How to be an 'Uncommon Thinker'
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đď¸ 9 December 2023
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Summary
GeekWire's reporters have spent the past month profiling a group of six âUncommon Thinkersâ: Seattle-area inventors, scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs transforming industries and driving positive change in the world.
This editorial series, presented in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners, was based on the deliberations of a panel of outside judges who chose the Uncommon Thinkers from nominations submitted by GeekWire readers.
Working on these profiles helped us identify the commonalities among our honorees, including their inspirations, mindsets, and approaches. On this week's GeekWire Podcast, we talk with four of our Uncommon Thinkers in interviews recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala, where we honored them this week.
Read the six âUncommon Thinkersâ profiles here:
- UW prof and entrepreneur Shwetak Patel has a rare âcreative brillianceâ
- Elizabeth Hansen uses her job as an anesthesiologist to cut carbon emissions
- Boundless CEO Xiao Wang on his quest to fix the immigration process
- For USAFactsâ Poppy MacDonald, âfacts are paramountâ for democracy
- Blake Resnick finds a larger purpose in tech, making drones for public safety
- MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation
With GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop.
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| 0:00.0 | So what does it take to truly create meaningful change in the modern world? |
| 0:08.0 | Here's a few ideas. |
| 0:10.0 | Embrace an outsider's perspective to bring fresh ideas to traditional fields. |
| 0:15.0 | Tap deeply into your personal experiences to inform and inspire your work. |
| 0:20.0 | Use data and facts to help shape behaviors and outcomes |
| 0:25.0 | and capitalize on the human desire for recognition and competition. |
| 0:30.0 | Those are some of the insights from GeekWire's profiles of six uncommon thinkers, |
| 0:35.8 | Seattle area inventors, scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs who are |
| 0:41.2 | transforming industries and having a positive impact on the world. |
| 0:45.2 | This editorial series, presented in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners, was based on the deliberations |
| 0:50.9 | of a panel of outside judges who chose the uncommon thinkers from nomination. the this week's GeekWire podcast we talk with four of our uncommon |
| 1:03.4 | thinkers in interviews recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala in |
| 1:07.0 | Seattle where we honored them earlier this week. |
| 1:10.0 | Dr Elizabeth Hansen thank you very much for being here. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you so much for having me and thank you for this honor. |
| 1:16.0 | It's really incredible. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, congratulations on being honored as an uncommon thinker. |
| 1:20.0 | So what I did was we have a new generative AI engine out this week from Google. |
| 1:26.0 | It's the Gemini version of Bard that they just released. |
| 1:29.8 | So what I did was I had both Bard and chat gp t read the profiles of each of our |
| 1:37.0 | uncommon thinkers and offer their impressions so I'm gonna read each of them to |
| 1:41.5 | you and then get your thoughts. |
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