ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse
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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. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. The Collaboration Revolution

    11/25/2025

    The Collaboration Revolution

    Dan, Toby, and Matthew announce the launch of new company and product called (domain) - a collaboration platform that connects your work to your network. It is built on the thesis that the future of work isn't about AI giving you answers, it's about AI helping humans collaborate better. In this episode they break down why they think we're on the edge of a collaboration revolution. Details in the show: The problem with AI flattening all outputs to "good enough"Why collaboration skills will be what separates people in the future of workHow we turned lessons in discourse into a modern collaboration platform Join the (domain) waitlist here: https://ondomain.ai Enter code PODCAST 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.

    47 min
  6. The Customer Experience Gap: Why AI Transformation Isn't Delivering

    11/04/2025

    The Customer Experience Gap: Why AI Transformation Isn't Delivering

    Everyone agrees customer experience matters. Everyone agrees AI will transform business. So why is almost nobody actually doing anything about it? Dan and Matthew dig into new research showing that 93% of C-suite leaders say their digital CX needs improvement - even though they know it drives revenue. The problem isn't technology as much as it is imagination. While companies chase efficiency gains they can put in a spreadsheet, they're missing the bigger opportunity to fundamentally reimagine how they serve customers. Details in the Show: * Why 76% of enterprises feel behind on AI transformation * The difference between efficiency gains and relationship innovation * How ChatGPT's retro campaigns signal something deeper about consumer AI * How autonomous lawn mowers help us think about CX 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.

    23 min
  7. The Consumerization of AI

    10/28/2025

    The Consumerization of AI

    ChatGPT and Claude are going direct to consumers with nostalgic commercials and friendly interfaces, but underneath the marketing is a fundamental shift in how we interact with technology. Dan, Toby, and Matthew dig into what happens when AI systems become the primary interface for everything - and whether these platforms will be truly open or just feel open while quietly controlling distribution, data, and dollars. Details in the Show: * Why ChatGPT's retro marketing makes us want to watch Stranger Things * The difference between open protocols and closed ecosystems * How agentic systems change the attention economy (and who controls it) * Why platform dependency always ends the same way * What Amazon's playbook tells us about AI's future 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.

    35 min
  8. Knowledge vs Judgement and AI forecasting

    10/21/2025

    Knowledge vs Judgement and AI forecasting

    AI is making predictions cheaper, faster, and easier at scale. But forecasting is still guessing, and NYU Stern Professor Jamyn Edis argues that what AI can't replace is human judgment. In this conversation, we dig into why defining "intelligence" matters, how business actually works versus how we pretend it works, and what happens when we confuse prediction with decision-making. Details in the Show: * Why judgment and intelligence aren't the same thing * The difference between prediction and decision-making in business * How AI changes what we measure, not whether we should trust the measurement * Academic vs. business discourse (and why one is afraid of being wrong) * Putting tomatoes in fruit salad 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.

    53 min
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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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    37
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © ON_Discourse
  • Show Website
    ON_Discourse

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