ABOUT THIS EPISODE
I'm joined today by Mark Ramos, a global learning and AI transformation leader who has held senior learning roles at Google, Novartis, and Cornerstone, and who currently advises AI-first startups, venture firms, and Harvard's Learning Innovation Lab. We talk about why cognitive agency might be the most important and most threatened resource in the workplace right now, and what happens to skills, careers, and middle management when AI takes over a chunk of everyone's daily tasks.
Mark shares a great real-world example of transferable skills in action, the idea behind Google's internal "Googler to Googler" teaching culture, and his honest take on cognitive offloading, cognitive atrophy, and what he calls learning slop. He makes the case that healthy skepticism, not blind trust, is the real skill of the AI era. This conversation goes deeper into human potential than I expected, and I think anyone navigating their own learning pathway will find something here that shifts how they think about growth and agency.
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