John Maeda: A Life of Tech, Design and Computational Thinking

Today’s guest is John Maeda – famed artist, designer, technologist, author, ex MIT professor, and once President of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, among many other accolades - most recently as CTO at Everbridge.He completed his bachelors and masters degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT where he would return to become Professor of Design and Computation and Head of Research. He also earned a PhD in Design and a Master’s in Business.In this wide-ranging conversation, John and I discuss his book How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us as well as the leadership lessons he has learned throughout his career through good times and more importantly, the bad, how we can create a world of optimism akin to the Obama era and why we should all remain curious creatures.I have learned so much from John over the years and this conversation and I am sure you will too.So here is my conversation with the utterly brilliant John Maeda.------------John Maeda Twitter / website / instagramDanielle on Twitter @daniellenewnham and  Instagram @daniellenewnham   / Newsletter John's book - How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of UsLet us know what you think of this episode and please rate, review and share - it means the world to me and helps others to find it too.