Progression to Analog Caitlin Begg

In this season two trailer, I share milestones and insights from season one including:


Several keynotes, seminars, and talks across the U.S. and Europe, centered around Progression to Analog and related ideas
Upcoming speaking engagements, including World Summit AI and Brain Bar
The growth of Progression to Analog

I recap the first season of Progression to Analog and its three core themes:


Sociotechnical AI & Communication
Emotional Techscapes
Innovation Through Imagination & Failure

AND... I outline some of the upcoming topics for season two! Episode 1 comes out Wednesday 24 July 12:00 AM EST, "We Live in a Simulation".

Book recommendations; out-of-print technology magazines across nine decades; the spectacular and the everyday; what's next? (in terms of our relationship with tech); general reflections after getting home from doing one of the keynotes at AESC's Global Conference at Cornell Tech. My talk was called "From AI to Analog: A Balanced Approach to the New Digital Landscape".

On 26 April 2024, I delivered an educational seminar at Columbia University. This episode of Progression to Analog is an audio / video (slides) transcription of this talk on Neurodiversity in the Workplace!

By some estimations, neurodiverse people make up ~17-20% of the workforce. A myriad of studies and outlets such as Harvard Business Review highlight neurodiversity as a competitive advantage to be embraced in the future of work. For example, neurodivergent people tend to have higher chaos tolerance. In my seminar, (among other topics) I discussed how the unique abilities of neurodiverse individuals, such as hyperfocus, creativity, and exceptional pattern recognition, can dramatically enhance team performance and drive innovation.

I also highlight how "Progression to Analog" as a tool for neurodiverse workplace success. I will be following up with more tips related to this in a future episode of this podcast.

If you're listening to this via Apple Podcasts and want to see the slides, the talk may also be accessed on YouTube via this link.

On 28 May at re:publica in Berlin, Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson and I (Caitlin Begg) will be speaking together in a joint talk called "Freedom to Fail".

Amy is 2x #1 Management Thinker in the World Per Thinkers50 and author of "Right Kind of Wrong," 2023 Financial Times and Schroder's Business Book of the Year.

In this short episode of Progression to Analog, we speak more about re:publica and our upcoming talk, which centers around who has the freedom to fail, failure as a privilege, technology's tendency to exacerbate these issues, and what to do about them. More about our upcoming talk here.

Founded in 2007, republica GmbH's re:publica Berlin is Europe's largest digital society festival. re:publica participants represent a cross-section of (digital) society, which include professionals from economics, politics, business, hacker culture, NGOs, media, and marketing, as well as bloggers, activists, artists, and social media experts.

Invented by French writer Alfred Jarry in early 20th century France, ‘pataphysics is often defined as the science of imaginary solutions, the realm beyond the possible (additional to metaphysics), or as a way to describe a universe supplementary to this one.

In this episode of Progression to Analog, Apocraphyl Pataphysics author Peter Clarke and I discuss the influence of pataphysics on art (Surrealism, Dadaism, etc.), creative outputs, perceptions of reality, futurism, and more. We also speak about portals, shadow worlds, syzygy, clinamen, pseudo-cyclical time, psychogeography (upcoming episode on this!), non-places, and urban mythology.

Some of the articles referenced in the episode:


Pataphysics: A Tool for Creativity by Peter Clarke
What Happened to Patapsychology? by Peter Clarke
What the Suburb Haters Don't Understand Julie Beck, the Atlantic

Recommended Reading:


⁠Apocraphyl Pataphysics⁠⁠
'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide
'Pataphysics Wikipedia Page

Peter Clarke:


Personal Website
Podcast - Team Futurism

I felt an inexplicable feeling a few weeks ago, and turned to GPT-4 to help explain it. I was feeling nostalgia for a time I've never known, a longing for an unexperienced past. GPT identified this as "anemoia".

In this episode, I explain anemoia, relate it to technology (as it pertains to childhood, college, etc.) and especially to NYU Professor Jonathan Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation", a paradigm-shifting book calling for a move away from a phone-based childhood and back toward a play-based childhood. A PROGRESSION TO ANALOG.

"The desire to play returns to destroy the hierarchical society which banished it" -Raoul Vaneigem