Episode 245: Be The Fat Penguin
We trust chatbots with 70 to 80 percent of our decisions without blinking. Put an actual human next to us at a conference, and suddenly we're hiding behind a pastry, hoping nobody makes eye contact.
In this episode, Lauren unpacks what happened at a cybersecurity conference this week: a keynote on AI and trust, a wave of social anxiety in a room full of extroverted tech people, and a stranger who gave her the best networking advice she's heard in a while: be a fat penguin. (Yes, really. Listen to find out why.)
It's a conversation about psychological safety, why chatbots feel easier to trust than people, and why the fix for adult loneliness isn't confidence. It's just someone willing to break the ice first.
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