The HumanUp Imperative
The HumanUp Imperative
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In a world increasingly shaped by technology, The HumanUp Imperative explores the significance of human connection - with each other, with the communities we serve, and perhaps most importantly, with ourselves. Join Rex and his guests as they discuss the ever-important role of authentic, meaningful connection. It's time to HumanUp.
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The podcast explores themes around authentic connection, leadership, and personal growth, with episodes focusing on topics such as the role of curiosity in leadership and the impact of human engagement in organizational success. For example, the premiere episode discusses leadership principles in healthcare and emphasizes creating trust and empowering teams.
In a world increasingly shaped by technology, The HumanUp Imperative explores the significance of human connection – with each other, with the communities we serve, and perhaps most importantly, with ourselves. Join Rex and his guests as they discuss the ever-important role of authentic, meaningful connection. It’s time to HumanUp.
The apps in your pocket are built to keep you. A behavioral scientist explains how to tell when technology is caring for you and when it is quietly working you over.
Eden Brownell works at the intersection of behavioral science and AI. She started in theater, moved through the foster care system and public health, and now studies how the systems around us shape the choices we make. Rex Wallace sits down with her to pull apart one uncomfortable question: are the tools transforming our lives designed to help us, or to hold us in place?
They get into the difference between empathy and persuasion on a screen, why good design makes it easy to leave, the dark patterns hiding inside everyday apps, and what we lose when we hand off our ability to choose. Eden also shares something personal about connection, patience, and what AI can and cannot be for the people who use it.
If you lead a team, build a product, or care about the human on the other end of the technology, this one will stay with you.
In this episode:
- Why behavioral science has to lead AI, not follow it
- The difference between caring about members and caring about numbers
- Context beats character: designing for the person at their lowest
- The dark patterns we live with, from autoplay to the cancellation maze
- What we lose when we outsource our choices
- Connection, patience, and what a machine cannot be
Books mentioned: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, Grit by Angela Duckworth
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