ON_Discourse
What do business leaders in technology, culture, and media sound like when they are provoked? When they are called out for repeating group-think platitudes, or marketing jargon? When they passionately denounce or vigorously defend an idea, product, or feature? Or even when they finally confess their ignorance about developing technology?
If you listen in the right way, all of that discourse sounds like a preview of the future.
The ON_Discourse Podcast is a weekly meeting of Co-Founders, Dan Gardner, Toby Daniels, and our Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel. Together this group, and the occasional guest, will develop the provocations and perspectives that defines our member experience. Each week, you will get a preview of our discourse methodology, as we develop ideas and provocations for upcoming events that we will be hosting for members or enterprise clients.
Expect to hear incomplete ideas, instant skepticism, malleable minds, and open discourse as we work it out.
About ON_Discourse
ON_Discourse is a global network of technology, business and innovation leaders, investors and entrepreneurs who pursue deeper perspective, meaningful connections, and business opportunities through the discipline of discourse.
Learn more about membership here.
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Gartner Tanks
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 starts with a provocative question: if the business of c…
Peak LinkedIn?
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 times a day, turns into a bigger question: is Linked…
The UX of AI
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 cognition. Natalie, founder of Virtual Human Economy, share…
AI That Makes Us More Human
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 who know her) joins the pod to talk about her new ven…
Human Ingenuity
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, filtered, or faked. This episode digs into the paradox of hu…
Agentic Browsers
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, but by interfaces. This episode zooms in on Perplex…
Human in the Loop
Toby, Dan, and Chmiel interrogate the quiet crisis hiding inside the AI boom: we’re offloading too much thinking and calling it strategy. This episode explores what gets lost when cognitive offloadin…
Cannes-ticipation
Dan, Toby, and Chmiel go behind the scenes of Cannes Lions to unpack the real programming, posturing, and potential shaping the creative industry’s biggest week. Is the future of advertising being wr…
What we lose with AI efficiency gains
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 automate out of work is actually where creativity, c…
Toby hosts a book club with Henrik Werdelin and Nicholas Thorne
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 their book, and the paradoxes it reveals. From don…
Toby and Dan invent a new internet
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 built around behavior, not clicks.
Details in the epi…
Toby talks about group chats
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 version of group chats and how they are different than …
Toby and Dan argue about strategy
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 episode:
- Requirements are dead
- The design supply ch…
Vibecoding with Gen Z
Toby interviews a couple teenagers who are vibecoding their way through the modern internet. This conversation reveals an alternative perspective on the AI revolution, from a generation that never kn…
Matt Britton talks about his new book.
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 Everything. This interview was conducted during a c…
Dan has to wait two weeks.
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 introduced a new AI-powered app. Dan opens the conve…
Henrik Werdelin talks about donkeycorns
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. You’ll hear about how agentic AI can prompt wanna…
The Gang Makes an Announcement
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, 2025 in New York City.
Details…
Dan Writes a LinkedIn Post
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 trip to scrutinize the level of discourse about AI…
The Management Track
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 you will hear come from a recent Group Chat they…