<![CDATA[ON_Discourse: ON_Discourse Podcast]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/s/on_discourse-podcasthttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fEn4!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6adbddd-5a5b-41a7-922b-f1def6e64dca_500x500.pngON_Discourse: ON_Discourse Podcasthttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/s/on_discourse-podcastSubstackThu, 30 Jul 2026 00:15:25 GMT<![CDATA[Apps vs Agents]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/apps-vs-agents-222https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/apps-vs-agents-222Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:36:18 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel have a short argument about the difference between an app and an agent. Apps are deterministic, agents are probabilistic. In the curious language of AI that might mean that when an app fails it's a bug, when an agent fails it's part of the experience. Along the way they compare Google Calendar to Howie, stress-test the agentic browser, and try to figure out why consumer agents barely exist.

Details of the show:

  • What's the difference between an app and an agent?

  • Why does the definition matter for anyone designing or investing in AI?

  • Is an agentic browser an agent, or just better search?

  • Is the consumer agent shortage a supply problem or a demand problem?

  • Why do we forgive human mistakes but not agent mistakes?

Learn more at ON_Discourse.com.

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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]]><![CDATA[Cannes Platitudes]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/cannes-platitudes-120https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/cannes-platitudes-120Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:47:02 GMTTen days out from Cannes Lions, Dan, Toby, and Chmiel try to work out whether anything has changed in the year since AI took over every panel and pitch deck. Their answer: not really. To make the point, they ran hundreds of Cannes sessions through Doma and pulled the ten platitudes the industry is about to repeat for a week straight — "AI will augment, not replace creativity," "trust is the new currency," "the future is human plus the machine." Dan does a lot of groaning. Under the groaning is a question worth sitting with: at a festival built on creativity, where did the creativity go?

Details of the show:

  • Whether anything material has shifted in the year since AI swallowed every panel and pitch, and Toby's case that the tech mostly forced the industry to look at its own dysfunction

  • The ten platitudes Doma pulled from hundreds of Cannes sessions, and why a week of hearing them on a loop is its own kind of exhaustion

  • Dan on the missing creativity — Flash, mobile, even NFTs had real creative energy, and AI so far hasn't

  • Agentic shopping carts, Google "closing the internet," and why people trust a brand's cart more than a tech company's

  • Human plus machine sounds good and often plays worse than either one alone, from NBA refs to Premier League VAR

Learn more at ON_Discourse.com

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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]]><![CDATA[The Internet Still Sucks]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-internet-still-sucks-d3fhttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-internet-still-sucks-d3fWed, 06 May 2026 02:33:43 GMTFor the 50th episode of ON_Discourse, Dan, Toby, and Chmiel walk back through the running arguments that have shaped the show — and check which ones aged well, which got dumber, and which still don't have an answer. The smart fridge is still a bad idea, but the home-as-interface thesis underneath it looks better than ever. Bordy is an elegant solution to a problem that may not exist. The internet still sucks, though now we can at least see the agentic layer that might fix it. And somehow, against all odds, someone on LinkedIn this morning declared that we are living in its golden era.

Details of the show:

  • What is an agentic internet?

  • Did Bordy solve a real problem?

  • Can a two-person company be worth a billion dollars?

  • Is voice ever going to be the interface?

  • Have we hit peak LinkedIn?

  • Can ChatGPT actually read your mind?

  • Will Vision Pro make more sense when we're old?

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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]]><![CDATA[AI in the Loop]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/ai-in-the-loop-76ahttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/ai-in-the-loop-76aTue, 28 Apr 2026 14:57:02 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel get riled by a LinkedIn post that contributes to the AI exhaustion it claims to diagnose, and use it as a jumping-off point to ask why everything in the AI conversation is starting to sound the same. They flip the "human in the loop" framing on its head, argue Anthropic's recent Claude Code throttling is just the latest in a long lineage of platform rug pulls (RIP Facebook organic reach), and stumble into Reed Hastings' line that nobody's ever going to want to watch robots play basketball — which Dan immediately tries to dismantle.

Details of the show:

  • The "AI exhaustion loop" guy and what's wrong with performing overwhelm on LinkedIn

  • Why Toby thinks Cannes is going to offer nothing new this year

  • Dan's three (or four) categories of AI users and the missing agentic layer of the internet

  • The Hollywood writer using Domain to run a virtual writers room and why "elevated use cases" matter more than agent-stacking

  • "Slop that shit up"

  • Toby's therapist on slowing down, and why none of them are going to do it

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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]]><![CDATA[Tokenmaxxing]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/tokenmaxxing-ff5https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/tokenmaxxing-ff5Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:40:26 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel break down the Silicon Valley flex nobody's asking enough questions about: burning tokens as a workplace KPI. Is maxing your token usage a signal of genuine AI-first thinking — or just a new way to dress up the same old productivity theater?

Details of the show:

  • Jensen Huang's "$500K in tokens or you're not doing it right" interview and why it's both a marketing stunt and a real cultural shift

  • Why Meta's internal token leaderboard (they called it Clawdynamics) collapsed when employees just built bots to game it

  • The NBER study: 90% of firms reporting zero productivity from AI initiatives — and what it says about the gap between token burning and actual outcomes

  • "Refounding" vs. transformation — a new word for the same old fuzzy concept, or something actually different?

  • Why the billion-dollar one-person company is probably wrong — and the five-person version might be right

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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]]><![CDATA[Can AI Make Art?]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/can-ai-make-art-caehttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/can-ai-make-art-caeWed, 25 Mar 2026 15:51:39 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel are joined by Carlos "Mare139" Rodriguez — OG ON_Discourse member, graffiti pioneer, fine artist, and cultural theorist — to dig into the question that lit up the ON_Discourse WhatsApp group: when a member called an AI-generated Spotify track the work of "a new artist," it set off a debate about art, authorship, economics, and who gets to hold the gate. Carlos brings five decades of perspective — from NYC hip hop and Style Wars to digital sculpture and 3D-printed B-Boys — to argue that this moment is less a threat to art than the latest in a long line of tools that expand what's possible. Marcel Duchamp's latrine makes an appearance. So does Questlove.

Details of the show:

  • Why the word "artist" sparked the debate

  • Carlos traces the lineage: from Cubism to graffiti to jumbotrons to AI

  • The turntable as instrument — and what that tells us about AI as a creative tool

  • Are we heading toward more great artists, fewer, or the same? (The hosts don't agree)

  • Why Carlos thinks young people, not institutions, will decide what happens next

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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]]><![CDATA[Vibecoding Returns]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/vibecoding-returns-402https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/vibecoding-returns-402Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:47:00 GMTIn this episode, Dan, Toby, and Chmiel try to explain what it actually feels like when AI stops being a tool you use in isolation and starts being the connective tissue of how a team works together. The conversation wanders through vibe coding failures, the difference between content and context, what it means to actually be an AI-first company (spoiler: not what most people think), and why the right question isn't "how do we get more efficient?"

Details of the Show

  • Productive vs performative vibecoding

  • It is very hard to describe and very easy to experience

  • How MyFitnessPal vibecoded its way to success without Under Armour

  • This moment in history is lacking language to adequately describe it

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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]]><![CDATA[It’s Not Real, But It’s Important]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/its-not-real-but-its-important-329https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/its-not-real-but-its-important-329Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:19:15 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel confront a hard truth: a listener reached out last week and said they were completely lost. So this week, the trio tries to strip away the gobbledygook and explain — in plain language — what OpenClaw actually means, why it matters even though it barely works, and why none of them can confidently explain what they're building anymore. Along the way, Toby uses his therapist as a test case for AI integration, Dan admits he might have been wrong about prompt engineering for three years, and Chmiel says something he never expected to say: everything feels broken.

Details of the Show:

  • The difference between talking to AI on a website and talking to your computer at the system level — and why the distinction matters

  • Why Toby's therapist tried AI on their sessions and they both decided it was terrible

  • Dan's flip: after years of rejecting "direction work," he spent the last week doing nothing but prompting

  • The vibe-coded prototype problem — when a client shows up with something they built in two minutes and thinks the hard work is done

  • Chmiel's confession: a lifetime of limitations trained his imagination to think small — and the last five weeks broke that

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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]]><![CDATA[Skills]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/skills-4b0https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/skills-4b0Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:48:22 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel pick up where last week's LSD-level excitement left off — except now they're burned out. After a frenetic week building with their AI agent DOMA, the Domain co-founders are processing what it means to develop software that isn't designed but trained, where behavior is the interface and features might be beside the point. Along the way, Toby accidentally discovers DOMA can make podcasts, Dan's own agent tells him what he learned this week, and Chmiel tries to figure out what any of this means for Stripe.

Details of the show:

  • Why Dan believes status updates kill momentum, and why his AI agent was the one who told him

  • What happened when Toby asked DOMA to summarize a conversation and got a fully produced audio file back

  • How open-source skill marketplaces are turning into the Matrix's "I know Kung Fu" moment

  • Why brands may need to start thinking about agentic skills as part of their identity, not just their tech stack

  • The Colombo episode that would absolutely not hold up in court

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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]]><![CDATA[Agentic Experiences]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/agentic-experiences-fe6https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/agentic-experiences-fe6Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:30:20 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel are still processing the implications of last week's conversation with Sam and the rollout of OpenClaw — and why it's changing the way they think about the web. This week, the team reveals what happened when they deployed their AI agent DOMA into the Signal group chat where they actually work, and why it felt less like a product demo and more like hiring a new teammate.

Details of the show:

  • Why Dan believes the last 40 years of GUI design was a detour — and we're back to the prompt box where we started

  • What happened when DOMA showed up in Signal and the team knew within two minutes something had shifted

  • The difference between AI you go to and AI that meets you where you already are

  • Why the ON_Discourse emergency Group Chat drew record attendance and off-the-charts energy

  • The Back to the Future 3 ice machine as the perfect metaphor for where most AI workflows are right now

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]><![CDATA[The Next Internet is Already Here]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-is-already-here-530https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-is-already-here-530Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:28:41 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel welcome Sam Broe, career technologist and architect of (domain), to unpack why Claude Code and the open-source project Claudebot (now OpenClaw) represent something far bigger than a better coding tool. Sam makes the case that giving an AI agent root-level access to your computer fundamentally changes how the internet works — and that the platforms trying to lock down their APIs are already fighting a losing battle.

Details of the show:

  • Why Claude Code isn't a coding tool — it's a translator between humans and the raw language of computers

  • How Claudebot bypasses API restrictions by simply reading what's on the screen, the same way a human would

  • Sam's "right to delegate" concept — if you can do it yourself or hire someone to do it, your AI agent should be able to do it too

  • Why Web3 and zero-knowledge proofs might finally have their "why" moment as AI's security layer

  • The canary in the coal mine: everyday people opening Terminal on their computers

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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]]><![CDATA[Clawdbot / Moltbot / OpenClaw]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/clawdbot-moltbot-openclaw-d05https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/clawdbot-moltbot-openclaw-d05Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:37:13 GMTDan, Toby, and Chmiel reunite after a long January to unpack what happened when ON_Discourse members went hands-on with Moltbot (formerly Claudebot, now OpenClaw) — an open-source AI agent with full shell access to your computer, your email, your calendar, and everything else. What started as an emergency Group Chat turned into one of the most unsettling Follow My Flow sessions yet, with even the most advanced members shutting the tool down because it got too weird.

Details in the show:

  • How Clawdbot makes it easy to forget completed work

  • The difference between automating a defined process and giving an agent undefined access to act on your behalf

  • Why Moltbot is different than previous agents

  • Why the most advanced users are spending all their energy on context engineering instead of the actual work

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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]]><![CDATA[AI and Healthcare]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/ai-and-healthcare-da7https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/ai-and-healthcare-da7Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:12:35 GMTDr. 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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]><![CDATA[Show Me Your Work]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/show-me-your-work-d2chttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/show-me-your-work-d2cWed, 21 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMTToby 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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]><![CDATA[Who Wins When Everyone Can Make]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/who-wins-when-everyone-can-make-303https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/who-wins-when-everyone-can-make-303Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:33:57 GMTOur 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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]]><![CDATA[Dan Gets Roasted]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/dan-gets-roasted-494https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/dan-gets-roasted-494Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:02:13 GMTDan, 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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]]><![CDATA[Disney, Sora, IP, and Gobbledygook]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/disney-sora-ip-and-gobbledygook-8c8https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/disney-sora-ip-and-gobbledygook-8c8Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:33:59 GMTDan, 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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]]><![CDATA[2026 Provocations, Not Predictions]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/2026-provocations-not-predictions-16fhttps://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/2026-provocations-not-predictions-16fTue, 09 Dec 2025 16:32:51 GMTDan, 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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]]><![CDATA[The Modern Marketing Playbook]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-modern-marketing-playbook-5e0https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-modern-marketing-playbook-5e0Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:13:43 GMTWe 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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

]]><![CDATA[The Collaboration Revolution]]>https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-collaboration-revolution-091https://ondiscourse.substack.com/p/the-collaboration-revolution-091Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:25:35 GMTDan, 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

Enter code PODCAST

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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