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Become remarkable. Podcast interviews, essays, how-tos, and lessons from my work at Apple, Canva, Google, Wikipedia and Mercedes plus interviews of remarkable people such as Jane Goodall, Woz, Carol Dweck, Seth Godin, and Bob Cialdini.

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Why Your Five-Year Strategic Plan Is Already Obsolete

I have lived through several inflection points.

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How to Fight Climate Change Without Giving Up Your Joy

What if climate action didn’t have to feel like a list of things you’re not allowed to enjoy?

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You Got a Yes. Was It Persuasion or Manipulation?

You Got a Yes. Was It Persuasion or Manipulation?

Lessons I learned from Robert Cialdini and Zoe Chance about influence that you can feel good about.

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Young People, AI, and the Fight for Human Agency

At 23, Sam Hiner is already thinking beyond the usual conversation about whether young people are “good” or “bad” at technology.

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Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Energy.

Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Energy.

Energy is the resource nobody budgets.

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Spoiler: Your Employees Are Your Growth Strategy

Most companies obsess over acquiring customers.

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How Ordinary People Become Activists

Charlie Euchner shares lessons from Rules of Activism on grassroots organizing, leadership, listening, and turning collective concerns into action.

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Two OGs talking about tech, privacy, Signal, social media, Apple, Meta, and Air Tags. You had to be there...actually by watching, you can be...

A recording from Guy Kawasaki and Mitch Jackson's live video

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How to Succeed by Really Trying

How to Succeed by Really Trying

Tough advice if you want to be remarkable.

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Why Your Phone Is Designed to Make You Miserable: A Former Facebook Exec Explains

This week I am rerunning my conversation with Tim Kendall, who helped build Facebook’s monetization model and later became president of Pinterest, and a mobile screen-time tracking app, Moment.

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How to Become Robot-Proof

Vivienne Ming explains how curiosity, creativity, resilience, and AI collaboration can help us become more capable—not replaceable—in the AI age.

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Your Calendar Has No Room for Anything to Go Wrong (or Potential to Go Right)

Your Calendar Has No Room for Anything to Go Wrong (or Potential to Go Right)

Many people treat a full calendar as a badge of honor.

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Democracy Doesn’t Defend Itself

We’re revisiting our conversation with Jocelyn Benson, whose commitment to public service has made her one of the most recognizable election officials in America.

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Why You Need to Stop Waiting and Start Creating

Bestselling author Harlan Coben joins Guy to talk about what really happens behind the stories that keep millions of readers turning pages—from his “inspiration, perspiration, desperation” philosophy to his GPS approach to plotting, where he knows the destination but leaves room for the road to surprise him.

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Stop Listening to Advice

Stop Listening to Advice

Good advice can be wrong for you.

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How to Build a Brand People Remember with David Aaker

What makes a story memorable, a brand powerful, or an innovation impossible to ignore?

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How Wikipedia Can Survive the Age of AI

Jimmy Wales helped create Wikipedia by betting that people could build something extraordinary by sharing knowledge, challenging one another, and correcting their mistakes.

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Don’t Become a Museum

Don’t Become a Museum

Why successful people must periodically renovate themselves.

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Why You Should Try More Things and Plan Less

What can a musician, circus ringleader, and entrepreneur teach us about building a life on your own terms?

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What Rituals Reveal About Being Human

What if the antidote to our increasingly virtual lives is something as old as humanity itself?

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How Poetry Gives Shape to What We Feel

What if the words we avoid contain some of our most important lessons?

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The Leader Who Isn’t the Bottleneck

The Leader Who Isn’t the Bottleneck

Most people measure leadership by personal output: the hardest problem solved, the toughest call made, the moment someone stepped in, the brilliant “manifesto.” It can work, for a while, but it also builds a dependency — the organization succeeds because of the glorious leader, not because the leader is building an organization beyond themselves.

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How We Create a Culture of Belonging

Every interaction carries an invisible question: Am I safe here?

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Make Peace with Your Past and Move Forward

Josh Peck is best known as the star of Drake & Josh, but there’s much more to his story than his years as a child actor.

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Notice What You’re Optimizing For

Notice What You’re Optimizing For

Every system has a hidden objective.

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The Five-Minute Habit That Can Transform Your Day

What if the easiest way to become more creative wasn't downloading another app or finding a new productivity system, but simply standing up and moving?

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Make It Safe to Tell the Truth

Make It Safe to Tell the Truth

Why honesty disappears in high-pressure environments.

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Why We Need to Rethink Disability

In this past episode of Remarkable People, Haben Girma, the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, joins Guy for a conversation that challenges how we think about disability, accessibility, and inclusion.

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How We Can Help Every Child Succeed

What if the students who challenge us the most are actually showing us where the education system needs to change?

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Become Less Predictable to Yourself

Become Less Predictable to Yourself

Why growth begins when you surprise yourself.