Have you ever wanted to interrupt a conversation with "I object"? Shamita Etienne-Cummings does that as part of her job, but also works for some of the largest companies in the world on their most sensitive intellectual property disputes. In this conversation we cover litigation, big firm practice, building your network, and finding satisfaction in a demanding job.

We depend on software for so much, but how does it get written? What does it even mean to write code? And what impact will Generative AI have?  Ed Peters, Executive Distinguished Software Engineer at Capital One, tells us!

How confident do you feel ordering a glass of wine?  You're not alone. Bill Jensen's job is to make ordering wine fun and judgment free. And he's great at it. This podcast is fruit forward with a long finish.

Data science is one of the fastest growing professions, in part because it is one of the newest. But what do they do (other than run regressions)? Alex Smolyanskaya, of head of data science at Abl, tells us about her work.

Making people laugh is amazing, but getting paid to do it is no easy feat! In this episode, Bevil and Michael are joined by Ophira Eisenberg, frequent host of the Moth, former host of Ask Me Another, and veteran stand up.  

They don't teach you how to run a college in college. That's because it takes an array of skills that go well beyond the academic: you have to be good at leading, communicating, fundraising, and, of course, educating. In this episode, we speak with the President of Trinity College, Joanne Berger-Sweeney, who tells us how it's done.

You've probably heard of lobbyists, but do you know what they do? Or how you become one? In this episode, Bevil and Michael talk to Israel ("Izzy") Klein about being a lobbyist, whether we need lobbyists, and why Chuck Schumer is the hardest working man in politics.