OpenSource, Hybrid Cloud, the list is long, including notable stops at MySQL (acquired by Sun), Eucalyptus (acquired by HP) and his current extended run at the helm of HackerOne.
Please join me in welcoming Marten to Turn the Lens
Here is how ChatGPT d...
ChatGPT busted into our consciousness less than 18 months ago, and has since vacuumed up all the headlines, sucked all the oxygen out of the room, pick your metaphor, $Billions of new investment adding fuel to a raging fire.
Continuing on our exploration of the virtual, digital, and augmentations, and inspired by the very creative Yadin Porter de León, I decided to take some of my questions, right to the source, and interview Open...
Dave Cairns has chosen paths less traveled, since leaving university. He was a pioneer of sorts in digital spaces, and digital communities, and has tasted personally, a small slice of digital expansion possibilities. Taking full advantage of digital tools, he’s living his...
Drew Palos: Community, eBikes, Collaboration, Mobility | Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick Ep26
In business school, we learned about competing, by being the best in one product attribute. Highest technology, lowest cost, pick a parameter to win.
I don’t recall learning to beat the competition with the community. We’ve seen it to a degree in the tech world with companies like Red Hat, competing wit...
Phil Simon has published over 14 business books over the last 20 years, on everything from data science and visualization to platform company domination, to zoom for dummies, and most recently, a focus on the future of work.
In Phil's latest book, The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace, he focuses on what I might call the mega-trends, like sunlight, they impact everything on the planet, and dives into the impact on w...
What does the future look like? How long til we get there?
What models and assumptions will get flipped on their head?
Thrilled to share this conversation with Derek Kerton, Founder and Principal Analyst, Kerton Group in the latest episode of the Turn the Lens podcast with Jeff Frick
Derek and the team have created a unique process to bring the speed of Silicon Valley innovation, to three of the largest industries supporting our...
Melody Meckfessel has been focused on the human side of software engineering productivity since before we met in 2015. She was already building the tools and teams powering some of the largest applications in the world on Google. In 2019, Melody followed an entrepreneurial calling to Co-Found Observable, the serf-described collaborative data platform and canvas. Of course, it’s Open Source, with all that implies, from transparency ...
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