Show Notes
Episode 25 is not one to miss! Maxime Paul came through and schooled us on:
-- the value of invention and innovation in everyday life;
-- how video games can refabricate or mitigate what's going on in the world; and
-- what cooking teaches us about community research.
Maxime is an autodidactic polymath with wide-ranging industry experience and keen ability to learn quickly in any situation, environment, or context. His work has touched fields that include technology development and business design as well as interdependent city planning and community-centered program design. Currently, he helps design/redesign organizations, communities, and governments with social and environmental impact in their DNA through his fifth venture, Building What’s Next. His work is typically rooted in systems engineering, culture redefinition, power decentralization, user research, and iterative development no matter what tools need to be used to solve the challenges he’s faced with. Maxime holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rice University in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a specialty in Systems and an MBA in Next Economy Business Design from Lift Economy. He is currently working on his first series of books, a collection of illustrated Afrofuturist parables, called A Window to Liberation. He is also the host of the Let Me Introduce Myself podcast which uncovers the deeper layers of Black men.
His #TNWIDTakeaway: "[K]eep trying things out...experiment...Everybody is a compilation of their experiences."
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