When an 18 karat gold railroad spike was driven into the Utah soil in 1869, it marked the dawn of a new era in travel, shipping, communication, and – most importantly – standardization. Today, it's not a number of unconnected private railroads that need to learn how to play nice, it's data lakes, and Tim Hayden is here... more
What do Benjamin Franklin's 18th century parlor tricks have to do with cutting edge manufacturing in the 2030s? If you believe C-Motive CEO Matt Maroon, the answer could be: everything! Find out how modern material science could take Ben Franklin's machines from the era of wood and fur and into the future, as Matt and ... more
Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one – but what if Lizzie got a raw deal? In this episode of Brain+Trust's Say It Again podcast, Brain+Trust CEO Tim Hayden is back to help Jo explore the notion of our digital legacies, what it might t... more
This week, Brain+Trust's Say-It-Again podcast is joined by Jason Cortes, Sr. Manager of Tritium's Fuel & Convenience Channel as they discuss Lansford Hastings' proposed alternative to the Oregon Trail, and why charging your EV on a cross-country road trip doesn't have to be like the Donner Party's ill-fated shortcut th... more
This week, Brain+Trust's Say-It-Again podcast goes way back to a Friday night in the 1990s, and we're making it a Blockbuster night! But all is not well in the big blue kingdom – customers are getting squeezed, executives aren't listening, and little red envelopes are starting to appear in more and more mailboxes. How ... more
In this episode of Brain+Trust's Say-It-Again podcast, Jo examines the history of the Knights Templar, a secret order of Crusading religious knights who invented such modern concepts as credit, paper currency, and the use of cryptography to resolve their customers' identity all the way back in 1099 ... and what, exactl... more
In this episode of Brain+Trust's Say-It-Again podcast, Jo explores the notion of individuality as understood by a 19th century French anthropologist, how two guys with a lot in common laid the foundation for 20th century detective work, and 46,000 reasons your company could use a robust customer data platform (CDP) to ... more
In this first-ever episode of Brain+Trust's Say-It-Again podcast, auto industry analyst Jo Borrás examines a state-of-the-art A.I. from the 18th century, how a little man hiding in a wooden box inspired the modern information age, and how AI tools like Chat GPT and Bing can turn the 80/20 rule on its head. Brain+Trust ... more