ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse

The ON_Discourse Podcast is where leaders shaping the future of AI, media, and business come to think out loud. Hosted by Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Matt Chmiel, each episode draws from the private Group Chats inside ON_Discourse, a community of C-suite leaders, founders, and innovators who challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse. Less an interview and more an experiment in modern conversation, the show explores how emerging technologies like AI are reshaping leadership, creativity, and culture, grounded in real-world experiences from the people building the future. If you’re a business leader, innovator, or curious thinker looking to understand how AI and technology are changing what it means to build, lead, and create, this is the room you want to be in. Learn more about joining the community at ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw

    4D AGO

    Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw

    Dan, Toby, and Chmiel reunite after a long January to unpack what happened when ON_Discourse members went hands-on with Moltbot (formerly Claudebot, now OpenClaw) — an open-source AI agent with full shell access to your computer, your email, your calendar, and everything else. What started as an emergency Group Chat turned into one of the most unsettling Follow My Flow sessions yet, with even the most advanced members shutting the tool down because it got too weird. Details in the show: How Clawdbot makes it easy to forget completed workThe difference between automating a defined process and giving an agent undefined access to act on your behalfWhy Moltbot is different than previous agentsWhy the most advanced users are spending all their energy on context engineering instead of the actual workAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min
  2. AI and Healthcare

    JAN 28

    AI and Healthcare

    Dr. Ami Bhatt—practicing cardiologist, chief innovation officer, and chair of the FDA's digital health committee—joins Toby and a group of ON_Discourse members who to talk (privately) about what AI can and can't do in medicine. She argues that context, nuance, and edge cases will always belong to humans, while AI handles the compute-heavy work our brains can't do alone. The conversation spans wearables, why TikTok might be the most effective healthcare educator, and why the patient is no longer the "last mile" of healthcare. Details in the show: Context, nuance, and edge cases: the three things AI can't replaceDesperation is the mother of adoption": why healthcare finally embraced digitalPatient agency vs. healthcare consumerismWhy chatbots sometimes outperform doctors at explaining thingsTikTok as healthcare educator: meeting people where they areBlood pressure: the one metric everyone should trackWearables and the trust gap between doctors and devicesAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
  3. Show Me Your Work

    JAN 21

    Show Me Your Work

    Toby sits down with Segun Oduolowu—journalist, media veteran, and executive communications coach—at CES to talk about what AI is doing to communication, editorial judgment, and slop. Segun has worked across CNN, network TV, and digital, and now coaches C-suite executives on how to actually sound like themselves. He's pessimistic. The algorithm rewards clicks over facts. TikTokers with no credentials outpace real journalists. CEOs send unedited ChatGPT memos and wonder why no one trusts them. Toby pushes back with a case for human+AI collaboration. They don't fully agree. Details in the show: AI as Pandora's box: you can't tell what's real anymoreThe algorithm decides what's news—clicks over factsTikTokers with 5 million followers and no credentials outpacing legacy mediaThe misspelling trick: do it wrong on purpose to boost engagementPNP: Personality and Proficiency—the only two things that matterAI as assistant, not voice: the rewrite is everythingWhy the younger generation can smell insincerity instantlyAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    44 min
  4. Who Wins When Everyone Can Make

    JAN 14

    Who Wins When Everyone Can Make

    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 who wins when everyone can make. They clash on how fast AI is actually reshaping the labor market, whether big tech layoffs are really AI-driven, and what happens to creative careers when craft gets democratized. Dan pushes back. Matt doubles down. Nobody fully agrees. Details of the show: The pace debate: Is AI is moving faster than anything we've seen or is it actually moving slowly.Big tech layoffs aren't what they seem: normal market cycle or AI storm?Democratization lowers quality: the rise of good taste.The $300K creative director is at risk: the "good enough" middle tier of creative careers is getting squeezed.Zero to one is easy now. One to hundred is still hard: You can build a $2M ARR company solo, but building the next Apple still requires people, tenacity, and systems.AI isolates us: The tools are optimized to keep you alone. The opportunity is in building for human connection, not just automation.About ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    45 min
  5. Dan Gets Roasted

    12/23/2025

    Dan Gets Roasted

    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 Toby and Chmiel throw Dan's hottest takes, weirdest perspectives, and biggest contradictions right back in his face. From his prediction that linear TV advertising would be dead by now to his thoughts on gobbledygook and autonomous cars, Dan defends (or admits he got wrong) his most memorable moments from the past year. Details of the show: Dan's contradictions on generated slopThe transformative influence of ChatGPT in 5 years (but not now)What "transformative" actually means at CESHow to pronounce gobbledygookAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min
  6. Disney, Sora, IP, and Gobbledygook

    12/17/2025

    Disney, Sora, IP, and Gobbledygook

    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 Creative Officer at Code and Theory who wrote a provocative LinkedIn post that Eriq Gardner, Founding Partner at Puck (and Dan's brother) called "gobbledygook spit out by a machine." Details of the show: Why Craig thinks Disney's Sora deal represents a fundamental shift in how IP worksEric's skepticism about whether this is meaningful change or just corporate partnership jargonWhether "invitation to participate" is a real framework or just nice-sounding languageWhy media companies are scrambling to figure out AI deals before they understand what they're dealing withAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min
  7. 2026 Provocations, Not Predictions

    12/09/2025

    2026 Provocations, Not Predictions

    Dan, Toby, and Chmiel break down their 3rd annual Provocations Not Predictions event, where ON_Discourse members submit their most challenging questions for the year ahead. In this episode, they debate whether AI will actually deliver transformative change in 2026 or if we're stuck automating yesterday's workflows with tomorrow's tools. Details in the show: Why provocations force harder thinking than predictionsThe difference between automating old processes and fundamentally changing how we workWhether new hardware (glasses, wristbands, connected ecosystems) will actually ship in 2026Why we might already have everything we're going to getWhat it means when three years after ChatGPT, the only real change is tactical efficiencyAbout ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  8. The Modern Marketing Playbook

    12/02/2025

    The Modern Marketing Playbook

    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 is "human-led, technology-powered.” Behind that concept is a new org-chart, workflow, and a concept called PTSB - permission to sh*t the bed. It sounds a lot different than automation… Details in the show: The problem with the traditional compartmentalization of marketing into separate 'brand' and 'performance' silosWhy the "nerve center" of marketing organizations should shift to creativity, away from product and communicationsHow "context is the new creativity" and why many brands fail to apply itA disagreement about what upskilling meansWhy the concept of "The internet is closing" means marketers must figure out new methods to "own your customer"About ON_Discourse ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.  As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats. Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
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About

The ON_Discourse Podcast is where leaders shaping the future of AI, media, and business come to think out loud. Hosted by Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Matt Chmiel, each episode draws from the private Group Chats inside ON_Discourse, a community of C-suite leaders, founders, and innovators who challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse. Less an interview and more an experiment in modern conversation, the show explores how emerging technologies like AI are reshaping leadership, creativity, and culture, grounded in real-world experiences from the people building the future. If you’re a business leader, innovator, or curious thinker looking to understand how AI and technology are changing what it means to build, lead, and create, this is the room you want to be in. Learn more about joining the community at ondiscourse.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    ON_Discourse
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    41
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © ON_Discourse
  • Show Website
    ON_Discourse

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