Hi, welcome to Unmissables!
Unmissables explores where technology, business, creativity, science, and human experience collide and how those intersections reshape how we think, build, lead, and create value.
I’m especially interested in how people and organizations earn a place in people’s lives — through products, experiences, communities, relationships, and entirely new ways of serving people.
Through conversations with founders, scientists, artists, designers, and technologists, we explore the questions they pursued, the assumptions they challenged, and the decisions that led them to build something different.
Every episode and essay revolves around an unmissable: an idea, observation, approach, pattern, perspective, or question worth bringing into your own work.
Recent deep dives include:
How Cognitive Endurance can help preserve human judgment in an AI-enabled world
How your apps built a surveillance pipeline you never consented to
How ChatGPT’s ad model reveals the real product being sold
What happens to trust when AI starts generating the interface itself
On the podcast, I talk to builders, researchers, and leaders about the one thing from their work that you can’t afford to miss. Recent conversations:
How Planned Parenthood tested LLMs against their own medically accurate content and what they found about tone and trust
How Foursquare redesigned their entire performance system by treating culture as a behavioral system.
How a digital cooperative is turning futures thinking into shared, public practice.
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About Ariba Jahan
Hi, I’m Ariba Jahan, writer and host of Unmissables. My work has taken me from bioengineering research to public good, product strategy, customer experience, and AI. Along the way, I’ve come to believe that the most interesting ideas emerge when science, technology, business, and human experience unexpectedly collide. That’s where I spend my time: exploring the people, questions, and unexpected connections that expand what’s possible and give us something worth bringing into our own work.
I’m an Obama Foundation Leader and have been recognized among the Global Top 100 Women of the Future in Emerging Tech.
I’m so thrilled to have you here.
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