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Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson

Jul 25, 2023

We form teams every day. Boarding a plane, figuring out the best place for overhead bags. On the highway, we form impromptu caravans to squeeze through traffic. There are the more formal teams, too, the ones we occupy at work or at home.

We’re all teammates. So how can we be better?

David Burkus has the answer. The...


Jul 18, 2023

Were we born with our instincts, or were they imprinted on us as at an early age? How do turtles know to lay their eggs in the exact spot they themselves were hatched? It's part of a field called evolutionary psychology -- evolving in ways that influence our behaviors as much as whether or not we walk on two legs.

Shade...


Jul 11, 2023

We start every episode of this show with those words -- the building block of that growth is you. Today, we want to bring our focus back to that philosophy, that change begins with the individual.

Every question for our guests, and every show itself, is structured around that core idea. 

So we’ve got a special episode...


Jul 4, 2023

A rat learns to cook. A trash compactor learns to love. Two office workers -- who are the monsters under your bed, mind you -- discover a new source of renewable energy. The possibilities at Pixar are infinite. But how do you shoot a movie entirely on computers? And who’s going to make the software for all of this?

Ed...