Dr. Ami Bhatt—practicing cardiologist, chief innovation officer, and chair of the FDA's digital health committee—joins Toby and a group of ON_Discourse members who to talk (privately) about what AI can and can't do in medicine. She argues that context, nuance, and edge cases will always belong to humans, while AI handles the compute-heavy work our brains can't do alone. The conversation spans wearables, why TikTok might be the most effective healthcare educator, and why the patient is no longer the "last mile" of healthcare.

Details in the show:

• Context, nuance, and edge cases: the three things AI can't replace
• Desperation is the mother of adoption": why healthcare finally embraced digital
• Patient agency vs. healthcare consumerism
• Why chatbots sometimes outperform doctors at explaining things
• TikTok as healthcare educator: meeting people where they are
• Blood pressure: the one metric everyone should track
• Wearables and the trust gap between doctors and devices

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Toby sits down with Segun Oduolowu—journalist, media veteran, and executive communications coach—at CES to talk about what AI is doing to communication, editorial judgment, and slop. Segun has worked across CNN, network TV, and digital, and now coaches C-suite executives on how to actually sound like themselves. He's pessimistic. The algorithm rewards clicks over facts. TikTokers with no credentials outpace real journalists. CEOs send unedited ChatGPT memos and wonder why no one trusts them. Toby pushes back with a case for human+AI collaboration. They don't fully agree.

Details in the show:

• AI as Pandora's box: you can't tell what's real anymore
• The algorithm decides what's news—clicks over facts
• TikTokers with 5 million followers and no credentials outpacing legacy media
• The misspelling trick: do it wrong on purpose to boost engagement
• PNP: Personality and Proficiency—the only two things that matter
• AI as assistant, not voice: the rewrite is everything
• Why the younger generation can smell insincerity instantly

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Our first podcast in 2026 is a joint episode. Toby and Dan join Matt Britton, host of the Speed of Culture podcast and CEO of Suzy, at CES to debate who wins when everyone can make. They clash on how fast AI is actually reshaping the labor market, whether big tech layoffs are really AI-driven, and what happens to creative careers when craft gets democratized. Dan pushes back. Matt doubles down. Nobody fully agrees.

Details of the show:

• The pace debate: Is AI is moving faster than anything we've seen or is it actually moving slowly.
• Big tech layoffs aren't what they seem: normal market cycle or AI storm?
• Democratization lowers quality: the rise of good taste.
• The $300K creative director is at risk: the "good enough" middle tier of creative careers is getting squeezed.
• Zero to one is easy now. One to hundred is still hard: You can build a $2M ARR company solo, but building the next Apple still requires people, tenacity, and systems.
• AI isolates us: The tools are optimized to keep you alone. The opportunity is in building for human connection, not just automation.

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Dan, Toby, and Chmiel end the year by flipping the script. After letting Dan respond to everyone else's provocations in a previous episode, this time Toby and Chmiel throw Dan's hottest takes, weirdest perspectives, and biggest contradictions right back in his face. From his prediction that linear TV advertising would be dead by now to his thoughts on gobbledygook and autonomous cars, Dan defends (or admits he got wrong) his most memorable moments from the past year.

Details of the show:

• Dan's contradictions on generated slop
• The transformative influence of ChatGPT in 5 years (but not now)
• What "transformative" actually means at CES
• How to pronounce gobbledygook

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Dan, Toby, and Chmiel invite two last-minute guests with competing perspectives about the future of IP and AI. On one side is Craig Elimeliah, Chief Creative Officer at Code and Theory who wrote a provocative LinkedIn post that Eriq Gardner, Founding Partner at Puck (and Dan's brother) called "gobbledygook spit out by a machine."

Details of the show:

• Why Craig thinks Disney's Sora deal represents a fundamental shift in how IP works
• Eric's skepticism about whether this is meaningful change or just corporate partnership jargon
• Whether "invitation to participate" is a real framework or just nice-sounding language
• Why media companies are scrambling to figure out AI deals before they understand what they're dealing with

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Dan, Toby, and Chmiel break down their 3rd annual Provocations Not Predictions event, where ON_Discourse members submit their most challenging questions for the year ahead. In this episode, they debate whether AI will actually deliver transformative change in 2026 or if we're stuck automating yesterday's workflows with tomorrow's tools.

Details in the show:

• Why provocations force harder thinking than predictions
• The difference between automating old processes and fundamentally changing how we work
• Whether new hardware (glasses, wristbands, connected ecosystems) will actually ship in 2026
• Why we might already have everything we're going to get
• What it means when three years after ChatGPT, the only real change is tactical efficiency

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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We are broadcasting Toby’s panel at Web Summit in Lisbon, featuring Dan and Don McGuire, CMO of Qualcomm. Don and Dan think the future of marketing is "human-led, technology-powered.” Behind that concept is a new org-chart, workflow, and a concept called PTSB - permission to sh*t the bed. It sounds a lot different than automation…

Details in the show:

• The problem with the traditional compartmentalization of marketing into separate 'brand' and 'performance' silos
• Why the "nerve center" of marketing organizations should shift to creativity, away from product and communications
• How "context is the new creativity" and why many brands fail to apply it
• A disagreement about what upskilling means
• Why the concept of "The internet is closing" means marketers must figure out new methods to "own your customer"

About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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Dan, Toby, and Matthew announce the launch of new company and product called (domain) - a collaboration platform that connects your work to your network. It is built on the thesis that the future of work isn't about AI giving you answers, it's about AI helping humans collaborate better. In this episode they break down why they think we're on the edge of a collaboration revolution.

Details in the show:

• The problem with AI flattening all outputs to "good enough"
• Why collaboration skills will be what separates people in the future of work
• How we turned lessons in discourse into a modern collaboration platform

Join the (domain) waitlist here: https://ondomain.ai

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About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse.

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

Learn more about becoming part of the community: ondiscourse.com

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