Building for Tomorrow

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

New year, new you! Right? Well, as much as we’d all like to believe that we embrace the new… the reality is that we often resist change. That’s why we’ve brought in someone who has studied how humans respond to and adapt to change – or sometimes how we fail to. That person is Jason Feifer – long-time editor in chief at Entrepreneur Magazine, host of two popular podcasts, and recent author of his book Build for Tomorrow. Today, Jason shares 6 specific frameworks around the very natural human responses to change, which he’s developed through interviewing and studying some of the most influential people in the world – past and present. We also play a fun game at the end, where Jason comments on current technologies encountering pushback, and assesses where they might fit into his framework.

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0:00.0	People talked about the waltz in society Europe. The way that people talked about
0:09.2	Myly Cyrus twirking at the VMA's a few years ago, right?
0:13.2	Like it was this incredibly scandalous, awful,
0:17.2	destroying the youth kind of thing.
0:19.3	Wow.
0:24.7	Welcome back to the A16Z podcast and welcome to 2023. It's hard to believe we're here but if the last years have been any
0:29.5	indication we are in for a lot of change and that's why we brought in someone who literally studies
0:35.4	change and that is Jason Pfeifer.
0:38.3	You might recognize Jason as the longtime editor-in-chief at Entrepreneur magazine, the host of several popular
0:43.6	podcasts, and the author of his recent book, Build for Tomorrow. But in today's
0:48.4	episode, Jason is sharing his six frameworks about how people understand and adapt to change or
0:54.3	how sometimes they fail to adapt to change and he does this through studying and
0:58.6	interviewing some of the world's most influential people both past and
1:02.3	present.
1:03.4	So I'm going to give Jason the floor,
1:04.8	but I did want to flag that at the very end
1:06.8	I think we play a very fun game
1:09.0	where I go through a bunch of current technologies
1:11.5	that are facing some degree of pushback and
1:13.7	Jason shares how they might fit into his framework.
1:16.1	So that includes things like remote work, a. R and VR, biohacking, and lots more.
1:21.1	So if that sounds fun, make sure you stick around to the end.
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