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2184 Headlines is a satirical and fractured look at possible headlines from the future based upon current cultural, legal and legislative trends, pet peeves, conspiracies and the fears of people in our society today. For the utopian socialists, it is a way to laugh at the unenlightened primitives in our society today from the smug and elitist view of the future. For the conspiracy hucksters, it is not only a validation of your fears but will most likely present new conspiracies and fears for ...
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Let Genius Burn

Jamie Burgess & Jill Fuller

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Louisa May Alcott may be best known for the beloved book Little Women, but her story doesn’t begin or end with her famous novel. On Let Genius Burn, a new podcast series coming July 12, we’re separating the layers of Louisa’s life to learn more about who she really was--and all the ways her legacy continues to resonate today.We’ll explore the traumatic year of her childhood spent in an experimental utopian community, her service as a Civil War nurse, her final years of wealth and celebrity a ...
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What is Radio Luftballet? Radio Luftballet—anchored at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)—is a place for imagining new worlds and sharing people’s stories about how we can contribute to the transition to a more sustainable society. Radio Luftballet hopes to open up connections and collaborations between the many sectors—cultural, commercial, social, political—working on transitions within their fields. In this project we wish to keep alive the historic ambitions of utopi ...
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How to discern what matters in business and IT and find a sense in your trade. We combine practical academic theories with concrete business. If you are a bored seasoned professional or an enterprising engineering student, listen to this show. You will discover how technology and business can be combined to bring more value and sense to society. We illustrate how to avoid out-of-touch strategies that are based on, for example, transparency and pure agility. Today, work environments are often ...
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Sit down with Jill and Jamie as they reflect and dissect the week they spent together in Concord. They talk about visits to Orchard House, Fruitlands, Walden Pond, and more. Jill discusses her visit to the Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library, where she saw Louisa's handwritten manuscript pages from Little Women. Jamie talks about…
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Alain, our dearest friend and the host of this show, passed away a few days after recording the last episode of the season. In it, he honored Bruno Latour, a fellow academic and a leading figure in Social Sciences, until his own recent passing. In this episode, Alain paid tribute to Latour’s work and offered insights into the shared goals of their …
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On July 13, 2022, Let Genius Burn was invited to speak at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, the site where the Alcott family lived--and nearly died--for 9 months in 1843. This episode is the recording of our talk. The Fruitlands Effect: How the Utopian Experiment Influenced Louisa May Alcott’s Life and Work The Alcott family spent less t…
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Bruno Latour was a French anthropologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He was born in 1947 and died at the age of 75 in 2022 in Paris. Latour was considered an iconoclast as he challenged many of the buzzwords we use to guide our actions. He calls these buzzwords ‘factish’ gods which people worship. Latour believes that facts should be developed t…
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This episode features Jill's travelogue from her week in Concord, Massachusetts. Listen as we travel to see Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House for the first time and take a tour of Fruitlands with Trustees Engagement Manager Catherine Shortliffe. We also spend time with other Louisa May Alcott scholars and enthusiasts, sharing stories. In particular…
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In this episode, Alain Wegmann interviews Lucien Etzlinger, Senior Consultant of customer-relationship management, with whom he collaborated for over ten years on developing the SEAM method. In this episode, Lucien explains how he discovered, during his career in the world of finance, the importance of relationship management. He describes how the …
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Alain Wegmann asks Holly Cogliati-Bauereis, an English editor with whom he collaborates, to present a project for redefining her position in their department at their university. In this episode, through Holly’s project, Alain describes the use of the Seam method, focusing mainly on the Seam patterns called CASA. Her project was a simple sales proc…
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Weeks into the Beyond the Buzzwords podcast, we're now down to the conclusion of the show's first season. What better way to celebrate this milestone than a good recap of the wisdom shared across the episodes? Alain Wegmann does just that and puts it all together. In the first two episodes, he introduced a metaphor about living beings and explained…
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In this episode, Alain Wegmann defines and discusses the concept of 'curiosity' in business and IT. He introduces the importance of curiosity in our lives as it drives personal and professional growth. Curiosity is essential to understanding our customers' and our partners' realities. Alain also discusses the importance of serendipity, as it brings…
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People need to start taking action to change their habits or else machines are going to take over their jobs. It is easier to change automation than it is to change people’s habits. In this episode, Alain Wegmann defines and discusses the concept of ‘taking action’ in business and IT. He discusses the importance of habits and the challenges related…
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In this episode, Alain Wegmann defines and discusses the concept of ‘appreciation’ in business and IT. Organizations and individuals are living beings who are in relationships. When these living beings are in relationships they perceive as problematic, they can develop an appreciation. This appreciation enables them to analyze their problems and th…
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In business and IT, the notion of ‘services’ is extremely popular. In this episode, Alain Wegmann defines and discusses this concept of services. Organizations and individual are living beings. All living beings are in relations and maintain these relations through services. Understanding the exchanges of matter, energy, and information between the…
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Alain explores how Ernest Gmunder uses tree metaphors to explain the benefits of an hybrid operating model to the companies he advises. In this hybrid model, a company is considered as a “tree”. This is his way to go beyond the “agile” buzzword. Ernest recognises that the organisation behind a product line, the “branches” in the tree, needs agility…
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In this episode, Alain Wegmann defines and discusses the power and importance of analogies and of metaphors in our reasoning. They are central to our languages and for understanding complex concepts. By using metaphors, we can reason rationally and emotionally. Using analogies and metaphors is essential in service design and systems thinking.…
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In this first episode of Beyond the Buzzwords, Alain Wegmann explains his approach to entrepreneurship and business and IT alignment. He illustrates how people can better work together by reasoning about themselves and about companies as if they were living beings. The concept of living beings is an amazingly powerful metaphor for analyzing exchang…
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In our final full episode of Season 8, Jill and Jamie recap the highlights of season two and reflect on what the conversations with Alcott scholars have taught them. Then they both share what they've been reading and researching lately. Jamie, who has been teaching second grade this year, dives into the differences between teaching Little Women and…
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John Matteson's biography, Eden's Outcasts: the Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, has become a foundational work in Alcott scholarship. It brings together the best of Alcott studies to show us an empathetic portrait of the Alcotts who feel as real and alive as ever in its pages. In our conversation with John Matteson, we cover Louisa's tim…
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If you’re anything like us, you’ve watched the Little Women film adaptations looking for the props and pieces that really bring the book to life–the vivid renderings of your own thoughtfully-imagined ephemera. Barbara Heller worked on movie set designs for feature films for many years, bringing all kinds of stories to life through location scouting…
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Most Alcott scholars cannot imagine what it would be like to do research without the Selected Letters and Selected Journals of Louisa May Alcott, these two seminal works that make Alcott's work so accessible. Dr. Daniel Shealy, however, knows exactly what it's like--because he was part of the team that edited these two publications, bringing togeth…
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Meet Lauren Stern: a researcher interested in social and material history. She has been a staff member at Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House since 2006, where she has worked to bring New England history alive through summer camps, museum tours, and living history programs. In this episode, Lauren discusses her experiences at Orchard House as well as…
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Maud: Books, Babes, and Barbiturates is a podcast about the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables. The co-creators, Stef Drummon and Jen MacLennan, tell Maud's story with empathy, intelligence, and depth. This week, they join us on Let Genius Burn to talk about our two favorite literary women. Gender and sexuality, fame, …
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In this episode, we are talking with Leslie Schomp, who served as an artist-in-residence at Fruitlands in 2021. Leslie drew inspiration from Louisa’s diaries to create textile pieces that embodied and expressed Louisa May Alcott’s time there. Her samplers capture the dichotomy of this place: the distance between the restrictive ideals of the commun…
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Jan Turnquist, Executive Director of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, has made her life about Louisa's legacy. Whether she is portraying Louisa May Alcott around the world, consulting on Little Women adaptations with A-list actors, or simply showing someone around the house museum, she brings the same level of commitment and enthusiasm for sharin…
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In the first bonus episode of Let Genius Burn, Jill and Jamie dive into the details of three passages from Louisa's work beyond Little Women. Listeners will learn about the different ways Louisa's life experiences shape her writings. Plus, after twenty months of working together on Let Genius Burn, Jill and Jamie finally meet in person!…
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At the time of Louisa May Alcott's death, she was known to most as the "children's friend," an author of children's books and particularly books for girls. As time passed and scholars made the connection between Louisa May Alcott and the lurid thrillers she wrote under pen names, Louisa's legacy took on new dimensions. Today, we can appreciate Loui…
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In Louisa May Alcott's time, strict definitions and expectations of white womanhood permeated Louisa’s society and culture. Marriage and motherhood were the accepted roles for women; voting was inaccessible and illegal, education restricted, and earning a living through a career was limited. Louisa May Alcott defied gender expectations, sometimes t…
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When Little Women became a sensation, Louisa May Alcott became the ultimate literary celebrity. Fans were waiting out on her lawn and knocking on her door, and her life was suddenly not her own. Although she had always yearned for fame, she was surprised to find it costly and unpleasant. Still, her celebrity opened new doors for her. It gave voice …
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Louisa devoted her life to the causes she believed in, primarily abolition and women's suffrage. Her political beliefs were handed down from her parents, who were constantly striving for a better world. The Alcotts made their home available to freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad, and Louisa eventually became a nurse during the Civil War, as…
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