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The Deprecated Human Podcast is a weekly show exploring the growing gap between what the AI industry promises and what people actually experience. Examining how narratives about technological capability are reshaping work, value, and human potential. Each week, the show releases episodes centered on a central theme. Hosted by Jess Lowry, a design strategist with over two decades of experience applying human-centered design across organizations, the podcast brings in diverse voices to explore each topic from multiple perspectives.
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What happens when hiring systems are designed to recognize one kind of candidate? After leaving her role as Director of Strategy and Analytics at Kickstarter, Laurie Stark applied to more than 100 jobs. She used AI to po
What happens when you learn that your job is ending before you know what comes next? After nine years as Program Director for Research at MIT Sloan Management Review, Allison Ryder learned that the publication would be w
What would you say or do differently if you stopped organizing your life around the judgment of a future employer? In Part 2 of Jess’s conversation with former programmer and Tech Workers Coalition organizer Simone Robut
Tech workers were taught to see themselves as individual innovators—not as workers with shared interests and collective power. In Part 1 of this conversation, Jess speaks with former programmer and Tech Workers Coalition
After more than two decades in motion design and advertising, Pal Moore began asking a difficult question: Why keep trying to return to an industry that never made room for all of who he was? In this episode, Pal joins J
We've all had interviews we'd rather forget. But sometimes the worst part isn't being rejected—it's beginning to believe the rejection says something about who we are. In this special solo episode, Jess Lowry shares one
What happens after the layoff? After nearly two years inside an organization experiencing repeated waves of layoffs, former global HR leader Rachael DiGiovine came to a difficult realization: organizations know how to ma
What gives a story its power? In this episode of Deprecated Human, Jess Lowry sits down with strategist and storyteller Ross A. McIntyre to explore why storytelling remains one of our most essential human capabilities in
What happens when experienced professionals decide to stop waiting for the job market to tell them what comes next? In this episode of Deprecated Human, Jess Lowry sits down with Lindsay Vetell and Angela Anderson, co-fo
What happens when organizations stop investing in curiosity? In this episode of The Deprecated Human Podcast, Jess Lowry sits down with UX leader and UX Murder Mystery co-host Eve Eden to explore the role of creativity,
What happens when organizations stop understanding how value is actually created? In this episode of The Deprecated Human Podcast, Jess Lowry sits down with Brian Crowley, a UX design leader and co-host of UX Murder Myst
In this episode, Jess Lowry sits down with Jody Martin, a community organizer, writer, and creator of The Snarky Correspondent, to explore the emotional reality of today's job market. Together they discuss ageism, AI-dr
This episode explores Nic Brill's perspective on navigating uncertainty, career transitions, and the changing nature of work in an era shaped by AI, economic disruption, and rapid technological change. After taking an ex
This episode explores Abby Margolis’s career journey—from academia to public radio to design, strategy, and consulting—and the thread that connects it all. Trained as an anthropologist, Abby began her career focused on d
Let’s examine what happens when a million people with highly in-demand skills lose their ability to get hired. It’s hard to know the exact number, but from 2022 to May 2026, more than 1 million tech workers have lost the
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