Authority Issues
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
98 episodes of Authority Issues since the first episode, which aired on May 19th, 2018.
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Episode 98: Ali Shahriyari (Reality Defender)
April 4th, 2024 | 47 mins 25 secs
Ali Shahriyari is cofounder and CTO at Reality Defender
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Episode 97: Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, ML: is all the hype warranted?
February 1st, 2024 | 52 mins 20 secs
rachel and Kendall engage in the now-traditional catching up session, then proceed to the main show: AI, its implications, its capabilities, and how it might change the world.
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Episode 96: Lessons learned, values earned
November 23rd, 2023 | 48 mins 31 secs
Kendall and rachel catch up and then talk through a list of three values/lessons/recommendations that we've each learned over the course of our working lives.
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Episode 95: Seif Lotfy (Axiom)
November 2nd, 2023 | 48 mins 31 secs
Seif Lotfy is Cofounder and CTO at Axiom
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Episode 94: Kids: What are they good for? (Absolutely nothing/everything)
October 12th, 2023 | 49 mins 58 secs
Should you have kids? Why or why not? rachel and Kendall catch up as usual and then discuss their varying perspectives on the merits of offspring.
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Episode 93: Ilan Rabinovitch (Scale Conference, formerly Datadog)
September 21st, 2023 | 49 mins
Ilan Rabinovitch is founder at the Scale Conference, most recently Senior Vice President of Product & Community at Datadog
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Episode 92: Edafe Onerhime (JPMorgan Chase)
August 24th, 2023 | 47 mins 25 secs
Edafe is an Executive Director and Principal Data Architect at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Episode 91: Does your life have meaning? Do you know what it is yet?
August 3rd, 2023 | 47 mins 5 secs
Why do people have midlife crises, and what does it alllll meaaannnn, mannnn? Kendall and rachel catch up and engage in a little light conversation...about death.
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Episode 90: What does "take all the time you need" really mean, anyway?
June 1st, 2023 | 45 mins 15 secs
rachel and Kendall catch up and then discuss the inherent tension between capitalism and being able to treat your employees like humans.
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Episode 89: Ricardo Brízido (Stake)
May 11th, 2023 | 53 mins 27 secs
Ricardo Brízido is Chief Technology Officer at Stake.
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Episode 88: Is work the friends we made along the way?
March 2nd, 2023 | 49 mins 44 secs
Kendall and rachel catch up after a long break and then try to answer some questions about work friendships: are they necessary, are they desirable, and how do they work?
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Episode 87: Virgile Raingeard (Figures.hr)
November 17th, 2022 | 46 mins 45 secs
Virgile Raingeard is CEO at Figures.
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Episode 86: Growth, fast and slow, at companies, large and small
October 13th, 2022 | 51 mins 25 secs
rachel and Kendall go on an unstructured ramble through our recent lives (some more turbulent than others) and then onward into musings about big vs small companies, and fast vs measured growth experiences.
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Episode 85: Maya Mandel (Helios)
August 11th, 2022 | 49 mins 42 secs
Maya Mandel is VP of Product Management at Helios
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Episode 84: Can you be a good leader without also being a systems thinker?
July 28th, 2022 | 42 mins 56 secs
rachel and Kendall talk about systems thinking in the context of leadership
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Episode 83: What does peak leadership look like?
July 14th, 2022 | 49 mins 23 secs
Kendall and rachel talk about how leaders decide when they've peaked