We sit down with a former MIT student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Rebecca Taft, Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs & MIT Computer Science Ph.D. Recpient Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication D…

This is a rebroadcast of the the full, unedited interview with Yang Shao-Horn. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episodes of Yang’s interview yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy …

There’s an understanding that just because research has been published, that doesn’t mean it’s some kind of final answer to a question. And Professor Shao-Horn takes comfort in this, this sort of ever-changing landscape of knowledge and information. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Produced & Hosted by Ad…

This is a rebroadcast of the the full, unedited interview with Scott Lewis. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episodes of Scott’s interview yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Scott Lewis, CEO of San Diego’s “Voice of San Di…

Communicating something to someone shouldn’t just be a laundry list of facts. Scott Lewis used the recent political season to illustrate this point, that it’s important for the audience to leave your talk or finish reading your written communication and know what your universe looks like instead of only hearing or reading numbers or stats with no r…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Jim Ruland. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Jim Ruland, Author Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Pat…

According to Author Jim Ruland, it’s important to have intentions and goals in mind of what you’re trying to communicate. That’s a good starting point to knowing what is extraneous information and can be left on the cutting room floor, and also what is important to the story. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Jim Ruland, Author Produced & Hosted by Ad…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Eric Lander. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Erica Lander, Ph.D., President & Founding Director of the Broad Institute Produc…

You, the speaker, have all the data and knowledge and understanding of the subject you’re speaking about. But if you can’t convey its significance and why it’s deserving of all this attention, it lessens not just the importance of the data but the audience’s desire to care. According to Eric Lander, a scientist’s job performance involves not just d…

This is a rebroadcast of the the full, unedited interview with Sage Rosenfels. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episodes of Sage’s interview yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Sage Rosenfels, Former American Football Quart…

When it comes to the performance area of communication, the process of repetition plays a pretty big factor in your success as a speaker or performer. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Sage Rosenfels, Former American Football Quarterback Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executi…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Len Cabral. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Len Cabral, Professional Storyteller Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield […]…

When it comes to effective communication, it’s not just about the content. According to Len, using physical movement to tell a story and engage your audience is a pretty important skill and tool to employ. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Len Cabral, Professional Storyteller Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, I…

We sit down with a graduate student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Morgan Voss, Student in MIT EECS Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the following editors…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Dr. Brunie Felding. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Dr. Brunie Felding – Associate Professor in the Department […]…

All of this feedback leads somewhere, to a better understanding of your own work and how you communicate it to others. And if you haven’t figured it out by now, Brunie doesn’t take this topic lightly. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Dr. Brunie Felding – Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research […]…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Sage Rosenfels. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Sage Rosenfels, Former American Football Quarterback Produced & Hosted by […]…

Whether you’re on stage giving a talk or explaining what you do to friends or even on a field being pursued by 11 large athletes who want nothing more than to tackle you, you will at some point fail at least once. It’s inevitable. Sage Rosenfels joins us to help how to tackle unavoidable failure […]MIT Office For Graduate Education

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Ed Boyden. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Ed Boyden, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and […]…

“I often ask people to think about aiming for a constructive failure.” says Ed Boyden, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT Media Lab and McGovern Institute & Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, “It is probably going to fail, but you will know what you need to do next. I […]…

We sit down with a graduate student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Dave Whittleston, PhD Candidate at the MIT Entekhabi Research Group Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Spec…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Leigh Hafrey. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Leigh Hafrey – Senior Lecturer of Communication & Ethics MIT’s […]…

Senior Lecturer of Communication & Ethics MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Leigh Hafrey, helps us to consider how humility and a strong sense of ethics can help or hinder the communication process. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Leigh Hafrey – Senior Lecturer of Communication & Ethics MIT’s Sloan School of Management Produced & Hosted by Adam […]…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Dr. Brunie Felding. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Dr. Brunie Felding – Associate Professor in the Department […]…

Dr. Brunie Felding, Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Scripps Research, reflects on an instance where she hadn’t considered the effects on every individual audience member when constructing her talk on cancer. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Dr. Brunie Felding – Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Scott Lewis. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Scott Lewis, CEO of San Diego’s “Voice of San Diego” […]…

Scott Lewis, CEO of San Diego’s “Voice of San Diego” publication, helps us understand how bias has consequences on our audience’s ability to relate to our message – in journalism and in science. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Scott Lewis, CEO of San Diego’s “Voice of San Diego” Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced […]…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Jennifer Cherone. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Jennifer Cherone, Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Labratory Produced & […]…

We sit down with a graduate student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Jennifer Cherone, Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Labratory Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to …

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Tony Eng. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Tony Eng, Lead Instructor of Gradcommx & Senior Lecturer MIT […]…

MIT EECS Senior Lecturer, Tony Eng, helps us understand how pacing delivary can help your audience’s ability to parse the information you are communicating to them. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Tony Eng, Lead Instructor of Gradcommx & Senior Lecturer MIT EECS 6.UAT Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instruc…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Ted Gibson. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Ted Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science at MIT’s TedLab Produced […]…

MIT’s Professor of Cognitive Science, Ted Gibson, sits down with us to shine light on how the words we choose, and don’t choose, when constructing communication has definitive effects on our communication abilities. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Ted Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science at MIT’s TedLab Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executi…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with David Peterson, language creator. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. IMAGE CREDIT *David Peterson Photograph by Gage Skidmore EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring [……

Language Creator David Peterson discusses how we can learn from the construction of language in order to communicate better. Peterson is famous for his work creating the Valyrian & Dothraki languages for the Game of Thrones television show. IMAGE CREDIT *David Peterson Photograph by Gage Skidmore EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring David J. Peterson, La…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Mandy Korpusik. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Mandy Korpusik, Phd Candidate at MIT CSAIL Produced & Hosted […]…

We sit down with a graduate student to unpack the previous episodes. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Mandy Korpusik, Phd Candidate at MIT CSAIL Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the followi…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Professor Shao-Horn. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Produced & Hosted […]…

What happens when we forget to bridge our work to the interests of our audience? MIT’s W.M. Keck Professor of Energy, Yang Shao-Horn, tells us a cautionary tale about just that. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Yang Shao-Horn, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Design…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Professor Ian Condry. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Ian Condry, Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies – MIT […]…

Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at MIT, Ian Condry, gives us some very practical tips & tricks to help when communicating with any audience. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Ian Condry, Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies – MIT Anthropology Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – M…

This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Professor Noam Chomsky. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. CREDITS Guest Starring Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield […]…

We sit down and discuss the nature of communicating one’s work with Professor Noam Chomsky and find out that the role of the audience may be more important than that of the speaker. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick, Instructional Designer – […]…