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The Pre-Made Podcast

By: Matthew C Collins
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  • In this podcast, you'll hear stories from and about people who have faced a pivot in their lives. Along the way, they've overcome long odds and serious setbacks to do extraordinary things in their communities and careers. Their resilience, perseverance and intentional living will inspire you.
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  • Rob Bernstein Tackles the Titans, From Wrestling Rings to AI Things

    Rob Bernstein Tackles the Titans, From Wrestling Rings to AI Things
    May 11 2024
    Rob Bernstein, like many in the Amherst College Class of 1994, graduated just as the internet became a consumer-facing proposition. But unlike yours truly, Rob hitched his career to the internet. As a result, over the last 30 years he has managed to stay ahead of the curve, navigating a pivot from print media to digital, and from the WWE to agency work at the highest levels. As Chief Innovation Officer for Ketchum, a global communications firm, Rob spends his days peering around corners. The top question on his clients' minds these days: what will be the impact of artificial intelligence on the way we work, live, and create? (Full disclosure: AI helped me write the title of this episode.) In this episode, you'll learn: Why Rob is ambivalent about AI How we can learn more about AI, and the ways in which it's already changing the way many of us work What the WWE was like from the inside, and what it was like to work with the likes of wrestling superstars John Cena and The Rock, as well as WWE founder Vince McMahon The Amherst College classmates he'd like me to interview next Here are links to the resources Rob recommends to learn about AI: Newsletters: Neuron (https://join.theneurondaily.com/), TLDR (https://tldr.tech/) AI tools: Claude (https://claude.ai), ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/), Gemini (https://gemini.google.com/) To connect with Rob, visit his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbernstein/
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    53 mins
  • Allen Hurlbert Wants You To Contribute To Citizen Science

    Allen Hurlbert Wants You To Contribute To Citizen Science
    May 4 2024
    In this episode, I catch up with one of the smartest guys I knew at Amherst College, Professor Allen Hurlbert. Many of Allen's college classmates will remember him for his fondness for birds. While that interest has flowered into a successful and prolific teaching career, birds provide just one input into the focal point of his research today: building an understanding of the processes that shape global patterns of biodiversity and how those patterns are being impacted by global change. For the last several years, he also has spearheaded a citizen science project that invites all of us to track, record, and share information on the insects we find in our own backyards. It works a lot like birdwatching and can be just as fun and important for the advancement of our understanding of biodiversity. In this episode, you'll learn: All about Allen's citizen science project, Caterpillars Count, and just how easy and fun it can be to participate The ways in which climate change may produce winners, losers, and species that are likely to adapt Why overall bird populations have declined over the last several decades What attracted him to the study of biodiversity in the first place The Amherst College classmates he'd like me to interview next To contact Allen, email him at ahhurlbert@gmail.com. You also can learn about Caterpillars Count at https://caterpillarscount.unc.edu/.
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    57 mins
  • President Michael Elliott On Coming Back To Amherst And Building A Strong Community

    President Michael Elliott On Coming Back To Amherst And Building A Strong Community
    Apr 27 2024
    When Michael Elliott attended Amherst College, he never imagined he'd one day become its president. But now that he has the job, he brings a perspective that the office hasn't seen since the last time an Amherst graduate held that office (in 1983). Like animals that can detect light in the infrared spectrum, President Elliott's student and alumni experience enables him to see things others may miss. As Amherst Reunion 2024 approaches, I thought, who better to talk about coming back to campus and how to make the most out of the brief time we'll have? In this interview, which I recorded live with about 25 of my classmates attending virtually, you'll learn: What a day-in-the-life as Amherst College president is like The aspects of Amherst that have changed the most, as well as those that haven't changed much over the last 30 years Amherst's "secret sauce"... ...And how much I miss chicken pucks Why building a strong community at Amherst is one of President Elliott's top priorities - and how alumni can help Recommendations on how to get the most out of coming back to campus, including options for families with children His answers to alumni attendee questions, including how he thinks about attracting and nurturing diverse talent through Amherst and beyond, and how campus life amid the war in Gaza fares in comparison to colleges and universities that have made headlines If you'd like to learn more about President Elliott or get in touch, email him at president@amherst.edu, follow him on Instagram (@amherst_president), or watch his interview series, Between 2 Mammoths (https://www.amherst.edu/about/president-college-leadership/president/between2mammoths).
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    1 hr and 1 min
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