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Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™

Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™

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Christopher Lochhead | Follow Your Different is pioneer in real dialogue podcasts. “The best business podcast” – Podcast Magazine “The worst business podcast” – Neil Pearlberg© 2022 Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™ Podcast 社会科学 経済学
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  • 435 The Fatherhood 2.0 Trap | Creator Capitalist Conversations

    435 The Fatherhood 2.0 Trap | Creator Capitalist Conversations
    2026/06/17
    Fatherhood has never been a static concept. From the Leave It to Beaver era of distant breadwinners to today’s hands-on, emotionally present dads, the role of fathers has shifted dramatically over the decades. But are we truly optimizing fatherhood, or are we simply swapping one set of trade-offs for another? On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon explore what fatherhood looks like in the age of creator capitalism, and how breaking the chain between time and money might be the greatest gift a father can give his family. You’re listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let’s go. The Evolution of Fatherhood Through the Generations Data shows that fathers around the world are spending significantly more time on childcare than they did decades ago. In the United States, daily childcare by fathers was just 20 minutes in 1985. By 2024, that number had climbed to 90 minutes. Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway, and Japan show similar upward trends, pointing to a global cultural shift in how men engage with their children. Fatherhood 2.0 brought greater emotional presence and involvement, but it also brought new pressures. Many fathers find themselves stretched thin, trying to be high performers at work while showing up consistently at home. Eddie Yoon reflects honestly on his own experience, acknowledging that during his consulting years, his wife Kristin bore the heavier load of parenting while he traveled internationally, sometimes missing key moments with his children. The Power of Letting Your Children See You at Your Best Therapist David Willingham offered a perspective worth considering: in earlier generations, children regularly witnessed their fathers working, whether on farms, in shops, or running small businesses from home. That visibility allowed children to see their fathers at their most capable and powerful. As work moved into distant offices, that window closed, and children were left seeing only an exhausted version of dad at the end of a long day. Christopher Lochhead argues that one of the greatest gifts a father can give his children is the experience of watching him be exceptional at what he does. Whether that is leading a high-stakes strategy session, building a business, or creating intellectual work that shapes industries, children absorb those lessons deeply. A father who is legendary in his craft models ambition, purpose, and excellence in ways that no single conversation ever could. Creator Capitalism as the Path to Fatherhood 3.0 The creator capitalist framework offers a compelling answer to the fatherhood dilemma. Rather than trading time directly for money, creator capitalism is built on intellectual capital that generates value at scale. When a father builds systems, tools, or platforms that work independently of his physical presence, he reclaims time without sacrificing financial growth or professional impact. This shift matters deeply for fatherhood. When the link between time and income is broken, a father can attend the baseball game, share breakfast before school, and still deliver world-class professional value. The false choice between legendary career and legendary fatherhood can be rejected entirely. As Eddie Yoon reflects on his own journey, the question is not whether to prioritize family or career, but whether the structure of your work gives you the agency to do both without one constantly defeating the other. To hear more from Christopher and Eddie and their thoughts on Fatherhood, download and listen to this episode. For more Creator Capitalist Conversations, subscribe to Category Pirates today! We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
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    58 分
  • 434 97% of Consulting is Monkey-See-Monkey-Do. Gartner just Lost 70% Proving It | The Pirate Street Journal

    434 97% of Consulting is Monkey-See-Monkey-Do. Gartner just Lost 70% Proving It | The Pirate Street Journal
    2026/06/16
    On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, we talk about how the consulting and research industry is facing a reckoning. Gartner, once a $42 billion empire built on telling companies which technologies to buy, has shed more than $30 billion in market value. Trading around $155 per share after peaking at $551 in November 2020, Gartner represents something far bigger than one company’s misfortune. It is a warning signal to every knowledge worker and consulting firm that the traditional model of acquiring and reselling existing knowledge is being quietly dismantled by artificial intelligence. The Pirate Street Journal recently broke down this shift through a category design lens, and the conclusions are both uncomfortable and urgent for anyone whose career is built around advice, analysis, or strategic guidance. You’re listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let’s go. When AI Gives Away What Consultants Used to Sell For decades, consulting firms like Gartner monetized a simple formula: gather knowledge, package it into reports and subscriptions, and charge companies handsomely for access. A $100,000 research subscription felt justified when getting that knowledge required significant time and access. That equation has fundamentally changed. The moment a business leader can ask an AI which CRM platform or security stack to buy and receive a well-reasoned, sourced answer in seconds for free, the traditional research subscription starts looking like a fax machine. As strategy thinker Roger Martin has noted, true strategy represents only about 3% of what large consulting firms actually produce. The remaining 97% is largely benchmarking, gap analysis, and best practices work, exactly the kind of structured, retrospective analysis that AI now handles effortlessly. The Only Consulting Work AI Cannot Replace What separates truly valuable strategic advice from commoditized knowledge is judgment. Courage. Wisdom. The ability to make a call when the spreadsheet offers no clear answer and the outcome remains genuinely uncertain. These are the qualities that have always driven the most important strategic wins, and they are precisely what AI cannot replicate or monetize anytime soon. Consider how often the best strategic decisions required someone to say “I believe this is the right direction” without proof. Timing a market entry too early, betting on a consumer behavior before it becomes mainstream, or designing an entirely new category rather than competing within an existing one all demand human conviction. The consultants who have consistently done this well rarely stay in advisory roles for long. They move into the arena, become entrepreneurs, or deploy their own capital because genuine foresight commands far greater economics than a consulting retainer. What This Means for Knowledge Workers and the Consulting Profession Gartner’s market cap decline is not simply a story about one company failing to adapt. It is a broader signal to every knowledge worker that the value of their value has shifted. Technology does not take jobs outright. It relocates where value gets created. The professionals who repackage existing knowledge are seeing that value erode fast. The professionals who can create genuinely new knowledge, new frameworks, new categories, new experiences, are seeing their value rise. This distinction matters enormously for how consultants should think about their own positioning. Firms that continue to offer benchmarking, retrospective market summaries, and structured best practices comparisons are directly competing with AI at a game AI will eventually win. The consultants who build practices around future-oriented, judgment-heavy, courageous strategic work are the ones whose services will remain irreplaceable, and whose market caps, whether literal or metaphorical, will reflect a world that still believes in their future. To hear more from the Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
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    38 分
  • 433 Who are the Category Kings of AI Going To Be? | The Pirate Street Journal

    433 Who are the Category Kings of AI Going To Be? | The Pirate Street Journal
    2026/06/09
    The conventional business press obsesses over company rivalries and product launches, but almost never asks the more important question: who is the category king of every market? The Pirate Street Journal flips that lens entirely. On this episode, Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon, and Bri Clark break down three of the most consequential stories in business today, all viewed through the category design framework. From the layered battle of the AI technology stack to America’s energy crisis and Korea’s semiconductor windfall, the real game is being played on a board most analysts are not even looking at. You’re listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let’s go. The Battle of the Stack: Why the Wrong Fight Is Getting All the Attention Every major technology era runs on a six-layer stack: power, internal hardware, infrastructure, operating system, user hardware, and applications. History shows that the company dominating the early layers rarely ends up holding the crown. IBM led hardware in the PC era, but Microsoft won software. The pattern repeats: hardware kings win first, but the integrator of the most valuable layers wins last. Today, Nvidia sits atop a single layer at over five trillion dollars in market value, and if history holds, that concentration is the seat most likely to be rerated. The real competition is not OpenAI versus Anthropic. It is Nvidia versus a decades-old playbook, with Microsoft, Alphabet, and Elon Musk each racing to stack the most valuable rows on the board. The Power Lottery: Owning the Well Versus Renting the Water Power is the one layer on the AI stack that almost nobody owns outright. Microsoft is restarting a nuclear plant. Anthropic is renting compute on a lease that can be clawed back in 90 days. Everyone is scrambling for electricity, but scrambling and owning are entirely different positions. The only player with the power square genuinely filled is Elon Musk through his combined portfolio of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Meanwhile, America is blocking or delaying 48 data center projects representing 156 billion dollars in investment, while China builds power infrastructure at wartime speed with engineering-trained politicians leading the charge. The math is simple: the best models and chips mean nothing if you cannot plug them in. Battery storage at scale, incentivized solar adoption, and hydroelectric partnerships like the one forming between Quebec and Vermont represent non-obvious paths forward that states and local governments can act on right now. Korea’s Chip Dividend: The First Live Test of AI Abundance Samsung and SK Hynix are projected to generate roughly 1.7 trillion in combined operating profit between 2026 and 2028. Taxed at Korea’s rate, that flows approximately 430 billion dollars to the government, enough to cover nearly half of the country’s national debt. On the ground near their campuses, luxury sales are surging, with jewelry up 147 percent and watches up 85 percent. Korea’s Labor Minister has already called semiconductors a public good, and there is a serious proposal to distribute part of the windfall directly to citizens. The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend offers a working precedent: residents receive an equal payout drawn from oil abundance simply for living there. Korea is now running the first live national experiment in whether AI-era wealth flows broadly or concentrates narrowly. For the United States, facing a debt crisis with limited options, Korea’s model points toward a fourth path: create the conditions for massive abundance through AI and let a steady tax rate on explosive growth do what raising taxes, printing money, or cutting entitlements never could. To hear more from the Pirate Street Journal, download and listen to this episode. You can also read more Pirate Street Journal entries in the Category Pirates newsletter. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, and subscribe on Apple Podcast / Spotify!
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    37 分
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