February 4, 2026 - Jeff Taylor, Mary Grant, and Blind Date with a Book at the BPL

Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, joins us to talk about how the job search has changed — again. When Monster launched in 1994, it moved job listings out of newspaper classifieds and onto the internet. Now Taylor is back with a new platform, Boomband, and discusses job hunting in the age of bots, when software increasingly decides what gets seen and what doesn’t.Mary Grant, president of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, returns for our recurring segment AI: Actual Intelligence. She joins us each month to offer her  human, experience-driven perspective  on  creativity, art and education. Today she and Jared discuss the art of dissent–all the ways that musicians, poets,  graphic designers are using their craft to protest ICE.Veronica Koven-Matasy, Reader Services Director at the Boston Public Library, joins us to talk about the library’s annual “Blind Date with a Book”  event. For the month of February, selected titles are wrapped in paper and stripped of covers, authors, and blurbs, inviting readers to  discover something unexpected. The program is available through the end of the month at the Central Library in Copley Square.