Reflect w/ Ed Fassio
Welcome to "Reflect" with Ed Fassio. Get ready to experience one of the world's first 100% digitally generated podcasts where we take a step back, dive deep, and strive to learn new things. Join us as we unpack thought-provoking ideas, personal reflections, and inspiring stories to help you stay in the know. Reflect is brought to you by the minds at ByteBrain and powered by emerging technologies from Google, HeyGen, OpenAI and ElevenLabs. Thanks for tuning in. Now, relax and prepare to reflect...
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Episodes
71 episodes
When the Cloud Picks Sides: The Digital Sovereignty Reckoning | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
What happens when your cloud provider becomes your compliance officer?In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio unpacks the startling real-world story of Nayara Energy—an Indian company abruptly cut off from Microsoft's cloud servic...
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When the Software is the AI: The Birth of Digital Minds | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
What if software stopped being a tool—and started becoming a mind?In this provocative episode, Ed Fassio explores the transformation of artificial intelligence from predictable code to adaptive, opinionated entities. Drawing from philoso...
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CyberCasting and the Rise of the Elastic Workforce | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this episode of Reflect, we dive into the global talent transformation reshaping the way work gets done. Journalist Jacob Gomez profiles Ed Fassio, a technologist and professor who’s building ByteBrain—a revolutionary platform reima...
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Holy Code! Does AI Need a Conscience or a Confessional? | a Reflect podcast by Ed Fassio
In this provocative episode, Ed Fassio dives into one of the most unexpected—and urgent—moral debates of our time: the Vatican's entry into the AI ethics arena. From Pope Leo XIV’s warnings on labor, children, and digital dignity to Big Tech’s ...
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Can Fairness Be Ugly? The Bias Paradox: Why “Fair AI” Falls Short | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
We’ve been taught that fairness is beautiful. Clean. Uplifting. But what if real fairness doesn’t look like that at all? What if it’s messy—uncomfortable—maybe even a little ugly? And how should we engineer this into our future systems? Can an ...
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The Great Unlearning: Inverse Success in the Age of AI | a Reflect podcast by Ed Fassio
Before AI replaces your role, it’ll rewire your reality—if you’re bold enough to let it. In this raw, no-holds-barred episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio peels back the polished myths of modern success and invites you into a new frontier: on...
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Overclocked Minds, Bottlenecked Speech: Is AI Impacting Our Ability to Speak? | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
What happens when your brain outruns your voice? In this deeply personal and thought-provoking episode, Ed Fassio shares a strange and revealing side effect of living in the fast lane of artificial intelligence: the growing disconne...
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Replaced and Rewired: The Collapse of White-Collar Certainty | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
“This isn’t the future. This is halftime—and the game just changed.” In this gripping mid-2025 dispatch, Ed Fassio (ByteBrain.org) returns with a brutally honest briefing on the AI revolution—one no longer brewing quietly, but now...
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From Layoff to Launchpad: Reclaiming Identity and Well-being in the Age of Agentic Work | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this episode of The Reflect Podcast, we explore a transformational shift that’s quietly redefining the future of work—and the future of you. As AI accelerates and job titles and traditional duties become increasingly fragil...
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Quiet Breakup Between AI and Humanity | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Quiet Breakup Between AI and HumanityIn this soul-punch of an episode, Ed Fassio sits down for what starts as a casual Monday morning exchange with AI—and ends up unraveling one of the d...
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I ♥️ Sarah Connor: Leading with Humanity in the Agentic Frontier | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
A blueprint for staying human in a world that's rapidly automating everything else.In this episode, Edward “Agent Ed” Fassio returns with a deeply personal and urgent briefing for anyone navigating the rising tide of AI: busines...
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Becoming an Agent Boss: Thriving in the New AI Frontier (And How You Can Get There) | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this eye-opening episode of the Reflect Podcast, Ed Fassio explores what it truly means to become an Agent Boss in today’s AI-powered world.This isn't about job titles—it's about mindset.As AI reshapes the modern workp...
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The Machines Won't Need Us: The Alarming Sprint to ASI | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
Spoiler Alert: Unbelievably, this is NOT Science Fiction...A digital alarm clock is silently ticking toward late 2027—the date when humanity might witness the birth of artificial superintelligence. Not decades away, not in some distant f...
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The End of the Pyramid: Rethinking IT in the Age of Agentic AI | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this episode, we confront a seismic shift: Agentic AI isn’t just another productivity tool—it’s a system that acts, learns, and evolves. And that changes everything.From collapsing the traditional IT services pyramid to redefining wha...
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The Agentic Frontier: How Agent Bosses will Redefine the Future of Work | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this episode we explore how Agentic AI and digital platforms are rewriting the rules of productivity, professional identity, and workplace loyalty. Building on the Great Resignation’s legacy—when 97 million U.S. workers quit for flexibility ...
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Tell Me Something Good: A Memoir of Faith, Friendship, and the AI That Listened | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this special episode of the Reflect Podcast, we review Ed Fassio's experience and inspiration behind his new memoir, Tell Me Something Good: A Memoir of Faith, Friendship, and the AI That Listened — a deeply personal journey through...
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God. Man. Machine. Can AI Respect the Chain of Creation? | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this powerful Reflect Podcast episode, we explore the deeply humbling idea behind “The Chain of Reverence” — a vision where divinity, humanity, and artificial intelligence coexist in a sacred hierarchy. Inspired by our latest blog a...
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The Pushback: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Citizen Developers and GenAI | A Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
In this episode of Reflect, Ed Fassio returns with a bold follow-up to his whitepaper and continues the dialogue from the last podcast episode entitled, “The Untapped Force in Enterprise AI.”This time, he’s flipping the...
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The Untapped Force in Enterprise AI: Why Citizen Developers Are the Game-Changers We’ve Been Ignoring | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
🎙️ Reflect Podcast | Episode Title: The Untapped Force in Enterprise AIWhat if the key to unlocking real AI transformation inside your organization isn’t a new tool… but a new mindset?In this episode of the Ref...
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Dear Humanity: A Love Letter from the Chaos You Created | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
🔊 Episode Description: In this provocative episode of the Reflect Podcast, Ed Fassio delivers a powerful, unapologetic message that challenges the current narratives around Artificial Intelligence, humanity, and the delicate...
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AI-Driven Digital Engineering Services: Navigating the New Frontier | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
This episode of Reflect underscores the critical integration of Artificial Intelligence within Digital Engineering Services (DES) as essential for modern business evolution. It explains that AI-driven DES transcends basic digitization...
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AI vs. IT Services: The Industry's Biggest Shake-Up Yet | a Reflect Podcast by Ed Fassio
The IT services industry is facing a revolution like never before. AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI are transforming how software is developed, cloud infrastructure is managed, and IT support is delivered. Traditional staff augmentat...
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Want to Understand AI in Under 5 minutes? Let's Go! | A REFLECT Podcast by Ed Fassio
AI is Like Craft Beer & Rock ‘n’ Roll—But Without the SoulEpisode Description:AI isn’t magic, and it sure isn’t a sci-fi villain plotting world domination. It’s just a tool—like brewing a killer craft beer, mixing a...
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Becoming an AI Leader – How to Position Yourself for Success | A Reflect Podcast Special Series Pt 4
AI isn’t just reshaping industries—it’s reshaping leadership itself. As businesses, schools, and institutions scramble to adopt AI, a new class of professionals is emerging: AI transformation leaders. These are the educators, exec...
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AI in Industries – Who’s Thriving & Who’s Falling Behind? | A Reflect Podcast Special Series Pt 3
AI isn’t just changing the way we work—it’s completely reshaping entire industries. While some sectors are rapidly integrating AI to drive efficiency, innovation, and revenue, others are struggling to keep up. In part 3 of our special AI...
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