171. VHS or Betamax? (Condition #20: technology)

My friend Andrew recently told me about a platform called Zeck. Go to Zeck.app to check it out. The first sentence on their About Us page reads “Zeck is reimagining the way board decks, board prep, and board governance (the bane of all of our work experiences) are approached...which is to say #DeathToBoardDecks.” Also one of their founders is the actor Edward Norton (?) Anyway, I reached out to them right away to ask if I could interview someone and hear more about the story. I don’t know about board governance being the bane of anything if we think of it as just how boards make decisions, but other than that I love the idea of taking something everyone hates (like board decks) and trying something different and better. And if we’re being honest with each other here, the most significant technological improvement in boardrooms maybe ever was replacing piles of paper with ipads, and even that still has its skeptics. But there’s *so* much technology that has the potential to improve governance. A podcast is technology, and here you are using it. Could you deploy this podcast or any other one in service of good governance? Sure you could! How about AI? Definitely! Hell, I’ve been thinking about a governance-related game, and every time I have a new idea about it I run it by chatGPT to see if it will come up with something better. I mean, no knock on board management software, but we mainly just use it as a document repository. With all the amazing technology that we’ve integrated into every other part of our lives, it’s a pretty short step to finding ways integrate it into our decisions.