In this episode, Matt Beane, one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology, joins Lauren Hawker Zafer to discuss his new book, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines."
Lauren and Matt shape an accessible conversation around the future of work and what it means to be human in a world of intelligent machines. Matt's insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world powered by Artificial Intelligence. In his own words, "Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it?
Matt Beane anticipated book highlights the importance of preserving the bond between experts and novices in the workplace—important for skill development—and his argument that the three C's—challenge, complexity, and connection—are the fundamental components of building valuable skills.
Matt Beane does field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover systematic positive exceptions that we can use across the broader world of work. His award-winning research has been published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and he graced the TED stage. You may have heard of him as a #HumanRobot Interaction Pioneer.
He also took a two-year hiatus from his PhD at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to help found and fund Humatics, a full-stack IoT startup. In 2012 he was selected as a Human-Robot Interaction Pioneer, and in 2021 was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list. Beane is an assistant professor in the Technology Management department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. When he’s not studying intelligent technologies and learning, he enjoys playing guitar; his morning coffee ritual with his wife, Kristen; and reading science fiction.
You can find his latest book "The Skill Code" on amazon.
Learn more and connect with the author here: https://www.mattbeane.com/
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