Ep. 1090: Jens Martin Skibsted Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jens Martin Skibsted, an entrepreneur, designer, and author; best known for Biomega’s urban mobility designs. He is the co-founder of Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, Actics, KiBiSi and Ogojiii. His designs live in the collections at the MoMA, Le Cnap, Designmuseum Danmark, SFMoMA etc. He is also an ad hoc expert blogger for The Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Borsen and Fast Company. He is a partner at Manyone A/S.

The topic is his book written with co-author Christian Bason: Expand: Stretching the Future By Design.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Silicon Valley’s perspective on design
Design inspirations
The reasons behind Danish culture
Design perspectives and climate change solutions
How to balance each nation’s desires, wants and goals

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today is Jens Martin Skibstead.
0:36.3	He is a designer.
0:39.8	Now before you think we're only going to be talking about a mechanical or a physical product, we do go there, but we go much wider because design
0:46.4	encompasses so many issues in our everyday life. And frankly, while yes, there are some great innovations,
0:53.7	a lot of design.
0:54.8	The design that we live with every day is subpar and can sure as hell be improved.
1:00.8	We discussed Jen's new book, Expand, Stretching the Future by Design.
1:05.2	What a great title.
1:06.2	If we can only get there, I give Jen's credit.
1:09.2	He is in the game fighting, getting people to think about
1:12.8	these wider and broader issues where we need improved design. Without any further delay,
1:19.2	I hope you enjoy this conversation with Jens Martin Skipsday. I got to jump in question for you.
1:36.0	This is kind of a big picture perspective.
1:38.7	And I was thinking of myself, in advance of this call, I was thinking, okay, about design
1:42.3	and something from my life that I'm dealing
1:45.2	with. And it dovetails into several issues in your world. First off, two examples of Silicon Valley
1:52.0	technology usage that have kind of hit me this year so far. Number one, I have wanted to cut
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