01:15 Early life and career

Ade�s education in physics and astrophysics

Early career in software development and at the European Space Agency

Consultation and training

Penning a column in the financial times

Demystifying technology for business people

Strategizing for big companies and government

03:04 Adaptation to technology

Need is a great driver of technology

Consumer goods are about convenience and accelerated productivity

A concern for gravitation toward comfort as the primary driver of technology

Authoring the e-Skills Manifesto

7:30 Background in sport

Ade�s career as sprinter and performance in the Irish Championship

Experimentation with various martial arts

The shift to training in parkour

The benefits of exposing yourself to your weaknesses

11:18 Attention Dynamics

Humans are still wired to be hunter gatherers

Inattention can have disastrous effects

Focus vs. attention

We are in a kind of dopamine pandemic

16:08 Work-life integration

We should accept that work ebbs and flows throughout the day

The healthy blending of work and life

The need for trust between employer and employee

17:55 Attention in the digital age

Attention as currency

Emotion architecture and the building of an emotional experience in platforms

Customer loyalty vs. customer addiction

The current trend of splitting our attention

Shallowness might be the new wiring of our brains

Like a whale swallows water for a little plankton, we now consume a lot to get a little value

The need to maintain deep thinking

The mind as a mental worktop

Negative emotions we retain are eating away at our cognitive capacity

24:34 Performance enhancements

Perhaps we do extreme things to help bolster our identities, instead of for intrinsic love

We should create a step of progressions to reach our goals

It is easier to build upon foundations

Anything can be achieved if you set the right path

27:27 Leadership

Leaders vs. influencers

The days of a few guys in a room making all of the decisions are over

The need for ubiquitous leadership, where everyone in an organization is a leader of sorts

29:03 A minimalistic approach to life

We often burn cognitive capacity to prop up the ego

Dissolving ego is job number one

The benefits of exploring a minimalistic approach to life

Everything you own is a source of cognitive distraction

The essence of great design is simplicity

Changing your intention affects your attention.

33:00 Willpower and the habitualization of life

Willpower is a precious resource

You have to minimize the decisions you have to make

The ultimate trick is to habitualize a large part of your life

How one might unconditional bad habits

How one might stack beneficial habits atop one another

Habits literally determine the quality of your life

You have to be crystal clear on your why, and that �why� has to be kind of profound

Habitualization is not all about rigidity

43:15 Humanity in the digital age

Humanity�s downfall began when we stopped being hunter gatherers, and increased when we moved into factories

The pitfalls of separation between work and life

The digital age is a return to our true nature

There may be a possible reset on capitalism

We are entering into the human age

How to cope in the new digital landscape by managing expectations

49:24 The future of automation

Automation already is, and will continue to, eliminate careers and bring about economic irrelevancy

A possible embellishment of AI destroying human society

Imagining the future of a post-career society

The need to drop the current notion of a career

We need to develop personal traits of resilience and learnability to seize opportunity

The beneficial shift toward life-long learning

56:45 Super resilience and leadership

Future organization should aim for super resiliency

Turn your factory into a living, situationally aware organization

The need of a new type of leader

Companies should avoid putting all of their proverbial eggs in one basket

01:01:35 University and super-hubs

Universities need an update to better prepare students for the digital age

Currently, universities only guarantee debt, not jobs

It is currently impossible for universities to stay up to date

Universities have to give the needed education when students need it

The best talent gravitates toward places where they can exercise talent with other talented people

The value of innovation based on frugality and people who think on their feet

Currently, the best education is found at places that allow you to fail, experiment, and get your hands dirty

01:10:00 The coach-athlete relationship in work

The need for leaders to engender trust in their employees and vice versa

The relationship between staff and management should become more like coach and athlete

Creating an interest in an improved employer performance that also benefits the organization

01:13:30 Ade�s current attentions

Analyzing the global socio-economic and political trends at both large and small scales