426. Jack Myers. Judgment is Scarce.
Jack Myers
August 27, 2026
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In this episode, we talk with Jack Myers, media ecologist, futurist, and Peabody Award-winning author, about what happens to leadership when intelligence gets cheap. Myers argues that as data and technology become commoditized, judgment becomes the asset that separates organizations that adapt from those that don't, and most companies are not building for it.
The conversation moves through several ideas:
Discernment versus data: why processing more information isn't the same as making a better decision
The trust gap: why leaders increasingly trust an algorithm over their own judgment, and what that costs
The holding company problem: why Myers believes the agency model faces collapse within three years
Hiring for humanity: a recruiting story where the best candidate almost didn't make the shortlist
The attention crisis: why content today has changed what "reaching people" means
A CMO checklist: what to stop, start, and continue doing in an AI-driven market
Myers has spent decades studying media transitions, and this one, he argues, is different because it changes what organizations value, not just how they operate.
Click here to buy Jack’s latest book: Your Third Brain
Jack Myers is a storyteller, media ecologist, and generational visionary whose work explores how power, technology, culture, and narrative shape human behavior and historical memory. For more than five decades, he has advised global leaders, taught emerging thinkers, and written extensively about the unseen systems that influence decision-making, identity, and trust.
A speaker, educator, and advocate for human-centered leadership in times of rapid technological change, Myers works at the intersection of intelligence, ethics, and imagination—examining not only how systems function, but how they endure. His nonfiction books focus on media, leadership, generational change, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines.
The Kissinger Conspiracy is Myers’ first work of fiction. Drawing on deep historical research and lived proximity to intelligence, media, and policy institutions, the novel reflects his long-standing interest in how history is shaped not only by what is recorded, but by what is concealed, normalized, or forgotten.
Myers is the author of seven nonfiction books and is currently developing a science fiction trilogy, EIDOLON, which continues his exploration of power, memory, and human agency in an age of accelerating intelligence.