ON_Discourse
Episodes
AI in the Loop
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel get riled by a LinkedIn post that contributes to the AI exhaustion it claims to diagnose, and use it as a jumping-off point to a...
Tokenmaxxing
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel break down the Silicon Valley flex nobody's asking enough questions about: burning tokens as a workplace KPI. Is maxing your tok...
Can AI Make Art?
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel are joined by Carlos "Mare139" Rodriguez — OG ON_Discourse member, graffiti pioneer, fine artist, and cultural theorist — to...
Vibecoding Returns
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dan, Toby, and Chmiel try to explain what it actually feels like when AI stops being a tool you use in isolation and starts being the...
It’s Not Real, But It’s Important
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel confront a hard truth: a listener reached out last week and said they were completely lost. So this week, the trio tries to stri...
Skills
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel pick up where last week's LSD-level excitement left off — except now they're burned out. After a frenetic week building with t...
Agentic Experiences
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel are still processing the implications of last week's conversation with Sam and the rollout of OpenClaw — and why it's changing...
The Next Internet is Already Here
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel welcome Sam Broe, career technologist and architect of (domain), to unpack why Claude Code and the open-source project Claudebot...
Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel reunite after a long January to unpack what happened when ON_Discourse members went hands-on with Moltbot (formerly Claudebot, n...
AI and Healthcare
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ami Bhatt—practicing cardiologist, chief innovation officer, and chair of the FDA's digital health committee—joins Toby and a group of ON_Disc...
Show Me Your Work
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Toby sits down with Segun Oduolowu—journalist, media veteran, and executive communications coach—at CES to talk about what AI is doing to communic...
Who Wins When Everyone Can Make
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our first podcast in 2026 is a joint episode. Toby and Dan join Matt Britton, host of the Speed of Culture podcast and CEO of Suzy, at CES to debate w...
Dan Gets Roasted
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel end the year by flipping the script. After letting Dan respond to everyone else's provocations in a previous episode, this time ...
Disney, Sora, IP, and Gobbledygook
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel invite two last-minute guests with competing perspectives about the future of IP and AI. On one side is Craig Elimeliah, Chief C...
2026 Provocations, Not Predictions
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel break down their 3rd annual Provocations Not Predictions event, where ON_Discourse members submit their most challenging questio...
The Modern Marketing Playbook
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are broadcasting Toby’s panel at Web Summit in Lisbon, featuring Dan and Don McGuire, CMO of Qualcomm. Don and Dan think the future of marketing ...
Introducing (domain)
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Matthew announce the launch of new company and product called (domain) - a collaboration platform that connects your work to your netwo...
The Customer Experience Gap: Why AI Transformation Isn't Delivering
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone agrees customer experience matters. Everyone agrees AI will transform business. So why is almost nobody actually doing anything about it? Dan...
The Consumerization of AI
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT and Claude are going direct to consumers with nostalgic commercials and friendly interfaces, but underneath the marketing is a fundamental shi...
Knowledge vs Judgement and AI forecasting
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is making predictions cheaper, faster, and easier at scale. But forecasting is still guessing, and NYU Stern Professor Jamyn Edis argues that what ...
When the Internet Starts Lying to Itself
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT just released Sora 2, a tool that lets you create videos starring your own digital avatar. Add that to last week's Pulse, and suddenly we're n...
When AI Reads Your Mind
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT recently launched Pulse, a feature that reads everything you do, repackages your work back to you, as if you are the subject of a daily newsro...
Not Everything Needs to be a Conversation
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI revolution promised to transform everything. Instead, we got chatbots that sound smart but deliver work that looks like a duck, walks like a du...
ESPN vs New York Times
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Rosen’s ESPN vs. NYT breakdown is generating headlines, not because it’s about sports or news, but because it’s about institutions facing...
Is Vibe Coding good?
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel set out to decode vibe coding but end up in a more urgent conversation about thinking. What happens when our tools get smarter, ...
Gartner Tanks
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel dig into the implosion of Gartner’s market cap, and what it reveals about the future of knowledge work. The conversation start...
Peak LinkedIn?
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel examine LinkedIn’s strange grip on our professional lives. What starts as a confession, Toby admitting to opening the app 30 t...
The UX of AI
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chmiel sits down with ON_Discourse members Natalie Monbiot and Craig Elimeliah for a sharp dive into AI’s hidden cost: the erosion of human cognitio...
AI That Makes Us More Human
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Chmiel continue last week’s conversation on human ingenuity with a founder who’s putting it to the test. Katherine von Jan (KVJ to those ...
Human Ingenuity
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Matt, and Dan wrestle with what it means to have a “voice” in an AI-mediated world, and what happens when that voice gets flattened, filtere...
Agentic Browsers
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and guest Craig Hepburn step inside the AI browser wars, and ask if the future of the internet is being quietly rewritten not by models, bu...
Human in the Loop
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel interrogate the quiet crisis hiding inside the AI boom: we’re offloading too much thinking and calling it strategy. This episo...
Cannes-ticipation
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel go behind the scenes of Cannes Lions to unpack the real programming, posturing, and potential shaping the creative industry’s ...
What we lose with AI efficiency gains
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by Taylor Halsted of Shamrock Capital to interrogate the illusion of AI efficiency. What if the mess we’re trying to...
Toby hosts a book club with Henrik Werdelin and Nicholas Thorne
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby sits down with Henrik Werdelin and Nicholas Thorne, co-authors of Me, My Customer, and AI, to interrogate the optimistic thesis at the heart of t...
Toby and Dan invent a new internet
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Dan track the decline of Google Search, the end of SEO, and what’s replacing it: group chats, agentic systems, and personalized internets b...
Toby talks about group chats
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have been hosting closed-door, private Group Chats at ON_Discourse for 2 years. In this episode, Toby and Chmiel talk about the ON_Discourse versio...
Toby and Dan argue about strategy
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Dan turn a weekly meeting into an impromptu podcast recording about the future of digital strategy and why notifications suck.Details in the ...
Vibecoding with Gen Z
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby interviews a couple teenagers who are vibecoding their way through the modern internet. This conversation reveals an alternative perspective on t...
Matt Britton talks about his new book.
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby interviews Suzy co-founder and CEO, Matt Britton, about his forthcoming book Generation AI: Why Generation Alpha and The Age Of AI Will Change Ev...
Dan has to wait two weeks.
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel welcome (but don't introduce) Craig Hepburn to the conversation. Craig is the Chief Product Office at Art Basel who recently int...
Henrik Werdelin talks about donkeycorns
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan and Chmiel invite Henrik Werdelin, co-founder of Barkbox and PreHype, to talk about how unicorns are old news and how donkeycorns are the future. ...
The Gang Makes an Announcement
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel officially announce The ON_Discourse Summit - Solve Small: AI Transformation for the C-Suite.This event will be held on March 26...
Dan Writes a LinkedIn Post
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dan returns to the podcast to talk about the off-the-record conversations he had at Davos. Toby and Chmiel used the LinkedIn post he wrote about his t...
The Management Track
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Chmiel reflect on the future of managers. They ponder the value of the role and whether AI can enhance or replace it. All of the perspectives...
Boardy
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel argue about Boardy, an AI-bot that crawls LinkedIn, calls you on the phone, asks you personal and probing questions, listens and...
CES 2025
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Chmiel break down their trip to CES, where ON_Discourse hosted multiple tours of of the exhibition floor. They talk about the "Agentic Era" o...
The Internet Sucks
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Toby and Dan talk about their trip to Lisbon for Web Summit, legal protections for agents, and why the internet sucks (and how it could be better).We ...
The Home is an Interface
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The team preps for an upcoming enterprise summit about the future of the connected home. Can tech bring families together or will smart-toasters rule ...