Future-Focused with Christopher Lind · 2026-06-22 · 1h 14m
I'm excited to push out a special episode of the podcast. Normally, I don’t publish my live video sessions to this audio feed, but my conversation this past Friday was just too critical to keep locked away on a video player. I was joined by my good friend Travis Hahler , Senior Director of Strategy & Transformation at Salesforce and founder of The Neurological Nomad . We grabbed the steering wheel of the AI conversation and steered it away from the typical tech hype, diving face-first into the messy realities of human biology and organizational behavior. If you listened to my previous episode on AI Agent Sprawl , you know how unmapped autonomous digital tools are fracturing corporate architectures and blowing up budgets. But why are we so eager to pass the buck to a machine? That is the exact bridge we cross in this episode. When the unrelenting firehose of technological change hits us, our brains get exhausted.
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