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Masters of Scale

Rapid Response: Ken Burns on Leonardo da Vinci, AI, and the future of storytelling

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Leonardo da Vinci is a thoroughly modern figure, even if he lived hundreds of years ago. So says Ken Burns, the legendary documentary filmmaker on topics from the Civil War to Muhammad Ali. Burns joins Rapid Response to talk about his new, upcoming project on da Vinci and what leaders in 2024 can learn from his interdisciplinary approach. Burns also opens up about the challenges of creative integrity in a world influenced by AI, the advantages of avoiding shortcuts, and how studying history reveals key lessons for tackling modern problems. 

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Bob Safian and I want to tell you about a new podcast called Search Engine hosted by PJ Vote.

0:07.0

Each week he and his team answer questions about business, tech and society that are on everyone's minds, but are too often ignored the kinds

0:15.1

of questions that if you ask them at a dinner party would completely derail conversation.

0:20.7

Like, who's behind those scammy text messages we've all been getting?

0:24.5

Why are drug dealers putting fentanyl in everything?

0:27.5

And why don't we have flying cars yet?

0:30.0

Listen to and follow search engine with PJ Vote wherever you get your podcasts.

0:36.0

Hi listeners, I want to tell you about another podcast.

0:40.0

It's called Planet Money.

0:42.0

The Planet Money Podcast helps you understand the economy.

0:45.5

They find the people at the heart of every story

0:47.8

to show you how money affects our world.

0:50.4

Planet Money explains every economic concept imaginable, from inflation and

0:54.7

disinflation to how manatees get addicted to fossil fuel.

0:58.6

Listen to Planet Money from NPR wherever you're listening to us.

1:04.8

There's all these documentaries and sort of reality things that are being made about a subject

1:10.0

and they're wonderful and very interesting, but you notice that either that person who's the subject or their

1:17.1

wife or their brother or their children are the executive producers.

1:21.4

And you go, wait a second second I think could never happen in

1:24.0

PBS where I am because we've drawn this just absolutely sacrosanct church and

1:31.0

state line I can't have Michael Jordan sitting in my editing

1:35.2

room saying don't use that shot, right? I love that discipline of being true to

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