The conversations worth your commute.

The single most aligned show, 100+ interviews on self-management and bossless organizations, from Laloux and Edmondson to Dignan and practitioners. The best living map of how the principles you study show up worldwide.

Latest · Sep 1Ep. 106 Isaac Getz on why the CEO's ego is the biggest obstacle to liberated companies

For leaders who want to transform their workplace, with practical examples. Has hosted Corporate Rebels, burnout as a design failure, and why autonomy only produces wellbeing when real information and power come with it.

Latest · Jul 22Leading with Joy and Trust: Kathryn Wright from Culham St. Gabriel’s

Agile leadership beyond the ritual. Why "agile" became a new bureaucracy, and the difference between granted empowerment and structural authority.

Latest · Jun 27Redesigning Work: What Gen Z Wants (and Needs) from Leadership with Hannah Dannecker

The reference archive on reinventing organizations and management operating systems. Real dilemmas from teams trying to work differently, the practical intervention vocabulary the method assumes.

Latest · Oct 558. The One Where Sam Says Goodbye

The best big show for an intellectual thesis or book launch. Curated alongside Gladwell, Grant, Cain and Pink, the natural home for "The End of the Boss".

Latest · Oct 8Feel the AGI: Kevin Roose on the Strange, Intoxicating Race to Superintelligence

One of the most natural stages to confront conventional management with the evidence of Semco, Buurtzorg, Haier and Morning Star.

Latest · Oct 13Why Great Teams Don’t Need to Like Each Other

Why organizations silence people, how job design produces fear, and how to build autonomy with accountability.

Latest · Oct 13Feeling stuck? Why your first job might have all the answers.

Not "management theory" but the story: taking over a traditional company, breaking with the inherited model, building something radically different. The strongest home for the Semco/Semler narrative.

Latest · Oct 12Alamo Drafthouse Cinema: Tim and Karrie League (2023)

Among the largest podcasts in the world. Personality-driven, contrarian: "the company that removed the boss decades before it was a trend."

Latest · Oct 12UFO Cover-Up Analyst: The Secret Alien Programs Nobody Is Talking About | Eric Weinstein

Frame the thesis as a scaling problem: can you grow without multiplying bosses and bureaucracy? Interviews founders and leaders of global companies.

Latest · Oct 13The AI race to save American science and reshape medicine forever

Strong on better decisions, autonomy and systems design, already hosted Aaron Dignan on bureaucracy and new ways of organizing.

Latest · Oct 13How to Get People to Say Yes | Ryan Serhant

One of the best targets for how AI, automation and new models change managerial functions. Academic legitimacy for the disappearing middle manager.

Latest · Oct 8Penny Pritzker on workforce: Coalition building, innovation, and scaling what works

The executive framing: why firms that cut layers must redesign decision rights, not just remove managers.

Latest · Sep 29Leading when change feels threatening

High adherence to hybrid work, the office as a power symbol, AI and new career paths.

Latest · Nov 10IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHASE FOR BUSINESS - The Small Business Surge: Why Entrepreneurial Growth Is Defying Economic Noise

Excellent people-leader audience, explicitly out to investigate how to build a better world of work.

Latest · Jul 15Radical roots, scalable future: balancing purpose and performance at Patagonia

A useful counterpoint conversation, has argued directly that simply removing middle managers can create leadership vacuums.

Latest · Oct 6How Microaggressions can have significant negative impacts (with Dr. Kecia Thomas )

Perhaps the best mid-target to unite AI + leadership + humanity, redesigning teams and systems without losing what makes work human.

Latest · Oct 13The Human-AI Handoff Is More Complicated Than Companies Think

"Is autonomy without ownership really autonomy?" Dedicated to the effects of worker ownership.

Latest · Oct 5Ownership With Purpose: Why Meaning Matters at Work

The ideal pitch: asking employees to "think like owners" without opening the numbers is incoherent. Open-book management as the missing half of autonomy.

Latest · Aug 21Can We All Be Purple Cows?

Takes the discussion beyond HR: how ownership structure, incentives and governance determine the quality of the organization. Connects Semco to stewardship and long-term ownership.

Latest · Oct 13David Vélez - Building Nubank and the Future of Global Banking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.495]

The prime target for human-agent organizations: will AI remove the manager, or create an even more controlling algorithmic one? Who sets goals and accountability for autonomous agents?

Latest · Aug 7How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity | Truffle Security & Socket

Translates self-management into product and tech orgs: small autonomous teams, fewer handoffs, leaders close to the work, AI as workforce. Wants mechanisms and examples, not just the story.

Latest · Oct 11Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

Global conversations on the skills and models the future of learning needs. Excellent fit for the Lumiar story.

Latest · Oct 6The Importance of Connection with Nicole Dyson S11E8 (147)

Academic authority on what actually makes a difference for students, educators and communities, a credible frame for self-directed learning.

Latest · Apr 8Why Half of College Students Feel Alone and How to Fix It | Alexis Redding

Structural critique of conventional schooling and the search for more human models. Huge conceptual adherence: the same question Semco asked of work, asked of school.

Latest · Aug 4Gardens, Not Factories, Designing Schools for Human Flourishing